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  2. Historic recurrence - Wikipedia

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    People ignore warnings about the dangers of nuclear power plants, [51] until anticipated nuclear power-plant accidents occur; and people ignore warnings about the dangers of nuclear weapons, [52] [n] [54] which in 1945 destroyed two Japanese cities, have on several occasions come close to destroying more of the world's cities, and could still ...

  3. Syriac language - Wikipedia

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    Those problems were addressed by prominent scholars, including Theodor Nöldeke (d. 1930) who noted on several occasions that term "Syriac language" has come to have two distinctive meanings, wider and narrower, with first (historical and wider) serving as a common synonym for Aramaic language in general, while other (conventional and narrower ...

  4. Poems on Several Occasions - Wikipedia

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    Poems on Several Occasions may refer to: Poems on Several Occasions (Lady Mary Chudleigh) by Lady Mary Chudleigh, 1703; Poems on Several Occasions (Matthew Prior) by Matthew Prior, 1707, 1709, 1718, 1721; Poems on Several Occasions (Henry Carey) by Henry Carey, 1713; Poems on Several Occasions (John Gay) by John Gay, 1720

  5. Illusory truth effect - Wikipedia

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    For example, when participants encountered on multiple occasions the statement "A sari is the name of the short plaid skirt worn by Scots," some of them were likely to come to believe it was true, even though these same people were able to correctly answer the question "What is the name of the short pleated skirt worn by Scots?"

  6. Sarah Fyge Egerton - Wikipedia

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    Sarah Fyge Egerton (1668–1723) was an English poet who wrote in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In her works The Female Advocate and Poems on Several Occasions, Egerton wrote about gender, friendship, marriage, religion, education, politics, and other topics.

  7. Sermons of John Wesley - Wikipedia

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    Sermons on Several Occasions is a collection of discourses or sermons published by Wesley, expounding on topics such as salvation by faith, the witness of the Spirit, the means of grace, and Christian perfection.

  8. Said the actress to the bishop - Wikipedia

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    The phrase first appears in full in the second Saint novel Enter the Saint, published in 1930; abbreviations of both the phrase ("as the actress said on an auspicious occasion") and of the alternative version ("as the bishop said") appear in the 1928 Meet the Tiger. [1]

  9. Arthur Crew Inman - Wikipedia

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    Arthur Crew Inman (May 11, 1895 – December 5, 1963) was a reclusive and unsuccessful American poet whose 17-million-word diary, extending from 1919 to 1963, is one of the longest English-language diaries on record.