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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived


A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (published in the United States as A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes) is a popular science book by British geneticist, author and broadcaster Adam Rutherford. It was first published in 2016 in the United Kingdom by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. An updated edition was published in the United States in 2017, with a different subtitle, by The Experiment. The book is about human genetics and what it reveals about
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A Brief History of Love


6 Music how "A Brief History of Love" came to be the title for the release: "Every song is a love song to some degree, about every different aspect of love... The good, the bad, the boring, the exciting, the dreams, the nightmares, the whole thing, and I guess that's what encompasses the whole album, and we have a song called 'A Brief History of Love' so it's apt." In addition to the singles "Dominos" and "Velvet
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What Is Spiritism?


What Is Spiritism? ("Qu'Est-ce Que le Spiritisme" in French) is a brief introduction to Spiritism written by Allan Kardec in 1859, which is about a quarter of the length of The Spirits Book. Modern editions are augmented by a brief biography of the author, written by Henri Sausse, in 1896 which is mostly focused on his role in the History of Spiritism. The book is structured as a series of conferences about Spiritism, intended to quench the public curiosity and dismiss false notions about the doctrine.
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A Brief History of Time


A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a popular-science book on cosmology (the study of the Universe) by British physicist Stephen Hawking. It was first published in 1988. Hawking wrote the book for non-specialist readers with no prior knowledge of scientific theories. In "A Brief History of Time", Hawking writes in non-technical terms about the structure, origin, development and eventual fate of the Universe, which is the object of study of astronomy and modern physics.
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Lawfare


Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney, and Jack Goldsmith employed the word in the name of the Lawfare Blog, which focuses on national security law and which has explored the term and the debate over what lawfare means and whether it should be considered exclusively a pejorative. (See: Welcome to Lawfare, By Benjamin Wittes. Wednesday, September 1, 2010; also see: About Lawfare: A Brief History of the Term and the Site, at: https://www.lawfareblog.com/about-lawfare-brief-history-term-and-site.) Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, has
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A Brief History of Time (film)


A Brief History of Time is a 1991 biographical documentary film of the about the physicist Stephen Hawking, directed by Errol Morris. The title derives from Hawking's bestselling book "A Brief History of Time", but whereas the book is an explanation of cosmology, the film is a biography of Hawking's life, featuring interviews with family members, colleagues, and even his childhood nanny. The music is by frequent Morris collaborator, Philip Glass. The film project originated with executive producer Gordon Freedman who brought the project to Anglia
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Makridakis Competitions


M-Competition: The findings of the study have been verified and replicated through the use of new methods by other researchers. This is what Rob J. Hyndman, in his blog about "A brief history of time series forecasting competitions", had to say about the first M Competition: “… anyone could submit forecasts, making this the first true forecasting competition as far as I am aware.” Newbold (1983) was critical of the M-competition, and argued against the general idea of using a single competition
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High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games


High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games is a book published in April 2002 by McGraw-Hill Osborne Media. It was written by Rusel DeMaria and Johnny Lee Wilson. A second edition was published on December 2003, which featured a brief history on Japanese and English video game companies. It details the history of computer and video games, beginning with a page about the earliest computer processors to the current days, this book goes into detail about what was happening to companies like Atari back before, during, and
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A Briefer History of Time (Schulman book)


A Briefer History of Time is a science humor book by the American astronomer Eric Schulman. In this book, Schulman presents humorous summaries of what he claims are the fifty-three most important events since the beginning of time. The title and cover are a parody of Stephen Hawking's book "A Brief History of Time". Coincidentally, Hawking would later write a "sequel" entitled "A Briefer History of Time". Hawking's publisher Bantam Books was aware the title had already been used in a popular science book
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Apoo festival


The Apoo Festival is celebrated annually in Ghanaian towns like Techiman, Nkoranza and Wenchi in April/May. Below is an excerpt from an article discussing the origins and practice of Apoo. This excerpt is taken from the webpage: "...Nana Twi Brempong who gave a brief history about the ‘Apoo’ festival said it began during the reign of Nana Kwakye Ameyaw who was an authoritarian and, therefore, the people of Techiman at that time could not express their views freely on what was happening. He noted that the people
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Randal Marlin


found him as fascinating in person as he was in his writings." After his year abroad, Marlin returned to Carleton and created the course "Truth and Propaganda". In 2002, Marlin published "Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion", the book that now serves as one of the texts for his university course on propaganda. It contains extensive information about propaganda including various definitions, a brief history from ancient times to the 20th century and a discussion of propaganda techniques. Marlin bases his own definition of propaganda on what
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Lisa Fowler


Fowler was a major part of Phil's life – she knows him as well as anyone, so she won't be happy about him looking after his daughter. With their history, you know that this storyline is going to be an explosive episode in the Mitchells' history." The episode was broadcast on 5 August 2010. Discussing her brief return, Benjamin said, "What I liked about doing this storyline was that it did explain where Lisa had been. When I was watching it, I was thinking 'Where
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History of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System


