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  • 11Plato: aesthetics and psychology — Christopher Rowe Plato’s ideas about literature and art and about beauty (his ‘aesthetics’) are heavily influenced and in part actually determined by his ideas about the mind or soul (his ‘psychology’).1 It is therefore appropriate to deal with… …

    History of philosophy

  • 12Brave New World — This article is about the novel. For other uses, see Brave New World (disambiguation). Brave New World   …

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  • 13Top Gun (film) — Infobox Film name = Top Gun caption = Promotional movie poster director = Tony Scott writer = Ehud Yonay (article) Jim Cash (screenplay) Jack Epps Jr. (screenplay) starring = Tom Cruise Kelly McGillis Val Kilmer Anthony Edwards Tom Skerritt… …

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  • 14List of publications in humor research — This page lists publications in humor research, with brief annotations. The list includes books, scholarly journals that regularly cover articles in humor research, as well as some seminal, frequently cited journal articles about humor.This list… …

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  • 15Diogenes and Alexander — Alexander visits Diogenes in Corinth Diogenes asks him to stand out of his sun (engraving) The meeting of Diogenes of Sinope and Alexander the Great is one of the most well discussed anecdotes from philosophical histor …

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  • 16The War of the Worlds (radio) — The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air . It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the WABC Radio network. Directed and narrated… …

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  • 17comedy — comedial /keuh mee dee euhl/, adj. /kom i dee/, n., pl. comedies. 1. a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance,… …

    Universalium

  • 18Poggio Bracciolini —     Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini     An Italian humanist and historian; born at Terranuova, near Arezzo, in 1380; died at Florence, 10 Oct., 1459. He studied at Florence …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 19George Bernard Shaw — Infobox Writer name = George Bernard Shaw birthdate = Birth date|1856|7|26|df=yes birthplace = Dublin, Ireland deathdate = Death date and age|1950|11|2|1856|7|26|df=yes deathplace = Hertfordshire, England occupation = Playwright, critic,… …

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  • 20National Lampoon (magazine) — The January 1973 cover of National Lampoon. National Lampoon was a ground breaking American humor magazine started in 1970, as a spinoff of the Harvard Lampoon. The magazine reached its height of popularity and critical acclaim during the mid to… …

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