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Ex4t of ("Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman" by Richard Feynman, 1985)
> "Why did I enjoy it? ... piddling around with the wobbling plate."
Ex4t of ("A Backward Glance" by Edith Wharton)
posted by := Donna Campbell
Ex4t of ("Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution" by Russell Bonduriansky and Troy Day)
Copy of 1909 public domain book "Field and Woodland Plants, by William S. Furneaux, Illustrated by Patten Wilson"
on := 2021-04-21
on := 2021-05-05
// consisting of:
// Review of ("The Book About Delicious and Healthy Food", 1939, USSR)
// Review of ("The Soviet Diet Cookbook: Exploring life, culture and history - one recipe at a time" by Anna Kharzeeva, 2020)
on := 1860-07-nn
by := 2021-04-01
on := 2021-08-09
on := 2021-08-05
review title := "The French Connection: Urban Gothic"
review date := 1971-10-30
Kael, by citing the then-recent movies ...
Bananas
Born to Win
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Cry Uncle
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Greetings
Harry Kellerman
Klute
Little Murders
Midnight Cowboy
No Way to Treat a Lady
Shaft
The Anderson Tapes
The Landlord
The Owl and the Pussycat
The Panic in Needle Park
The Steagle
Where’s Poppa?
... argues that "... The city of New York has ... given movies a new spirit of nervous, anxious hopelessness, which is the true spirit of New York. ... This right-wing, left-wing, take-your-choice cynicism is total commercial opportunism passing itself off as an Existential view. ... to make the cops-and-robbers melodrama superficially modern by making it meaningless ..."
review title := "1975 film captures the heartbreaking transition from countercultural free spirits to corporate office drones"
review date := 2023-04-25
"Where The Sidewalk Ends - Meet the Rednecks Running a Mutual Aid Auto Repair Shop in Alabama"
"... the Automotive Free Clinic is a pay-what-you-can auto repair shop in Prattville, just outside Montgomery."
"... mentioned that Hank Williams’ grave was just up the road ..."
by := Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein
issue := "Issue 6, Winter 2022"
"Does the symbol @ have a name? If not, any suggestions? | Notes and Queries | guardian.co.uk"
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Adalbert_Stifter // 'The excessive detail for which Hebbel derided the novel [Der Nachsommer, 1857], is, according to Christine Oertel Sjögren, "precisely a source of fascination for modern scholars, who seize upon the number of objects as the distinguishing characteristic of this novel and accord it high esteem because of the very significance of the 'things' in it."'
Against_Method // "Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge is a 1975 book by Austrian-born philosopher of science Paul Feyerabend. The central thesis of the book is that science should become an anarchic enterprise. In the context of the work, the term "anarchy" refers to epistemological anarchy, which does not remain within one single prescriptive scientific method on the grounds that any such method would restrict scientific progress."
Alexandra_Palace // "Intended as "The People's Palace" and often referred to as "Ally Pally", its purpose was to serve as a public centre of recreation, education and entertainment; North London's counterpart to the Crystal Palace in South London."
American_Economic_Liberties_Project // "founded in February 2020 and is led by Sarah Miller, a former Department of the Treasury official. The AELP is funded in part by the Omidyar Network which is funded by billionaire Pierre Omidyar. It is considered an important organization in the New Brandeis movement, which focuses on modern antitrust efforts."
Andrew_Marshall_(foreign_policy_strategist) // "director of the United States Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment from 1973 to 2005" [actually January 2, 2015, i.e. 41 years holding one office, vs. J. Edgar Hoover's 37 years]
Anthony_Janszoon_van_Salee // "(1607–1676) was an original settler of and prominent landholder, merchant, and creditor in New Netherland. Van Salee, commonly known as Anthony the Turk, is believed to have been the son of Jan Janszoon, a Dutch pirate captain who lead the Salé Rovers after his capture by Barbary corsairs. Van Salee and his first wife Grietse were the subject of considerable scandal and litigation in New Amsterdam, leading to his role in the establishment of Gravesend and New Utrecht, as well as other settlements on Long Island."
