(584 CE – 644 CE) Powerful Muslim Caliphate and senior companion of Muhammad. An influential figure in Sunni Islam.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: umar ibn al-khattab quotes)

part of the former yugoslavia, known mostly for

...

well, this is awkward

(n.) just look at this bad boy: it's a bad way to live, *and* a book at the very same time!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466958-bullshit-jobs

(n.) intense physical activity used to improve one's physical condition so that they may justify overeating and laziness to their own conscience

(phrase):
The enlightening moment when you become acutely aware of being in a predicament that leaves you feeling like a bewildered squirrel trapped in a maze. It's a sudden realization that you've unwittingly stumbled into a situation from which escape seems as elusive as a unicorn on roller skates.


(also: Embracing the absurdity)

(n.) a word used in wishful thinking to describe a condition of increased order and technological progress with time.

the supposed end result of extropy will be the achievement of some kind of technological singularity. fingers crossed, i suppose.

(541 – 604) Founder of China's Sui Dynasty and reunifying China in 589
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: sui wen ti quotes)

(n.) historic spelling, which has morphed to "rhyme" in the recent decades(?), with no rime nor reason..

(n.) also surprisingly, rime-frost; that is, hoarfrost!


(also: hoarfrost)

(1473-1543) Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who believed Sun was the centre of the Universe – rather than earth.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: nicolaus copernicus quotes)

The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.

(1694 – 1778). A key figure of European Enlightenment. His satirical writings played a role in the French Revolution
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: voltaire quotes)

(also: Governing People)

The natural rock upon which is reared the Temple of Law.
(also: humans)
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

Teeth sharpener!

(adj.) a symbolic way to represent the many functions and capabilities of an entity, especially the infinite nature of the divine.

bulgaria (thracian knight):

rome (janus):

india (gayatri):

japan (ashura):


on slavic god, triglav (literally meaning 'three headed'): http://sms.zrc-sazu.si/pdf/17/03_sms17_Dynda.pdf
iconography of thracian knight: http://icc-online.arte-ct.ro/vol_03/12.pdf
The Three-Faced Representation of the Holy
Trinity: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=kerverbook
Pagan Origins of the Three-Headed Representation of the Christian Trinity: https://www.jstor.org/stable/750313?seq=1
Not So Unorthodox: A Reevaluation of Tricephalous Images of the Trinity: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0040563918766704?journalCode=tsja&

THE BICEPHALIC HUMAN HEAD IN POST-PALEOLITHIC SCULPTURE (~20 different pieces):http://www.museoorigini.it/pagina60.html
UK's largest complete Doom painting restored in a Salisbury parish: https://www.salisbury.anglican.org/news/a-201cremarkable-revelation201d



(also: polycephaly)
(also: bicephalous), (also: tricephalous), (also: multicephalous)
(also: gods and goddesses)
(also: be not afraid)

(n.) that which follows the dissolution or destruction of government authority; like most philosophical things, we are assured it would be really cool if we did it correctly next time

a handily decimalized system of measurements that encapsulates means for gauging distance (meter), volume (liter), mass (gram), and temperature (degree celsius). eschewed by americans as one of those things they do to pretend they're not part of the world.

(n. or v.) the act of destroying or damaging something or someone else for one's own advantage.

something which the beastie boys cannot stand and know you planned

(n.) bribery artist

A planet in the Milky Way galaxy. It is the home of unique organizations of energy dependent cells that like to reproduce themselves exponentially through both sexual and asexual reproduction. Many such "organisms" consist of a mouth, an anus, and a stomach system. Other features are numerous and diverse, but all help these animated conglomerations of material in their never ending quest to unsustainably gobble energy-latent objects in their environment while producing an iterated and highly-particular stream of waste products. The planet is named after the original creatures with this body plan, the worm.