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  2. Homo homini lupus - Wikipedia

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    A variation of the proverb appeared as line 495 in the play Asinaria by Plautus: "Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit ", [2] which has been translated as "Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger," or "A man is a wolf rather than a man to another man, when he hasn't yet found out what that man is like."

  3. Death and immortality in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    Elves are immortal but can be killed in battle, in which case they go to the Halls of Mandos in Aman for an afterlife. They may be restored by the Will of the Valar, and then go to live with the Valar in Valinor, like an Earthly Paradise, though just being in the place does not confer immortality, as Men supposed. Men are mortal, and when they ...

  4. List of people claimed to be immortal in myth and legend

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    He is considered an immortal human who, depending on the versions, is normally a human servant or prophet of God. Although sometimes he has also been considered an angel. Charlie Card , a Bostonian man who in the 1948 song M.T.A. boarded a subway train unaware of a newly-implemented exit fare and therefore couldn't get off, subsisting on one ...

  5. Are werewolves real? The facts and history behind the myth

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    Long before "Twilight" put Jacob on the map, werewolves have been the subject of countless movies, books and monster tales.. In fact, much like ghosts, witches and vampires, the werewolf has been ...

  6. Wolf attack - Wikipedia

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    In the former area, 721 people were killed by wolves in 1876, while in Bihar, the majority of the 185 recorded deaths at the time occurred mostly in the Patna and Bghalpur Divisions. [40] In the United Provinces, 624 people were killed by wolves in 1878, with 14 being killed during the same period in Bengal.

  7. Immortality in fiction - Wikipedia

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    In the story, there is a computer which can confer immortality on individuals. In doing so, it also alters their minds in a way that removes negative qualities and preconceived notions. The end result is that most people turn it down because they are not willing to give up their prejudices. [88] [95] [96]

  8. Chiranjivi - Wikipedia

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    The term is a combination of chiram, or 'permanent', and jīvi, or 'lived'.It is similar to amaratva, which refers to true immortality.At the end of the last manvantara (age of Manu), an asura named Hayagriva attempted to become immortal by swallowing the sacred pages of the Vedas, as they escaped from the mouth of Brahma.

  9. Tolkien's moral dilemma - Wikipedia

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    The Elf Ecthelion slays the Orc champion Orcobal in Gondolin. 2007 illustration by Tom Loback. J. R. R. Tolkien, a devout Roman Catholic, [T 1] created what he came to feel was a moral dilemma for himself with his supposedly evil Middle-earth peoples like Orcs, when he made them able to speak.