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Badmash.org was a website which hosted animations, sketches and video clips, as well as a regular webcomic. A weekly email and print-media newsletters reached over a million people. The works on ''Badmash.org'' had a mix of political and social satire. The website was started by three friends, Sandeep Sood, Nimesh Patel and Sanjay Shah. Badmash is a Hindi neologism, meaning "naughty".Maxwell, Kerry. ''MED Magazine'' (July 2005)New Word of the Month Archived froon 2007-09-28. ''Badmash.org'' weekly South Asian-themed animations — such as an Indian spoof of ''The Simpsons'' opening theme, nicknamed ''The Singhsons'' — drew millions of visitors to the website. The success of Sood, Patel, and Shah helped them earn consulting work for MTV, New Line Cinema and Sony. Webcomic The regular webcomic strip on ''Badmash.org'' features various regular characters, including Raju, one of the comic strip creators who is a Gujarati-American Hindu, his sister Beti, his traditional grandmother ...
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The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is an American single-engine, supersonic air superiority fighter which was extensively deployed as a fighter-bomber during the Cold War. Created as a day fighter by Lockheed as one of the " Century Series" of fighter aircraft for the United States Air Force (USAF), it was developed into an all-weather multirole aircraft in the early 1960s and produced by several other nations, seeing widespread service outside the United States. After a series of interviews with Korean War fighter pilots in 1951, Kelly Johnson, then lead designer at Lockheed, opted to reverse the trend of ever-larger and more complex fighters and produce a simple, lightweight aircraft with maximum altitude and climb performance. On 4 March 1954, the Lockheed XF-104 took to the skies for the first time, and on 26 February 1958 the production fighter was activated by the USAF. Only a few months later it was pressed into action during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, when it wa ...
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