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  2. Art of Hosting - Wikipedia

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    One focus is on the practice of constructing and holding dialogic “containers”, meetings or processes bounded in space and time, which support constructive group processes and enable new insights and decisions to emerge. [12] Practitioners claim that well-hosted events and projects increase the adaptive capacity of the group. [6]

  3. David Hume - Wikipedia

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    Hume was born on 26 April 1711, as David Home, in a tenement on the north side of Edinburgh's Lawnmarket.He was the second of two sons born to Catherine Home (née Falconer), daughter of Sir David Falconer of Newton, Midlothian and his wife Mary Falconer (née Norvell), [14] and Joseph Home of Chirnside in the County of Berwick, an advocate of Ninewells.

  4. Jolly Roger - Wikipedia

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    Bundle of arrows – an older regal or state symbol alluding to the proverb that arrows can be easily broken one by one but are unbreakable if tied together, however, in the case of the Jolly Roger, more likely to symbolize implements of death. [23] Sword or sword arm – symbolizing implements of death. [23] Pistol – symbolizing implements ...

  5. Flag of Blackbeard - Wikipedia

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    A black banner with a horned skeleton holding an hourglass in his right hand and a spear in his left, using the spear to poke at a red heart dripping three red drops of blood The purported flag of Blackbeard , consisting of a horned skeleton using a spear to pierce a bleeding heart, is typically attributed to the pirate Edward Teach, better ...

  6. Substitution effect - Wikipedia

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    If instead, a new budget line is found with the slope determined by the new prices but tangent to the indifference curve going through the old bundle, the difference between the new point of tangency and the old bundle is the Hicks substitution effect. The idea now is that the consumer is given just enough income to achieve his old utility at ...

  7. Pawnee capture of the Cheyenne Sacred Arrows - Wikipedia

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    Pawnee Chief Big Eagle concluded they had captured something of extraordinary importance when he examined the arrows. He was keeper of the Morning Star bundle of the Skidi Pawnee and placed three of the arrows in that bundle. [13]: 650 [14]: 66 Sometime after the battle, the best Cheyenne arrow makers made four surrogate Sacred Arrows.

  8. Horae - Wikipedia

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    Crowned with flowers, holding either a kid or a sheep, and having near to her a budding shrub: she is also characterised by Mercury, and by a ram. [citation needed] Theros: Summer Crowned with ears of corn, holding a bundle of them in one hand and a sickle in the other: she is also characterised by Apollo, and by a serpent. [citation needed ...

  9. Philosophy of self - Wikipedia

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    The philosophy of self examines the idea of the self at a conceptual level. Many different ideas on what constitutes self have been proposed, including the self being an activity, the self being independent of the senses, the bundle theory of the self, the self as a narrative center of gravity, and the self as a linguistic or social construct rather than a physical entity.