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  2. Lauren Tarshis - Wikipedia

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    The latest book in the series was published in 2023 and is called I Survived The Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964. [ 20 ] In 2018, the first of six I Survived books in Spanish were released for the U.S. market: Sobreviví los Ataques de Tiburones de 1916 (I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916).

  3. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature - Wikipedia

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    The thematic approach of the book and its intended non-academic audience [2] corresponds with a focus on contemporary Canadian literature as a point of entry. Therefore, the book does not provide an extensive survey of the historical development of Canada's literature, but an introduction to what is Canadian about Canadian literature for ...

  4. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  5. Hatchet (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Hatchet is a 1987 young-adult wilderness survival novel written by American writer Gary Paulsen. [1] It is the first novel of five in the Hatchet series. Other novels in the series include The River (1991), Brian's Winter (1996), Brian's Return (1999) and Brian's Hunt (2003). [2]

  6. Survivorship bias - Wikipedia

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    In finance, survivorship bias is the tendency for failed companies to be excluded from performance studies because they no longer exist. It often causes the results of studies to skew higher because only companies that were successful enough to survive until the end of the period are included.

  7. Whatcom County woman who survived 2004 Indian Ocean ... - AOL

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    Monica Connelly survived the Indian Ocean Tsunami at age 13 in 2004. 19 years later, in 2023, she published a memoir about her experience. She managed to reach the surface but passed out from ...

  8. List of works by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Summary In a setting soon after Julius Caesar, Marc Antony is in love with Cleopatra, an Egyptian queen. What used to be a friendship between Emperor Octavius and Antony develops into a hatred as Antony rejects the Emperor's sister, his wife, in favour of Cleopatra. Antony attempts to take the throne from Octavius and fails, while Cleopatra ...

  9. Retroactive continuity - Wikipedia

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    An early published use of the phrase "retroactive continuity" is found in theologian E. Frank Tupper's 1973 book The Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg: "Pannenberg's conception of retroactive continuity ultimately means that history flows fundamentally from the future into the past, that the future is not basically a product of the past."