An anecdote is "a story with a point", such as to communicate an abstract idea about a person, place, or thing through the concrete details of a short...
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Diogenes and Alexander (section The original anecdote)
Diogenes of Sinope and Alexander the Great is one of the most discussed anecdotes from philosophical history. Many versions of it exist. The most popular...
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The Anecdote is the debut studio album by South Korean rapper E Sens. It was released on August 27, 2015, by Beasts And Natives Alike. The album's first...
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Early life and career of Joe Biden (redirect from Corn Pop (Joe Biden anecdote))
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., the 46th president of the United States, was born November 20, 1942, at St. Mary's Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Catherine...
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Anecdote of the Jar I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness...
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A Nasty Story (redirect from A Nasty Anecdote)
Incident", "An Unpleasant Predicament", "A Bad Business" and "A Nasty Anecdote", is a satirical short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was published in...
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"Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium (1923). It was one of the few Harmonium poems first...
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The Anecdote (Azerbaijani: Lətifə, Russian: Анекдот) is a full-length Azerbaijani film shot in Baku in 1989. Made in the tragic comedy genre, this film...
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Windshield phenomenon (redirect from Windshield anecdote)
2003-06-30. Retrieved 2019-02-01. Acorn, John (2016). "The Windshield Anecdote". American Entomologist. 62 (4): 262–264. doi:10.1093/ae/tmw086. "What...
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"Anecdote of Canna" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium (1923). Anecdote of Canna Huge are the canna in the dreams of X...
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legends, mythic tales, folk tales, fairy tales, tall tales, fables, and anecdotes in various ancient communities around the world. The modern short story...
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"Earthy Anecdote" is the first poem in Wallace Stevens' first book of poetry Harmonium (1923). The passage of a group of "bucks" is impeded by a "firecat"...
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Anecdotes of pious men (Persian: داستان راستان) is a book by Morteza Motahhari. It is an ethical fiction published in English by Ansariyan in 1993. It...
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Anecdotes of Destiny is a collection of stories by Danish author Karen Blixen written under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen. It was the last work published...
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An argument from anecdote is an informal logical fallacy, when an anecdote is used to draw an improper logical conclusion. The fallacy can take many forms...
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"Anecdote for Fathers" (full title: "Anecdote for Fathers, Shewing how the practice of Lying may be taught" ) is a poem by William Wordsworth first published...
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Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral (redirect from Anecdote Concerning the Lowering of Productivity)
Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral ("Anecdote on Lowering the work ethic") is a short story by Heinrich Böll about an encounter between an enterprising...
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One Piece season 5 (redirect from The First Patient! Anecdote of the Rumble Ball)
The fifth season of the One Piece anime series was directed by Kōnosuke Uda and produced by Toei Animation. Like the rest of the series, it follows the...
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Anecdotes of Oyasama, the Foundress of Tenrikyo (稿本天理教教祖伝逸話篇 Kohon Tenrikyo Oyasama-den Itsuwa-hen) is an anthology of anecdotes about Nakayama Miki, the...
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Damocles (category Anecdotes)
Damocles is a character who appears in a (likely apocryphal) anecdote commonly referred to as "the sword of Damocles", an allusion to the imminent and...
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Ray Wolfinger (redirect from The plural of anecdote is data)
Act. Wolfinger was the source of the well-known aphorism, "The plural of anecdote is data." He was a behavioral political scientist, an empiricist in search...
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Mason Locke Weems (redirect from Cherry tree anecdote)
to the credit of his heroes." The cherry-tree anecdote illustrates this point. Another dubious anecdote found in Weems's biography is that of Washington's...
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Russian jokes (redirect from Russian anecdote)
Russian jokes (Russian: анекдоты, romanized: anekdoty, lit. 'anecdotes') are short fictional stories or dialogs with a punch line, which commonly appear...
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also known as just “The Gazebo story" is a role-playing game-inspired anecdote, made famous by Richard Aronson (designer of The Ruins of Cawdor, a graphical...
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1729 (number) (redirect from 1729 (anecdote))
also known as Ramanujan number or Hardy–Ramanujan number, named after an anecdote of the British mathematician G. H. Hardy when he visited Indian mathematician...
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The Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson or the Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. During the Last Twenty Years of His Life by Hester Thrale...
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"Anecdote of Men by the Thousand" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium (1923). It was first published prior to 1923 and is...
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Transnational Speedway League: Anthems, Anecdotes and Undeniable Truths (often shorted to Transnational Speedway League) is the debut studio album by...
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There are many anecdotes of Ganesha. Ganesha's elephant head makes him easy to identify. He is worshipped as the lord of beginnings and as the lord of...
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