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Filmmaker Wes Anderson is the great-grandson of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Far from being a savage ape-man, in Edgar Rice Burroughs original novel, Tarzan was of British nobility, taught himself to read and write English, learned to speak French and gave up his claim to nobility and Jane to his cousin so she could be happy.
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Wes Anderson's great-grandfather is Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Wes Anderson is the great-grandson of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars creator Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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It used to be fashionable for notable people with libraries to brand their books with bookplates (or 'ex-libris'), individualized decorative labels usually on the inside of the front cover. Einstein, Greta Garbot and Edgar Rice Burroughs and many more used them.
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Several of the exact fallacies advanced by Flat Earthers in 2019 to reject "Globe Earth" are repeated verbatim in Edgar Rice Burrough's 1914 book "At the Earth's Core" to emphasize a character's ignorance and inability to grasp science (reference: Chapter 10 -- Phutra Again)
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The area of Tarzana in Los Angeles was named after fictional character Tarzan. Tarzana is a residential community mostly on the former site of a ranch owned by Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The famous Tarzan yell is a registered sound trademark (a "sensory" mark) owned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and consists of a series of approximately ten sounds alternating between the chest and falsetto registers of the voice.
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John Carter, Disney's financially unsuccessful 2012 adaptation of Edgar Rice Burrough's "A Princess of Mars", might have been a Paramount production directed by Robert Rodriguez (had he not resigned from the Directors Guild after controversy from making Frank Miller co-director of Sin City)
