things, including purity and the endeavor for perfection. In 1936, the chairman of the organizing committee for the 1936 Olympic Games, Carl Diem, suggested what is now the modern Olympic Torch Relay. The Olympic flame is lit at the ancient site of Olympia by women wearing ancient-style ...
Also known asRemembrance of Things PastorIn Search of Lost Time, the 13-volume-long masterpiece was published in 20th-century France. It is roughly 4,215 pages long and is comprised of an estimated 9,609,000 characters including spaces. An average reader who reads at 300 words per minute ...
Tirana, the capital of Albania, has a lot of things in common with other European capitals – except one. It’s one of the few capitals without a Mcdonald’s, along with Vatican City and Reykjavik, Iceland, and Podgorica, Montenegro. Sour Patch Kids are from the same manufacturer as Swed...
“Digital communication gets in the way of real communication” was the Column Subject of the Year, but I’m also worried that a large part of my memories are of things that I saw on a screen. Like this guy. Are Internet conversations, games, and recordings second-hand experiences? Does...
But that’s the opposite of the truth – the things we call penguins kinda look like them, the real penguins. Those birds, the real penguins, completely died/were killed off some time in 1844. A decade previously, around 1831, people started calling flightless birds in the Southern Hemispher...
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In spite of his high professional reputation, he has been criticized for, among other things, administering electroconvulsive therapy and experimental drugs, including poisons such as curare, to patients and prisoners without their informed consent, and his role in the history of the development of ...
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After a disagreement (in good faith, on both sides) about a point of principle, the blog owner and I parted company and I migrated my content to a new site here. My objectives were, among other things, to treat it as a real subject to be documented and intelligently discussed, rather ...