Extension assigned specialists to movable schools, which then were dispatched to counties throughout the state. Extension drafted plans to develop at least 15 of these schools for white farmers and "about as many" for their black counterparts. Extension educators also began production of what would become one of the mainstays of Cooperative Extension work: mass media outreach — in this case, brief, timely articles on farm-related topics for county newspapers. The initial goal was to produce a column for every county newspaper each week for several successive weeks.
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Francis Xavier Clooney


distinguished theological achievement. "Hindu Wisdom for All God’s Children" is an introduction to comparative theology. It provides a brief history of his experience with Hinduism during Clooney's time spent teaching in Nepal. This book doesn’t initially require much previous knowledge of Hinduism or Indian culture to understand and therefore provides a good initial introduction to comparative theology and Clooney. It also shows what one can learn about God from the Hindu religious tradition by taking a look at various Hindu gods. "Hindu Wisdom for All God's Children"
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The Mis-Education of the Negro


United States in all schools was turned down because “it would never do to have Negroes study the Constitution of the United States." Woodson also lays out a brief history of other times when African Americans were kept from learning about laws that govern their everyday life and the policies that were keeping them subservient. “The Loss of Vision” describes how Woodson feels the black population of America has lost sight of a common goal. In this chapter he brings up how in what he calls “our so-called democracy,
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Chaim Dov Rabinowitz


volume on history, ("From Nechemiah Until the Present") emphasizes that the study of history in and of itself is a waste of time. One must focus to a large degree on the moral lessons inherent in the History. In line with this each chapter is divided into two sections. The first section is a brief overview of the period under discussion. The second is an in depth discussion, in question and answer form, on the difficult aspects of history. For example, he questions what led the Jews
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Environmental history


historians link their subject exclusively to the span of human history – ""every time period in human history"" while others include the period before human presence on Earth as a legitimate part of the discipline. Ian Simmons's "Environmental History of Great Britain" covers a period of about 10,000 years. There is a tendency to difference in time scales between natural and social phenomena: the causes of environmental change that stretch back in time may be dealt with socially over a comparatively brief period. Although at all times environmental influences
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Benshi


. Benshi read the intertitles on silent films and voiced all on-screen characters. Perhaps most significantly for filmmakers, "benshi" would add their own commentary, explaining what was happening in a shot or describing what had happened in confusing edits or sudden transitions. Some "benshi" were known to interpret and add to a script, for example reciting poetry to accompany a moving visual. In addition, it was traditional for the "benshi" to introduce the film, even giving a brief lecture about the history of the
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History of Freemasonry


freemason" in English. It was immediately struck out, and replaced with the word "mason". The poem claims that these assemblies were ordained by King Athelstan and that he also linked the wages of a mason to the cost of living. The Cooke Manuscript, dating from about 1450, set the pattern for what Anderson called the "Gothic Constitutions", the older histories and regulations of the craft. After a brief blessing, these documents describe the seven Liberal Arts, assigning predominance to Geometry, which is equated with
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William H. Calvin


duplicates. This allows for a "cerebral symphony" rather than just a million-fold amplification of the same tune and a "survival of the fittest" process whereby those firing patterns that resonate best with the existing pool of "ruts" will dominate one's consciousness and generate intelligent behavior ("Our long train of connected thoughts is why our consciousness is so different from what came before."). In writing about what mind will become, in "A Brief History of the Mind" he notes, "We
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A Brief History of Time


finite speed no matter what the speed of the observer is. Moreover, the speed of light is assumed to be the ultimate speed. Mass and energy are also related by the famous equation E=mc^2, and so it would require infinite energy to get to the speed of light. A new way of defining a metre using speed of light is also developed. 'Events' can also be described by using the light cones, a spacetime graphical representation which restricts what events are allowed and what are not based on the
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Comparison of email clients


The following tables compare general and technical features of a number of notable email client programs. Basic general information about the clients: creator/company, O/S, licence, & interface. Clients listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development. A brief digest of the release histories. The operating systems on which the clients can run natively (without emulation). What email and related protocols and standards are supported by each client. Information on what features each of the clients support. For all of
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A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz


about the past, as well as the importance of attempting to understand what happened. Thus it contributes to a sense of there being an ongoing process of coming to terms - each generation must find and write its Holocaust narratives. There is not one complete narrative of the Holocaust but a growing set of fragments that improve our grasp of what occurred during this most shameful era of European history and its immediate aftermath. While the book in Sweden was published as a documentary novel, it has in other countries been described as a non
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Daniel Bernardi


's racial vision. In these books, Bernardi relies on a range of scholars to show how race in general and whiteness in particular formed unique representational, narrational, and institutional patterns across U.S. film history. The introductions to each book set out a broad theory of whiteness in American film that, in brief, positions whiteness as a performance about who passes and who doesn't pass as white — and what it means in specific films and periods of film history to either pass or not pass as white. The last book in
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History of Marine Animal Populations


development of life in the ocean. Historical research reveals what we can know about the history of ocean exploitation and changing coastal communities. Ecological and historical analysis offers insight into the changes in human and natural systems over historical time. It also reveals what we do not yet know and, in some cases, cannot know about these changes. Only the interdisciplinary combination of expertise can fully develop the scope of what is known, unknown and unknowable about the environmental history of the oceans. The findings of the HMAP research effort are
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François Hers


hand information. As for his artistic education, François Hers read books and reviews, manifests and other founding texts on European art history from 1900 to 1940: exhaustive publications left by Henry van de Velde in their house built in 1927, the "Nouvelle Maison," and that has since become a historic monument. After a brief passage in architecture, questioning himself about what he could bring to the history of modern art he admired so much, François Hers understood that it was not with a traditional career and means that he
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Harbarian process modeling


about the content being discussed and allows them to think about each process in detail, reviewing what works well and what may be improved. Additionally, the time between the initial interview and follow-up meeting should have provided each stakeholder with the opportunity to independently think about the processes. Once prepared for brainstorming, teams are tasked with problem identification. While the act of formally documenting processes innately addresses existing problems with process efficiency and ambiguity, brainstorming is meant to focus on further solving these problems. This involves a brief independent reflection
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Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients


