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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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46 |
Nihilism is the belief which states that existence is without any objective meaning, purpose, or real value. |
Humanities > Philosophy |
12/23/08 |
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47 |
Pablo Picasso painted "Guernica" in 1937. |
Humanities > Art |
02/12/09 |
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48 |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted "Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette" in 1876. |
Humanities > Art |
02/12/09 |
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49 |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted "Luncheon of the Boating Party" from 1880 to 1881. |
Humanities > Art |
02/11/09 |
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50 |
Salvador Dalí painted "La persistencia de la memoria", or "The Persistence of Memory", in 1931. |
Humanities > Art |
12/28/08 |
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51 |
The "Oath of the Horatii" was painted by Jacques-Louis David in 1784 as oil on canvas in the neoclassic style. |
Humanities > Art |
01/09/09 |
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52 |
The "price floor" is a government-imposed or group-imposed limit on how low a price can be charged for a product or a service. |
Humanities > Economics |
12/21/08 |
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53 |
The Euthyphro dilemma asks whether what is moral is commanded by God because it is moral, or if what is moral is moral because it is commanded by God. |
Humanities > Philosophy |
08/26/08 |
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54 |
The Latin language is the root of the Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian). |
Humanities > Linguistics |
01/28/09 |
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55 |
The line "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love," comes from Sophocles. |
Humanities > Philosophy |
12/27/08 |
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56 |
The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci. |
Humanities > Art |
05/15/08 |
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57 |
The Pietà and the David were sculpted by Michelangelo before he became thirty years of age. |
Humanities > Art |
03/18/09 |
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58 |
The word "wherefore" in, "Wherefore art thou, Romeo?" in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet means "why". |
Humanities > Linguistics |
09/25/08 |
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59 |
There are eight parts of speech in the English language. |
Humanities > Linguistics |
06/01/08 |
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60 |
Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night. |
Humanities > Art |
07/08/08 |
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