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  2. Parkinson's law - Wikipedia

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    Work contracts to fit in the time we give it. [4] the Asimov corollary to Parkinson's law: In ten hours a day you have time to fall twice as far behind your commitments as in five hours a day. [5] as well as corollaries relating to computers, such as: Data expands to fill the space available for storage. [6]

  3. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Every dog has his day [a] Every Jack has his Jill [a] Every little bit helps [a] Every man for himself (and the Devil take the hindmost) [a] Every man has his price [a] Every picture tells a story [a] Every stick has two ends [a] Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die [a] Everyone has their price.

  4. Scribe - Wikipedia

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    For other uses, see Scribe (disambiguation). Portrait of the Scribe Mir 'Abd Allah Katib in the Company of a Youth Burnishing Paper (Mughal Empire, ca. 1602) A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The work of scribes can ...

  5. Valerie Worth - Wikipedia

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    Valerie Worth was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where her father taught biology at Swarthmore College. In 1947, the family moved to Tampa, Florida for four years, and then spent a year in Bangalore, India. [1] Worth returned to Swarthmore for college, where in 1955 she received an English Degree ...

  6. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference - Wikipedia

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    Pages. 68. ISBN. 978-0-14-199174-0. Greta Thunberg striking in Stockholm (2018). A detail of this photo illustrates the back cover of the book's first edition. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference is a book by climate activist Greta Thunberg. It was originally published on 30 May 2019. It consists of a collection of eleven speeches which ...

  7. La Juive - Wikipedia

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    La Juive was one of the most popular and admired operas of the 19th century. Its libretto was the work of Eugène Scribe, the prolific dramatic author.Scribe was writing to the tastes of the Opéra de Paris, where the work was first performed – a work in five acts presenting spectacular situations (here the Council of Constance of 1414), which would allow a flamboyant staging in a setting ...

  8. Scriptorium - Wikipedia

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    Scriptorium. Miniature of Vincent of Beauvais writing in a manuscript of the Speculum Historiale in French, Bruges, c. 1478–1480, British Library Royal 14 E. i, vol. 1, f. 3, probably representing the library of the Dukes of Burgundy. A scriptorium (/ skrɪpˈtɔːriəm / ⓘ) [1] was a writing room in medieval European monasteries for the ...

  9. Nine Worthies - Wikipedia

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    The Nine Worthies are nine historical, scriptural, and legendary men of distinction who personify the ideals of chivalry established in the Middle Ages, whose lives were deemed a valuable study for aspirants to chivalric status. All were commonly referred to as ' Princes ', regardless of their historical titles.