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18 hours ago · Avram Noam Chomsky ( / noʊm ˈtʃɒmski / ⓘ nohm CHOM-skee; born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", [a] Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders ...
18 hours ago · Ernest Renan birthplace museum in Tréguier. He was born at Tréguier in Brittany to a family of fishermen. His grandfather, having made a small fortune with his fishing smack, bought a house at Tréguier and settled there, and his father, captain of a small cutter and an ardent republican, married the daughter of a Royalist tradesman from the neighbouring town of Lannion.
18 hours ago · t. e. Raya Dunayevskaya (born Raya Shpigel, Ра́я Шпи́гель; May 1, 1910 – June 9, 1987), later Rae Spiegel, also known by the pseudonym Freddie Forest, was the American founder of the philosophy of Marxist humanism in the United States. At one time Leon Trotsky 's secretary, she later split with him and ultimately founded the ...
18 hours ago · —anonymous Stonewall riots participant The police were to transport the bar's alcohol in patrol wagons. Twenty-eight cases of beer and nineteen bottles of hard liquor were seized, but the patrol wagons had not yet arrived, so patrons were required to wait in line for about 15 minutes. Those who were not arrested were released from the front door, but they did not leave quickly as usual ...
18 hours ago · Analogy. Analogy is a comparison or correspondence between two things (or two groups of things) because of a third element that they are considered to share. [1] In logic, it is an inference or an argument from one particular to another particular, as opposed to deduction, induction, and abduction. It is also used of where at least one of the ...
18 hours ago · Any high school English teacher who forces 15 year olds to read Shakespeare is acting as a saboteur of Western culture. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at July 31, 2024 10:57 AM (GBKbO) 473 “the target of an extremely violent campaign of cyber-harassment and defamation.”.
