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• ... that the American home improvement comedy romance television series'''''[[The Courtship of Eddie's Carpenter]]''''' is based on the 1963 "Courtship Carpentry" fad of the same name? | • ... that the American home improvement comedy romance television series'''''[[The Courtship of Eddie's Carpenter]]''''' is based on the 1963 "Courtship Carpentry" fad of the same name? | ||
• ... that printer and publisher '''[[Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|Christian Egenolff]]''' was sued in 1533 by publisher Johann Schott for infringement of copyright on ''Herbarium Vivae Icones'', and that Egenolff argued in his defense that nature could not be copyrighted and that plants stood as communal models for any artist? | • ... that printer and publisher '''[[Christian Egenolff (nonfiction)|Christian Egenolff]]''' was sued in 1533 by publisher Johann Schott for infringement of copyright on ''Herbarium Vivae Icones'', and that Egenolff argued in his defense that nature could not be copyrighted and that plants stood as communal models for any artist? | ||
• ... that physician and philosopher '''[[Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|Lucilio Vanini]]''' was among the first modern thinkers who viewed the universe as an entity governed by natural laws, and the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes, and that on this day in 1619 the Parliament of Toulouse found Vanini guilty of atheism and blasphemy, cut out his tongue, strangled him, and burned his body? | • ... that physician and philosopher '''[[Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|Lucilio Vanini]]''' was among the first modern thinkers who viewed the universe as an entity governed by natural laws, and the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes, and that on this day in 1619 the Parliament of Toulouse found Vanini guilty of atheism and blasphemy, cut out his tongue, strangled him, and burned his body? | ||
• ... that electrical engineer and physicist '''[[Dennis Gabor (nonfiction)|Dennis Gabor]]''''s 1963 book ''Inventing the Future'' discusses the three major threats Gabor saw to modern society: war, overpopulation, and the Age of Leisure, and that the book contains the now well-known expression that "the future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented"? | |||
• ... that '''''[[The Woke and the Furious]]''''' is a 2021 political action film about an undercover liberal who is tasked with discovering the identities of a group of insurrectionists led by Donald Trump? | |||
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• ... that the American home improvement comedy romance television seriesThe Courtship of Eddie's Carpenter is based on the 1963 "Courtship Carpentry" fad of the same name?
• ... that printer and publisher Christian Egenolff was sued in 1533 by publisher Johann Schott for infringement of copyright on Herbarium Vivae Icones, and that Egenolff argued in his defense that nature could not be copyrighted and that plants stood as communal models for any artist?
• ... that physician and philosopher Lucilio Vanini was among the first modern thinkers who viewed the universe as an entity governed by natural laws, and the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes, and that on this day in 1619 the Parliament of Toulouse found Vanini guilty of atheism and blasphemy, cut out his tongue, strangled him, and burned his body?
• ... that electrical engineer and physicist Dennis Gabor's 1963 book Inventing the Future discusses the three major threats Gabor saw to modern society: war, overpopulation, and the Age of Leisure, and that the book contains the now well-known expression that "the future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented"?
• ... that The Woke and the Furious is a 2021 political action film about an undercover liberal who is tasked with discovering the identities of a group of insurrectionists led by Donald Trump?