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  2. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people. Turkish Proverb [5] One year's seeding makes seven years weeding; Only fools and horses work; Open confession is good for the soul. Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door; Other times other manners. Out of sight, out of mind

  3. Stigler's law of eponymy - Wikipedia

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    In the case of eponymy, the idea becomes named after that person, even if that person is acknowledged by historians of science not to be the one who discovered it. Often, several people will arrive at a new idea around the same time, as in the case of calculus. It can be dependent on the publicity of the new work and the fame of its publisher ...

  4. Six degrees of separation - Wikipedia

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    It allowed users to list friends, family members and acquaintances, send messages and post bulletin board items to people in their first, second, and third degrees, and see their connection to any other user on the site. At its height, it had 3,500,000 fully registered members. [39] However, it was closed in 2000. [40]

  5. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories - Wikipedia

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    Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that visits to the Americas, interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, or both, were made by people from elsewhere prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492. [1]

  6. Donald Trump and Social Security: 10 Things You Need to Know

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    In other words, reforming Social Security is going to make some groups of people worse off than they were before. 6. The president-elect's views on Social Security have changed in a big way ...

  7. List of multiple discoveries - Wikipedia

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    The other way round, Levin's work was not widely known in the West until around 1978. [107] 1972: The Bohlen–Pierce scale, a harmonic, non-octave musical scale, was independently discovered by Heinz Bohlen (1972), Kees van Prooijen (1978) and John R. Pierce (1984).

  8. The Best and Worst Songs from 1985 (According to Our Editors)

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    Compared to Lionel’s numerous other hits from the time period, there’s nothing particularly awful about “Say You, Say Me,” but its corny melody and even cornier lyrics (“I had a dream ...

  9. Hamas hostages: Stories of the people taken from Israel - AOL

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    Since then, they say they have had no further information. Eliya Cohen, 27, and his girlfriend initially hid from the attackers in a shelter, but he was discovered, and driven away. In June, Hamas ...