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  2. Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    "Life, the universe, and everything" is a common name for the off-topic section of an Internet forum, and the phrase is invoked in similar ways to mean "anything at all". Many chatbots, when asked about the meaning of life, will answer "42". Several online calculators are also programmed with the Question.

  3. 42 - Wikipedia

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    "42" (Coldplay song), 2008; 42, the 2012 debut album of Cthulhu Rise; 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams, 2023 book by Kevin Jon Davies; 42 Entertainment, an alternate reality games company founded in 2003; 42 (dominoes), a game; 42 (Aya Nakamura song), 2024 "42", a song by Mumford & Sons from Delta, 2018

  4. Meaning of life - Wikipedia

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    The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.

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

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    (then at the beginning, God created two human beings, man and woman) [89] Yankee does not originate from the Cherokee word eankke meaning "coward". The word does not exist in the Cherokee language. It also does not come from a native tribe called the Yankoo meaning "invincible". No tribe has existed under that name.

  6. Man (word) - Wikipedia

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    The word "man" is still used in its generic meaning in literary English. The verb to man (i.e. "to furnish [a fortress or a ship] with a company of men") dates to early Middle English. The word has been applied generally as a suffix in modern combinations like "fireman", "policeman", and "mailman".

  7. Names for the human species - Wikipedia

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    Other Indo-European languages name man for his mortality, *mr̥tós meaning ' mortal ', so in Armenian mard, Persian mard, Sanskrit marta and Greek βροτός meaning ' mortal, human '. This is comparable to the Semitic word for ' man ', represented by Arabic insan إنسان (cognate with Hebrew ʼenōš אֱנוֹשׁ‬), from a root for ...

  8. Man - Wikipedia

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    A Malayali man with medium skin tone, of medium build, and with facial hair. A man is an adult male human. [a] [2] [3] Before adulthood, a male human is referred to as a boy (a male child or adolescent). Like most other male mammals, a man's genome usually inherits an X chromosome from the mother and a Y chromosome from the father.

  9. Mann (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Mann‌ is a German‌, Dutch‌, Jewish (Ashkenazic), English, Irish or Scottish surname, of Germanic origin. It means 'man', 'person', 'husband'. In the runic alphabet, the meaning 'man', 'human', is represented by the single character ᛗ. Mann (or Maan) is also an Indian surname found among the Jats in Punjab. [1] [2] [3]