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  2. Jorge - Wikipedia

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    Jorge is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name George. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish [ˈxoɾxe] ; Portuguese [ˈʒɔɾʒɨ] .

  3. Branches of physics - Wikipedia

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    astrophysics, the physics in the universe, including the properties and interactions of celestial bodies in astronomy; atmospheric physics is the application of physics to the study of the atmosphere; space physics is the study of plasmas as they occur naturally in the Earth's upper atmosphere (aeronomy) and within the Solar System

  4. Jorge Luis Borges - Wikipedia

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    Jorge Luis Borges wrote, "As most of my people had been soldiers and I knew I would never be, I felt ashamed, quite early, to be a bookish kind of person and not a man of action." [11] Jorge Luis Borges was taught at home until the age of 11 and was bilingual in Spanish and English, reading Shakespeare in the latter at the age of twelve. [11]

  5. Jorge E. Hirsch - Wikipedia

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    Jorge Eduardo Hirsch (born 1953) is an Argentine American professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. [1] Hirsch received a PhD in physics from the University of Chicago in 1980 and completed his postdoctoral research at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1983.

  6. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius - Wikipedia

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    (Andrew Hurley, one of Borges' translators, wrote a fiction in which he says that the words "axaxaxas mlö" "can only be pronounced as the author's cruel, mocking laughter". [4]) In another language family of Tlön, "the basic unit is not the verb, but the monosyllabic adjective ", which in combinations of two or more forms nouns: "moon ...

  7. Classification of the sciences (Peirce) - Wikipedia

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    Branches differ in fundamental purposes. Throughout a branch, there is one same animating motive (though researchers in a branch's different classes seem to live in different worlds). Peirce's three branches (1903): Science of Discovery. Science of Review. Practical Science. Class of science Classes differ radically in observation.

  8. Three Versions of Judas - Wikipedia

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    Borges' fictitious writer Nils Runeberg presents to the world three versions of Judas Iscariot using his two books.. In the first version of Kristus och Judas, Runeberg says that it was Judas who was the reflection of Jesus in the human world, and as Jesus was our savior sent from heaven, Judas took up the onus of being the human who led Jesus down the path of redemption.

  9. Jorge Ramos (news anchor) - Wikipedia

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    Jorge Gilberto Ramos Ávalos (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxoɾxe ˈramos]; born March 16, 1958) is a Mexican-American journalist and author. Regarded as the best-known Spanish-language news anchor in the United States of America, [ 4 ] he has been referred to as "The Walter Cronkite of Latin America".