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All hands on deck/to the pump. All is grist that comes to the mill [a] All roads lead to Rome [a] [b] All that glitters/glistens is not gold [a] [b] All the world loves a lover [a] All things come to those who wait [a] All things must pass [a] All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy [a] [b] All you need is love.
The essayist David P. Goldman, writing under his pseudonym "Spengler", compared distinguishing between "mature" democracies, which never start wars, and "emerging democracies", which may start them, with the "no true Scotsman" fallacy. Spengler alleges that political scientists have attempted to save the "US academic dogma" that democracies ...
Political violence in Germany (1918–1933) The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch, [ 1][ note 1] was a failed coup d'état by Nazi Party ( Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) leader Adolf Hitler, Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff and other Kampfbund leaders in Munich, Bavaria, on 8–9 November 1923 ...
Lia Fáil. / 53.578639°N 6.612139°W / 53.578639; -6.612139. The Fál ( Irish: [fˠaːlˠ]) or Lia Fáil ( Irish: [ˌl̠ʲiə ˈfˠaːlʲ]; "Stone of Fál") is a stone at the Inauguration Mound ( Irish: an Forrad) on the Hill of Tara in County Meath, Ireland, which served as the coronation stone for the King of Tara and hence High King ...
Gunpowder Plot. Failure, plotters executed (some posthumously ). The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James I by a group of English Catholics led by Robert Catesby who considered their actions attempted tyrannicide and ...
Hints About Today's NYT Connections Categories on Saturday, July 13. 1. Large. 2. A visible form. 3. How one is perceived. 4. One of the letters in each word is silent.
Battle of Gisors. Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199), known as Richard Cœur de Lion ( Norman French: Quor de Lion) [ 1][ 2] or Richard the Lionheart because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior, [ 3][ 4][ 5] was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine, and ...
John Locke. Argument from ignorance (from Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), also known as appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence"), is a fallacy in informal logic.