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  2. C. Auguste Dupin - Wikipedia

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    Nationality. French. Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin [oɡyst dypɛ̃] is a fictional character created by Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin made his first appearance in Poe's 1841 short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", widely considered the first detective fiction story. [1] He reappears in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" (1842) and "The Purloined ...

  3. List of The New York Times controversies - Wikipedia

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    controversies. The New York Times has been involved in many controversies since its foundation in 1851. It is one of the largest newspapers in the United States and the world, [1] and is considered to have worldwide influence and readership. [2] [3] It has been accused of antisemitism, [4] [5] bias, [6] [7] [8] and playing a notable role in ...

  4. List of Latin phrases (I) - Wikipedia

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    I, Vitelli, dei Romani sono belli. Go, O Vitellius, at the war sound of the Roman god. Perfectly correct Latin sentence usually reported as funny by modern Italians because the same exact words, in Italian, mean "Romans' calves are beautiful", which has a ridiculously different meaning. ibidem ( ibid.)

  5. Franz Kafka - Wikipedia

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    Kafka was born near the Old Town Square in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.His family were German-speaking middle-class Ashkenazi Jews.His father, Hermann Kafka (1854–1931), was the fourth child of Jakob Kafka, a shochet or ritual slaughterer in Osek, a Czech village with a large Jewish population located near Strakonice in southern Bohemia.

  6. Reason - Wikipedia

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    Reason is the capacity of applying logic consciously by drawing conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth. [1] It is associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, religion, science, language, mathematics, and art, and is normally considered to be a distinguishing ability possessed ...

  7. Puzzle - Wikipedia

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    Puzzle. A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge. In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together ( or take them apart) in a logical way, in order to achieve the correct solution of the puzzle. There are different genres of puzzles, such as crossword puzzles, word-search puzzles, number puzzles ...

  8. Socrates - Wikipedia

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    Socrates ( / ˈsɒkrətiːz /; [1] Greek: Σωκράτης; c. 470 – 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts ...

  9. Logic puzzle - Wikipedia

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    The logic puzzle was first produced by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is better known under his pen name Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In his book The Game of Logic he introduced a game to solve problems such as confirming the conclusion "Some greyhounds are not fat" from the statements "No fat creatures run well ...