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Encyclopedia > Hot Blooded

"Hot Blooded" is the title of a 1978 song by American Rock band Foreigner, from their album Double Vision. It reached #3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in the same year of its release. A foreigner, or an alien, is a natural person who is not a citizen of the State in question. ... Double vision may refer to: Diplopia, the perception of two images from a single object. ...


In an episode of Fox Broadcasting Company's hit forensic show "Bones (TV series)", the two lead characters, Temperance Brennan and Seeley Booth (Played by Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz, respectively) sing and play air guitar to "Hot Blooded", terming it a "guilty pleasure". The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ... Bones is an ongoing 2005 television series on the FOX Network. ... Temperance Brennan is a fictional character created by author Kathy Reichs. ... Emily Erin Deschanel (born October 11, 1976) is an American actress. ... David Paul Boreanaz (born May 16, 1969 in Buffalo, New York) is an American film and television actor. ...


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Hot Blood co-editor Jeff Gelb commented, “In 1989, when the first volume of Hot Blood was published, little did we think we would make it to a thirteenth volume.
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