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...September 1989, describing how various professions would go about hunting elephants.<ref name=original>{{Citation |last=Olsen |first=Peter C. |date=September 1 When hunting elephants, the article describes programmers as following this algorithm:<ref name=or ...

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...f> The phrase means to mistake one's object, or to pursue the wrong course to obtain it. ...k. 2107 curious word origins, sayings and expressions from white elephants to a song and dance. Galahad Books, 1993.</ref> ...

{{Short description|Idiom for impractical possessions that are expensive to maintain but cannot be disposed of}} ...etc. considered expensive but without equivalent utility or value relative to its capital (acquisition) and/or operational (maintenance) costs.<ref>{{cit ...

...presents an obvious problem or difficult situation that people do not want to talk about.<ref name=cam/>]] ...presents an obvious problem or difficult situation that people do not want to talk about.<ref name=cam>{{cite web|url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/di ...

...ad days'''" is a [[William Shakespeare|Shakespearean]] [[idiom]] referring to a period of carefree innocence, [[idealism]], and pleasure associated with ...she says, "...My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood/To say as I said then!"<ref>{{citation |title=Brush up your Shakespeare! |chap ...

...s an expression of the problem of [[infinite regress]]. The saying alludes to the mythological idea of a [[World Turtle]] that supports a [[flat Earth]] ...down", the saying appears as early as 1838.<ref name="Rocks" /> References to the saying's mythological antecedents, the World Turtle and its counterpart ...

...hey come to blows. The moral of the parable is that humans have a tendency to claim absolute truth based on their limited, subjective experience as they ...tains one of the earliest versions of the story. The Tittha Sutta is dated to around {{circa|500}} [[Common era|BCE]], during the lifetime of [[Gautama B ...

...eys—a ''bicameral mind''—and that the breakdown of this division gave rise to [[consciousness]] in humans. The term was coined by Jaynes, who presented t ...the ''[[corpus callosum]]''.{{sfnp|Harnad|1977}} The metaphor is not meant to imply that the two halves of the bicameral brain were "cut off" from each o ...

| alt = A herd of elephants over a patch of fog. Elvis Costello and the Attractions reads at the top, w ...uction compared to ''[[This Year's Model]]'', while Nieve contributed more to song arrangements. ...

...addresses the relation between signs and their users. Semiotics is related to [[linguistics]] but has a broader scope that includes nonlinguistic signs, ...sign vehicle and referent is [[conventional]] or arbitrary, which applies to most [[Language|linguistic signs]]. Models of signs analyze the basic compo ...

...e been applied to real animals in some older translations of the Bible due to misunderstandings or educational prejudices of the [[Greek language|Greek]] ...rst=Lidar|author2=Erez Ben-Yosef|title=The Introduction of Domestic Camels to the Southern Levant: Evidence from the Aravah Valley|journal=Tel Aviv|year= ...

...t of a modern [[encyclopedia|encyclopaedia]]. It is the only work by Pliny to have survived, and the last that he published. He published the first 10 bo ...to his Friend Titus Vespasian</ref> Pliny claims to be the only Roman ever to have undertaken such a work, in his prayer for the blessing of the universa ...

..., such as those of the [[Indian National Congress]] (pictured), coordinate to collectively achieve and use political power.|264x264px]] ...]]s and participate in governance. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about [[politics]], and parties may promote specific [[p ...

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...al detective]] created by British author [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]. Referring to himself as a "[[Private investigator|consulting detective]]" in his stories ...on [[Detective fiction|mystery writing]] and [[Popular culture references to Sherlock Holmes|popular culture]] as a whole, with the original tales, as w ...

| preceded_by = [[On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural ...work of [[scientific literature]] by [[Charles Darwin]] that is considered to be the foundation of [[evolutionary biology]]. It was published on 24 Novem ...

...ke changes unless there is talk page consensus to do so. -->From top, left to right: [[Westminster Palace]] in London; [[Shibuya Crossing]] in Tokyo; [[L ...me places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agreed definition of the lower ...