The armistice ending World War I took effect at 11:00 a.m. Paris Time on November 11th of this year.
Fighting continued right up until the armistice came into force, with 2,738 men dying on the last day of the war.
Coachella is an annual music festival held in this U.S. state.
Coachella was co-founded by Paul Tollett and Rick Van Santen in 1999, but the event dates back to a 1993 Pearl Jam performed there because it was feuding with Ticketmaster, which controlled all of the venues in Southern California. It is named for the Coachella Valley in California's Colorado Desert.
Now owned by Microsoft, this presentation software was originally released for the Apple Macintosh in 1987 by Forethought, Inc.
Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin developed the first version of PowerPoint, based on a specification that Gaskins had written entitled "Presentation Graphics for Overhead Projection." Within a couple of months of the program's release, Microsoft would end up buying the whole company for $14 million, its first ever major acquisition.
In popular culture, this Southeast Asian country is often called "Land of the Blue Dragon."
According to an ancient origin myth, the Vietnamese people are descended from the marriage of a dragon and a fairy goddess. The blue color likely relates to the color of the sea.
Fill in the blank: The Allegory of the ______ from Plato's The Republic describes prisoners chained since birth who mistake shadows on a wall for reality.
The allegory illustrates the effect of education on our nature, contrasting the shadows (perceived reality) with the real objects and the sun (the Form of the Good) outside the cave, and the difficulty of returning to share this truth with those still chained.
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