The following tables compare general and technical information between a number of IRC client programs which have been in independent published literature. Basic general information about the clients: creator/company, license, etc. Clients listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development. A brief overview of the release history. The operating systems on which the clients can run natively (without emulation). Unix and Unix-like operating systems: What IRC related protocols and standards are supported by each client. Information on what features each
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The Conspiracy of Catiline


The Conspiracy of Catiline, also known as The War of Catiline, (Latin: De coniuratione Catilinae or Bellum Catilinae) is the first history published by the Roman historian Sallust. It chronicles the attempted overthrow of the government by the bankrupt aristocrat Catiline in 63 BC in what has been usually called the Catiline conspiracy or Second Catilinarian conspiracy. Probably written during the last half of the 1st century BC, the history begins with a brief preface on the nature of man, history, and a brief autobiography of Sallust himself. Afterwards
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Princess Der Ling


about this relatively brief period in her youth when she had been close to the centre of failing imperial Chinese power, and sharing this personal history and her habit of promoting herself and her writings caused most of her family to turn against her. All of this has made it difficult to assess Der Ling's contribution to late Qing historiography. But the fact remains that she was the first woman of Cixi's own ethnic background to live with and observe her and then write about what it was like; if many of Der Ling
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Richard Watson (author)


Richard Watson (born 1961) is an English author, lecturer and futurist known for his 2007 book" Future Files: a Brief History of The Next 50 Years" and for his infographics, especially his Trends & Technology Timeline 2010-2050 and the Timeline of Emerging Science and Technology 2015-2030. He has written 5 books about the future and is the founder of What's Next, a website that documents global trends. He has been a blogger on innovation for Fast Company Magazine and has written about creativity, innovation
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What Is History?


stand above history, and were instead products of their own places and times, which in turn decided what "facts of the past" they determined into "facts of history". British historian Richard J. Evans said "What Is History?" caused a revolution in British historiography in the 1960s. Australian historian Keith Windschuttle, a critic of Carr, said "What Is History?" is one of the most influential books written about historiography, and that very few historians working in the English language since the 1960s had not
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WGEE (FM)


under the user name "What Does It All Mean?" The profile page included short videos featuring WOZZ personality David Burns and painted rocks counting down days ("5 days," "4 days," etc.). Speculation was of a format flip to a mainstream rock format, which is what occurred at 5PM on September 3, after REO Speedwagon's "Time for Me to Fly" concluded; at that time, a brief audio montage (including the playing of "For Those About to Rock" by
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Jonathan Miller


, Miller wrote and presented a TV series on atheism entitled "" (more commonly referred to as "Jonathan Miller's Brief History of Disbelief") for BBC Four, exploring the roots of his own atheism and investigating the history of atheism in the world. Individual conversations, debates and discussions for the series that could not be included due to time constraints were aired in a six-part series entitled "The Atheism Tapes". He also appeared on a BBC Two programme in February 2004, called "What the World
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Howard Zinn


military objectives. He quotes the official history of the U.S. Army Air Forces' brief reference to the Eighth Air Force attack on Royan and also, in the same chapter, to the bombing of Plzeň in what was then Czechoslovakia. The official history stated that the Skoda works in Pilsen "received 500 well-placed tons," and that "because of a warning sent out ahead of time the workers were able to escape, except for five persons."The Americans received a rapturous welcome when they liberated the city. Zinn
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Love of Chair


The scene then faded to black—and reopened on the entire cast of "The Electric Company" standing on a stage under a banner that read, "What about Naomi?" The cast sang a brief song that repeatedly asked "What about Naomi?" along with other questions about her ("Is she tall?" "Is she fat?"). The final lines of the song ran ""What about Naomi?" "What about Naomi?" "We shall never know."" This
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived


human identity and their history. "A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived" won gold at the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book Awards for science, and won the 2018 Thomas Bonner Book Prize. The book was also a 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award non-fiction finalist, featured on the 2017 Wellcome Book Prize longlist, and appeared on National Geographic's top 12 books from 2017. "A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived" explains the Out of Africa hypothesis that "Homo sapiens" originated in Africa about 200,000
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What Remains of Edith Finch


time if its premise grabs you." "In "What Remains of Edith Finch", death is a certainty and life is the surprise. Its stories are enchanting, despite their unhappy ends. I was sad I never had the chance to know the Finches while they were alive, but thankful for the opportunity, however brief, to learn a bit about them. The final farewell left me crying, but "What Remains of Edith Finch" is, without doubt, love," was Susan Arendt's conclusion on
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Mirror Master


