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  2. List of psychic abilities - Wikipedia

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    Iddhi – Psychic abilities gained through Buddhist meditation. Illusions – The ability to conjure up illusions from one's mind. Inedia —The ability to survive without eating or drinking has resulted in starvation or dehydration in multiple cases. Invisibility – The ability to turn oneself invisible. Levitation or transvection – The ...

  3. List of circus skills - Wikipedia

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    Circus skills are a group of disciplines that have been performed as entertainment in circus, carnival, sideshow, busking, variety, vaudeville, or music hall shows. Most circus skills are still being performed today. Many are also practiced by non-performers as a hobby.

  4. Savant syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Savant skills are usually found in one or more of five major areas: art, memory, arithmetic, musical abilities, and spatial skills. [1] The most common kinds of savants are calendrical savants, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] "human calendars" who can calculate the day of the week for any given date with speed and accuracy, or recall personal memories from any ...

  5. List of fictional tricksters - Wikipedia

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    Kitsune - In Japanese folklore, they are described as "tricksters" with no care for the concept of right or wrong. Kuma Lisa - A fox and trickster figure in Bulgarian folklore. Loki - A cunning, shape-shifting god, sometimes benefactor and sometimes foe to the gods of Asgard. Famous as a catalyst for Ragnarök.

  6. Polymath - Wikipedia

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    Franklin was a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer and political philosopher. He further attained a legacy as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A polymath ( Greek: πολυμαθής, romanized : polymathēs, lit. 'having learned much'; Latin: homo universalis, lit. 'universal human') [ 1] or polyhistor ...

  7. Aptitude - Wikipedia

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    Aptitude. An aptitude is a component of a competence to do a certain kind of work at a certain level. Outstanding aptitude can be considered " talent ", or " skill ". Aptitude is inborn potential to perform certain kinds of activities, whether physical or mental, and whether developed or undeveloped. Aptitude is often contrasted with skills and ...

  8. Alex Rider (character) - Wikipedia

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    Alexander "Alex" Rider is a title character and the protagonist of the Alex Rider novel series by British author Anthony Horowitz. He has also been featured in three short stories written by Horowitz based in the same canon as the series; Secret Weapon, Christmas at Gunpoint and Incident in Nice . Alex is a boy who works for MI6, the British ...

  9. T-shaped skills - Wikipedia

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    The concept of T-shaped skills, or T-shaped persons is a metaphor used in job recruitment to describe the abilities of persons in the workforce.The vertical bar on the letter T represents the depth of related skills and expertise in a single field, whereas the horizontal bar is the ability to collaborate across disciplines with experts in other areas and to apply knowledge in areas of ...