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Dag the Wise, a mythological Swedish king; Alhamazad the Wise - see List of Greyhawk characters; Ansem the Wise, one the characters of Kingdom Hearts; Darth Plagueis the Wise, mentioned in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith; Fintan mac Bóchra, a seer in Irish mythology; the title character of the play Nathan the Wise
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The Talmud teaches that a wise person can foresee the future. Nolad is a Hebrew word for "future," but also the Hebrew word for "birth", so one rabbinic interpretation of the teaching is that a wise person is one who can foresee the consequences of his/her choices (i.e. can "see the future" that he/she "gives birth" to). [118]
Ann Hodges. Hit by a meteorite while napping on her couch. There's 'missed the last bus home' kind of bad luck, and then there's 'become the only known human to be smacked by a meteorite' bad luck.
Environmentalist Ellen Swallow Richards was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an impressive feat in and of itself.What's even more admirable was her work in science, a field in which women faced many obstacles, as well as the time she spent getting her Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT– well, almost.
The Swedish cunning woman Gertrud Ahlgren of Gotland (1782–1874), drawing by Pehr Arvid Säve 1870. In Scandinavia, the klok gumma ("wise woman") or klok gubbe ("wise man"), and collectively De kloka ("The Wise ones"), as they were known in Swedish, were usually elder members of the community who acted as folk healers and midwives as well as using folk magic such as magic rhymes. [11]
Items you foresee replacing after a short period of time, like essentials for your rapidly growing children, are wise secondhand purchases. For example, you may want to consider buying used ...
As a people, we are tethered together by shared human experiences. Taxes, giggling over cute cat videos, and begrudgingly trying to find a gift for the person in your life who is nearly impossible ...