February 2009
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January 2009
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Jacquard loom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Closet drama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
A closet drama is a play that is not intended to be performed onstage, but read by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group, perhaps in a small room called a closet.
goto10.org » FLOSS+Art →
FLOSS+Art critically reflects on the growing relationship between Free Software ideology, open content and digital art. It provides a view onto the social, political and economic myths and realities linked to this phenomenon.
Supreme Alphabet - Wikipedia, the free... →
(A)—Allah: The Asiatic Blackman [sic]. “Asia” is the body; “attic” is the mind; “black” is the dominant force; “man” is the higher intelligence; a backronym for arm, leg, leg, arm, head; the Father of the Universe; all in all.
Hapax legomenon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) →
The Corpus of Contemporary American English is the first large, balanced corpus of contemporary American English. It is freely available online…The corpus contains more than 385 million words of text, including 20 million words each year from 1990-2008, and it is equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts. (The most recent texts are...
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Gender and Death - Biological differences, Gender... →
44 presidents coming →
Entropa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
“Given the controversial nature of the portrayals of other countries, Czech diplomats expect protests from other countries as well; however, As of 14 January 2009 these have yet to materialize. In fact, the public in Poland appears to be largely in favour of Poland’s portrayal, with 64% considering it ‘spot on’ and only 13% thinking it ‘an insult to Polish...
Fort Thunder Forever -- The Comics Reporter →
“The name proved appropriate, acting as the kind of buffer intended, but also encouraging the same type of isolation and absolution from responsibility that traditionally leads kids to build treehouses or dirt forts. Fort Thunder was a place where the aspects of adult life unnecessary for sustained artistic output could be kept from walking through the door.”
“The urge which drives the decorator to go on filling any resultant void is...”
– E.H. Gombrich, The Sense of Order
BumpList: An email community for the determined →
BumpList is a mailing list aiming to re-examine the culture and rules of online email lists. BumpList only allows for a maximum amount of subscribers so that when a new person subscribes, the first person to subscribe is “bumped”, or unsubscribed from the list. Once subscribed, you can only be unsubscribed if someone else subscribes and “bumps” you off.
Horror vacui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
In visual art, horror vacui (a fear of empty spaces, also known as cenophobia) is the filling of the entire surface of an artwork with ornamental details, figures, shapes, lines and anything else the artist might envision.
OHIO, THE SITE OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN. →
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The Ideophone →
The working definition I adopt for ‘ideophone’ is the following: A marked word vividly evoking a sensory event.
The ensemble and repertoire are both called...
Chemical warfare - Wikipedia, the free... →
Yizkor (Holocaust Memorial) Books →
May God remember the souls of all my martyred relatives, the executed, the butchered, the burned, the drowned, and the hanged….
Mahzor Kavanat ha-Paytan, London, 1771
The Listening to Birds Blog →
“One of the cornerstones of our ontology is the idea that the world is filled with objects and that sounds have their source in these objects. Applying this to the case in question, ‘crex crex’ is a sound made by an object we call a corncrake. The sound is not the bird, rather it is made by the bird. And conventionally the bird is only apprehended as an object through our seeing...
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Fictitious entry - Wikipedia, the free... →
The German-language medical encyclopedia Pschyrembel Klinisches Wörterbuch features an entry on the Steinlaus (Stone Louse, Petrophaga lorioti), a rock-eating animal. The scientific name implies the origin: a creation of the German humorist Loriot. The Pschyrembel entry was removed in 1996, but after reader protests was entered again the next year, with an extended section on the stone...
List of notable hoaxes on Wikipedia →
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Illegal Alien? The Immigration Case of Mohawk... →
It included the Confederacy’s separate declaration of war against Germany during World War I and its efforts during the 1920s to reclaim lands in New York State of which it had been dispossessed after the American Revolution. In the United States, in the early 1920s, Rotinonhsionni faced with forced enfranchisement asserted the citizenship of their nations within the Confederacy, widely rejected...
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“On one level, [Leon Roth] says, “Jewish philosophy” is a racist...”
– H-Net Reviews: Leon Roth. Is There a Jewish Philosophy? Rethinking Fundamentals.
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“[T]he grandfather, or great-grandfather, of a high proportion of our population...”
– The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Meet the world's... →
The earth’s rotation rate changes every day by thousands of nanoseconds, and this is due in a large part to wind. When winds push against mountain ranges, they can either speed up or slow down the rate of spin of the solid ground, transferring that spin into the atmosphere.
Lech Wałęsa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
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Shechita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
The five major forbidden techniques include: Pressing, Pausing, Tearing, Piercing, or Covering.
Autochthon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Autochthon (from Greek αὐτόχθων “indigenous”, from αὐτο− + χθων “earth, soil”), or the anglicized adjective autochthonous or abstract noun authochthony may refer to…
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AEIOU, or A.E.I.O.U., was a symbolic device utilised by the Habsburg emperors. Emperor Frederick III (1415-93), who had a fondness for mythical formulae, habitually signed buildings and objects with the acronym.[1] Frederick did not explain its meaning at the time, though shortly before his death he claimed it stood for Alles Erdreich Ist Österreich Untertan or “All the world is subject to...
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enemy6 →
i made this. you play this. we are enemies.