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  2. Dewi Sartika - Wikipedia

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    Dewi Sartika [1] was born to Sundanese noble parents, R. Rangga Somanegara and R. A. Rajapermas in Cicalengka on 4 December 1884. [2] [3] As a child, after school she often pretended to be a teacher while playing with her friends.

  3. Malin Kundang - Wikipedia

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    Malin Kundang is a popular folktale in Indonesian folklore that originated in the province of West Sumatra.The folktale tells of an ungrateful son named Malin Kundang and centers around the themes of disobedience and retribution that turned him into stone.

  4. Lon L. Fuller - Wikipedia

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    Fuller was born in Hereford, Texas and grew up in the Imperial Valley in Southern California.He went to Stanford University as an undergraduate and for law school. [3] He taught at the University of Oregon School of Law, then at Duke University School of Law, where one of his students was future US president Richard Nixon.

  5. Encyclopedia - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, the purpose of an encyclopedia is to collect knowledge disseminated around the globe; to set forth its general system to the men with whom we live, and transmit it to those who will come after us, so that the work of preceding centuries will not become useless to the centuries to come; and so that our offspring, becoming better instructed, will at the same time become more virtuous and ...

  6. Hortative - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, hortative modalities (/ ˈ h ɔːr t ə t ɪ v / ⓘ; abbreviated HORT) are verbal expressions used by the speaker to encourage or discourage an action. Different hortatives can be used to express greater or lesser intensity, or the speaker's attitude, for or against it.

  7. Kata - Wikipedia

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    Kata originally were teaching and training methods by which successful combat techniques were preserved and passed on. Practicing kata allowed a company of persons to engage in a struggle using a systematic approach, rather by practicing in a repetitive manner the learner develops the ability to execute those techniques and movements in a natural, reflex-like manner.

  8. Innovation - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Edison with phonograph in the late 1870s. Edison was one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name.. Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services. [1]

  9. Intrapersonal communication - Wikipedia

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    Intensive thinking to oneself is a typical form of intrapersonal communication, as exemplified by Rodin's sculpture The Thinker. [1]Intrapersonal communication (also known as autocommunication or inner speech) is communication with oneself or self-to-self communication.