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C++

I just saw on YouTube an interview to Bjarne Stroustrup. Stroustrup began developing C++ in 1979 (then called “C with Classes”),  and, in his own word...
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Terrorism

A US army manual says, fair enough, that terror is the calculated use of  violence or the threat of violence to attain political or religious  ideolog...
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Bulletproof backpacks

Every day, 100 Americans are killed by gun violence, and hundreds  more are injured. While most of these shootings are not in public  schools, childre...
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Arn-Wolf

Eagle (Arn) is a symbol of leadership and forsight but man knows that his roots are closer to the wolf. The wolf is very dear to man and represent the...
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Pay it forward

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his 1841 essay Compensation,  wrote: “In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from  whom we receive them, or...
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Justino

My grandfather Justino was the Benjamin of a long list of siblings.  The older ones were more surrogate parents than brothers and sisters. The records...
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Settler-colonial societies

 Settler-colonial societies eliminate the indigenous population. Thomas Jefferson said, well, we have no choice but to exterminate the indigenous popu...
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Down the rabbit hole

Going “down the rabbit hole” has become a common metaphor in popular culture, symbolizing everything from exploring a new world, taking drugs, or delv...
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