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  • 113Margaret Cavendish — See Margaret Cavendish (1661 1717) for the later Duchess of Newcastle of this name. Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle upon Tyne (1623 ndash; 15 December 1673), was an English aristocrat and a prolific writer. Born Margaret Lucas, she was… …

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  • 114Harold Bloom — Infobox Writer name = Harold Bloom caption = birthdate = July 11, 1930 birthplace = New York City deathdate = deathplace = occupation = literary and cultural critic genre = movement = Romanticism, Aestheticism notableworks = The Western Canon,… …

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  • 115Ludwig von Mises Institute — Motto Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito (Latin: Do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it) Founder(s) Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. Established …

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  • 116Discourse ethics — Discourse ethics, sometimes called argumentation ethics, refers to a type of argument that attempts to establish normative or ethical truths by examining the presuppositions of discourse. Contents 1 Habermas and Apel 1.1 Presupposition 1.2… …

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  • 117Enron scandal — The Enron scandal was a financial scandal involving Enron Corporation Former (NYSE ticker symbol: ENE) and its accounting firm Arthur Andersen, that was revealed in late 2001. After a series of revelations involving irregular accounting… …

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  • 118Nguyễn Trường Tộ — (1830 ndash;1871) was a Roman Catholic scholar and reformer during the reign of Tự Đức of the Nguyễn Dynasty, the last sovereign Emperor of Vietnam under which the French colonial forces colonized the country. Nguyễn Trường Tộ was best known for… …

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  • 119Advaita — /euhd vuy teuh/, n. Hinduism. one of the two principal Vedantic schools, asserting the existence of Brahman alone, whose appearance as the world is an illusion resulting from ignorance. Cf. dvaita (def. 2). [ < Skt] * * * (Sanskrit: Nondualism )&#8230; …

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  • 120A Clockwork Orange —    1) (1960–1961)    ANTHONY BURGESS’s novella was written early in his literary career, in 1960 and 1961. At the time, Burgess had been told that he had less than a year to live, and Clockwork was only one of several novels that he produced&#8230; …

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