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  2. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Moderation in all things; Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child works hard for its living, and a child that is born on the Sabbath day is fair and wise and good and gay

  3. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - Wikipedia

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    Aram Bakshian argued that Beck's work on the 15th edition was the start of the work's downfall, writing that, "Donning the intellectual bell-bottoms and platform shoes of its era, Bartlett's began spouting third-rate Third World, youth-culture, and feminist quotes", part of "a middle-aged obsession with staying trendy."

  4. Ranavalona I - Wikipedia

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    To deny her mystical power was to repudiate not only her but also the ancestors, the quintessence of good and blessings ... She was the custodian of a holy trust ... Christianity was therefore treason ... in Ranavalona's words it was "the substitution of the respect of her ancestors, Andrianampoinimerina and Radama , for the respect of the ...

  5. 1066 and All That - Wikipedia

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    According to Sellar and Yeatman, in English history kings are either "Good" or "Bad". The first "Good King" is the confusingly differentiated King Arthur / Alfred (Chapter V). Bad kings include King John , who when he came to the throne showed how much he deserved this epithet when he "lost his temper and flung himself on the floor, foaming at ...

  6. Bill Gates - Wikipedia

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    At first he was perceived as a brilliant but ruthless "robber baron", a "nerd-turned-tycoon". [202] Starting in 2000 with the foundation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and particularly after he stepped down as head of Microsoft, he turned his attention to philanthropy, spending more than $50 billion on causes like health, poverty, and ...

  7. Noble savage - Wikipedia

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    Roman historian Tacitus introduced the idea of the noble savage in his historical work Germania, describes the ancient Germanic people in terms that precede the notion.. The first century Roman work De origine et situ Germanorum (On the Origin and Situation of the Germans) by Publius Cornelius Tacitus introduced the idea of the noble savage to the Western World in 98 AD, describing the ancient ...

  8. The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story - Wikipedia

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    The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story is a 2021 anthology of essays and poetry, published by One World (an imprint of Random House) on November 16, 2021. It is a book-length expansion of the essays presented in the 1619 Project issue of The New York Times Magazine in August 2019.

  9. Zhang Zongchang - Wikipedia

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    He made a good impression, with one story being that he rose in popularity one year at Zhang Zuolin's birthday party: in contrast to other guests who showered the warlord with expensive gifts, Zhang Zongchang sent him two empty coolie baskets and failed to turn up himself. Zhang Zuolin was baffled until the purpose of the gift was ascertained ...