Archduke_Ludwig_Salvator_of_Austria // "Die Balearen. In Wort und Bild geschildert (The Balearic Islands, portrayed in words and images); the total work encompasses seven separate volumes extending to approximately 6000 pages. For their first two volumes he was awarded the gold medal of the Paris World Exhibition of 1878. This monograph contains descriptions of animals, plants, meteorology, history, folklore, architecture, landscape descriptions and also detailed descriptions of the population, their customs, songs and poems."
Art_Workers%27_Guild and Henry_Wilson_(architect) // "From about 1895 Wilson designed metalwork, church plate and furnishings, jewellery and sculpture, becoming a gifted craftsman in the Arts and Crafts Movement."
Asgard_(yacht) // "The yacht and related artefacts are now on permanent display in an exhibition titled ' Asgard: The 1914 Howth Gun Running Vessel Conserved'."
Bagh-Chal // "strategic, two-player board game that originated in Nepal. The game is asymmetric in that one player controls four tigers and the other player controls up to twenty goats."
Bartholomew_Roberts // "the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy (measured by vessels captured), taking over 470 prizes (ships) in his career."
Blackout_cake // "Blackout cake, sometimes called Brooklyn Blackout cake, is a chocolate cake filled with chocolate pudding and topped with chocolate cake crumbs. It was invented during World War II by a Brooklyn bakery chain named Ebinger's, in recognition of the mandatory blackouts to protect the Brooklyn Navy Yard."
Bohemian_F.C. // in Dublin
Boltysh_crater // "a buried impact crater in the Kirovohrad Oblast of Ukraine ... The crater is 24 kilometres (15 mi) in diameter and ... less than 1 million years younger than Chicxulub crater in Mexico ..."
Brambly_Hedge // "the adventures of a community of mice ... There are no unkind characters or predators."
Bulverism // "a fallacy of irrelevance. One accuses an argument of being wrong on the basis of the arguer's identity or motive ..."
Carmen_Dragon // "He attended Antioch High School and, while a student there, composed a song for the school. Forward, Antioch! was performed between acts of a school play on February 28, 1930. ... He played himself in the 1979 film The In-Laws as the conductor of the fictitious Paramus Philharmonic Orchestra. ... Son, Daryl Dragon (August 27, 1942 - January 2, 2019) of the 1970s pop music duo Captain & Tennille"
Church_of_St_Mary_the_Virgin,_Masham // "The church stands on the site of an Anglo-Saxon place of worship with some the original Saxon stones incorporated into the current church. Archaeology has determined that the site has been used as a place of Christian worship for over 1,400 years."
Cinque_Ports // A group of UK towns; 'The confederation is therefore sometimes referred to as "The five Cinque Ports and two Ancient Towns".'
Clipperton_Island // French desert (i.e. uninhabited) island 1,080 km (583 nmi) south-west of the Mexican mainland. See also the Revillagigedo_Islands of Mexico, 945 km (510 nmi) away.
Connie_Converse // "In 1974, Converse left her family home in search of a new life and was not seen or heard from again. Despite the obscurity of her music during her lifetime, her work gained posthumous recognition after it was featured on a 2004 radio show."
Council_Bluffs,_Iowa // "Council Bluffs (rather than Omaha) was designated by President Abraham Lincoln as being the official starting point of the transcontinental railroad which was completed in 1869. The official "Mile 0" start is at 21st Street and 9th Avenue which is now marked by a gold spike that was used for the promotion of the movie Union Pacific ... Excellent vistas can be had from KOIL Point at Fairmont Park, the Lincoln Monument, Kirn Park, and the Lewis and Clark Monument."
Coxey's_Army // "Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers ... They marched on Washington, D.C. in 1894 ... Officially named the Army of the Commonwealth in Christ, its nickname came from its leader and was more enduring. It was the first significant popular protest march on Washington, and the expression "Enough food to feed Coxey's Army" originates from this march."
David_Bawden // "In 1990 he was elected pope ..."
Death_poem // "The practice of writing a death poem has its origins in Zen Buddhism. It is a concept or worldview derived from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence (三法印, sanbōin), specifically that the material world is transient and impermanent (無常, mujō), that attachment to it causes suffering (苦, ku), and ultimately all reality is an emptiness or absence of self-nature (空, kū)."
Earl_of_Selkirk // "This remainder is so unusual that a Scottish country dance -- Hamilton House -- was created around it."
