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...?id=OfAZAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22monkey+see+monkey+do%22&pg=PA30}}</ref> and assumed to be an old saying in the 1890s.<ref name=Whitman2013 /> The saying refers to learning a process without understanding why it works. Another definition i ...

"'''Cheese-eating surrender monkeys'''", sometimes shortened to "'''surrender monkeys'''", is a [[pejorative]] term for [[French people]]. The term was coined in ...Scottish burr to the class: "Bonjourrrrrrrrr, you cheese-eating surrender monkeys!"{{sfn|Turner|2004|p=54}}{{sfn|Richmond & Coffman|1997|p=173}}<ref>{{cite b ...

[[File:Toshogu Three Monkeys Restored 2024 Crop.jpg|thumb|The three wise monkeys at the [[Nikkō Tōshō-gū|Tōshō-gū]] shrine in [[Nikkō]], Japan]] ...eak no evil'''".<ref>[[Wolfgang Mieder]]. 1981. "The Proverbial Three Wise Monkeys," ''Midwestern Journal of Language and Folklore'', 7: 5- ...

...avior or acknowledge the new idea. The behavior was said to propagate even to groups that are physically separated and have no apparent means of communic The 'hundredth monkey' effect was popularized in the mid-to-late 1970s by [[Lyall Watson]], who documented the findings of several Japa ...

...ence to the fable have been particularly employed in (although not limited to) political contexts. In La Fontaine's telling, Bertrand the monkey persuades Raton the cat to pull chestnuts from the embers amongst which they are roasting, promising h ...

...=https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2018/jan/05/david-mitchell-on-the-monkeys-paw-by-ww-jacobs-short-story-podcast|title=David Mitchell on The Monkey's P ...te=25YL|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-20}}</ref> It was first adapted to film in 1915 as a British silent film directed by [[Sidney Northcote]]. The ...

..., where he studied for some time under [[Rabanus Maurus]] before returning to Reichenau, of which monastery he was made abbot in 838.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911} ..., however, restored to his monastery in 842, and died in 849 on an embassy to his former pupil. His epitaph was written by Rabanus Maurus, whose elegiacs ...

...ey is used as a mechanism for the thought experiment, it would be unlikely to ever write ''[[Hamlet]]''.]] ...le finite text an infinite number of times. The theorem can be generalized to state that any infinite sequence of independent events whose probabilities ...

...ibe [[Americanization (immigration)|the cultural integration of immigrants to the country]].<ref name="Census1995">{{cite book|author=United States Burea ...the 1780s.<ref name="McDonald2007">p. 50 See "..whether assimilation ought to be seen as an egalitarian or hegemonic process, ...two viewpoints are repre ...

{{Short description|Stock character that draws allusions to biblical Jesus}} ...as a '''Christ-Image''', is a [[literary technique]] that the author uses to draw [[allusion]]s between their [[Character (arts)|character]]s and the bi ...

...do da Vinci, from C2RMF retouched.jpg|thumb|260px| Researchers are looking to neuroscience for answers behind why the human brain finds artistic works li ...id = 32206171| pmc = 7075503 }}</ref> Neuroesthetics uses [[neuroscience]] to explain and understand the aesthetic experiences at the [[neurology|neurolo ...

...Ghetto uprising]], [[Jürgen Stroop]] described Jews resisting deportation to [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] camps as "bandits".]] ...[[Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse|Abu Ghraib prison]], who is forced to crawl on the floor, while [[Megan Ambuhl]] watches, 2003.]] ...

...s consequences have been subjects of study for centuries. Scholars wishing to study the origins of language draw inferences from evidence such as the [[h ...mmes Press]], pp. 7–41.</ref> Despite this, academic interest had returned to the topic by the early 1990s. [[Linguist]]s, [[archaeologist]]s, [[psycholo ...

...which involves '''skin-to-skin contact''' ('''SSC'''), is an intervention to care for [[Preterm birth|premature]] or [[low birth weight]] (LBW) infants. ...guide,<ref name=":0" /> KMC is defined as a "powerful, easy-to-use method to promote the health and well-being of infants born preterm as well as full-t ...

...excitement, or surprise), as a grammatical [[intensifier]] or emphasis, or to express informality or conversational intimacy. In many formal or polite so ...ber 2024}} This further developed in [[Middle English]] with the meaning ''to desecrate a temple''.{{Sfn|Hughes|2015|p=362}} In English, ''swearing'' is ...

...overb is a fixed expression, while a proverbial phrase permits alterations to fit the grammar of the context.<ref>{{cite journal |url= https://www.jstor. ...er, were distributed to the same extent: one scholar has gathered evidence to show that cultures in which the Bible is the major spiritual book contain " ...

...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= ...

...lie or exploit; however, the people who try to take advantage of Hank tend to regret it because Hank is tougher and a lot shrewder than they thought. His ...al Estate|real estate]]. She has a habit of adding or changing ingredients to ordinary dishes and then naming them after herself. "Spa-Peggy & Meatballs" ...

'''''The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice''''', often shortened to '''''Othello''''',{{efn|{{IPAc-en|ə|ˈ|θ|ɛ|l|oʊ}} {{respell|ə|THEL|oh}}, {{I ...ed [[Blackface|by white actors in dark makeup]], the role of Othello began to be played by black actors in the 19th century. ...

| 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 ...