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Subject: Cosmo Quiz (was: Wery TAN: Cosmos (No, I don't know the answer))
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>"P. T. Rourke" wrote:

>> A search of the WGBH website included this amusing result:
>>
>> "Search results for '(cosmos or cosmoses)' "
>>
>> Obviously someone had the hoary old "define the Universe, give three
>> examples" question on his Physics final.
>>
> Ivan Van Laningham wrote:

>Or else they've been reading science fiction for a while. ...

Or Greek philosophy (admittedly the distinction is often moot). Cosmos
means "world/universe" as early as Anaximander.

JM("Mundanus")P


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