Neron, McCulloch and four of the other Rogues die and go to Hell, only to return after a confrontation between Neron and the Flash. For a brief time, McCulloch is a member of Lex Luthor's initial Injustice Gang and fights the Justice League, but abandons the team when Batman offers to pay him twice what Luthor was offering. During a brief team-up with Captain Cold, Mirror Master was contacted by Brother Grimm about a plan to permanently get rid of the Flash, but when Grimm betrayed Cold and McCulloch
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Jean François Billeter


, becomes comprehensible when one proceeds from what is common to all societies in recorded history: 1. Every society is in need of power, or authority. 2. All the various forms of authority  that exist were "devised" at some stage of the historical process. 3. These forms of power can last for a very long time and outlive radical transformations of society. 4. They can be replaced by newly invented forms. In a brief but wide-ranging essay entitled "Reflections on Chinese History, according to
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Spiritism


included a chapter about Spiritism in his book "History of Spiritualism", in which he states that Spiritism is Spiritualist, but not vice versa. Many Spiritualist works are widely accepted in Spiritism, particularly the works of 19th-century physicists William Crookes and Oliver Lodge. The basic doctrine of Spiritism ("the Codification") is defined in five of Allan Kardec's books: Kardec also wrote a brief introductory pamphlet ("What Is Spiritism?") and was the most frequent contributor to the "Spiritist Review".
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Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments


. To this purpose, it offers a selection of historical examples of how the technique has been used, presented in an A-Z format, together with a brief overview of the history of the method itself. The full title of the book is "Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments", but, according to the author, it was originally supposed to have been called "The Beetle, the Bucket and the Body-Exchange Machine" - which gives a better idea of what it is really about.
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A Brief History of Time


He talks about basic concepts like space and time, basic building blocks that make up the Universe (such as quarks) and the fundamental forces that govern it (such as gravity). He writes about cosmological phenomena such as the Big Bang and black holes. He discusses two major theories, general relativity and quantum mechanics, that modern scientists use to describe the Universe. Finally, he talks about the search for a unifying theory that describes everything in the Universe in a coherent manner. The book became a bestseller and sold
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Donald Trump on social media


127,000 times, and liked more than 162,000 times, making it one of Trump's most popular tweets in months, as people speculated on the meaning of . Six hours later, Trump deleted the tweet and posted an alternative one, asking people what they thought could mean. "The Independent" later noted that most likely meant . Off camera, at a press briefing later the same day, Sean Spicer responded to questions about the tweet with the statement "the president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant
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Raymond Laflamme


, he first became famous for convincing Hawking that time does not reverse in a contracting universe, along with Don Page. Hawking told the story of how this happened in his famous book A Brief History of Time in the chapter The Arrow of Time. Later on Laflamme made a name for himself in quantum computing and quantum information theory, which is what he is famous for today. In 2005, Laflamme's research group created the world's largest quantum information processor with 12 qubits. Along with Phillip Kaye and Michele Mosca,
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What Is History?


of historiography. Nevertheless, some of Carr's ideas are contentious, particularly his relativism and his rejection of contingency as an important factor in historical analysis. His work provoked a number of responses, most notably Geoffrey Elton's "The Practice of History". Carr was in the process of revising "What is History?" for a second edition at the time of his death. Carr's opinions about the nature of historical work in "What Is History?" were controversial. In his 1967 book "The Practice of
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Christopher Lloyd (world history author)


had the inspiration for his first book: "A Brief History of Absolutely Everything", later renamed "What on Earth Happened? The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day", which combines both the natural and human history of the world in a single 42 chapter narrative. In 2010, wanting to publish a children's version of What on Earth happened, Lloyd teamed up with illustrator Andy Forshaw to pioneer a new format for big history storytelling that would feature a giant
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Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications


. The 1951 edition contained a preface with a brief history and definition of Communist fronts and a guide to detecting them. The final edition in 1961 expanded this preface into a two-part introduction with sections titled. The first section, "What is a Communist front?" contained the text of the 1951 preface, an added excerpt about the value of front organizations to the Communist Party and the operating techniques of a front from J. Edgar Hoover's book "Masters of Deceit" as well, and a summary of legislation
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The Brief History of the Dead


reference to birds and their portents made more explicit by the naming of the birds in The City "Laura Birds." A reference is made to the Wandering Jew, a legend from medieval Christian folklore. As the legend has it, after mocking Jesus Christ during the crucifixion this man was condemned by Christ to roam the earth until the Second Coming. One character, who believes this legend, speculates about what the emptying of The City could mean in light of this story. This novel takes place during the mid-to
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History of the Central Intelligence Agency


plan what to do next. The CIA welcomed Fidel Castro on his visit to DC, and gave him a face to face briefing. The CIA hoped that Castro would bring about a friendly democratic government, and planned to curry his favor with money and guns. On December 11, 1959, a memo reached the DI's desk recommending Castro's "elimination". Dulles replaced the word "elimination" with "removal", and set the wheels in motion. By mid August 1960, Dick Bissell sought, with the
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao


