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  • 51kick — /kɪk / (say kik) verb (t) 1. to strike with the foot. 2. to drive, force, make, etc., by or as by kicks. 3. to strike in recoiling. 4. Football to score (a goal) by a kick. –verb (i) 5. to strike out with the foot. 6. to have the habit of thus… …

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  • 53Tim Noah — For the writer for Slate , see Timothy Noah .Tim Noah is an Emmy award winning songwriter and singer. Tim and his work have been seen on HBO, The Disney Channel, and the BBC in England. Noah at one time belonged to the group Tickle Tune Typhoon,… …

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  • 54Magical creatures in Harry Potter — Magical creatures comprise a colourful and integral aspect of the fictional wizarding world in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling. Throughout the seven books of the series, Harry and his friends come across many of these creatures on their… …

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  • 55Kierkegaard’s speculative despair — Judith Butler Every movement of infinity is carried out through passion, and no reflection can produce a movement. This is the continual leap in existence that explains the movement, whereas mediation is a chimera, which in Hegel is supposed to… …

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  • 56List of Chicano Caló words and expressions — The following is a list of Chicano slang words and expressions, known as Caló, also spelled Calo and Kalo by modern Chicano youth. It does not list words and expressions of the language of the Spanish Roma people, which is also called Caló,… …

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  • 571968 Democratic National Convention protest activity — The 1968 Democratic National Convention had a significant amount of protest activity. In 1967, protest groups had been promising to come to Chicago and disrupt the convention, and the city promised to maintain law and order. For eight days,… …

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  • 58philosophy, Western — Introduction       history of Western philosophy from its development among the ancient Greeks to the present.       This article has three basic purposes: (1) to provide an overview of the history of philosophy in the West, (2) to relate… …

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  • 59Stoicism — Stoicism1 Brad Inwood 1 FROM SOCRATES TO ZENO More than eighty years passed between the death of Socrates in 399 BC and the arrival in Athens of Zeno in 312. Athenian society had undergone enormous upheavals, both political and social. The Greek… …

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  • 60go — I. /goʊ / (say goh) verb (went, gone, going) –verb (i) 1. to move or pass (in a direction specified); proceed. 2. to move away or out; depart (opposed to come). 3. Cricket to be dismissed. 4. to keep or be in motion; act, work, or run …