tag > Narrative
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History is... a register of crimes and misfortunes of mankind?
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." - Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) - From: "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Igbo Grammar - Igbo or Ibo? Which one is correct and how is it pronounced? Spoiler: It's 'Igbo'. The white colonialists could not pronounce 'GB' in the way locals do, hence they butchered it to "Ibo".
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Ogbo: Sharing Life in an African Village
A profile of contemporary Nigerian village life is seen through the eyes of Obioma, a young girl who explains how she and other children find fellowship and support within her ogbo, a family-like community of people her own age. What is most endearing about "Ogbo" pronounced (Orbo), is that the 'system' represents ALL FOR ONE and ONE FOR ALL. It is an authentic anthropology and must be al least 30,000 generations or 60,000 years old - in the region of the 'Chad Basin, Niger River, Congo
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The inordinate desire after knowledge
"When the inordinate desire after knowledge of things was allayed in me, and I aspired after nothing but purity and simplicity of mind, there shone in me daily a greater assurance than ever I could have expected, even of those things which before I had the greatest desire to know." - Henry More (1614-1687)
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Summary of the book ‘How to win friends and influence people’
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Anyone who is fearful about change and hatefully blames it on some "bad guys", should take a long look in the mirror and then simply relax and be silent. Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.
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When European and US politicians say “the world stands united”, they refer to a tiny fraction of the worlds population. 85%+ of the world wants to have nothing to do with this new iteration of colonialism.
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Babylonokia - a 2012 artwork by Karl Weingärtner in the form of a clay tablet shaped like a mobile phone, its keys and screen showing cuneiform script.
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"The UN estimates that it would take an additional $30 Billion a year to provide safe, clean drinking water to the entire planet. Last year alone we spent 3 times that amount on bottled water."
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An attempt to categorize the textual mediums we use to communicate - each category seems to have a behavioral archetype that influences what can be said
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A sentence is a device for taking a thought for a walk - Art by Martin Shovel
