• Calvin and Hobbes is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995...
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  • Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes is an American children's textbook published in 1993. As a rare piece of officially licensed Calvin and Hobbes merchandise...
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  • Bill Watterson's comic strip Calvin and Hobbes features a wide range of secondary characters. These range from Calvin's fellow students at school to monsters...
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    Bill Watterson (category Calvin and Hobbes)
    authored the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. The strip was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson concluded Calvin and Hobbes with a short statement to...
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    everyday words, such as incorporeal substance, which for Hobbes is a contradiction in terms. Hobbes describes human psychology without any reference to the...
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  • media. In a Calvin and Hobbes strip, Calvin asks Hobbes if a bee has landed on him. Hobbes says no, and Calvin is then stung by the bee. Hobbes justifies...
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  • since ending Calvin and Hobbes in 1995. The film was crowdfunded through Kickstarter, and was released on the iTunes Store on April 1, 2014. "iTunes - Movies...
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  • Dear Mr. Watterson (category Calvin and Hobbes)
    follows the career of Bill Watterson, the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, and the influence of both the author and the comic strip on the world...
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    Thomas Hobbes (/hɒbz/ HOBZ; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679) was an English philosopher. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he...
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  • in life as a brilliant underachiever, and his age relative to Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes, jokes and rumors arose that Mallett was actually Bill Watterson...
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    John Calvin (/ˈkælvɪn/; Middle French: Jehan Cauvin; French: Jean Calvin [ʒɑ̃ kalvɛ̃]; 10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and...
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    magical world out there", a reference to the words Calvin speaks in the final strip of Calvin and Hobbes. Pastis's first treasury, Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts...
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    creation of a state, Hobbes grounds his political philosophy in his moral thought. This approach to moral philosophy is executed by Hobbes through discussion...
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  • William Harry Jellema (category Calvin University alumni)
    character, Mr. Hobbes, on Jellema in his first novel The Primitive. Jellema was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 10, 1893. He graduated from Calvin College...
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    Bellum omnium contra omnes (category Thomas Hobbes)
    phrase meaning "the war of all against all", is the description that Thomas Hobbes gives to human existence in the state-of-nature thought experiment that...
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    downtown is featured on the back cover of the 1988 Calvin and Hobbes collection The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, written and drawn by Bill Watterson. Watterson...
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    Watterson's comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin says: Know what I pray for? The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the...
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  • well-known comic strips including Ziggy, Cathy, For Better or For Worse, Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, FoxTrot, Baldo, The Boondocks, In the Bleachers, Non...
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    English Civil War (category Charles I of England)
    Episcopalians". Hobbes wanted to abolish the independence of the clergy and bring it under the control of the civil state. Some scholars suggest that Hobbes's Behemoth...
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    I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from...
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    Social contract (category Thomas Hobbes)
    arbitrary and tyrannical, Hobbes saw absolute government as the only alternative to the terrifying anarchy of a state of nature. Hobbes asserted that humans...
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  • Medrano, Niccolò Machiavelli, Giambattista Vico, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes and others. It was and still is a very important theory among supporters...
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    nuts) are a recurring motif in Bill Watterson's comic, Calvin and Hobbes, often as one of Calvin's tools of torment. Watterson himself grew up in Chagrin...
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  • Natural law (section Hobbes)
    common good. Hobbes has no use for Aristotle's association of nature with human perfection, inverting Aristotle's use of the word "nature". Hobbes posits a...
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  • Hitmonchan from Pokémon – Jackie Chan, martial artist Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes – Thomas Hobbes, 17th century philosopher. Hohenheim of Light, from...
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  • State of nature (category Thomas Hobbes)
    by the 17th century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan and his earlier work De Cive. Hobbes argued that natural inequalities between humans...
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  • Thomas Hobbes' worldview concentrated on social and political order and how humans could coexist without danger or risk of civil war. Hobbes' moral and...
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  • Devil". The series name Chumble Spuzz originates from a nonsensical Calvin & Hobbes quote. Volume 1 - "Kill the Devil" When two idiots named Gunther and...
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  • portrayal in the film; he also drew inspiration from Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes. Tong wanted Batman's design to reflect both his charismatic personality...
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    Ringo when he gets the taste for it." In a wagon scene in Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin asks Hobbes if he thinks the secret to happiness is "money, cars and...
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