#Encyclopedia

Glenn Fleishman

GlennF

This is a terrible NPR story. First, unemployment benefits in normal times aren’t paid by taxpayers. They’re paid from a fund in each state that’s built from mandatory employer contributions.

Maïa Dunphy

MaiaDunphy

A thread: Getting a lot of messages about censorship of certain social media accounts and websites, how “dangerous” this is for freedom of speech & how we all need to

Owain Evans

OwainEvans_UK

1/ Why did Wikipedia succeed when 7 similar online encyclopedia projects (mostly started around the same time) all failed? This cool paper investigates and gives surprising answers...http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.

Frescoarmand

frescoarmand

Arsareth Being America Is False. The Jewish Encyclopedia Cites Pg 15 Of Meyer Kayserling “Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries”. These Are

Pollux Dioscuros | Eternal Freaks.

polluxdioscuros

According to the official #SaintSeiya #Taizen (#Encyclopedia) the #Saints receive their #Cloths (armors) that are destined for them, but this isn't enough because they've got to earn them due a

Toronto Star

TorontoStar

Wikipedia is one of the most used sites in the world. It has pages about famous figures, history, and even fictional dogs. But the gender and race gap on the

Fred Bauer

fredbauerblog

One note of caution about extrapolating too much from this statistic (and related studies): The U.S. economy is balanced very differently compared to 1918--much more dependent on service sector now.

Robert McNees

mcnees

Physicist Marietta Blau was born #OTD in 1894. She pioneered the use of nuclear emulsion plates for particle detection, and discovered "disintegration stars" produced by cosmic rays interacting with nuclei

Auschwitz Memorial

AuschwitzMuseum

6 April 1944 | The Gestapo under the direction of SS-Hauptsturmführer Klaus Barbie raided the Jewish orphanage in French town of #Izieu. 44 children and their 7 educators were taken

TJ Guidice

tjguidice

Jesse Owens doesn’t get anywhere near the recognition he deserves. “At the 1936 Berlin Games, Owens won four gold medals, in the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and the long jump.

Romagraphic

romagraphic

Hi and a big warm welcome to all my new followers! Today is a really important day as it's #InternationalRomaDayWait, Roma who? Ok, let's start in the middle somewhere in

Natalie Wynn

ContraPoints

Hey all, I’m not weighing in on the Raya take because 1, I haven’t seen the media involved & 2, I’m white so this is really not my business. But

George Selgin

GeorgeSelgin

Thread: "What I always find puzzling when we talk about this is, why, given that history, people now believe that the payments system is a government service.” Badly-needed perspective on

Amy Lutz

amylutz4

THREAD: Let me tell you all about the devastating case of the MS St. Louis, which arrived in Havana #OTD in 1939, a sad tale of American inaction during the

corona ryder

Glow___worm

Anyone want to see my dumb thoughts on hegel as I read Beginning with the list from Hegel support: Introduction to the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences 1. Hegel begins

Gonz

gonsanchezs

In 1990, Encyclopaedia Britannica sold 117,000 book sets and generated $650 million in revenue. By 1996 that number had fallen to less than 3,000.(Thread ↓) The first Encyclopaedia Britannica was