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    Searchable collection of American and English literary works, including reference, verse, fiction and nonfiction. Also includes several sources for quotations.
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    Researched, written in plain language and provided free of charge by lawyer Lloyd Duhaime. Includes "Ask a Lawyer Online."
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    This site on philosophy and philosophers has a concise dictionary of philosophical terms and names , a survey history of western philosophy, a timeline of western philosophers (from 600 B.C.E. to the present), a discussion of logic, a guide to the study of philosophy, and a collection of briefly annotated links to additional resources.
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Degrees in a Circle (why 360?)

According to Reading the Numbers, by Mary Blocksma:

The same people who invented the wheel five or six thousand years ago (the Mesopotamians) also fancied the number sixty, basing their entire number system on it. No one seems to know exactly why--it might even have been related to trade: ... [More]

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