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Ancient astronaut theory has been used as background or main topic in many fictional works such as Lovecraft's short story "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926), the movie Stargate (1994) and its spin-off television series, the movie Knowing (2009), the movie Prometheus (2012), the TV show Earth: Final Conflict, and innumerable comic books, manga books and video games.
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“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)
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—Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. Excerpted from, Gender Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World (1990)