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Philosophy considers such general and fundamental questions as the sorts of things that exist, the nature and scope of knowledge and moral judgments, and the nature of mind and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing these questions (such as mysticism or mythology) by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on reasoned argument. The word philosophy is of Ancient Greek origin: φιλοσοφία (philosophía), meaning "love of knowledge", "love of wisdom".

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• The construction of the National Ignition Facility , a laser-based inertial confinement fusion research device at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, is announced to have been completed.
• The Pakistan Rangers and Elite Police retake a police academy in Lahore which had been seized by gunmen.
• Coalition for a European Montenegro wins an absolute majority in the parliamentary election , securing Milo Đukanović (pictured) a sixth term as the Prime Minister of Montenegro.
• Researchers from the University of Toronto report the discovery of GhostNet , a China-based electronic spying operation which has infiltrated at least 1,295 computers in 103 countries.
• In a referendum , Mayotte chooses to become an overseas department of France.
• A stampede kills at least 22 people and injures at least 130 more during a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

April 1: Palm Sunday in Western Christianity (2007); Independence Day in San Serriffe (1967); (削除) April Fools' Day (削除ここまで); Assyrian New Year.

• 1318 - The Scottish captured Berwick upon Tweed from the English.
• 1957 - About eight million viewers watched a report on the BBC television programme Panorama about spaghetti trees .
• 1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon (pictured) signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act *into law, banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States.
• 1997 - Cartoonists of popularly syndicated comic strips swapped cartoons for the day.
• 2006 - Five British policing agencies merged to form the Serious Organised Crime Agency.

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