life and in the painful history of oppression and colonialism in the Dominican Republic. On the other hand, Isis potentially coming to Yunior to learn more about her uncle represents gaining an understanding of the past, which is key to decolonizing and pinpointing the structures that are systematically oppressive. Yunior implies that storytelling is a way to acknowledge the past and its influence over one's life, a way to make sense of what has happened, and is the starting point for healing. With the absence of any embodiments of white characters to
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Philippe Goibaut


to present not only the author's ideas but also his tone and his manner of expressing himself. To this end, Goibaut did not translate word for word; instead, he conveyed "what the author wanted to impress upon the reader's spirit and heart." The translated text was complemented by brief annotations providing background information about the history of the late Roman Empire or the theological quarrels of the first centuries of the Church. The result, said Pierre Bayle, is "exact, faithful, pure, elegant, and
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Trocadero (Los Angeles)


was featured in the 1937 movie "A Star is Born" starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. It was also parodied in the 1938 Warner Bros. cartoon, "Porky at the Crocadero". The club also received a brief mention, via actual film footage, in 1944's "What's Cookin' Doc?". There was a mid-1940s low-budget film about the Trocadero and its history starring Ralph Morgan which bore little relation to reality. The Trocadero is mentioned in James Ellroy's "Perfidia", the night
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History of Lisbon


of the medieval shipyards. The 1st Marquis of Pombal, who had been born into the lower-ranking nobility, became effectively prime minister to Joseph I, after brief careers in the Portuguese army and the diplomatic service He famously responded to the king's query regarding what he should do about the devastation caused by the earthquake: "Bury the dead. Feed the living. Rebuild the city." This was a succinct expression of Pombal's approach to the recovery of the city's economy and social structure. The marquis,
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Tract (literature)


A tract is a literary work, and in current usage, usually religious in nature. The notion of what constitutes a tract has changed over time. By the early part of the 21st century, a tract referred to a brief pamphlet used for religious and political purposes, though far more often the former. Tracts are often either left for someone to find or handed out. However, there have been times in history when the term implied tome-like works. A "tractate", a derivative of a tract,
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List of Generator Rex characters


about Rex and how neither of them belonged in the world. In "A Brief History of Time", it was shown that Gharun Set had helped Van Kleiss build his time machine which he used to get back to the present. The Consortium is a powerful organization which supports Providence and are the superiors of Black Knight. Little is known about this organization, but they seem to provide funding for Providence and the Nanite Project. In "End Game" Pt. 1, the Consortium gets injected with the Meta-Nanites
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The History of Eric Clapton


The History of Eric Clapton" "seemed boundless at the time", from the "primitive and straightforward" "I Ain't Got You" to "Layla" at, what was then, the end of his career. What Eder found extraordinary about this 11-song collection is that it, at the time, only covered two years of Clapton's solo career, but "still doesn't make a bad summation of his best work." He added that the "Tell the Truth" jam alone makes "The History
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A Brief History of Time


number. For example, 2i X 2i = -4. In this chapter Hawking talks about why "real time" as humans observe and experience it (in contrast to the "imaginary time" in the laws of science) seems to have a certain direction, notably from the past towards the future. The things that give time this property are the arrows of time. Firstly, there is the thermodynamic arrow of time. According to this, starting from any higher order organized state, the overall disorderliness in the world always
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A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns


A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns is a 1994 mini-album by the American indie rock band, Lilys, released on the SpinART label on 10-inch vinyl and CD. The lead track, "Ginger", was used in a CK1 commercial. The album was issued in the UK in 1998. The album saw the band make their first major stylistic shift; The early My Bloody Valentine-influenced sound had given way to what "Trouser Press" described as "pleasant, straightforward guitar pop". Tim DiGravina of "
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Casticus


awaited Casticus. All that is known thus far is inferred from what is known of the people and the times. Despite not much being known about the Conspiracy of Orgetorix, there have been two dramas written that detail the account of what is believed to have happened. In each of these accounts Casticus makes an appearance and plays a very brief part in the drama. This play details Orgetorix as he begins planning and persuading others to join in his conspiracy. The drama was designed for there to not be any costumes worn except
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Timewyrm: Exodus


The Doctor uses his freedom and influence to visit the war archives, housed in the former British Museum, hoping to pinpoint where history diverged. While there, he comes into brief psychic contact with the Timewyrm. However, the Doctor wasn’t sure that she was really behind the revised timeline, as it seems too subtle and precise for her. Meanwhile, Ace makes contact with the British resistance to find out more about what happened during World War II. She learns of rumours of a Black Coven, a cult of mystics
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Life of Joseph Smith from 1827 to 1830


into a trance and awoke saying he'd had a theophany . After the June 9, 1830 conference and a brief return home to Harmony, with Knight's exorcism in recent memory, Smith dictated what was described as a secret vision of Moses , not to be shown "unto any except them that believe" , in which Satan attempted to convince Moses that he was Jesus . Much later, while speaking about the early history of the church, Smith said he had heard "[t]he voice of Michael on the banks of
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Integrative behavioral couples therapy


model draws heavily on the use of functional analysis (psychology) and the Skinnerian distinction between contingency shaped and rule governed behavior to balance acceptance and change in the relationship. IBCT consists of two major phases, an evaluation/feedback phase and an active treatment phase. The first three sessions consist of an evaluation period where the therapist learns about the concerns of the couple. In the first session, the therapist usually sees both partners together, learns what brings the couple to therapy, and obtains a brief history of their relationship.
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Dark Souls II: The Lost Crowns


calling it "arguably more memorable in terms of both its foes and vistas" than "Crown of the Sunken King". He did note that the pack was relatively brief. Miguel Concepcion of "GameSpot" wrote, "What is noteworthy about "Crown of the Old Iron King" is how it conveys a deep sense history without the help of a flashback. Its slumbering defenses await your arrival, just as they have for countless heroes before and for those who'll follow in your footsteps." "Official Xbox Magazine
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What Bird is That?


