PLACES TO GO AFTER YOU'RE DEAD |
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PHILOSOPHIES IN A NUTSHELL |
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If Peter forgets his keys at home, no one gets in here |
heaven
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Only 2 pitchers have lost over 300 games in a career: Pud Galvin & this legend for whom a major award is named |
Cy Young
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"Old Blood and Guts" |
General George Patton
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The first automatic one of these was patented by Charles Strite in 1921; pop-up was added in 1925 |
a toaster
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Nietzsche named the wild, creative impulse for Dionysus & the orderly one for this sun god |
Apollo
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The base of the stratus, a low type of this, can get down to less than 6,000 feet |
a cloud
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The friendless poor & strangers are buried in one of these, mentioned in Matthew 27:7 |
a potter's field
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Prior to entering the Major Leagues at age 42 in 1948, he had pitched 55 no-hitters in the Negro Leagues |
Satchel Paige
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"The Serpent of the Nile" |
Cleopatra
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Gibson added the first automatic interior light to this appliance |
the refrigerator
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Henri Bergson saw this not as a series of moments but as a flow he called duration |
time
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The day before Alan Shepard went up, Malcolm Ross went 21 miles up, up & away in one of these |
a balloon
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The Latin & Greek Churches agree it's a place of temporary suffering, but do not agree on the form of suffering |
purgatory
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This Cardinals first baseman hit 583 career home runs, averaging a home run for every 10.6 times at bat |
(Robert: Who is Stan Musial?)
Mark McGwire
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"The Second Man on the Moon" |
Buzz Aldrin
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It took 30 years for this appliance to be in over 50% of U.S. homes; the need to bake a potato in 3 min. wasn't pressing |
a microwave oven
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His "Two Treatises of Government", which influenced Jefferson, said man has a natural right to liberty |
John Locke
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In Greek mythology its subdivisions include Erebus & Tartarus |
Hades
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Baseball's all-time strikeout king with 5,714, his uniform number was retired by 3 teams: California, Houston & Texas |
Nolan Ryan
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"The Kingfish of Politics" |
Huey Long
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Kitchen appliance that helped A.D. Hershey win a Nobel Prize; it removed a virus' protein coat from its DNA core |
a blender
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This man who died around 347 B.C. said we perceive examples of things, not their ideal forms |
(Rebecca: Who is Socrates?)
Plato
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In 1975 one of these scavengers climbed to 37,000' over Africa -- sadly, we know this because it hit a plane |
a vulture
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It's a bottomless pit for the dead, or, in its special edition, an almost endless James Cameron movie |
the abyss
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This shortstop, the "Flying Dutchman", outplayed Ty Cobb in their 1909 World Series showdown |
Honus Wagner
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"The Wittenberg Monk" |
Martin Luther
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Found in many kitchens, polytetrafluoroethylene is more commonly called this |
(Robert: What is food coloring?)
Teflon
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Hobbes followed this -ism, not meaning he was greedy but that he reduced every experience to a physical process |
materialism
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The men seen here lunching above Manhattan include members of this Indian tribe |
the Mohawk
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