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  2. Self-reflection - Wikipedia

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    Social identity threat. Politics. Identity politics. v. t. e. Self-reflection is the ability to witness and evaluate our own cognitive, emotional, and behavioural processes. In psychology, other terms used for this self-observation include 'reflective awareness', and 'reflective consciousness', which originate from the work of William James.

  3. Reflection (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Reflection (physics) The reflection of Mount Hood in Mirror Lake. Reflection is the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated. Common examples include the reflection of light, sound and water waves. The law of reflection says that for ...

  4. Leonardo DiCaprio - Wikipedia

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    Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born on November 11, 1974, in Los Angeles, California. [1] He is the only child of Irmelin Indenbirken, a legal secretary, and George DiCaprio, an underground comix artist and distributor; they met while attending college and moved to Los Angeles after graduating. [2] [3] His mother is German and his father is of ...

  5. Reflex - Wikipedia

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    Reflex. In biology, a reflex, or reflex action, is an involuntary, unplanned sequence or action [1] and nearly instantaneous response to a stimulus. [2] [3] The simplest reflex is initiated by a stimulus, which activates an afferent nerve. The signal is then passed to a response neuron, which generates a response.

  6. Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Artificial intelligence was founded as an academic discipline in 1956. [6] The field went through multiple cycles of optimism, [7] [8] followed by periods of disappointment and loss of funding, known as AI winter. [9] [10] Funding and interest vastly increased after 2012 when deep learning surpassed all previous AI techniques, [11] and after ...

  7. Death of Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia

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    Berlin, Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, committed suicide via a gunshot to the head on 30 April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin [a] after it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Europe. Eva Braun, his wife of one day, also ...

  8. Sundar Pichai - Wikipedia

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    Pichai Sundararajan (born June 10, 1972 [3] [4] [5] ), better known as Sundar Pichai ( / ˈsʊndɑːr pɪˈtʃaɪ / ), is an American business executive. [6] [7] He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google. [8] Pichai began his career as a materials engineer. Following a short stint at the management ...

  9. Amelia Earhart - Wikipedia

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    Amelia Mary Earhart ( / ˈɛərhɑːrt / AIR-hart; born July 24, 1897; declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer. On July 2, 1937, Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world. During her life, she embraced celebrity culture and women's rights, and ...