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  • 61Croesus — For the opera, see Croesus (opera). Croesus Receiving Tribute from a Lydian Peasant, by Claude Vignon. Croesus (   …

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  • 62Philostratus — Philostratus, was the name of four Greek sophists of the Roman imperial period:# (c. 150 200) Philostratus I : Very minor author, known only for a dialogue Nero , possibly written by Philostratus II. # (c. 170 247) Philostratus II : son of… …

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  • 63Jacobus de Voragine — Infobox Saint name= Blessed Jacobus de Voragine birth date= 1230 death date=July 13 or July 16, 1298; or 1299 feast day= venerated in= Roman Catholic Church imagesize= 250px caption= Jacobus de Voragine with his Golden Legend in his hands… …

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  • 64John Henley — (August 3, 1692 – October 13, 1759), English clergyman, commonly known as Orator Henley, and one of the first entertainers and a precursor to the talk show hosts of today. The son of a vicar, John Henley was born in Melton Mowbray. After… …

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  • 651692 in literature — The year 1692 in literature involved some significant events.Events*Nahum Tate becomes Poet Laureate. *Thomas Rymer is made Historiographer Royal, and mounts a major effort to preserve and publish historical documents. *On December 9, playwright… …

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  • 66Consumer theory — is a theory of microeconomics that relates preferences to consumer demand curves. The link between personal preferences, consumption, and the demand curve is one of the most complex relations in economics. Implicitly, economists assume that… …

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  • 67Negative capability — describes the resistance to a set of institutional arrangements or a system of knowledge about the world and human experience. It explains the capacity of human beings to reject the totalizing constraints of a closed context, and to both… …

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  • 68Greek Anthology — The Greek Anthology (also called Anthologia Graeca or, sometimes, the Palatine Anthology ) is a collection of poems, mostly epigrams, that span the classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature.While papyri containing fragments of… …

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  • 69Alain de Botton — Infobox Writer imagesize = 150px name = Alain de Botton caption = pseudonym = birthname = birthdate = birth date and age|1969|12|20|df=y birthplace = Zurich, Switzerland deathdate = deathplace = occupation = Essayist, Novelist nationality =… …

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  • 70Deficit spending — Part of a series on Government Public finance …

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