Edwin_Lutyens // "The "Lutyens–Jekyll" garden had hardy shrubbery and herbaceous plantings within a structural architecture of stairs and balustraded terraces. This combined style, of the formal with the informal, exemplified by brick paths, herbaceous borders, and with plants such as lilies, lupins, delphiniums and lavender, was in contrast to the formal bedding schemes favoured by the previous generation in the 19th century. This "natural" style was to define the "English garden" until modern times."
Erwin_Kreuz // "mistaking the city of Bangor, Maine for San Francisco, California"
Evander_Berry_Wall // "famous for his extravagantly refined look and was crowned "King of the Dudes" in the 1880s."
F%C3%AAte_galante // "(courtship party) is a category of painting specially created by the French Academy in 1717 to describe Antoine Watteau's (1684–1721) variations on the theme of the fête champêtre, which featured figures in ball dress or masquerade costumes disporting themselves amorously in parkland settings. When Watteau applied to join the French academy in 1717, there was no suitable category for his works, so the academy simply created one rather than reject his application."
Follow_the_Boys_(1944_film) // "... an all-star cast morale booster to entertain the troops abroad and the civilians at home."
Hart's_Rules // "Hart's Rules has been revised and republished under different titles, including The Oxford Guide to Style (2002), The Oxford Style Manual (2003, also including The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors of 2000) ..."
Heinrich_Lossow // "(10 March 1843 in Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria – 19 May 1897 in Schleissheim, Austria-Hungary) was a German genre painter and illustrator."
Herne_the_Hunter // "In English folklore, Herne the Hunter is a ghost associated with Windsor Forest and Great Park in the English county of Berkshire. He is said to have antlers growing from his head, ride a horse, torment cattle, and rattle chains. The earliest mention of Herne comes from William Shakespeare's 1597 play The Merry Wives of Windsor, and it is impossible to know how accurately or to what degree Shakespeare may have incorporated a real local legend into his work, though there have been several later attempts to connect Herne to historical figures, pagan deities, or ancient archetypes."
Hong_Xiuquan // "In 1847, Hong Xiuquan was invited by a member of the Chinese Union to study with the American Southern Baptist missionary, Reverend Issachar Jacox Roberts. ... [Hong] presented his followers with the Bible as a vision of the authentic religion that had existed in ancient China before it was wiped out by Confucius and the imperial system. ... Hong ruled by making frequent proclamations from his Heavenly Palace ..."
Hugh_O'Connor_(filmmaker) // "He was known for developing cutting-edge technology in his films, including the five-camera, five-screen film In the Labyrinth, one of the highlights of Montreal's Expo 67. The film split elements across five screens and also combined them for a mosaic of a single image. This inspired Canadian filmmaker Norman Jewison to apply similar techniques to The Thomas Crown Affair. ... Ison eventually pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison; he served one year."
I_Am_Cuba // 1964; "it was not received well by either the Russian or Cuban public[1] and was almost completely forgotten until it was re-discovered by filmmakers in the United States thirty years later."
Indian_Pacific // "Its route includes the world's longest straight stretch of railway track, a 478-kilometre (297 mi) stretch ..."
Isidore_of_Kiev // "He managed to escape the carnage by dressing up a dead body in his cardinal's robes. While the Turks were cutting off its head and parading it through the streets, the real cardinal was shipped off to Asia Minor with a number of insignificant prisoners, as a slave and later found safety in Crete."
IYOV // 2015 Ukrainian opera; "The pianist and singers use a wide range of percussion instruments such as snare drum, marimba and timpani sticks, triangle, ride cymbal. They use coins, keys, fingers and nails for playing on the strings and the body of the grand piano."
Jahbulon // 'Non-Masonic authors have alleged that "Jahbulon" is a Masonic name for God, and even the name of a unique "Masonic god," despite Freemasonry's official claim that "There is no separate Masonic God," ...'
Jevons_paradox // "occurs when technological progress or government policy increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the falling cost of use increases its demand, increasing, rather than reducing, resource use."
