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  1. my game name is clairvoyant 71 the 71 is the year i was born and a little abut the name 

    Clairvoyant  literally means “clear-sighted” in French, and for nearly 200 years that is what it meant inEnglish as well. It wasn’t until the mid-19th century that it took on the meaning of “having psychic gifts” or“seeing beyond” that it carries today. 
     In the 19th century, the term clairvoyant  was widely used in a medical context. An especially astutedoctor might be able to see a patient’s symptoms and try to make a “clairvoyant diagnosis.” While some ofthese doctors were legitimate and extremely skilled, the term “clairvoyant physician” was generally used todescribe your typical 19th-century quack. Occasionally, these people were brought to justice. The 39thVolume of The Journal of the American Medical Association  contains an article about one such court case,from 1898, in which one can find this rant: “Whether the plaintiff calls herself a medical clairvoyant, or aclairvoyant physician…matters little…it was held that she was not entitled to recover for her services, shehaving no license to practice medicine.” 
     As the meaning of clairvoyant  started to shift, reference books of the time attempted to approximatethe new uses of the word. The 1873 edition of The American Cyclopaedia  describes a clairvoyant assomeone who can see through opaque objects, therefore possessing the power to “read a book unopened,or a letter which is enclosed in a solid wood box.” Today, however, clairvoyant  carries more spiritualconnotations, and such skills would never be cheapened by freak-show displays like divining the text of anunopened book. Rather, the modern clairvoyant prefers only to “see” things that cannot be easily refutedby disbelieving skeptics.

     
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