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A 1751 book by David Hume in this area of philosophy argues that altruism is human nature |
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1978: "You'll believe a man can fly" |
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In March 1879 law school grad Belva Lockwood became the first woman allowed to argue here |
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This Western Hemisphere country has the most Spanish speakers of any country in the world |
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The U.S. Internet Industry Association posts an FBI-esque list of these, like worm netsky.p |
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In English it's a figure of speech, like "a sea of troubles"; in Greek it refers to moving companies |
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Nominalism is so called from considering only objects real, & abstractions like "animal" & "circle" merely these |
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As a girl in the 1830s she nursed her brother David through a 2-year illness (came in handy later) |
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Holy cow! There are more head of cattle in this nation than anywhere else |
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ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, dates back to this decade when ENIAC came on line |
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Separating mind from matter was a big step for this philosopher who died in 1650 |
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2002: "America was born in the streets" |
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Before she was the first black woman in Congress, she was the second in the New York State Assembly |
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Golden opportunities await in this African country that leads the world in gold production |
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The ICGA website tells us Deep Fritz, this type of program, earned a draw with Vladimir Kramnik |
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To get this word for a place to eat & drink in Greece, add "A" to a similar English word |
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This idea that God & the universe are identical was powerfully stated by Spinoza in the 17th century |
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1960: "They trained him to kill for their pleasure... but they trained him a little too well..." |
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The motto "semper paratus" game us this nautical acronym for the WWII Women's Coast Guard Reserve |
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This Asian country has the world's largest armed forces |
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The AAAI, American Association for this, has only human members--we think |
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This was a real 4-letter word for Schopenhauer, as it urges us on to pointless desires & death |
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2000: "Some memories are best forgotten" |
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This alliterative-named woman who spied for Stonewall Jackson was not the most ladylike Southern belle |
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People on this European island nation read more books per person annually than any other |
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The OSI is the "Initiative" to promote this, free access to software code |
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Meaning "fighter" or "contestant" (as on "Jeopardy!"), it follows "Samson" in the title of a Milton work |
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