A miser /ˈmaɪzər/ is a person who is reluctant to spend money, sometimes to the point of forgoing even basic comforts and some necessities, in order to...
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The Miser (French: L'Avare; pronounced [lavaʁ]; also known by the longer name L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge, meaning The Miser, or the School for Lies)...
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Look up Miser or miser in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A miser is a person who hoards money Miser may also refer to: The Miser, a 1668 play by Molière...
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In psychology, the human mind is considered to be a cognitive miser due to the tendency of humans to think and solve problems in simpler and less effortful...
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cannot as it is part of Heat Miser's territory. They then ask Heat Miser who pretends that he will comply if Snow Miser turns the North Pole over to him in...
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Death and the Miser (also known as Death of the Usurer) is a Northern Renaissance painting produced between 1490 and 1516 by the Dutch artist Hieronymus...
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The Miser is an epithet for the following people: John Elwes (politician) (1714–1789), British MP and noted eccentric, suggested as an inspiration of...
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Astragalus miser, the timber milkvetch, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. A perennial, it is native to western North America, except...
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A Miser Brothers’ Christmas is a 2008 Christmas stop motion spin-off special, based on the characters from the 1974 Rankin-Bass special The Year Without...
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Anachis miser is a species of sea snail in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails. The length of the shell attains 16 mm. This marine species occurs...
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Miseration is a Swedish death metal band formed in 2006. Their lyrics primarily deal with themes of inner struggles and religious conflict.[citation needed]...
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Angelo Poffo (redirect from The Miser (wrestler))
wrestled as "the Masked Miser" (an in-joke about Poffo's real life extreme frugality with money) and managed other wrestlers as "the Miser". He became...
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Peru, Indiana native Brian Miser, also known as The Human Fuse, is a self-taught human cannonball. Featured on the 14th season of America's Got Talent...
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Yossele the Holy Miser was a Jew who lived in the Kazimierz Jewish quarter of Kraków in the 17th century. His apparent stinginess but hidden generosity...
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The Miser's Doom is an 1899 British short film directed by Walter R. Booth. The film seems to be a lost film. A miser is haunted by the ghost of one of...
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The Miser's Heart is a 1911 American short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet. The film was shot in Fort Lee, New...
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The Miser's Legacy is a 1915 American drama film featuring Harry Carey. Gertrude Bambrick Harry Carey Claire McDowell Charles West (as Charles H. West)...
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Monte Carlo integration (redirect from MISER algorithm)
popular MISER routine implements a similar algorithm. The MISER algorithm is based on recursive stratified sampling. This technique aims to reduce the overall...
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Futakuchi-onna (section Origins of the second mouth)
stories, the soon-to-be futakuchi-onna is a wife of a miser and rarely eats. To counteract this, a second mouth mysteriously appears on the back of the woman's...
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Mother Nature (section Greek myth of the seasons)
Besides Heat Miser and Snow Miser, she is also shown to be the mother of Earthquake, Thunder and Lightning, the Tides, and North Wind. In the story after...
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known by the stage name Pete Miser, is an American Hip Hop rapper and producer living in New York City. Originally from Portland, Oregon, Miser is involved...
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Erigeron miser is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names starved daisy or starved fleabane. It is endemic to...
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2023. "Kunal Khemu to play a middle-class miser in 'Kanjoos Makhichoos'". The Times Of India. Archived from the original on 13 March 2023. Retrieved 13...
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Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions (redirect from Misers Bluff)
fuels such as gasoline, and other chemical reactions. This list contains the largest known examples, sorted by date. An unambiguous ranking in order of...
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Miser's Dream is a magic routine where the magician produces coins from the air (and often other places) and drops them into a receptacle they are holding...
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Daniel Dancer (category Misers)
notorious English miser whose life was documented soon after his death and continued in print over the following century. The miser Daniel Dancer was...
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Rubus miser is a Mesoamerican species of brambles in the rose family. It grows in southern Mexico (Oaxaca, Chiapas) and Central America (Guatemala, El...
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Caelostomus miser is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Pterostichinae. It was described by Stefano Ludovico Straneo in 1942. "Caelostomus miser Straneo...
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article lists direct English translations of common Latin phrases. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases. Assertions, such as...
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of nineteen lines in choliambic metre by the Roman poet Catullus, known by its incipit, Miser Catulle. The speaker, somewhat vainly, appeals to himself...
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