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For decades, there has been a deep rift between poetry and fiction in

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13 Mar 2020, 23:48

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By the year 2030, the Earth’s population is expected to increase to 10

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James Porter (1905-1970) was the first scholar to identify

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12 Aug 2010, 23:54

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08 Mar 2024, 06:14

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For anyone claiming to write a history of a science of which reasoning

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12 Jan 2018, 14:36

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17 Mar 2024, 07:50

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When we consider great painters of the past, the study of art and the

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11 Feb 2020, 11:18

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20 Mar 2024, 11:25

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There is a new cell-phone ring tone that can't be heard by most people

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04 Sep 2019, 23:36

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31 Mar 2024, 17:48

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Is the rightness of an action determined by its consequences

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25 Nov 2019, 07:58

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26 Apr 2024, 05:55

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Traditionally, the study of history has had fixed boundaries and focal

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29 Mar 2009, 02:46

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30 Apr 2024, 11:55

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A growing taste for shark steaks and shark-fin soup has for the first

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15 Jul 2019, 09:01

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Young Enterprise Services (YES) is a federal program created to encour

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Jon Clarks study of the effect of the modernization of a telephone ex

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03 Jan 2010, 07:39

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It was in the mid-1970s that women’s studies courses began to make the

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23 Aug 2017, 07:48

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13 May 2024, 02:01

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Years after the movement to obtain civil rights for black people in th

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17 Apr 2019, 07:46

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Since the 1994 introduction to supermarket shelves of Calgene’s Flavr

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19 Feb 2017, 03:39

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Citing the fact that the real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita

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21 May 2024, 09:01

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Archaeological discoveries frequently undermine accepted ideas, giving

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02 Sep 2019, 09:59

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22 May 2024, 03:34

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Creativity is a frequent element in the mythology, philosophy, or

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03 Aug 2023, 20:00

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26 May 2024, 02:25

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Since the early 1970s, historians have begun to devote serious attent

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03 Oct 2017, 09:05

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26 May 2024, 07:36

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Scientific advances in the latter half of the twentieth century have a

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04 Nov 2010, 17:35

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01 Jun 2024, 04:43

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In the decades following World War II, American business had undispute

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In Winters v. United States (1908), the Supreme Court held that the ri

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The Tokugawa period Japan (1603-1867) serves as a laboratory for organ

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For more than forty years, a controlling insight in my educational

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26 Nov 2019, 01:53

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13 Aug 2020, 01:56

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Under existing law, a new drug may be labeled, promoted, and advertise

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18 Nov 2019, 08:15

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29 Apr 2021, 11:28

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Metaphysics – the philosophical investigation of the nature of the uni

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26 May 2015, 09:20

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13 Oct 2021, 07:51

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Anyone who thinks that rabbits make cute and cuddly pets has never own

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07 Dec 2018, 12:52

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Mercury is only present in small amounts in marine ecosystems, yet it

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04 Aug 2018, 08:01

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Most people associate bartering with poor or undeveloped societies, or

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02 Oct 2018, 20:30

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From Romania to Germany, from Tallinn to Belgrade, a major historical

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Shaw’s defense of a theater of ideas brought him up against both his g

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The Romans—for centuries the masters of war and politics across Europe

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06 Dec 2018, 05:51

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17 Apr 2023, 01:02

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Pricing is the most influential medium of communication that companies

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In economics, the concept of “propensity to consume” refers to the pro

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13 Jul 2023, 01:17

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What is the biggest lesson from the Great Depression? In my view, it i

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31 May 2018, 20:25

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Individual studies and experiments the world over have shown that a st

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01 Jul 2018, 03:27

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The Seventh Symphony (1812) was, at the time, Beethoven’s last and

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19 May 2015, 07:17

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25 Aug 2023, 03:00

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Roger Rosenblatt’s book Black Fiction, in attempting to apply literary

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18 Jan 2020, 03:09

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01 Sep 2023, 21:22

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In contrast to traditional analyses of minority business, the sociolog

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Sarah Meyers McGinty, in her new book Power Talk: Using Language to Bu

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The immigration of Europeans and the importation of West African slave

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From the time they were first proposed, the 1962 Amendments to the Foo

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09 May 2018, 14:21

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28 Nov 2020, 21:36

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Some people maintain that the whole of medieval society can be explain

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25 Mar 2017, 02:11

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19 Aug 2022, 09:32

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Insect-eating bats rely heavily on echolocation, a method of sensory p

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13 Oct 2017, 00:59

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It is hard to find a politician who doesn’t have some sort of plan

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31 Mar 2015, 10:43

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Around 1960, mathematician Edward Lorenz found unexpected behavior in

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18 Nov 2012, 04:20

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19 Sep 2023, 10:17

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For much of the twentieth century, Saving and Loans (S&L) banks made m

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28 Dec 2017, 15:57

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While there is no fixed model for lowering costs and increasing effici

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14 Aug 2017, 07:35

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It is common to assume that people who act morally are normally

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The Seventh Symphony (1812) was, at the time, Beethoven’s last

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06 Apr 2015, 06:05

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30 Apr 2024, 13:41

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Polygamy in Africa has been a popular topic for social research over t

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08 Mar 2015, 13:03

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