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  2. Give Peace a Chance - Wikipedia

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    Give Peace a Chance. " Give Peace a Chance " is an anti-war song written by John Lennon (originally credited to Lennon–McCartney ), and recorded with the participation of a small group of friends in a performance with Yoko Ono in a hotel room in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Released as a single in July 1969 by the Plastic Ono Band on Apple ...

  3. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    The word nikoli, when stressed on the second syllable, means "never", when stressed on the first it is the locative case of Nikola, i.e. Nicholas; Spanish – cuando las vacas vuelen ("when cows fly") or cuando los chanchos vuelen ("when pigs fly"). Its most common use is in response to an affirmative statement, for example "I saw Mrs. Smith ...

  4. Luck - Wikipedia

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    Luck. In Western culture, a four-leaf clover, a rare variant of the shamrock, is often considered to bestow good luck. Luck is the phenomenon and belief that defines the experience of improbable events, especially improbably positive or negative ones. The naturalistic interpretation is that positive and negative events may happen at any time ...

  5. Role of chance in scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    The role of chance, or "luck", in science comprises all ways in which unexpected discoveries are made. Many domains, especially psychology, are concerned with the way science interacts with chance — particularly "serendipity" (accidents that, through sagacity, are transformed into opportunity). Psychologist Kevin Dunbar and colleagues ...

  6. Randomness - Wikipedia

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    A pseudorandomly generated bitmap. In common usage, randomness is the apparent or actual lack of definite pattern or predictability in information. [ 1][ 2] A random sequence of events, symbols or steps often has no order and does not follow an intelligible pattern or combination. Individual random events are, by definition, unpredictable, but ...

  7. Chinaman's chance - Wikipedia

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    Chinaman's chance. Chinaman's chance. Not a Chinaman's Chance (1894), Charles Marion Russell. Meaning. nonexistent or highly unlikely probability of success. Chinaman's chance is an American idiom which means that a person has little or no chance at success, synonymous with similar idioms of improbability such as a snowball's chance in hell or ...

  8. Infinite monkey theorem - Wikipedia

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    Infinite monkey theorem. The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare. In fact, the monkey would almost surely type every possible finite text an infinite number of times.

  9. List of Latin phrases (A) - Wikipedia

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    List of Latin phrases (A) This page is one of a series listing English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni vidi vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome. [ 1] This list ...