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The White House, official residence of the president of the United States, in July 2008. The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, [1] indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. [2]
Jeux Descartes was a French publisher of roleplaying games and board games. Their most popular lines included: Eurogames, a set of serious board games, previously published by Duccio Vitale's independent company; Blue Games, small card games for larger groups; and Games for Two. Jeux Descartes was founded in 1977 and went out of business in 2005.
Antoine Arnauld (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan aʁno]; 6 February 1612 – 8 August 1694) was a French Catholic theologian, philosopher and mathematician.He was one of the leading intellectuals of the Jansenist group of Port-Royal and had a very thorough knowledge of patristics.
Descartes justifies his omissions and obscurities with the remark that much was deliberately omitted "in order to give others the pleasure of discovering [it] for themselves." Descartes is often credited with inventing the coordinate plane because he had the relevant concepts in his book, [ 8 ] however, nowhere in La Géométrie does the modern ...
The Method may refer to: . Science. The Method of Mechanical Theorems, a work of Archimedes; Discourse on the Method, a work of Descartes; Arts and entertainment. The Method, a 2015 Russian television drama series
Totalmente Demais (English title: Total Dreamer) is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo, from 9 November 2015 to 30 May 2016. [1]Loosely based on the 1913 play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, Totalmente Demais is written by Rosane Svartman and Paulo Halm, with Mário Viana, Claudia Sardinha, Fabrício Santiago and Felipe Cabral as co-writers.
Animal machine or bête-machine (Fr., animal-machine), is a philosophical notion from Descartes in the 17th century who held that animal behaviour can be compared to the one of machines. Like them, animals would be an assembly of mechanical pieces and therefore unable to think and not gifted of consciousness , although they differ by their ...
Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the oldest extant anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744.It contains the oldest printed texts of many well-known and popular rhymes, as well as several that eventually dropped out of the canon of rhymes for children.