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  • 91Declaration of Reasonable Doubt — The Declaration of Reasonable Doubt is an Internet signing petition that seeks to enlist broad public support for the Shakespeare authorship question to be accepted as a legitimate field of academic inquiry by 2016, the 400th anniversary of… …

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  • 92McMahon–Hussein Correspondence — The McMahon–Hussein Correspondence, or the Hussein McMahon Correspondence, was a protracted exchange of letters (July 14, 1915 to January 30, 1916)[1] during World War I, between the Sharif of Mecca, Husayn bin Ali, and Sir Henry McMahon, British …

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  • 93Plato: ethics and politics — A.W.Price I Plato followed his teacher Socrates into ethics by way of a question that remained central in Greek thought: what is the relation between the virtues or excellences (aretai) of character, and happiness (eudaimonia)?1 Both concepts… …

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  • 94Berkeley, George — George Berkeley David Berman BACKGROUND AND EARLY WORK George Berkeley was born on 12 March 1685 in Co. Kilkenny, where he spent his early years. His father was from England, his mother (very probably) was born in Ireland.1 After attending… …

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  • 95crack — Synonyms and related words: Daedalian, Parthian shot, above par, abrade, abrasion, abysm, abyss, account for, ace, address, adept, adroit, allegation, allegorize, alligator, answer, aperture, aphorism, apostrophe, apothegm, approach, apt, arroyo …

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  • 96show — Synonyms and related words: Grand Guignol, Passion play, Prospero, Tom show, accompany, accord, account for, acting, advertise, affect, affectation, affectedness, afford, afford proof of, air, airiness, airs, airs and graces, alibi, allege,… …

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  • 97unravel — Synonyms and related words: account for, allegorize, answer, avulse, bottom, break, break loose, break out, carry away, clarify, clear, clear up, come apart, come off, come undone, come unstuck, crack, crack up, cut loose, cut out, debug,… …

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  • 98rationalize — v 1. intellectualize, paralogize, explain away, talk away; invent, make excuses for, construe; justify, vindicate, account for, make acceptable, make allowance for; attribute, ascribe, misapply. 2. reason, deliberate, contemplate, reflect,… …

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  • 99Georges Sorel — Georges Eugène Sorel (2 November, 1847 ndash; 29 August, 1922) was a French philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism.BiographySorel was born in Cherbourg, son of a bankrupted wine merchant. He studied in the École Polytechnique in… …

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  • 100Kateda — is a self defense martial art, its origins are claimed to be somwhere in the area of South Asia and/or South East Asia and is claimed to date from 1000 BC or even earlier; its teachers say it was one of many knowledges that existed at that time …

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