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Socrates (/ ˈ s ɒ k r ə t iː z /, [2] Greek: Σωκράτης, translit. Sōkrátēs; c. 470 – 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy [3] and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.
Calls to Read's lawyers seeking comment on the civil suit weren't immediately returned on Tuesday. A person who answered the phone at the Waterfall said the owners were unavailable, and another at ...
An Inspector Calls (Chinese: 浮華宴) is a 2015 Hong Kong black comedy [3] film directed by Raymond Wong and Herman Yau.Based on the 1945 British play by J. B. Priestley, An Inspector Calls, [4] the film stars Louis Koo as Inspector Goole (renamed "Inspector Karl") (Pronounced Gaa2 賈 in Cantonese, which is a homophone for 假, which means fake, or false), Eric Tsang as Arthur Birling ...
CompuServe was initiated during 1969 as Compu-Serv Network, Inc. [a] in Columbus, Ohio, as a subsidiary of Golden United Life Insurance. [3]Though Golden United founder Harry Gard Sr.'s son-in-law Jeffrey Wilkins is widely miscredited as the first president of CompuServe, its first president was actually John R. Goltz. [4]
The official name is the Southern Baptist Convention.The word Southern in "Southern Baptist Convention" stems from its having been organized in 1845 in Augusta, Georgia, by white Baptists in the Southern United States who supported continuing the institution of slavery and split from the northern Baptists (known today as the American Baptist Churches USA), who did not support funding slave ...
On the Trail of the Marsupilami, Night Call). [371] Ian Davidson, 84, British scriptwriter (The Two Ronnies, The Brittas Empire) and actor (Monty Python's Flying Circus). [372] David Dumville, 75, British medievalist and Celtic scholar. [373] Ian Froman, 87, South African-born Israeli tennis player. [374]
The first dedicated online chat service that was widely available to the public was the CompuServe CB Simulator in 1980, [5] [6] created by CompuServe executive Alexander "Sandy" Trevor in Columbus, Ohio. Ancestors include network chat software such as UNIX "talk" used in the 1970s. [citation needed] Chat is implemented in many video ...
The English Wikipedia is the primary [a] English-language edition of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. It was created by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger on 15 January 2001, as Wikipedia's first edition. English Wikipedia is hosted alongside other language editions by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organization.