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  2. Google (verb) - Wikipedia

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    The first recorded usage of google was as a gerund, on July 8, 1998, by Google co-founder Larry Page himself, who wrote on a mailing list: "Have fun and keep googling!". [7] Its earliest known use as an explicitly transitive verb on American television was in the "Help" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (October 15, 2002), when Willow asked Buffy, "Have you googled her yet?".

  3. Wikipedia : Lists of common misspellings/Grammar and ...

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    daily regimen) (darker than [comparative]) (DC, direct current) (de rigueur) death knell (deciding how) (deep-seated) (kelvins) (depending on) (depending on whom you)

  4. Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings - Wikipedia

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    Note that not all occurrences of these spellings will be misspellings: if they are in song titles, for instance, they must be left as the song writer intended (but it is worth checking back to sources); if they are in transliterations such as "Tao Te Ching" or in pieces of text in languages other than English then they may also be correct.

  5. List of last words (20th century) - Wikipedia

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    "These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." [40] — William James, American philosopher and psychologist (26 August 1910) The funeral of Jorge Chávez in Paris. "Higher. Always higher." [10] [21] ("Arriba. Siempre arriba.")

  6. Resurrection - Wikipedia

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    Resurrection or anastasis is the concept of coming back to life after death. Reincarnation is a similar process hypothesized by other religions involving the same person or deity returning to another body. The disappearance of a body is another similar but distinct belief in some religions.

  7. Judgement (afterlife) - Wikipedia

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    Judgement in an afterlife, in which one's deeds and characteristics in life determine either punishment or reward, is a central theme of many religions. Almost all religions are greatly devoted to the afterlife, emphasizing that what you do in your current life affects what happens to you after death. [citation needed]

  8. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    The earliest recorded use of "fuck" in English comes from c. 1475, in the poem Flen flyys, where it is spelled fuccant (conjugated as if a Latin verb meaning "they fuck"). The word derived from Proto-Germanic roots, and has cognates in many other Germanic languages. [9] [10] [11]

  9. Dying-and-rising god - Wikipedia

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    The term "dying god" is associated with the works of James Frazer, [4] Jane Ellen Harrison, and their fellow Cambridge Ritualists. [16] At the end of the 19th century, in their The Golden Bough [4] and Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Frazer and Harrison argued that all myths are echoes of rituals, and that all rituals have as their primordial purpose the manipulation of natural ...