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Ignorance is a lack of knowledge, or a willful lack of desire to improve the efficiency, merit, effectiveness or usefulness of one's actions. Ignorance is also a "state of being ignorant" or unaware/uninformed. Ex: "In debate class Bill lost the debate because he was ignorant in (without knowledge of) that subject." In politics, it is almost always used as a pejorative label, but some political movements have raised it to an ideal, for instance the Know-Nothings of the 19th century United States and some peasant and agrarian mo ...

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2004 in literature - January-February. January 4, John Toland, author and historian January 4, Joan Aiken, author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase January 4, Jeff Nuttall, poet, publisher, and author of Bomb Culture January 10, Alexandra Ripley, author of Scarlett January 10/11?, Spalding Gray, actor and author January 13, Zeno Vendler, philosopher and linguist January 14, Jack Cady, science fiction author January 15, Olivi ...

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Reflecting the speed of contemporary pop culture in general and Internet phenomena in particular, many of Slashdot's recurring jokes enjoy brief shelf-lives. Some posters, aware of Slashdot's trolling subculture, often deliberately set out to create and propagate new memes, hoping to make a new joke catch on. A poster will sometimes combine several well-known jokes, including many of those listed below, into one "super-cliche." A successful attempt produces a post that is either quite funny or incredibly annoying, depending on a reader's perspective, and is almost always n ...

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1991 was the year that grunge music made its popular breakthrough. Nirvana's Nevermind, led by the surprise hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit", became the most popular U.S. album of the year. Followed immediately by other grunge bands like Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, grunge dominated the U.S. charts for the next few years. Its success effectively ended pop-oriented, 1980s hair metal groups like Def Leppard, Guns 'n' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Poison and Ratt, whose sales and critical viability were beginning to decline for about two years previously and also ended Los Angeles' st ...

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