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  2. The Answer Man (novella) - Wikipedia

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    The signs lead to a roadside stall where Phil encounters the Answer Man, who advertises that he will answer questions for five minutes for $25 (equivalent to $530 in 2023). While assuming the Answer Man is a fraud, Phil eventually decides to pay him in an attempt to help resolve his dilemma.

  3. Parable of the drowning man - Wikipedia

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    Two boats and a helicopter, the instruments of rescue most frequently cited in the parable, during a coastguard rescue demonstration. The parable of the drowning man, also known as Two Boats and a Helicopter, is a short story, often told as a joke, most often about a devoutly Christian man, frequently a minister, who refuses several rescue attempts in the face of approaching floodwaters, each ...

  4. Storytelling - Wikipedia

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    During the telling of the story, children may act as participants by asking questions, acting out the story, or telling smaller parts of the story. [38] Furthermore, stories are not often told in the same manner twice, resulting in many variations of a single myth.

  5. What Men Live By - Wikipedia

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    He learned the answer to the first question when Matryona felt pity for him, thus smiling and realizing that what dwells in man is "love". The answer to the second question came to him when he realized that the angel of death was looming over the nobleman who was making preparations for a year though he would not live till sunset; thus Michael ...

  6. Parable of the Good Samaritan - Wikipedia

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    The story's theme is portrayed throughout Marvel's Daredevil. [66] The parable of the Good Samaritan is the theme for the Austrian Christian Charity commemorative coin, minted 12 March 2003. This coin shows the Good Samaritan with the wounded man, on his horse, as he takes him to an inn for medical attention.

  7. Turing test - Wikipedia

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    To demonstrate this approach Turing proposes a test inspired by a party game, known as the "imitation game", in which a man and a woman go into separate rooms and guests try to tell them apart by writing a series of questions and reading the typewritten answers sent back. In this game, both the man and the woman aim to convince the guests that ...

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  9. The Honest Woodcutter - Wikipedia

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    The woodcutter's cries disturb the chief of the gods as he deliberates the world's business and he sends Mercury down with instructions to test the man with the three axes and cut off his head if he chooses wrongly. Although he survives the test and returns a rich man, the entire countryside decides to follow his example and gets decapitated.