The Toscars, which annually honours parodies of Oscar-nominated films, provides light-hearted relief for Hollywood's hopefuls during awards season.

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Kurt Gerron's "Het mysterie van de Mondscheinsonate" (Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata), a 1935 Dutch thriller shot using only natural light, bears the clear influence of both Weimar music-hall films and thrillers.

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Astronomers using the Kepler telescope found the first known double-star planet just last September Kepler-16, a gassy oddball orb the size of Saturn that circles a pair of stars 200 light-years from Earth, like the planet Tatooine in the "Star Wars" films.

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Astronomers using the Kepler telescope found the first known double-star planet just last September Kepler-16b, a gassy oddball orb the size of Saturn that circles a pair of stars 200 light-years from Earth, like the planet Tatooine in the "Star Wars" films.

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They spread these films in alternate layers on top of sheets of cotton fabric and exposed the sandwich to ultraviolet light for 30 minutes to bond the layers covalently.

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