John_18:38 // 'The exact intention of Pilate has been subject to debate among scholars, with no firm conclusion. His statement may have been made in jest that the trial was a mockery, or he may have sincerely intended to reflect on the philosophical position that truth is hard to ascertain. The Greek word rendered as "truth" in English translations is "aletheia", which literally means "unconcealed" and connotes sincerity in addition to factuality and reality; whereas Jesus' use of the term appears to indicate absolute, revealed knowledge. ... Some commentators have seen significance in the fact that the anagram "Est vir qui adest" ("It is the man who is before you") can be made from the letters of "Quid est veritas".'
John_Atkinson_Grimshaw // "Four of his children, Arthur E. Grimshaw (1864–1913), Louis H. Grimshaw (1870–1944), Wilfred Grimshaw (1871–1937), and Elaine Grimshaw (1877–1970) also became painters."
John_Cleves_Symmes_Jr. // "best known for his 1818 variant of the Hollow Earth theory, which introduced the concept of openings to the inner world at the poles."
John_Dee // "Dee eventually left Elizabeth's service and went on a quest for additional knowledge in the deeper realms of the occult and supernatural. He aligned himself with several individuals who may have been charlatans, travelled through Europe and was accused of spying for the English crown. Upon his return to England, he found his home and library vandalised. He eventually returned to the Queen's service, but was turned away when she was succeeded by James I. He died in poverty in London and his gravesite is unknown."
John_Hawkwood // "For example, the Florentine chronicler Filippo Villani claimed that the reason his last name was "Hawkwood" was because when his mother was in labour she demanded to give birth in a forest."
Kaikhosru_Shapurji_Sorabji // "(born Leon Dudley Sorabji; 14 August 1892 – 15 October 1988) was an English composer, music critic, pianist and writer ..."
Laura_Secord // "Canadian heroine of the War of 1812. She is known for having walked 20 miles (32 km) out of American-occupied territory in 1813 to warn British forces of an impending American attack."
Law_of_attraction // "Law of attraction may refer to: Electromagnetic attraction ... Newton's law of universal gravitation ... Law of attraction (New Thought), a pseudoscientific belief in New Thought ..."
Letterist_International // "a Paris-based collective of radical artists and cultural theorists between 1952 and 1957. It was created by Guy Debord and Gil J. Wolman rejoined by Jean-Louis Brau and Serge Berna as a schism from Isidore Isou's Lettrist group. The group went on to join others in forming the Situationist International ..."
Lindy_effect // "a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to their current age. Thus, the Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, the longer its remaining life expectancy. ... named after Lindy's delicatessen in New York City, where the concept was informally theorized by comedians."
Little_Red_School_House // In NYC: "The school was founded in 1921 as a joint private-public educational experiment by reformer Elisabeth Irwin, and was well known as a testing ground for new concepts in education. ... In 1932, ... within the New York City public school system, William O'Shea, the superintendent of schools -- who had previously tried to close down the program because of its progressive ideas -- announced that the school would be eliminated because of a budgetary crisis. Parents raised sufficient funds to pay for salaries, but O'Shea refused to accept the money, and the school was forced to turn to private funding. It moved to a building on Bleecker Street provided at no cost by the First Presbyterian Church and began a new life as an independent school."
Lord_Lyon_King_of_Arms // "He also registers and records new clan tartans, upon request from the clan chief."
Manchester_Baby // "In 2008, an original panoramic photograph of the entire machine was discovered at the University of Manchester." See https://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2008/06/17/210608_computer_timeline_feature.shtml for the photo.
McCaig's_Tower // "a prominent tower on Battery Hill overlooking the town of Oban in Argyll, Scotland. ... The tower was erected between 1897 and [1902]"
Me_and_My_Girl // 'The musical had a successful original run in the West End in 1937, and was turned into a film in 1939, titled The Lambeth Walk, named after one of the show's songs. "The Lambeth Walk" was also the subject of a news story in The Times of October 1938: "While dictators rage and statesmen talk, all Europe dances – to The Lambeth Walk."'
Monolatry // "the belief in the existence of many gods, but with the consistent worship of only one deity."
Mundaneum // "The Mundaneum was an institution which aimed to gather together all the world's knowledge and classify it according to a system called the Universal Decimal Classification. It was developed at the turn of the 20th century by Belgian lawyers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine. The Mundaneum has been identified as a milestone in the history of data collection and management ..."
