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  • 111Geoffrey Pyke — Geoffrey Nathaniel Pyke (9 November 1893 ndash; 22 February 1948) was an English journalist; a spy and spy master; an educationalist and later an inventor whose clever, but unorthodox, ideas could be difficult to implement. In lifestyle and… …

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  • 112IPCC Third Assessment Report — The IPCC Third Assessment Report, Climate Change 2001 , is an assessment of available scientific and socio economic information on climate change by an intergovermental panel (IPCC) established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)… …

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  • 113Contrarian investing — In finance, a contrarian is one who attempts to profit by investing in a manner that differs from the conventional wisdom, when the consensus opinion appears to be wrong. A contrarian believes that certain crowd behavior among investors can lead… …

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  • 114The World as Will and Representation — The title page of the expanded 1844 publication The World as Will and Representation (Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung) is the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. The first edition was published in December 1818,[1] and… …

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  • 115Depressive realism — is the proposition that people with depression actually have a more accurate perception of reality, specifically that they are less affected by positive illusions of illusory superiority, the Locus of Control and optimism bias. The concept refers …

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  • 116Reliability engineering — is an engineering field, that deals with the study of reliability: the ability of a system or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time. [ Definition by IEEE] It is often reported in terms… …

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  • 117Lighthill report — The Lighthill report is the name commonly used for the paper Artificial Intelligence: A General Survey by Professor Sir James Lighthill, published in Artificial Intelligence: a paper symposium in 1973.ref|lighthill report It was compiled by… …

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  • 118Russian Symbolism — was an intellectual and artistic movement predominant at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. It represented the Russian branch of the Symbolist movement in European art, and was mostly known for its contributions to Russian… …

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  • 119Colditz (TV series) — This article is about the 1970s BBC television series. For the unrelated 2005 ITV tele film, see Colditz (film). For other uses, see Colditz (disambiguation). Colditz Colditz s title card Format Drama …

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  • 120Milan Rakić — photo of Jovan Dučić (left) and Milan Rakić (right) Milan Rakić (18 September 1876 30 June 1938[1]) (Милан Ракић) was a Serbian poet. He focused on dodecasyllable and hendecasyllable verse, which allowed him to achieve beautiful rhythm and rhyme… …

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