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Tree hay (thing)

Animal fodder aka tree fodder, leaf hay. "Poplar and willow provide fodder of sufficient quality and quantity to warrant using then as supplemen…

H.P. Lovecraft

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown" -Lovecraft Content Editor…

How I made the Year Nodes (idea)

Many of my writeups describe the people and events of individual years during the 17th Century, 18th Century, and 19th Century. This writeup is…

1635 (thing)

Women who died in 1635: Erauso, Catalina de (1592–1635) "Spanish woman who fled a convent and, disguised as a man, rose to the rank of lieutenan…

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law is the first animated legal drama/comedy. It currently appears as part of the Adult Swim adult-oriented cartoon…

dwarf rabbit (thing)

Dwarf Rabbits are rabbits that have been bred small, usually weighing less than 4 or 5 lbs. Lots of people like them because they're small and t…

Nuremberg Trials

In October 1945, the four major Allied powers, still shellshocked from the war with Germany and the recent discovery of the atrocities of the Ho…

Breadfall effect (idea)

The reader may already be familiar with the butterfly effect, also known as sensitive dependence on initial conditions, which refers to cascadin…

Graves Registration

Here's the thing: somebody has to clean up. Doesn't matter if it's mom's kitchen, your dorm, the coffee-corner, or the battlefield. Nobody likes…

To Whom It May Concern

Friday 03 September 2004 To Whom it May Concern, I found out that my brother, Sergeant Ryan M. Campbell, was dead during a graduate seminar at E…

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank "Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and…

April 8, 2019 (log)

There used to be a song called Even Cowgirls Get the Blues which no longer exists due to the actions of anti-environmentalists and doctors, who…

Hungarian alphabet (thing)

Hungarian is said to be one of the most difficult languages to learn. Maybe it is perhaps that it is not similar to any other European languages…

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev 1987 Man of the Year Born: March 2, 1931--Died: 30 August, 2022. Visit http://www.mikhailgorbachev.org/ Born durin…

Mound Builders

From about 1000 BC to AD 1450, eastern North America witnessed the rise and fall of three distinctive prehistoric cultures known as the Adena, H…

Sauce béarnaise syndrome

Sauce béarnaise syndrome is the official name for the learned taste aversion to a food that comes after that food has been associated wit…

The Origins of the First World War

Introduction (precis) War broke out in Europe in August of 1914 following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo…

TWA Flight 800

I am compelled to offer a few tidbits concerning the 'missile theory.' The primary reason for this trend of explanation seems to be two-fold; fi…