to make available a book that would encourage and help people to learn about and appreciate Australia’s remarkable and unique bird life. He saw and responded to a need for a simple book that was accessible to the non-specialist birdwatcher. Each species was illustrated in colour and the birds were organised according to their usual habitat. The accompanying text included brief notes on distribution, breeding and behaviour. While initial sales were poor, history tells us that Cayley had accurately discerned a market need and successfully responded to it. During WWII
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Pauline Maier


teachers. She believed that the interest in American history was not tapped in the curriculum of many states. As a democratic country, the U.S. should give any student a background knowledge of what happened to make the Declaration and the Constitution, and how their uses changed. Assumed things were not always so, students should understand how things can and do change. "Every time you understand what's distinctive about a different time, you are understanding what is distinctive about our time." The Neo-Whigs Maier's scholarship belongs
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John-Manuel Andriote


-Manuel Andriote "Hot Stuff: A Brief History of Disco" Collection" of the interviews and other research materials used to develop the book. In 2012, Andriote updated, retitled, and independently released an e-book edition of the book, "Hot Stuff: A Brief History of Disco/Dance Music". Andriote "came out" in 2006 about his October 27, 2005 HIV diagnosis in a firsthand "Washington Post" story and NPR interview. He has subsequently written and spoken about his experience of living
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Time–frequency analysis


are several different ways to formulate a valid time–frequency distribution function, resulting in several well-known time–frequency distributions, such as: More information about the history and the motivation of development of time–frequency distribution can be found in the entry Time–frequency representation. A time–frequency distribution function ideally has the following properties: Below is a brief comparison of some selected time–frequency distribution functions. To analyze the signals well, choosing an appropriate time–frequency distribution function is important. Which time–
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Pierre Salinger


two days, spent with Khrushchev. After their first day together, Khrushchev said, "I have had such a good time today, I think I will do it again tomorrow." In October 1962, Salinger briefed the press about what had been learned about Soviet missiles being stationed in Cuba. He later said that Kennedy's actions during that crisis were among the most incredible things a president had ever done in the 20th century and noted how close the countries were to nuclear war. At the time of the Kennedy assassination
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Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia


of Bible geography; a general survey of the world; history of the United States; each state and territory; Declaration of Independence; sketches of the Signers, with portraits; and of Presidents. County editions (typically 2 or 3 counties per volume) include brief county histories and brief biographies of early or pioneering county residents. Hardesty printed about 10,000 copies of main edition, 2,000 copies of the Virginia/West Virginia supplement, and subsequently prepared local historical (county) material for very limited editions of about 250 copies each
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A Brief History of the Future


A Brief History of the Future is a speculative futurology book about the next 50 years by Jacques Attali. The original edition was published by Fayard in 2006. The first third of the book retraces Human history from prehistory to today, with an emphasis on the rise of capitalism around 1200. It describes Dumézil's three Orders (religious, military and economic) as the "ritual order", the "imperial order" and the "merchant order", noting that the "merchant order" came to supersede the two others
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Lewis Black's Root of All Evil


Each show followed the same format: Black welcomed the viewer to his courtroom and announced the two Evil candidates for the Root of All Evil. Black gave a brief history of each of the Evils and introduced the two advocates, who presented their oral arguments why their Evil is the greater. Black began his inquisition, questioning the advocates about their Evils. Usually, the answers pointed out the good or usefulness of the opponent's Evil or the greater evil of their own. Black asked the advocates to predict what would happen if
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Modern Times (novel)


Wenming Xiaoshi (; "Short History of Civilization" or "A Brief History of Modern Times" or "A Brief History of Enlightenment") is a novel by Li Baojia (Li Boyuan). The novel is a satire of pseudo-reformers in the Qing Dynasty period who found difficulty adjusting to modernization, including its complexities and problems. The work has 60 chapters but it is a shorter work than "Officialdom Unmasked". From 1903 to 1905 the work was serialized in "Fiction Illustrated". The first edition of
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The Grand Design (book)


laws, outside of time, creating a universe. Now that description might sound somewhat familiar. Very much like the biblical concept of God: not physical, outside of time, able to create a universe." Dwight Garner in "The New York Times" was critical of the book, saying: "The real news about "The Grand Design" is how disappointingly tinny and inelegant it is. The spare and earnest voice that Mr. Hawking employed with such appeal in "A Brief History of Time" has been replaced
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The Death of Expertise


