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  2. Wit - Wikipedia

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    Repartee is the wit of the quick answer and capping comment: the snappy comeback and neat retort. Metaphysical poetry as a style was prevalent in the time of English playwright William Shakespeare , who admonished pretension with the phrase "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit". [ 3 ]

  3. Six Months, Three Days - Wikipedia

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    "Six Months, Three Days" is a science fiction novelette by Charlie Jane Anders. It was originally published online on Tor.com and as an ebook in 2011, and was subsequently reprinted in Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2011 Edition and Year's Best SF 17. [1] It won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. [2]

  4. Burna-Buriash II - Wikipedia

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    Burna-Buriaš II was a Kassite king of Karduniaš in the Late Bronze Age, ca. 1359–1333 BC, [2] where the Short and Middle chronologies have converged. The proverb "the time of checking the books is the shepherds' ordeal" was attributed to him in a letter to the later king Esarhaddon from his agent Mar-Issar.

  5. Template:MONTHABBREV - Wikipedia

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    6 Examples for month number underflows and overflows, from computed values. ... the English name or abbreviation (in any letter case) can be provided. Syntax

  6. Dominical letter - Wikipedia

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    In leap years the formulae above give the Dominical Letter for the last ten months of the year. To find the Dominical Letter for the first two months of the year to the leap day (inclusive) subtract 1 from the calculated number representing the original Dominical Letter; if the new number is less than 0, it must be changed to 6.

  7. Lactational amenorrhea - Wikipedia

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    Mothers who breastfed exclusively longer showed a longer span of lactational amenorrhea, ranging from an average of 5.3 months in mothers who breastfed exclusively for only two months to an average of 9.6 months in mothers who did so for six months. [10] Another factor shown to affect the length of amenorrhea was the mother's age.

  8. Algonquin Round Table - Wikipedia

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    The group that would become the Round Table began meeting in June 1919 as the result of a practical joke carried out by theatrical press agent John Peter Toohey.Toohey, annoyed at The New York Times drama critic Alexander Woollcott for refusing to plug one of Toohey's clients (Eugene O'Neill) in his column, organized a luncheon supposedly to welcome Woollcott back from World War I, where he ...

  9. Elul - Wikipedia

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    The name of the month Elul, like the names of the rest of the Hebrew calendar months, was brought from the Babylonian captivity, and originated from the Akkadian word for "harvest". A similar month name was also used in Akkadian, in the form Elūlu. The month is known as Araḫ Ulūlu "harvest month" in the Babylonian calendar.