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  • 1deep — I. a. 1. Down reaching, reaching far down, of great depth. 2. Mysterious, intricate, knotty, difficult, hard (to comprehend), unfathomable, profound. 3. Sagacious, penetrating, intelligent, discerning, shrewd, astute. 4. Absorbed, engrossed, rapt …

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  • 2literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 3Heraclitus — Catherine Osborne No philosopher before Socrates can have had such a profound influence on so many generations of subsequent thinkers as Heraclitus. Nor can any thinker, probably in the whole history of philosophy, have inspired such a wide range …

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  • 4PARODY, HEBREW — Parody in Early Hebrew Literature Parody is the use of a recognizable literary form as a vehicle to ridicule or mock something or someone. The writer takes a well known, serious work as his model and invests it with new and amusing contents, at… …

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  • 5Friedrich Nietzsche — Born October 15, 1844 Röcken bei Lützen, Prussia Died August 25, 1900(1900 08 25) (aged 55) Weimar, Saxony …

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  • 6Hogwarts staff — Four Hogwarts staff members in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. From left to right: Miriam Margolyes as Pomona Sprout, Gemma Jones as Poppy Pomfrey, Jim Broadbent as Horace Slughorn, and David Bradley as Argus Filch. The following… …

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  • 7Emmy Noether — Amalie Emmy Noether Born 23 March 1882(1882 03 23) …

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  • 8Taman Shud Case — The Somerton Man Police photo of the dead body, 1948. Born c. 1903 Died 1 December 1948 Somerton, Adelaide, Australia Cause …

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  • 9African literature — Introduction       the traditional oral and written literatures together with the mainly 20th century literature written mostly in European languages but also to an increasing extent in the many languages of the sub Saharan region. Traditional… …

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  • 10Joke — This article is about the form of humour. For other uses, see Joke (disambiguation). Contents 1 Purpose 2 Antiquity of jokes 3 …

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