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The Hartford Wits were a group of young writers from Connecticut in the late 18th century including John Trumbull, Timothy Dwight, David Humphreys, Joel Barlow, and Lemuel Hopkins. [1] Originally the Connecticut Wits , the group formed in the late 18th century as a literary society at Yale College and then assumed a new name, the Hartford Wits.
The Wits, a 17th-century English comedy play by Sir William Davenant; The Wits, a 17th-century collection of comic sketches by Francis Kirkman; the title school of WITS Academy, a 2015 teen sitcom on Nickelodeon
5 Wits is a chain entertainment venue that builds interactive adventure experiences with seven locations in the United States.The experiences have growing similarities with escape rooms, but are essentially meant for replayability, without puzzle solving under a fixed amount of time or difficulty restrictions.
Half-Wits Holiday is a 1947 short subject directed by Jules White starring American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard in his final starring role). It is the 97th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959.
He distinguished between the five wits and the five senses, as can be seen from Sonnet 141. [3] [9] [10] The five wits are derived from the faculties of the soul that Aristotle describes in De Anima. [10] The inward wits are part of medieval psychological thought. Geoffrey Chaucer translated Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy into Middle ...
Native wit—meaning the wits with which one is born—is closely synonymous with common sense. To live by one's wits is to be an opportunist, but not always of the scrupulous kind. To have one's wits about one is to be alert and capable of quick reasoning. To be at the end of one's wits ("I'm at wits' end") is to be immensely frustrated.
He served as Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa, between 1 June 2013, when the term of his predecessor Loyiso Nongxa ended, and 1 January 2021. He is also a former deputy vice-chancellor of the University of Johannesburg. [2] [3] [4] [5]
The Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems - WITS. is an academic conference for information systems that is held annually in December in conjunction with ICIS (the International Conference on Information Systems).