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Bombastic Little Creep

This character’s creator described him as “insufferable”, and called him a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep”. On August…

Flash’em Poker

In Texas Hold’em Poker, which hand is known as ‘six tits’?

Glory and Sadness, Beauty and Pain

X is a song written by Y and famously covered by Z. Time Magazine’s Josh Tyrangiel described it thus:…

May be harmful if inhaled or swallowed

In the book “The World of _____” by Bennett Alan Weinberg and Bonnie K Bealer, there is a photograph…

29 March, 2007

The four states of the soul

Question by BV Harish Kumar

"Its length is 96 times the breadth of the four fingers of a man, which is believed to be his height. Each of the four fingers represents one of the four states that the soul of a man experiences: waking, dreaming, dreamless sleep and knowledge of the absolute.”

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