Popular Culture References
- In the game, Fort Detrick is the headquarters to the secret military organization Blackwatch, which deals with bio attacks. They are one of the enemy factions against the protagonist Alex Mercer.
- The opening sequence from the 1995 film Outbreak presents the four Biosafety Levels within the USAMRIID Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Maryland.
- In "Amplification" episode 24 of season 4,of the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds, /wiki/Criminal_Minds_(season_4) the BAU responds quickly after a serial killer releases a new strain of a deadly anthrax virus in Annapolis, Maryland that threatens the public and puts a member of the team at risk.The Unsub targeted Fort Detrick because of their rejection of his services.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The white dominant culture seemed to think that once the Indians were off the reservations, they’d eventually become like everybody else. But they aren’t like everybody else. When the Indianness is drummed out of them, they are turned into hopeless drunks on skid row.”
—Elizabeth Morris (b. c. 1933)