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Gene Cernan was the last man on the moon.
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Eugene Cernan was the last man on the Moon, and co-wrote about in in the 1999-published book, "The Last Man on the Moon."
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Eugene (Gene) Cernan became the last man to walk on the surface of the Moon during the 1972 Apollo 17 mission
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
The Code Project Insider
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Microsoft was the SECOND Company that Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded.
Can you name the first one?
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
The Code Project Insider
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The first company Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded was called Micro-Soft which was later renamed to Microsoft Corporation.
Detlef
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Traf-o-Data (to analyze traffic patterns)
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
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The movie Titanic is the all-time box office champ for North America. Adjust for inflation, and it drops to number 6. What are the 5 movies ahead of it?
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
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1. Gone with the Wind (1939) $1,293,085,600
2. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) $1,139,965,400
3. The Sound of Music (1965) $911,458,400
4. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) $907,867,700
5. The Ten Commandments (1956) $838,400,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_movies_that_have_been_considered_the_greatest_ever[^]
Erik
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Gone With the Wind, Star Wars. ET, Sound of Music, Ten Commandments
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
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Part woman, part fish… this lady was the first to swim across all 5 Great Lakes in North America.
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
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That's not demonstrating trivia knowledge - that's demonstrating the ability to google.
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:->I see your point Carlisle. Because I supplied a link, you assume that I did not know the answer. Well, the first time I posted an answer to one of Jordon's trivia questions was Jan. 31st. I answered simply "Antarctica" to the question "What is the driest place on earth?" (See TRIVIA #7.) When Jordon's answer was given, she said "Atacama Desert (Northern Chile)." So, at that point I decided to supply a link to verify my answers.
I like trivia. That all being said, I will now confess that I did NOT know the answer to the Great Lakes swimmer question before looking it up. So you did bust me. I'll have more integrity from now on. :->
Eric Dahlvang-Programmer
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Canadian Vicki Keith
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
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Who famously said: “I think, therefore I am.”
Jordon
News Editor/Publisher
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René Descartes, in his famous statement that embodied Cartesian Duality.
Personally I disagree with him.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Hey! You're not supposed to answer the trivia question.
Geez man.
David
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Chris Maunder wrote: Personally I disagree with him.
Are you not convinced you really exist?
What is then your 'prime truth', on which you can build your conception of the World?
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I'm definitely convinced I exist - I get enough spam to prove that - but I don't agree with Cartesian Duality. To say there is the body and the mind as two separate things is a bit of a cop out for me. It just feels like the "I can't imagine the brain being complex enough to create a mind, therefor it must be something else that created the mind" argument.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I understood cartesian seperation as the separation not of the body and the mind but of the body and the soul, a distinction between temporal and spiritual matters. And for his famous sentence, I understood he said that we can assert that we are because we have the conscience to be. Anyway, I didn't realize the implications you make, I'll have to process these data to rebuild my conceptual model of the Universe
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An interesting point: what is the difference between the soul and the mind? Is the mind a reflection of the soul or is it determined solely (forgive the pun) by the body? And if that's the case then what is the soul?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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There have been strange experiments to determine what level of separation exists between the mind and the body. A neuroligist can open your skull, stimulate the correct area of your brain, and cause your limbs to move. Yet, you can be awake and "will" with your mind for your limbs to stop moving - the neuroligist is able to control your body despite your mind. Your mind doesn't change. It isn't like he can cause you to think certain thoughts. The thoughts are in the mind/soul, not just the body.
If you are interested, order this book:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=eV3vDB5Dsg&isbn=1576830160&itm=1
I haven't read it, but I've read other books by the same author. He references the experiments I mentioned above.
"I use to think the brain was the most amazing organ in the body. Until I realized what was telling me that." -Unknown
Eric Dahlvang-Programmer
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Chris Maunder wrote: if that's the case then what is the soul?
The soul may be that part of the mind which defines our humanity, and differentiates ourselves from animals. The human mind would be then the combination of "animal spirits" and 'something more'.
I'm not sure but physically, the human brain has 'parts' other animals don't have... maybe there is the soul.
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