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  2. Absolution (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Three quarters of it, at least, is masterly. Then the author falters". [3] In the Literary Review of the New York Evening Post, the story is praised along with the other stories in All the Sad Young Men. [7] Contemporary reviewers often focus on the story's connection with The Great Gatsby. [3] [5] However, some scholars argue against that ...

  3. Bengal Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The Bengal Renaissance (Bengali: বাংলার নবজাগরণ, romanized: Bāṅlār Nôbôjāgôrôṇ), also known as the Bengali Renaissance, was a cultural, social, intellectual, and artistic movement that took place in the Bengal region of the British Raj, from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. [1]

  4. French Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The Revolution resulted from multiple long-term and short-term factors, culminating in a social, economic, financial and political crisis in the late 1780s. [3] [4] [5] Combined with resistance to reform by the ruling elite, and indecisive policy by Louis XVI and his ministers, the result was a crisis the state was unable to manage. [6] [7]

  5. Proclamation of the French Republic (September 4, 1870)

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    For this reason, Pierre Cornut-Gentille considered the events of 1830 and 1848 to be "inefficient, violent, and ultimately unsuccessful attempts to enshrine the principles of the Great Revolution or to establish the republic permanently", [94] revolutions "imperfect and incomplete, unlike the unblemished legacy of the men of September 4."

  6. The Great Gatsby - Wikipedia

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    The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.

  7. Revolutions in Mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Luciano Boi, The "revolution" in the geometrical vision of space in the nineteenth century, and the hermeneutical epistemology of mathematics (183–208); Caroline Dunmore, Meta-level revolutions in mathematics (209–225); Jeremy Gray, The nineteenth-century revolution in mathematical ontology (226–248);

  8. Turn (angle) - Wikipedia

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    The superseded version ISO 80000-3:2006 defined "revolution" as a special name for the dimensionless unit "one", [c] which also received other special names, such as the radian. [ d ] Despite their dimensional homogeneity , these two specially named dimensionless units are applicable for non-comparable kinds of quantity : rotation and angle ...

  9. Threequarters - Wikipedia

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    The fraction (mathematics) 3 ⁄ 4 (three quarters) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Threequarters .