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Cosplay (コスプレ kosupure), short for "costume play", is a type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Characters are often drawn from popular fiction in Japan, but recent trends have included American cartoons and Sci-Fi. Favourite sources include manga, anime, tokusatsu, comic books, graphic novels, video games, hentai and fantasy movies...

A dirndl /dɪʁndl̩/ is a type of traditional dress worn in Germany – especially Bavaria – Liechtenstein, Austria, and South Tyrol, based on the historical costume of Alpine peasants. Dresses that are loosely based on the dirndl are known as Landhausmode (country-inspired fashion). A dirndl skirt (sometimes spelled dirndle) generally describes a light circular cut dress, gathered at the waist, that falls below the knee...

A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile in the media and is easily recognized. Some careers are associated with celebrity status, such as the top tier of the modelling, acting and sports industries...

The non-profit corporation Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal (MIM) was created in 1998 to launch the first-ever Mosaïcultures Internationales® in the Parc des Éclusiers (Old Port of Montréal), in association with the city’s Parks, Gardens and Green Spaces Department. Its mission is to promote gardening and horticulture as both an expression of new millennium values and a vital component of the urban landscape...

The word fact can refer to verified information about past or present circumstances or events which are presented as objective reality. In science, it means a provable concept. Etymology and usage The word fact derives from the Latin Factum, and was first used in English with the same meaning: "a thing done or performed", a use that is now obsolete. The common usage of, "something that has really occurred or is the case", dates from the middle of the sixteenth century...

San Diego Comic-Con International is a multigenre convention held annually in San Diego, California, United States. It was founded as the Golden State Comic Book Convention in 1970 by a group of San Diegans, which included Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger and Mike Towry; later, it was called the "San Diego Comic Book Convention". The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International: San Diego; but it is commonly known as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con or "'SDCC"...