User:Skyadd

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This is a collection of my personal favorite wikipedia articles made for the purpose of remembering information I feel relevant (and not cluttering up my internet bookmarks).

Uncategorized and otherwise random favorites located here.

Music[edit]

Billie Holiday - 1930's

Classical[edit]

Modern[edit]

Dmitri Shostakovich

Art[edit]

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Artists[edit]

Literature[edit]

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Authors[edit]

Hardboiled Writers[edit]

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Theater[edit]


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Philosophy[edit]

People[edit]

Concepts[edit]

  • Hyperreality - the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically advanced postmodern cultures
  • Ex nihilo - Latin phrase meaning "out of nothing" in creation
  • Transcendentalism - 19th cent.
  • Fatalism
  • Predestination
  • Virtue ethics - moral philosophy that emphasizes character, rather than rules or consequences, as the key element of ethical thinking

Psychology[edit]

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Conditions[edit]

Language & Grammar[edit]

Misc.[edit]

  • Principality of Sealand
  • Doppelgänger - double or look-alike of a person. In some traditions, a doppelgänger seen by a person's friends or relatives portends illness or danger, while seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death.
  • Schadenfreude - pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others
  • Plutocracy - rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth
  • High-yield debt - Junk Bonds