Oh, and they also both have a common enemy named Google to help each other take down.

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Notes from the Shuttle, for instance, is named not for a common urban mode of transportation but for its more extreme NASA counterpart.

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Mr Sellal said the raid had been co-ordinated by a Canadian named only as Chedad - a common Arab surname in the region.

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State Wolfpack all go home early. (The Georgetown Hoyas, despite common misconception, are named after a Greek and Latin phrase, not a rare type of bulldog.) Cats, meanwhile, sit just above .500 with a 492-491 mark.

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With a 52-foot mast, Deuce carries 840 square feet of sail, better than 12 times that of the more common, ubiquitous DN class of iceboat (named for a design contest sponsored by the Detroit News in the 1930s).

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Common Sense was written by an unprepossessing former girdle-maker named Tom Paine.

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Here, a squat New Zealander named Ed Mumm keeps a fleet of construction-grade excavators and bulldozers and, in defiance of all common sense, allows pretty much anyone (for a fee, naturally) to play with them after only a few minutes of training.

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