Musaeum_Clausum // "a tract written by Sir Thomas Browne which was first published posthumously in 1684. The tract contains short sentence descriptions of supposed, rumoured or lost books, pictures, and objects."
Nasadiya_Sukta // 'Carl Sagan quoted it in discussing India's "tradition of skeptical questioning and unselfconscious humility before the great cosmic mysteries."'
Night_of_100_Stars // "an all-star variety television special celebrating the centennial of the Actors' Fund of America, airing in 1982."
Onomasticon_of_Amenope // "It is an administrative/literary categorization of 610 entities organized hierarchically, rather than a list of words (glossary)."
Operation_Atlantis // "Mistaking them for robbers, its captain ordered the Atlanteans: leave or be shot."
Ophite_Diagrams // "ritual and esoteric diagrams used by the Ophite sect of Gnosticism, who revered the serpent from the Garden of Eden as a symbol of wisdom, which the malevolent Demiurge tried to hide from Adam and Eve."
Paracelsus // "Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance."
Paramahansa_Yogananda // "... considered by yoga experts as the "Father of Yoga in the West". He lived his last 32 years in America. Yogananda was the first major Indian teacher to settle in America, and the first prominent Indian to be hosted in the White House (by President Calvin Coolidge in 1927); his early acclaim led to him being dubbed "the 20th century's first superstar guru" by the Los Angeles Times."
Pfeilstorch // "a stork that gets injured by an arrow while wintering in Africa and returns to Europe with the arrow stuck in its body. As of 2003, about 25 Pfeilstörche have been documented in Germany."
Pheasant_Island // "uninhabited river island in the Bidasoa river, located between France and Spain, whose administration alternates between the two nations."
Pipedown_(campaign) // "opposes the practice of playing background music (piped music) in public establishments"
P._J._Clarke's // "a saloon, established 1884. It occupies a building located at 915 Third Avenue on the northwest corner of East 55th Street in Manhattan. It has a second location at 44 West 63rd Street on the southeast corner of Columbus Avenue."
Planetary_hours // "an ancient system in which one of the seven classical planets is given rulership over each day and various parts of the day. Developed in Hellenistic astrology, it has possible roots in older Babylonian astrology, and it is the origin of the names of the days of the week ..."
Politique // "During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, politiques were those in a position of power who put the success and well-being of their state above all else. During the Wars of Religion, this included moderates of both religious faiths (Huguenots and Catholics) who held that only the restoration of a strong monarchy could save France from total collapse, as rulers would often overlook religious differences in order to have a strong country. References to individuals as politique often had a pejorative connotation of moral or religious indifference."
Portrait_of_a_Clergyman_(Helmich_van_Thweenhuysen_II) // "long attributed to Rembrandt"
Protestant_Revolution_(Maryland) // "of 1689 ... took place in the Province of Maryland when Puritans, by then a substantial majority in the colony, revolted against the proprietary government ..."
Pundit_(explorer) // "The term pundit was used in the second half of the 19th century to denote native Indian surveyors used by the British to secretly explore regions north of British India. The Pundit was the code-name for one of the first native explorers, Nain Singh, who was originally a schoolteacher (or pundit). His accomplishments were so remarkable that the whole group of around twenty native explorers became known as the Pundits."
Pytheas // "first known scientific visitor to see and describe the Arctic, polar ice, and the Celtic and Germanic tribes. He is also the first person on record to describe the midnight sun."
Raymond_Loewy // "The press referred to Loewy as The Man Who Shaped America, The Father of Streamlining and The Father of Industrial Design."
Republic_of_Indian_Stream // "The Republic of Indian Stream or Indian Stream Republic was an unrecognized republic in North America, along the section of the border that divides the current Canadian province of Quebec from the U.S. state of New Hampshire. It existed from July 9, 1832, to August 5, 1835. Described as "Indian Stream Territory, so-called" by the United States census-taker in 1830, the area was named for Indian Stream, a small watercourse. It had an organized elected government and constitution and served about three hundred citizens."
Rhizome_(organization) // 'Artist and curator Mark Tribe founded Rhizome as an email list in 1996 ... By August, Rhizome had launched its website, which by 1998 had developed a significant readership within the Internet art community. Originally designated a business, Rhizome became a nonprofit organization in 1998, switching to the domain-name suffix ".org.". ... Tribe explains "I thought of it as Artforum meets AltaVista ..."'
