Appeal to emotion or argumentum ad passiones (meaning the same in Latin) is an informal fallacy characterized by the manipulation of the recipient's emotions in order to win an argument, especially in the absence of factual evidence. This kind of appeal to emotion is a type of red herring and encompasses several logical fallacies, including appeal to consequences, appeal …

Lê Quý Đôn (chữ Hán: 黎貴惇, 2 tháng 8 năm 1726 – 11 tháng 6 năm 1784), tên thuở nhỏ là Lê Danh Phương, tự Doãn Hậu (允厚), hiệu Quế Đường (桂堂), là vị quan thời Lê trung hưng, cũng là nhà thơ và được mệnh danh là "nhà bác học lớn của Việt Nam trong thời phong kiến".. Ở thế kỷ 18, các tri thức văn hóa, khoa ...

History (from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía) 'inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation') is the study and the documentation of the past. Events before the invention of writing systems are considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events.

Independence Day (also promoted as ID4) is a 1996 American science fiction action film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin.It stars an ensemble cast that consists of Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, James Rebhorn, and Harvey Fierstein.The film focuses on …

The Kalthoff repeater was a type of repeating firearm that was designed by members of the Kalthoff family around 1630, and became the first repeating firearm to be brought into military service. At least nineteen gunsmiths are known to have made weapons following the Kalthoff design. Some early Kalthoff guns were wheellocks, but the rest were flintlocks. ...

Η Νέα Υόρκη (αγγλικά: New York City, New York), γνωστή επίσης ως Πόλη της Νέας Υόρκης, για να διακριθεί από την ομώνυμη πολιτεία εντός της οποίας βρίσκεται, με πληθυσμό πάνω από 8.804.190 κατοίκους (σύμφωνα με την απογραφή του 2020 ...

1776年4月には首都漢城に文芸、学問の振興のための奎章閣を設置した。ここには、中国、朝鮮の典籍が収蔵され、正祖を支持する文官の精鋭を選んで親衛勢力を形成し、「右文之治」と「作成之化」を奎章閣の二大名分として掲げて文化政治を標榜すると ...

Ο Απολλώνιος ο Ρόδιος αναφέρει πως στο νησί ο Ποσειδώνας έφερε τη νεαρή κόρη του Ασωπού, Κέρκυρα (από την οποία πήρε το όνομά της) με τα ωραία της μαλλιά, μακρυά από τη γη του Φλειούντα. Στο νησί των Φαιάκων συντελέστηκε ...

Early life and education. Murphy was born in Needham, Massachusetts, and was raised in both Needham and nearby Newton, the son of Dorothy Louise (Dunton) and Walter F. Murphy. The family was Irish American, with Phil being third generation. According to Murphy, his household was "middle class on a good day;" by his recollection, his mother, a secretary, and father, a …

Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui; Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania.The island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, which were created by the early Rapa Nui people.In 1995, UNESCO named Easter Island a …

月宮殿山（げっきゅうでんざん）上京町（かみきょうまち） 1776（安永5）年創建。俗に鶴亀山（つるかめやま）とも呼ばれる。謡曲の鶴亀（喜多流の月宮殿）から考案したもの。所望は、頭上に鶴の冠をつけた女の舞人と亀の冠をつけた男の舞人が皇帝の前 ...

世界貿易中心一號大樓也在原址重建，重建大楼原名为“自由塔”，高1,776英尺（為紀念美國1776年建國，約等於541米），2009年改称世界贸易中心一号大楼，2014年完工，成为美国第一高楼 ，原本在2007年至2012年还将建造另外3座大楼，但最终因故延期。

The Library was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world, but details about it are a mixture of history and legend. The earliest known surviving source of information on the founding of the Library of Alexandria is the pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas, which was composed between c. 180 and c. 145 BC. It claims the Library was founded during the reign of …

Prison hulks were decommissioned ships that authorities used as floating prisons in the 18th and 19th centuries.They were extensively used in England. The term "prison hulk" is not synonymous with the related term convict ship.A hulk is a ship that is afloat, but incapable of going to sea, whereas convict ships are seaworthy vessels that transport convicted felons from their place of ...