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  2. High-context and low-context cultures - Wikipedia

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    In anthropology, high-context culture and low-context culture are ends of a continuum of how explicit the messages exchanged in a culture are and how important the context is in communication. The distinction between cultures with high and low contexts is intended to draw attention to variations in both spoken and non-spoken forms of ...

  3. Petition of Right - Wikipedia

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    The Petition of Right, passed on 7 June 1628, is an English constitutional document setting out specific individual protections against the state, reportedly of equal value to Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights 1689. [3] It was part of a wider conflict between Parliament and the Stuart monarchy that led to the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three ...

  4. LGBT people and Islam - Wikipedia

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    Within the Muslim world, sentiment towards LGBT people varies and has varied between societies and individual Muslims, but is contemporarily negative. While colloquial, and in many cases, de facto official acceptance of at least some homosexual behavior was commonplace in pre-modern periods, later developments, starting from the 19th-century, have created a generally hostile environment for ...

  5. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Wikipedia

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    Reference to political power. "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" written on a wall in Washington, DC during the George Floyd protests. This phrase is used generally to consider the embodiment of the philosophical question as to how power can be held to account. It is sometimes incorrectly attributed as a direct quotation from Plato 's Republic in ...

  6. 2 Unlimited - Wikipedia

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    2 Unlimited. 2 Unlimited are a Belgian-Dutch dance music act, founded by Belgian producers/songwriters Jean-Paul De Coster and Phil Wilde in 1991 in Antwerp, Belgium. [4] [5] From 1991 to 1996, Dutch rapper Ray Slijngaard and Dutch vocalist Anita Doth fronted the act. During these five years, 2 Unlimited enjoyed worldwide mainstream success.

  7. Love Unlimited - Wikipedia

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    Love Unlimited was a female vocal trio that provided backing vocals for American singer-songwriter Barry White on his albums and concert tours. They also found success with their own recordings. They also found success with their own recordings.

  8. Context collapse - Wikipedia

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    Context collapse or "the flattening of multiple audiences into a single context " [1] is a term arising out of the study of human interaction on the internet, especially within social media. [2] Context collapse "generally occurs when a surfeit of different audiences occupy the same space, and a piece of information intended for one audience ...

  9. Hypertext - Wikipedia

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    Libraries Unlimited. ISBN 978-0-313-31332-5. Ensslin, Astrid (2007). Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions. London: Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-9558-7. Barnet, Belinda. (2013) Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext (Anthem Press; 2013) A technological history of hypertext, External links