Richard_O'Brien // The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Phineas and Ferb (2007–2015)
Ryukyu_Kingdom // cites https://www.tofugu.com/japan/ryukyu-dynasty-japan/
Saint_Monday // "is the tradition of absenteeism on a Monday."
Sch%C3%B6llenen_Gorge // "Enclosed by sheer granite walls, its road and railway require several spectacular bridges and tunnels, of which the most famous is a stone bridge known as the Teufelsbrücke ("Devil's Bridge")."
Semifreddo // "a class of frozen desserts similar to ice cream."
Slate_Star_Codex // "Alexander suggested that polls should include a question with an absurd answer as one of the options, so anyone choosing that option could be weeded out as a troll."
Spider_(pulp_fiction) // "... considerably more brutal and violent than other pulp heroes ... Notable fans of The Spider include Charles M. Schulz"
Sweet_Smell_of_Success // 1957 US film noir #film #nyc #journalism
The_Battle_of_Alexander_at_Issus // "one of the most famous examples of the type of Renaissance landscape painting known as the world landscape, which here reaches an unprecedented grandeur."
The_Big_Show_(NBC_Radio) // 'Hosted by stage actress Tallulah Bankhead, The Big Show began November 5, 1950, on NBC with a stellar line-up of guests ... NBC went full-throttle in an attempt to keep radio from its predicted death, and The Big Show was thought to be a key to that effort. Newsweek stated it was "the biggest bang to hit radio since TV started."'
The_Co-operative_Bank // "According to the Bank's 2019 accounts, the holding company is owned by hedge funds and other asset management companies."
The_House_of_Fame // "Middle English poem by Geoffrey Chaucer ... he meditates on the nature of fame and the trustworthiness of recorded renown. This allows Chaucer to contemplate the role of the poet in reporting the lives of the famous and how much truth there is in what can be told."
The_Maxims_of_Ptahhotep // "The Instructions of Ptahhotep addresses various virtues that are necessary to live a good life and how to live accordingly to Maat, which was an important part of the Egyptian culture."
The_Perfumed_Garden // "The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight (Arabic: ﺎﻟﺭﻮﺿ ﺎﻠﻋﺎﻃﺭ ﻒﻳ ﻥﺰﻫﺓ ﺎﻠﺧﺎﻃﺭ Al-rawḍ al-ʿāṭir fī nuzhaẗ al-ḫāṭir) is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nefzawi, also known simply as "Nefzawi"."
The_Quarrel_of_Oberon_and_Titania // "Painted in 1849, it depicts the scene from William Shakespeare's comedy play A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Three_teachings // "In Chinese philosophy, the three teachings (Chinese: 三教; pinyin: sān jiào; Vietnamese: tam giáo, Chữ Hán: 三>教) are Confucianism, Taoism, and Chinese Buddhism considered as a harmonious aggregate."
Tindh%C3%B3lmur // "Tindhólmur as seen from the southeast"
Trellick_Tower and Balfron_Tower // by Goldfinger, each has a separate service tower
Truffle_oil // avoid
Utsuro-bune // "He also found out that most legends similar to that of the Utsuro-bune sound alike: Someone finds a strange girl or young woman inside a circular boat and rescues the stranded or sends her back to the ocean."
Valonia_ventricosa // "also known as bubble algae, sea grape or sailor's eyeballs ... It is one of the largest known unicellular organisms, if not the largest."
Variety_Girl // "1947 American musical comedy film"
William_de_la_Pole_(Chief_Baron_of_the_Exchequer) // "(died 21 June 1366) was a wealthy wool merchant from Kingston upon Hull"
William_Morris // "(24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, fantasy writer, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he helped win acceptance of socialism in fin de siècle Great Britain."
Wolfgang_Werl%C3%A9_and_Manfred_Lauber // "In 2009, Werlé and Lauber again received international media coverage when Werlé attempted to remove his name from foreign media sources, including the English language Wikipedia, citing German privacy laws."
Sydney_Smith // "... [I] remained long enough in Edinburgh to edit the first number (October 1802) of the Edinburgh Review. The motto I proposed for the Review was Tenui musam meditamur avena. -- 'We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal.' But this was too near the truth to be admitted, and so we took our present grave motto [Judex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur (the judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted) -- Publilius Syrus, Sententiae] from Publius Syrus, of whom, none of us, I am sure, had ever read a single line."
