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  2. The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge - Wikipedia

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    The story occurs in the Zones of Thought universe and occurs after The Children of the Sky. Tines is a member of the multi-part species introduced in A Fire Upon the Deep, the tines, and the Blabber is a missing member of Tines who is re-incorporated at the end of the story. Hamid is a clone of a great man who was in a relationship with Ravna.

  3. Letter from Iddin-Sin to Zinu - Wikipedia

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    The letter from Iddin-Sin to Zinu, also known by its technical designation TCL 18 111, [1] is an Old Babylonian letter written by the student Iddin-Sin to his mother Zinu. It is thought to have been written in the city of Larsa in the 18th century BC, around the time of Hammurabi 's reign ( c. 1792–1750 BC). Disappointed with the quality of ...

  4. List of time travel works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    Works created prior to the 18th century are listed in Time travel § History of the time travel concept . A guardian angel travels back to the year 1728, with letters from 1997 and 1998. An unnamed man falls asleep and finds himself in a Paris of the future. Play - A good fairy sends people forward to the year 7603 AD. [1]

  5. Academic grading in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Academic grading in Canada varies by province, level of education (e.g., elementary, secondary, tertiary), by institution, and faculty.The following are commonly used conversions from percentage grades to letter grades, however, this is not necessarily meaningful, since there is not a uniform scheme for assigning percentage grades either.

  6. Academic grading in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Most national universities employ a 4-scale grading system (only with A, B, C and F). Below-average students are given an F, and are encouraged to retake the same subject (s) in the following semesters. GPA is a simple numerical representation of college results in Japan. As of 2014, 497 Japanese universities use this system.

  7. Freedom of speech - Wikipedia

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    Article 19 of the UDHR states that "everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference" and "everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art ...

  8. List of short stories by Alice Munro - Wikipedia

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    82 = The Moons of Jupiter – 1982. 86 = The Progress of Love – 1986. 90 = Friend of My Youth – 1990. 94 = Open Secrets – 1994. 98 = The Love of a Good Woman. 01 = Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage – 2001. 04 = Runaway – 2004. 06 = The View from Castle Rock – 2006. 09 = Too Much Happiness – 2009.

  9. Take Us to Your Chief: and Other Stories - Wikipedia

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    First edition, cover artist: Andy Everson. Take Us to Your Chief: and Other Stories is a collection of nine short stories by Canadian author, playwright, and journalist Drew Hayden Taylor published in 2016 by Douglas & McIntyre. [1] [2] Taylor, who is part Caucasian, part Ojibwe, [3] [4] explains in the acknowledgments section of the book that ...