Pegoda also described "The Death of Expertise" as "extremely interesting, important, and timely" and said that "Nichols, in short, provides a brief History, informed by psychology and political science, of what he argues is a new phenomenon whereby people in the United States are not just regularly wrong or ignorant but 'proud of not knowing things'". Pegoda praised Nichols for not conflating expertise with credentials, and, while avowing that the book has some shortcomings, it has the "potential to start more
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Treehouse of Horror VI


a reference to the green glowing grid in the opening credits of the Disney film "The Black Hole". In "Homer", as he is about to fall in the black hole, Homer says, "There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I'd read that book by that wheelchair guy." This is a reference to the bestseller "A Brief History of Time" by theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who was quadraplegic. In "Attack of the 50 Foot Eyesores", some
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Mitch Cullin


"brilliant and beautiful," but the author has confessed that "half the time I'm not even sure why I make choices in writing, or how it works when it works." Cullin's novel "Tideland" was adapted for the screen and directed by Terry Gilliam in 2003, and the author also made a brief cameo appearance in the film, later stating about his time on the set: "There was a part of me that wanted to watch and experience every aspect of what Terry was doing… and
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Tom Gross


", both for their general foreign coverage, and historically for what he terms their “lamentable record of not covering the Holocaust.” “"The New York Times",” wrote Gross, “possibly because they feared people might -- wrongly -- think of it as a ‘Jewish’ paper, made sure reports were brief and buried inside the paper. During World War II, no article about the Jews’ plight under the Nazis ever qualified as the "Times"’ leading story of the day.” Gross
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Paperwork (T.I. album)


to have a brief Q&A session with T.I., as he spoke with them about what went into making the project, and how he created a "timeless album that had a great amount of soul." LouddMagazine wrote three of the tracks revealed were "G-Shit", the title track "Paperwork", and "the smooth and gritty sounds of 'About my Issues' exemplify that this project is sure to be just what he set out for it to become, simply a classic." When questioned about what
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Walter Haut


he attended, key officers at the base were briefed and strange debris was handed around, which nobody could identify. Haut also said there was a discussion as to what the public was to be told. General Ramey had flown in to attend the meeting. Haut said Ramey suggested telling the public about the more distant debris field as a diversion from the more accessible and important body/craft site. He felt Ramey was following orders from The Pentagon. Haut added he was not aware at the time exactly what information was to
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Hanns Scharff


Following the war and his moving to the U.S., Scharff began to write his memoirs of his time as a Luftwaffe interrogator. He reportedly never meant for his writings to be seen by anyone but himself. He chose select sections to publish in "Argosy Magazine" in 1950 in the form of a brief article titled "Without Torture". In the 1970s, military author Raymond Toliver contacted Scharff and asked if he could collaborate with him to publish what Scharff had written about his wartime experiences. Toliver examined what Scharff had written
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow


a significant attempt to gain happiness, immortality and God-like powers. Throughout the book, Harari openly speculates various ways that this ambition might be realised in the future based on the past and present. "Homo Deus" was reviewed in "The New York Times", "The Guardian", "The Economist", "The New Yorker", NPR, "Financial Times", and "Times Higher Education" published articles and reviews about the book. The review aggregator website Book Marks reported that 43%
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Galaxy


. If they continue to do so, then they would consume their reserve of gas in a time span less than the lifespan of the galaxy. Hence starburst activity usually lasts for only about ten million years, a relatively brief period in the history of a galaxy. Starburst galaxies were more common during the early history of the Universe, and, at present, still contribute an estimated 15% to the total star production rate. Starburst galaxies are characterized by dusty concentrations of gas and the appearance of newly formed stars, including
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The Universe in a Nutshell


The Universe in a Nutshell is a 2001 book about theoretical physics by Stephen Hawking. It is generally considered a sequel and was created to update the public concerning developments since the multi-million-copy bestseller "A Brief History of Time" published in 1988. In it Hawking explains to a general audience various matters relating to the Lucasian professor's work, such as Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem and P-branes (part of superstring theory in quantum mechanics). He tells the history and principles of modern physics. He seeks
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Linda Cohn


station in 1984, she worked as a sports anchor for four other New York area radio stations until 1987, including a brief stint as an update person at WFAN in New York City. In 1987, Cohn made sportscasting history by becoming the first full-time U.S. female sports anchor on a national radio network when she was hired by ABC. She anchored WABC TalkRadio from 1987–89. In 1988, Cohn got her first television break, after being hired by what was at the time one of ESPN's top competitors, SportsChannel
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Richard Jefferies


now actively pursuing a career as a writer, writing a history of the Goddards, a local family, and "Reporting, Editing, and Authorship: Practical Hints for Beginners in Literature" (1873), in which he shared the fruits of his brief experience as a local reporter. Meanwhile the novels he was writing could not find a publisher. What national attention he attracted was instead from a series of letters to "The Times" on the Wiltshire agricultural labourer, published in November 1872. The letters, like his
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Reality


