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'Metaphysics' originated in the 1st century BC as a label for works placed after Aristotle's Physics—meaning 'the things after the physics.' Because the Greek word 'meta' means both 'after' and 'beyond,' it was reinterpreted as 'the study that transcends nature.'
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  • English
  • Language
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The distress signal "Mayday" comes from the French "M'aidez" (help me). In 1921, radio officer Frederick Mockford at London's Croydon Airport proposed it for aviation communication with Paris, as both English and French speakers could understand it.
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  • French
  • Aviation
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  • Greece
  • Olympics
  • Marathon
  • Son Ki-jung
  • Korea
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  • Alexander the Great
  • Greece
  • North Macedonia
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  • Probability
  • Philosophy
  • Paradox
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