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  2. Papyromancy - Wikipedia

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    Papyromancy is a way of divination through folding paper. Some say a true papyromancer can crumple up any piece of paper, unfold it, and predict the future from the creased lines [1] reading the creased paper the way that a palm reader would read a person's palm. Another form of papyromancy is done by folding an illustrated piece of paper and ...

  3. George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army - Wikipedia

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    The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. So keep moving. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a Boche will get him eventually. The hell with that. My men don't dig foxholes.

  4. YOGTZE case - Wikipedia

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    Stoll's wife stated that she threw the paper away the night Stoll died. [7] Furthermore she just came forward with the information about the piece of paper, half a year after Stoll's death. Therefore police don't even know if "YOG'TZE" is the combination Stoll wrote on the piece of paper. [8] The meaning of the letters "YOG'TZE" remains unknown.

  5. The Meaning of Meaning - Wikipedia

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    The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism (1923) is a book by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards. It is accompanied by two supplementary essays by Bronisław Malinowski and F. G. Crookshank .

  6. Copiale cipher - Wikipedia

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    The manuscript portrays, among other things, an initiation ritual in which the candidate is asked to read a blank piece of paper and, on confessing inability to do so, is given eyeglasses and asked to try again, and then again after washing the eyes with a cloth, followed by an "operation" in which a single eyebrow hair is plucked.

  7. Reductio ad absurdum - Wikipedia

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    Reductio ad absurdum, painting by John Pettie exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1884. In logic, reductio ad absurdum (Latin for "reduction to absurdity"), also known as argumentum ad absurdum (Latin for "argument to absurdity") or apagogical arguments, is the form of argument that attempts to establish a claim by showing that the opposite scenario would lead to absurdity or contradiction.

  8. ‘Fortnight’ lyrics meaning: Taylor Swift just explained what ...

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    No, it’s not about the video game. “Fortnight,” the first single from Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” is a duet with Post Malone.. Before we delve into the lyrics, let ...

  9. Casting the Runes - Wikipedia

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    The Abbeville church where the story's antagonist met his justice "Casting the Runes" is a short story written by the English writer M. R. James.It was first published in 1911 as the fourth story in More Ghost Stories, which was James' second collection of ghost stories.