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The Buddha Amulet was a good luck charm worn by Co Bao . The Buddha Amulet was a pendant made out of a small hunk of apple green jadeite, a hard green gem. The amulet was carved into the likeness of Buddha and later was put onto a necklace. The necklace first appeared in Rambo: First Blood Part II, worn by Co Bao for most of the film for good luck. After Co's death, Rambo took it and wore it for over four years. Four years later, Rambo was still wearing the necklace to remember Co, and at the end of the film he decided to move on with his life and stop killing, giving the pendant to a young Mujhaideen fighter as a symbol of this. https://rambo.fandom.com/wiki/Buddha_amulet ------------------------------ Rambo is an American media franchise centered on a series of action films . There have been five films released so far in the series: First Blood (1982), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), Rambo III (1988), Rambo (2008) and Rambo: Last Blood (2019). The fil...

Dice  ( singular  die or dice; from  Old French  dé; from  Latin  datum "something which is given or played") are small throwable objects with multiple resting positions, used for generating  random numbers . Dice are suitable as  gambling  devices for games like  craps  and are also used in non-gambling  tabletop games . Dice are often sold in sets, matching in color, of six different shapes. These are the five  Platonic solids , whose faces are  regular polygons ; the other four Platonic solids have 4, 8, 12, and 20 faces, allowing for those number ranges to be generated. The only other common non-cubical die is the 10-sided die, a pentagonal  trapezohedron  die, whose faces are ten  kites , each with two different edge lengths, three different angles, and two different kinds of vertices. These are also sold frequently with a second 10-sided die either of contrasting color or numbered by tens, al...

Slytherin  is one of the four  Houses  at  Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry , founded by  Salazar Slytherin . In establishing the house, Salazar instructed the  Sorting Hat  to pick students who had a few particular characteristics he most valued. Those characteristics include: cunning, resourcefulness, and ambition. Many Slytherin students tend to clique together, often acquiring leaders, which further exemplifies Slytherin's ambitious qualities. Examples of these include Draco Malfoy’s Gang and the Death Eaters. The founder highly valued and favoured  pure-blood  students and the Sorting Hat admitted that it can be a factor when being Sorted. Students of any blood status can now be placed in the house. However, a  Muggle-Born  student from that house is considered to be quite rare. The emblematic animal of the house is a  snake  and its colours are green and silver. There were two notable heads of the ...

The Winged Keys , also known as Flying Keys, were keys that were presumably enchanted with a Flying Charm by Professor Filius Flitwick to guard the Philosopher's Stone . The keys were placed in a massive "flock" within the third of the Stone's Chambers , and only one of them would allow entry into the fourth chamber through a locked door that was made impervious to Unlocking Charms . The chamber also contained brooms, which could be used to retrieve the correct key, though the keys would scatter chaotically as soon as the brooms were used to lift-off. http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Winged_Keys ------------------------------ Harry Potter is a British-American film series based on the Harry Potter novels by author J. K. Rowling . The series is distributed by Warner Bros. and consists of eight fantasy films , beginning with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and culminating with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2...

Hufflepuff  is one of the four  Houses  of  Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry . Its founder was the medieval  witch   Helga Hufflepuff . Hufflepuff is the most inclusive among the four houses; valuing hard work, dedication, patience, loyalty, and fair play rather than a particular aptitude in its members. The emblematic animal is a  badger , and  yellow  and  black  are its colours. The Head of Hufflepuff is  Pomona Sprout  and the  Fat Friar  is the House's patron ghost. Hufflepuff corresponds roughly to the element of  earth , and it is for that reason that the House colours were chosen: yellow represented wheat, while black was emblematic of soil. The Hufflepuff points hourglass contains yellow diamonds. Students sorted into Hufflepuff often demonstrate exceptional abilities in  Herbology , owing to their correspondence to earth. http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Hufflepuff...

Harley Quinn (Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics . The character was created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm , and first appeared in Batman: The Animated Series in September 1992. She later appeared in DC Comics's Batman comic books, with the character's first comic book appearance in The Batman Adventures #12 (September 1993). Harley Quinn is a frequent accomplice and lover of the Joker , whom she met while working as a psychiatrist at Gotham City 's Arkham Asylum , where the Joker was a patient. Her name is a play on the name " Harlequin ", a character which originated in the commedia dell'arte . The character has teamed up with fellow villains Catwoman and Poison Ivy several times, the trio being known as the Gotham City Sirens . Poison Ivy is known to be a close friend, sometimes lover, and recurring ally of Harley. Since The New 52 , she is now depicted as an antihero a...

Assassin's Creed Origins  is an  action-adventure   video game  developed by  Ubisoft Montreal  and published by  Ubisoft . It is the tenth major installment in the  Assassin's Creed  series and the successor to 2015's  Assassin's Creed Syndicate . It was released worldwide for  Microsoft Windows ,  PlayStation 4 , and  Xbox One  on October 27, 2017. The game is set in Egypt during the near end of the  Ptolemaic period  (49-47 BC) and recounts the secret  fictional history  of real-world events. The story explores the origins of the centuries-long conflict between the  Brotherhood of Assassins , who fight for peace by promoting liberty, and The Order of the Ancients—forerunners to the  Templar Order —who desire peace through the forced imposition of order. Origins received positive reviews from critics, who praised the story, characters, voice acting, reworked gameplay-systems, i...

House Targaryen is a former  Great House  of  Westeros  and was the ruling royal House of the  Seven Kingdoms  for three centuries since it  conquered and unified the realm, before it was deposed during  Robert's Rebellion  and  House Baratheon replaced it as the new royal House. The few surviving Targaryens fled into  exile to the  Free Cities  of  Essos  across the  Narrow Sea . Currently based on  Dragonstone  off of the eastern coast of Westeros, House Targaryen seeks to retake the Seven Kingdoms from  House Lannister , who formally replaced House Baratheon as the royal House following the  destruction of the Great Sept of Baelor . House Targaryen's  sigil  is a three-headed red dragon on a black background, and their  house words  are "Fire and Blood." http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/House_Targaryen ------------------------------ Game of Thrones ...

The curse of the Aztec Gold , also known as the Aztec curse, was dark magic cast upon the treasure of Cortés , consisting of a stone chest with 882 pieces of Aztec gold . Having saw Cortés' greed he wreaked upon with his armies, the heathen gods placed a curse on the gold: any mortal who removed a piece from the chest would be punished for eternity. The only way to lift the curse was by returning all the pieces of the Aztec gold and payment in blood . Upon first hearing the tale, Hector Barbossa 's crew laughed at the stories about the curse, with Barbossa himself believing it to be a ridiculous superstition. By the time they learned the truth, it was too late. It took ten years until the crew's curse was lifted. http://pirates.wikia.com/wiki/Curse_of_the_Aztec_Gold -------------------------------- Pirates of the Caribbean is a Disney media franchise encompassing numerous theme park attractions, a series of films , and spin-off novels , as well as a numbe...