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  2. List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events - Wikipedia

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    This evangelist announced that "the world is going to go 'puff' and disappear" in September 1935. [108] 1936 Herbert W. Armstrong: The founder of the Worldwide Church of God told members of his church that the rapture was to take place in 1936, and that only they would be saved. After the prophecy failed, he changed the date three more times ...

  3. You aren't gonna need it - Wikipedia

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    Other forms of the phrase include "You aren't going to need it" (YAGTNI) [ 5][ 6] and "You ain't gonna need it". [ 7] Ron Jeffries, a co-founder of XP, explained the philosophy: "Always implement things when you actually need them, never when you just foresee that you [will] need them." [ 8] John Carmack wrote "It is hard for less experienced ...

  4. 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder - Wikipedia

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    Similar protests took place in major cities throughout the country. Since Indian law does not allow the press to publish a rape victim's name, the victim was widely known as Nirbhaya, meaning "fearless", and her struggle and death became a symbol of women's resistance to rape around the world. [6] [7]

  5. Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to ...

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    Image of a guillotine-style mousetrap seller in the mid-19th century. In February 1855, Emerson wrote in his journal, under the heading "Common Fame": If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

  6. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    As a response to an unlikely proposition, "when pigs fly", "when pigs have wings", or simply "pigs might fly". [1] "When Hell freezes over" [2] and "on a cold day in Hell" [3] are based on the understanding that Hell is eternally an extremely hot place. The "Twelfth of Never" will never come to pass. [4] A song of the same name was written by ...

  7. We're All Going to the World's Fair - Wikipedia

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    Language. English. Box office. $106,644 [ 5][ 6] We're All Going to the World's Fair is a 2021 American coming-of-age psychological horror film [ 7] written, directed, and edited by Jane Schoenbrun. The film stars Michael J. Rogers and Anna Cobb in her debut role. [ 8] David Lowery served as an executive producer. [ 9]

  8. List of religious populations - Wikipedia

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    The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.

  9. List of languages by total number of speakers - Wikipedia

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    Principal language families of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). For greater detail, see Distribution of languages in the world. This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect.