Richard John "Rick" Santorum (born May 10, 1958) is an American lawyer and politician. He served as the United States senator of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007. He ran for President of the United States in 2012 and in 2016.
Santorum was born in Winchester, Virginia. He is of Italian American descent. He was raised in West Virginia, Butler, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. He went to college and to law school at Penn State University. Soon after, he became a lawyer in Pittsburgh.
Santorum served in the House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995. With the 1994 elections that elected many Republicans, he was elected to the United States Senate. He served in the Senate for two terms, from 1995 to 2007. In the Senate, Santorum was known for having very conservative views about abortion and gay marriage. Santorum lost in the 2006 election for a third term as a Senator to State Treasurer Bob Casey, Jr and C. Richard Semple II. After being in the Senate, he worked in a think tank and for Fox News.
In 2011 and 2012, Santorum ran for President of the United States in the Republican primaries. He based his campaign on social issues. He dropped out of the race in 2012. Today, Santorum writes a political column for the conservative news website World Net Daily.
Santorum announced his candidacy for the 2016 presidential election on May 27, 2015. He dropped out of the race on February 3, 2016 after poor polling numbers and loosing the Iowa caucuses. He later announced his endorsement for Marco Rubio.
Santorum married Karen Garver in 1990. Together, they have seven children.
Pope Paul II
Pope Paul II (; 23 February 1417 – 26 July 1471), born Pietro Barbo, was an Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 212th Pope from 1464 until his death in 1471.
Pietro Barbo was born in Venice. He was a nephew of Pope Eugene IV.
Barbo became a cardinal in 1440. He was sometimes called the Venetian cardinal.
Barbo was elected Pope on 30 August 1464; and he chose to be called Paul II.
Pope Paul was involved in Italian and European political disputes.
The Cardinals' right to wear the red biretta was granted by Paul II.
The accounts of histories written soon after his death were unfavorable.
Rechtsstaat
Rechtsstaat is an idea in continental European thought. It is that in a country, the state's power is limited by the laws. This might either be the laws agreed upon, or natural law. It is similar to the idea of the rule of law.
Chatterbot
A chatterbot is a computer program that responds to input in a natural language. An example is ELIZA. ELIZA was one of the first chatterbots. Every year, there is a contest for chatterbots called the Loebner prize.
Loebner prize
The Loebner prize is an award given out every year to a chatterbot. The winner is chosen by a Turing test: Each judge talks (text-based) to a chatterbot and to a human. The judge guesses which is which. The contest started in 1990 by Hugh Loebner. The first winner was "Whimsical Conversation".
Tetration
Tetration is the hyperoperation which comes after exponentiation. formula_1 means y exponentiated by itself, (x-1) times. List of first 4 natural number hyperoperations:
The above example is read as "the nth tetration of a".
For the example, addition is assumed.
Who Knew
"Who Knew" is a single from American pop rock singer Pink, off her fourth album "I'm Not Dead". It's about losing a friend due to abusing drugs. The song was released in 2006, although it was not until 2007 that the single became a hit after being released again following success of Pink's other song "U + Ur Hand"
Pope Paul IV
Pope Paul IV (; 28 June 1476 – 18 August 1559), born Giovanni Pietro Carafa, was an Italian priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the 221st Pope from 23 May 1555 until his death.
Giovanni Pietro Carafa was born in Capriglia Irpina in a noble family of Naples.
Pope Leo X sent Carafa as ambassador to England and then as papal nuncio in Spain.
In 1524, Pope Clement VII allowed Carafa to retire from diplomacy to head a monastery.
Pope Paul III recalled him to Rome.
In 1536, Carafa was made Cardinal and Archbishop of Naples.
He reorganized the Roman Inquisition.
Cardinal Carafa was elected popein 1555; and he chose to be called Paul IV.
Pope Paul was involved in Italian and European political disputes.
Pope Paul IV quarrelled with Philip II. of Spain, who sent the Duke of Alba with an army from Naples to invade the Papal States. At the gates of Rome, a peace was concluded in 1557.
In the context of the Counter-Reformation, this pope supported the Inquisition in Italy.
He was buried in St. Peter's Basilica but was later transferred to Santa Maria sopra Minerva.
Hyperoperation
A hyperoperation is a generalization of addition, multiplication, exponentiation, tetration, etc. They are often written using Knuth's up-arrow notation. Natural number level hyperoperations can be defined recursively as a piecewise function:
Marry the Night
"Marry the Night" is the fifth and final single off Lady Gaga's second studio record "Born This Way". It was written and produced by Gaga. "Marry the Night" is a dance-pop song influenced by house and electropop. It additionally fuses elements of disco and rock, with a funk rock-inspired breakdown. The song's lyrics are a homage to New York City and to the city's nightlife. The song reached number 29 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, number 11 on the Canadian Hot 100, and number 16 on the UK Singles Chart. On March 27, 2012, the Recording Industry Association of America certified the song Gold for sales and shipments of over 500,000 copies in the US.
The music video for the song has autobiographical elements, showing Gaga after she was dropped from Def Jam Records. The video starts off in a hospital, and shows scenes of the singer dancing on top of a car and with a dance troupe.
Joe Strummer
John Graham Mellor (21 August 1952 – 22 December 2002), better known by his stage name, Joe Strummer, was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of the British punk rock band The Clash.
He was also member of The 101ers, Latino Rockabilly War, The Mescaleros and The Pogues, in addition to his own solo music career. Strummer's work included acting, creating film scores, songwriting, radio broadcasting, and a position as a radio host. He is one of the most iconic figures of the British punk movement.
He died of heart disease at his home in Broomfield, Somerset, England.
Premise
A premise is a statement which an argument claims will justify a conclusion. The proof of a conclusion depends on both the truth of the premises and the validity of the argument.
Aristotle held that any logical argument could be reduced to three premises and a conclusion. Premises are sometimes left unstated in which case they are called missing premises, for example:
It is understood that Socrates is a man. The fully expressed reasoning is thus:
In this example, the first two independent clauses before the comma (namely, "all men are mortal" and "Socrates is a man") are the premises, while "Socrates is mortal" is the conclusion.
In logic, an argument requires a set of two declarative sentences (or "propositions") known as the premises, with another declarative sentence (or "proposition") known as the conclusion. This structure of two premises and one conclusion forms the basic argumentative structure.
More complex arguments can use a series of rules to connect several premises to one conclusion, or to derive a number of conclusions from the original premises. An example of this is the use of the rules of inference found within symbolic logic.
Arturo Vidal
Arturo Erasmo Vidal Pardo (born 22 May 1987) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a Midfielder for Bayern Munich and the Chile national team.
Simone Pepe
Simone Pepe (born 30 August 1983) is an Italian footballer who plays for Serie A club Juventus.
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