Publilius_Syrus // "Publilius' name, due to the palatalization of 'l' between two 'i's in the Early Middle Ages, is often presented by manuscripts (and some printed editions) in corrupt form as 'Publius'"
Levant_Crisis // "The Levant Crisis, also known as the Damascus Crisis, the Syrian Crisis, or the Levant Confrontation, was a military confrontation that took place between British and French forces in Syria in May 1945 soon after the end of World War II in Europe. French troops had tried to quell nationalist protests in Syria at the continued occupation of the Levant by France. With heavy Syrian casualties, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill opposed French action and sent British forces into Syria from Transjordan with orders to fire on the French if necessary. ... British armoured cars and troops then reached the Syrian capital of Damascus, following which the French were escorted and confined to their barracks."
// ... which came just five years after ...
Franco-British_Union // "[De Gaulle] called Reynaud and told him that the British prime minister proposed a union between their countries, an idea which Reynaud immediately supported. ... The final "Declaration of Union" approved by the British War Cabinet ..."
Erewhon // "The [1872] novel is one of the first to explore ideas of artificial intelligence, as influenced by Darwin's recently published On the Origin of Species (1859) and the machines developed out of the Industrial Revolution (late 18th to early 19th centuries). Specifically, it concerns itself, in the three-chapter "Book of the Machines", with the potentially dangerous ideas of machine consciousness and self-replicating machines."
Player_Piano_(novel) // "Player Piano is the first novel by American writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr., published in 1952. The novel depicts a dystopia of automation ..."
Deep_time // "The philosophical concept of geological time was developed in the 18th century by Scottish geologist James Hutton (1726–1797); his "system of the habitable Earth" was a deistic mechanism keeping the world eternally suitable for humans."
Hutton's_Unconformity // "For Hutton, such an unconformity provided evidence for his Plutonist theories of uniformitarianism and the age of Earth. An unconformity is any break in the normal progression of sedimentary deposits, which are laid the newer on top of the older."
Siccar_Point // "a rocky promontory in the county of Berwickshire on the east coast of Scotland. It is famous in the history of geology for Hutton's Unconformity found in 1788 ... this locality was included by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) as the first of 100 'geological heritage sites' around the world in a listing published in October 2022."
Parrondo%27s_paradox // "Parrondo devised the paradox in connection with his analysis of the Brownian ratchet, a thought experiment about a machine that can purportedly extract energy from random heat motions popularized by physicist Richard Feynman. However, the paradox disappears when rigorously analyzed."
// This Wikipedia article also quotes Derek Abbott (excerpted here): "... 'I have had one mathematician complain that the games always were obvious to him and hence we should not use the word "paradox." He is either a genius or never really understood it in the first place. In either case, it is not worth arguing with people like that.'"
161_Maiden_Lane // "The building leans 3 inches (76 mm) to the north as a result of the method used to construct its foundation."
// cf. the better-known, because already occupied, Millennium_Tower_(San_Francisco)
Trap_street // 'Trap streets are not copyrightable under the federal law of the United States. In Nester's Map & Guide Corp. v. Hagstrom Map Co. (1992), a United States federal court found that copyright traps are not themselves protectable by copyright. There, the court stated: "[t]o treat 'false' facts interspersed among actual facts and represented as actual facts as fiction would mean that no one could ever reproduce or copy actual facts without risk of reproducing a false fact and thereby violating a copyright ... If such were the law, information could never be reproduced or widely disseminated."'
Agloe,_New_York // "In the 1950s, a general store was built at the intersection on the map, and was given the name Agloe General Store because the name was on the Esso maps. ... Eventually, the store went out of business ..."
Basic_English // "an English-based controlled language created by the linguist and philosopher Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language, and as an aid for teaching English as a second language. Basic English is, in essence, a simplified subset of regular English."
English-language_spelling_reform // "From the 16th century AD onward, English writers who were scholars of Greek and Latin literature tried to link English words to their Graeco-Latin counterparts. They did this by adding silent letters to make the real or imagined links more obvious. Thus det became debt (to link it to Latin debitum), dout became doubt (to link it to Latin dubitare), sissors became scissors and sithe became scythe (as they were wrongly thought to come from Latin scindere), iland became island (as it was wrongly thought to come from Latin insula) ..."
