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1 1 The first flush toilets in Washington DC's White House were installed during the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes (1877–1891).

2 2 Xerxes I is thought by some scholars to be the Persian King Achashveros in the Old Testament book of Esther.

3 3 The best known of the Sophists were Protagoras, Gorgias, Antiphon, Hippias, Prodicus, and Thrasymachus.

4 4 Alfred North Whitehead said of Plato's influence, “The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato” (Whitehead and Griffin 1978, p. 39).