things being on this list does not necessarily mean i like them, it might mean the opposite, or neither
- 1996_shootdown_of_Brothers_to_the_Rescue_aircraft: - incident involving cuba
- Australian_Strategic_Policy_Institute - sock puppet for big tech, defense contractors, and foreign governments
- Box-drawing_characters - characters used to draw simple gui interfaces
- Cenotaph - an empty grave, tomb, or monument to honor a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere
- Chevalière_d’Éon: - french diplomat, spy, and soldier who had some gender stuff going on
- Coptic_Orthodox_Church - Egyptian branch of the orthodox church split during a schism in 451ad
- Copula_(linguistics) - a word or phrase that links the subject of a sentence to a subject complement
- Curie_temperature - the temperature above which certain materials lose their permanent magnetic properties
- Democratic_centralism: - members discuss and vote on policies & leaders but then decisions are binding on all members
- Diderot_effect: - occurs when obtaining an exceptional new possession leads to a spiral of consumption
- Endospore: - a bacterium’s stripped-down, dormant form which it can reduce itself to and regenerate from later
- Good_tsar,_bad_boyars - crediting the head of state for positives and blaming lower-level bureaucrats for negatives
- Hygge - word in Danish and Norwegian that describes a cozy, contented mood evoked by comfort and conviviality
- Ice-nine - fictional polymorph of ice which instead of melting at 0°C (32°F) melts at 45.8°C (114.4°F)
- Ishikawa_diagram: - a type of causal diagram which outlines potential causes of a specific event
- Know_Nothing: - usian nativist political movement from the 1840s through the 1850s
- Konstantin_Yuon: - soviet artist who painted yuon new planet 1921
- Kursk_submarine_disaster: - submarine disaster that left all dead & ~150m long sub on the ocean floor at ~108m depth
- Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri: - an iranian refugee who lived in terminal 1 at charles de gaulle airport for 18 years
- Memorial_to_the_Victims_of_Communism - originally slated to include 553 names but ~330 were fascists (including SS)
- Nanook: - ‘master of bears’ in inuit
- Noosphere: - the new state of the biosphere which includes “humankind’s rational activities”
- Operation_Mongoose: - plans to destabilize cuba (including sabotaging crops) - some of which were carried out
- Pareto_principle - the 80:20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity
- Patrice_Lumumba - read about him, listen to his famous speech. he was the first prime minister of what became the drc
- Polemic - contentious rhetoric used to support a position by forthright claims and to undermine the opposing position
- Pollyanna_principle: - the tendency for people to remember pleasant items more accurately than unpleasant ones
- Recuperation_(politics): - the cultural appropriation of any subversive symbols or ideas by mainstream culture
- Rosette_(botany): - a circular arrangement of leaves or of structures resembling leaves
- Sergeant_John_F._Baker_Jr._Bridge - bridge across the Mississippi river named after a Vietnam War veteran
- Structural_coloration: - the production of color via structured surfaces small enough to interfere with visible light
- The_medium_is_the_message - Marshall McLuhan’s idea of making a medium the prime focus of study
- Theodicy: - a proposed resolution to the problem of evil (arising from a both omnipotent and omnibenevolent god)
- Thrace - former province of the roman empire; now southeastern Bulgaria, northeastern Greece, and the east of Turkey
- Typhoon_Cobra: - a typhoon which struck the usian fleet during wwii
- Walter_Lewin - physics professor who created public lectures; regard positively until he turned out to be a sex-pest
- Yaroslav_Hunka_scandal - canada’s house, trudeau & zelenskyy gave standing ovations to a proud former ss soldier
- agnatic_seniority - one of the orders of succession used by (among others) the ottoman empire
- bulla - spherical seals containing tokens used in the ancient near east as a clever way to authenticate documentation
- cupola - traditional small dome-like structures on top of buildings that admit light and air
- dōgen - founder of the sōtō school of zen and author of the shōbōgenzō
- eihei-ji - staggeringly beautiful, it is one of the main temples of the sōtō school of zen
- kalonymus ben kalonymus - jewish writer, philosopher, and translator (wrote a poem linked below)
- marcy_rheintgen - college student arrested and detained overnight for washing her hands in a women’s restroom
- piet_mondrian - painter famous for his grids but i am adding him for his paintings of trees (examples: 0 1 2)
- shikantaza - ‘just sitting’ meditation where one strives to be aware of the stream of thoughts without interference
- shōbōgenzō - the collection of works which encompass the philosophy and teachings of dōgen
- sōtō - largest of the three traditional sects of zen in japanese buddhism, which emphasizes shikantaza
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