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  2. Thomas Fuller (mental calculator) - Wikipedia

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    One of the gentlemen, Mr. Coates, having remarked in his presence that it was a pity he had not an education equal to his genius, he said, "No, Massa, it is best I had no learning, for many learned men be great fools." The only other "independent original" source documenting Fuller's abilities besides Rush is Fuller's obituary. [2]

  3. Thomas Fuller - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Fuller (baptised 19 June 1608 – 16 August 1661) was an English churchman and historian. He is now remembered for his writings, particularly his Worthies of England , published in 1662, after his death.

  4. Thomas Fuller (writer) - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Fuller, M.D. (24 June 1654 – 17 September 1734) was a British physician, preacher and intellectual. Fuller was born in Rosehill, Sussex , and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge . [ 1 ] He practised medicine at Sevenoaks . [ 1 ]

  5. Ouija: Origin of Evil - Wikipedia

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    Alice receives notice that the bank intends to foreclose on their home. Doris contacts the board for help, believing she is communicating with her dead father. The spirit leads her to a secret compartment in the basement wall containing a pouch of cash. When she gives the money to her mother, the family has a Ouija session.

  6. Puritans - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Fuller, in his Church History, dates the first use of the word to 1564. Archbishop Matthew Parker of that time used it and precisian with a sense similar to the modern stickler . [ 7 ] Puritans, then, were distinguished for being "more intensely protestant than their protestant neighbors or even the Church of England". [ 8 ]

  7. Wishful thinking - Wikipedia

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    In addition to being a cognitive bias and a poor way of making decisions, wishful thinking is commonly held to be a specific informal fallacy in an argument when it is assumed that because we wish something to be true or false, it is actually true or false. This fallacy has the form "I wish that P were true/false; therefore, P is true/false."

  8. Social media use by Donald Trump - Wikipedia

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    The emergence of social media has changed the way in which political communication takes place in the United States. Political institutions such as politicians, political parties , foundations, institutions, and political think tanks are all using social media platforms, like Facebook and Twitter , to communicate with and engage voters.

  9. Doubting Thomas - Wikipedia

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    The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio, c. 1602. A doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience – a reference to the Gospel of John's depiction of the Apostle Thomas, who, in John's account, refused to believe the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles until he could see and feel Jesus's crucifixion wounds.