E-Prime // "denotes a restricted form of English in which authors avoid all forms of the verb to be. ... The advocates of E-Prime have not proven that it is easier to exclude the verb to be than to eliminate only the is-of-identity and the is-of-predication."
George_Bernard_Shaw // "He favoured archaic spellings such as "shew" for "show"; he dropped the "u" in words like "honour" and "favour"; and wherever possible he rejected the apostrophe in contractions such as "won't" or "that's". In his will, Shaw ordered that, after some specified legacies, his remaining assets were to form a trust to pay for fundamental reform of the English alphabet into a phonetic version of forty letters."
Homograph // 'a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning. However, some dictionaries insist that the words must also be pronounced differently, while the Oxford English Dictionary says that the words should also be of "different origin". ... Venn diagram showing the relationships between homographs and related linguistic concepts'
Homonym // "words which are either homographs -- words that have the same spelling (regardless of pronunciation) -- or homophones -- words that have the same pronunciation (regardless of spelling) --, or both. ... A more restrictive and technical definition requires that homonyms be simultaneously homographs and homophones -- that is to say they have identical spelling and pronunciation, but with different meanings. ... Euler diagram showing the relationships between homonyms and related linguistic concepts."
Homophonic_translation // cf. "wreck a nice beach"
Initial-stress-derived_noun // "a phonological process in English that moves stress to the first syllable of verbs when they are used as nouns or adjectives."
Learning_English_(version_of_English) // "a controlled version of the English language first used on 19 October 1959, and still presented daily by the United States broadcasting service Voice of America (VOA). World news and other programs are read one-third slower than regular VOA English. Reporters avoid idioms and use a core vocabulary of about 1500 words ..."
Mondegreen // "a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase in a way that gives it a new meaning. Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to hear a lyric clearly, substitutes words that sound similar and make some kind of sense."
Simplified_Technical_English // "ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English (STE) is an international specification for the preparation of technical documentation in a controlled language. STE as a controlled language was developed in the early 1980s (as AECMA Simplified English) to help second-language speakers of English to unambiguously understand technical manuals written in English."
Thing_Explainer // "Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words is a 2015 illustrated non-fiction book created by Randall Munroe, in which the author attempts to explain various complex subjects using only the 1,000 most common English words."
Uncleftish_Beholding // "Written [Poul Anderson, 1989] as a demonstration of linguistic purism in English, the work explains atomic theory using Germanic words almost exclusively and coining new words when necessary; many of these new words have cognates in modern German ..."
Byzantine_calendar // "The calendar was based on the Julian calendar, except that the year started on 1 September and the year number used an Anno Mundi epoch ..."
Coptic_calendar // "also called the Alexandrian calendar, is a liturgical calendar used by the Coptic Orthodox Church and also used by the farming populace in Egypt. It was used for fiscal purposes in Egypt until [1875] ... This calendar is based on the ancient Egyptian calendar. ... To distinguish it from the Ancient Egyptian calendar, which remained in use by some astronomers until medieval times, this reformed calendar is known as the Coptic or Alexandrian calendar. Its years and months coincide with those of the Ethiopian calendar but have different numbers and names."
Era_of_the_Martyrs // "a method of numbering years based on the reign of Roman Emperor Diocletian who instigated the last major persecution against Christians in the Empire. ... not the only one used by early Christians. Western Christians were aware of it but did not use it."
Julian_day // "The Julian day is the continuous count of days since the beginning of the Julian period"
List_of_non-standard_dates // "Although the leap day was omitted in February 1700, the Great Northern War began later that year, diverting the attention of the Swedes from their calendar so that they did not omit leap days on the next two occasions; 1704 and 1708 remained leap years."
Tibb%27s_Eve // "... if something was said to happen on Tibb's Eve, it was unlikely it would ever happen."
// presumably unrelated to the English term:
Bia%C5%82y_S%C5%82o%C5%84 // "located at remote area on the peak of Pip Ivan in the Chornohora range of the Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine. Currently the structure is used as a mountain shelter ..."
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