. Some scientists think a more mathematical approach than philosophy is needed for a TOE, for instance Stephen Hawking wrote in "A Brief History of Time" that even if we had a TOE, it would necessarily be a set of equations. He wrote, "What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?" On a much broader and more subjective level, private experiences, curiosity, inquiry, and the selectivity involved in personal interpretation of events shapes reality as seen by one
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Milan, New York


of Stephen Thorn, who was elected town supervisor along with John F. Bartlett, town clerk. Two 19th century histories of the town of Milan and Dutchess County (1877 and 1882) state there is no knowledge or evidence as to why the name "Milan" was chosen. But the name Milan had appeared in other areas of the state, and it was not unusual to take European city names at the time. What is now the city of Syracuse was known as "Milan" for a brief period between 1809 and
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Jake the Dog


age is about his early 40's, assuming he ages consistently with every passing year. Specifically, he has been stated to be 34. Jake, along with Finn, appears in a brief cameo in the "Futurama" episode "Leela and the Genestalk". The two characters are seen suspended in manacles in a dungeon as Bender approaches them. Jake speaks their only line - "What time is it?", to which Bender replies, "Time for you to shut up!" The humor in the cameo
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A Gypsy Good Time


brief but passionate romance, Lewis finds Lablaine dying at his door, murdered. He then embarks on a quest involving drug dealers, mobsters, and Hollywood moguls in order to find the truth about what happened and to take revenge on the culprits. According to the Official Gustav Hasford Website maintained by Hasford's cousin, "The Short-Timers", "The Phantom Blooper", and "A Gypsy Good Time", are currently out of print. The texts of the two war novels and an excerpt of "A
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Time horizon


participant will have very different time horizon habits. Achieving simultaneous policy is quite difficult without an agreement, as those taking action early may be seriously disadvantaged in competition with those taking action late on a regulatory matter. One attempt to bring about a global simultaneous policy is being attempted by the International Simultaneous Policy Organization's SIMPOL campaign. Also, in terms of physics, the term "time horizon" is also synonymous with event horizon, first identified in Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time. Hawking stated that the time horizon
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Cygnus X-1


an "insurance policy" of sorts. In his book "A Brief History of Time" he wrote: According to the updated tenth-anniversary edition of "A Brief History of Time", Hawking has conceded the bet due to subsequent observational data in favor of black holes. In his own book, "Black Holes and Time Warps", Thorne reports that Hawking conceded the bet by breaking into Thorne's office while he was in Russia, finding the framed bet, and signing it. (While Hawking referred to
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Zuma, Sudan


Zuma is an archaeological site including a village and burial ground about downstream from Jebel Barkal in what is now Sudan. It lies about south of El-Kurru, in the Napatan Region, on the right side of the Nile. The cemetery was visited several times by researchers in the last two hundred years, but there were only brief descriptions written, and no excavations. A plan was drawn up during the expedition of Karl Richard Lepsius. UNESCO inscribed Zuma's 20 hectares as a world cultural heritage site in 2003. Modern
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A Natural Woman (book)


three brief sentences about winning four Grammys in 1972 (she didn't attend the ceremony 'because it was in New York and I wanted to stay in California with my family'), and a bit more about how she coped with fame: 'I just wanted to do what I'd been doing as a wife and mother before the success of "Tapestry". I made clothes for everyone in the family, tended our small garden and occasionally went out for sushi lunch in Little Tokyo…'"At the same time that
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List of Sin City yarns


Eyes is shown to take place at the same time as "A Dame To Kill For", as part of the story shows Gail telling Shelley what to tell the police about Dwight. The story also has brief appearances by many characters, including Miho, Agammemnon and Manute. "Rats" is the final story, it is about a disturbed war criminal who eats dog food. It was adapted to a 2004 fan film of the same name. A sadistic war criminal (and presumed Nazi) stuffs rats in his oven
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Pieter Floriszoon


is known about the first forty years of his life. What is known is that he married three times and had four children who all died young. There are some brief indications that he worked for an Amsterdam shipping company that operated in the West Indies. There is more information about the last eighteen years of his life, in which he has participated in various actions and major naval battles on ships of the Dutch war fleet (as captain, bailiff at night, and Vice admiral of the Admiralty of the Noorderkwartier).
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Secret history


A seeming continuity breach might be "revealed" to alter the truth of what readers were previously led to believe was a definitive story. A retcon might equally well convert an established history into a secret history. Such transformations occur with particular frequency in long-running superhero comic books. The plots of some Time travel books and stories make it possible to count them as secret histories as well – since they posit that the truth about various historical figures and events is quite different from what history books recount. For example, Poul
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United States Academic Decathlon


circle of fifths. It also includes information on a wide variety of instruments and a brief history of Western music. However, beginning in the 2010–2011 competition season, the "Basic Guides" were incorporated into the year's "Resource Guides". The National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) has criticized the intense amount of studying required by students as "excess fact-mongering". In the 1980s, the Association did not endorse Academic Decathlon, citing what it believes was an excessive amount of time involved with the
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Not All Dogs Go to Heaven


to drinking, but she takes him to burn books that are "harmful to God" (including "On the Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin, "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking, and a book titled "Logic for First Graders"). A disgusted Brian admits his bluff and attempts to convince Meg that what she is doing is wrong. When Meg refuses to listen, Brian points out to her that if there were truly a loving God, then he would not have created Meg to
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Theory of everything (philosophy)


Theory of Everything" (2014). The SSP makes no claims to finality; it aims to be the best systematic philosophy currently available. Other philosophers do not believe philosophy should aim so high. Some scientists think a more mathematical approach than philosophy is needed for a ToE, for instance Stephen Hawking wrote in "A Brief History of Time" that even if we had a ToE, it would necessarily be a set of equations. He wrote, "What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe
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