An ox wearing the popular religious yoke.

a statement that is not sufficiently dissenting

spartacus (103-71 BC) is a somewhat mysterious historical figure. a greek, or possibly a thracian (from what is today bulgaria), little is known of his life except that he was a military leader, then a gladiator, then he led a massive slave uprising against rome, one of the few wars in history where it's totally uncontroversial to side entirely with one of the belligerents.

since his background is so mysterious, he is one of those historical figures you could potentially turn out to be if you're ever a time traveler (blackbeard is another!)

a vague hinting at some sort of unspecified imminent and preventable danger

(n.) the circuitous and sometimes unethical act of using one sum of money to buy a larger sum of money

Mostly Harmless.
(also: Mostly Harmless)

adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the aspect of a national crime.


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Term referring to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. It was coined by a Soviet journalist to refer to her tough stances and actions.

(also: soviet journalists)

(1766 – 1834) English scholar who raised concern over growing population.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: thomas malthus quotes)

(1874 – 1937) Italian engineer who helped develop radio transmission.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: guglielmo marconi quotes)

(n.) the state of overwhelm, by the societal & technological & etc. changes, "too much, too fast; no time to process it"..
still better than death by 1000 cuts, imo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jun/18/years-and-years-2019-terrifying-tv-show-russell-t-davies

(n.) the real OG! tracing words through time and cultures (aka the memetic flow).

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

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They took away his vote and gave instead
The right, when he had earned, to eat his bread.
In vain — he clamors for his "boss," pour soul,
To come again and part him from his roll.
—Offenbach Stutz

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that part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

(n.)a food which remind me waffen ss

One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.
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Generating disagreeable emotions or sensations, as the advance of an army against its enemy.
"Were the enemy's tactics offensive?" the king asked. "I should say so!" replied the unsuccessful general. "The blackguard wouldn't come out of his works!"

(1561 – 1626) Creator of the scientific method and key figure in Scientific Revolution of the Enlightenment.
(also: 100 most influential people in the world)
(also: francis bacon quotes)

n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."
— Calcraft the Hangman.

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(n.) a place of assembly and worship in wisconsonian religion, in which the sacred duty of milk and cheese production is carried out.