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  • Thumbnail for Maya Angelou
    Maya Angelou (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    80 appearances a year on the lecture circuit, something she continued into her eighties. In 1993, Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" (1993)...
    102 KB (10,948 words) - 06:30, 11 September 2024
  • The Last Lecture is a 2008 New York Times best-selling book co-authored by Randy Pausch —a professor of computer science, human-computer interaction,...
    13 KB (1,752 words) - 13:56, 24 April 2024
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    Peterson's lectures had "something akin to a cult following", stating, "I remember students crying on the last day of class because they wouldn't get to hear...
    134 KB (11,775 words) - 21:19, 10 September 2024
  • first delivered in 1949 or 50. Most sources give the date of 1950. "Lecture on Something" (1951) "45' for a Speaker" (1954) "Where Are We Going? and What...
    3 KB (478 words) - 13:00, 24 July 2024
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    The Regensburg lecture or Regensburg address was delivered on 12 September 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg in Germany, which...
    72 KB (8,195 words) - 06:34, 21 August 2024
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    Reith Lectures is a series of annual BBC radio lectures given by leading figures of the day. They are commissioned by the BBC and broadcast on Radio 4...
    15 KB (1,274 words) - 18:13, 13 December 2023
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    diagnosis: "three to six months of good health left". He gave an upbeat lecture titled, "The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" on September...
    30 KB (2,865 words) - 04:27, 4 September 2024
  • "Lecture Circuit" is a two-part episode of the American comedy television series The Office. They constituted the sixteenth and seventeenth episodes of...
    27 KB (3,221 words) - 17:57, 1 September 2024
  • foreword for the book prior to his death but was too ill to complete it. To write the book, Krauss expanded material from a lecture on the cosmological implications...
    9 KB (853 words) - 14:19, 10 May 2024
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    replacing it with something what [sic] will have neither dignity nor permanence." In Vawter's scheme, each performer or group appeared on a particular day...
    25 KB (2,801 words) - 18:16, 27 June 2024
  • The Theoretical Minimum (category Books of lectures)
    series delivers over 100 lectures amounting to something on the order of 200 hours of content, with some of the individual lectures having received over a...
    6 KB (591 words) - 21:47, 8 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Richard Feynman
    At the end of the year, Feynman was invited to give a lecture on his teaching experiences, and he agreed to do so, provided he could speak frankly, which...
    126 KB (14,489 words) - 06:28, 12 September 2024
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    for Saint Heron. In May 2018, Kindness interviewed Robyn for an RBMA lecture on her career and music. Bainbridge identifies as gender non-conforming and...
    22 KB (1,537 words) - 02:28, 27 May 2024
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    But what, then, of the many defects—the longueurs and digressions, the lectures on anthroposophy and religion, the arcane reading lists? What of the characters...
    50 KB (5,397 words) - 06:34, 11 September 2024
  • (also called "The Last Lecture") was a lecture given by Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Randy Pausch on September 18, 2007, that...
    35 KB (4,801 words) - 07:28, 26 August 2024
  • circumstances is not just to "say" something, but rather to perform a certain kind of action. He goes on to say that when something goes wrong in connection...
    43 KB (5,412 words) - 11:22, 8 August 2024
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    Lecture (on themes connected with Darwin's work and humanism), the Rosalind Franklin Lecture (commemorating women in humanism), the Voltaire Lecture (on...
    76 KB (7,147 words) - 22:10, 25 August 2024
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    Martin Heidegger (category Theorists on Western civilization)
    influences on Heidegger, and many of his lecture courses were devoted to one or the other, especially in the 1930s and 1940s. The lectures on Nietzsche...
    110 KB (12,865 words) - 21:28, 1 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mark Davis (American football)
    said "we are trying everything possible to get something done in Oakland right on the same exact site we're on right now". However, after a dispute over...
    29 KB (3,138 words) - 07:39, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rob Thomas (musician)
    was his first to be released as a lead solo artist. It peaked at number six on the chart and led his debut solo album, ...Something to Be (2005), which...
    58 KB (5,931 words) - 10:33, 15 August 2024
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