Word Frequency Counter. Idsbt.gif (GIF Image, 500 × 276 pixels) Things You Should Never Say To A Person With Depression - How To Talk To Your Depressed Friend. 23 GIFs That Will Teach You A Damn Thing For Once In Your Life. 7 Books We Lost to History That Would Have Changed the World. The vast majority of the knowledge humans have assembled over the centuries, has been lost.
The world's geniuses either kept their revelations to themselves and then died, or else they put it down on paper which has long since rotted or burned or been used to line some parakeet's cage. Obviously we'll never know what great books have been lost to time, but we have clues on some of them, and what those clues tell us is mind-boggling, and a little bit depressing. If you could make a library out of just books that didn't survive, you'd have a collection of some of the best freaking books ever written.
The Gospel of Eve, by Unknown What is it: It is apparently a totally sexually perverse lost book of the Bible. (Wait, what? Why it's Awesome: Ah ha! Why You'll Never Read It: In the 4th Century church officials like Epiphanius lashed out at the book, apparently having nothing better to do than stop everyone from having sex and eating a little bit of semen. Heh heh heh. [Artist's depiction.] How We Got “Please” and “Thank You” By Maria Popova Why the line between politeness and bossiness is a linguistic mirage. “A good thing to think about is what kind of face to make when you say please,” Ruth Krauss wrote in her magnificent final collaboration with Maurice Sendak . “That coat will be the last gift [your mother] gave you. You will regret the small thing you didn’t say for the rest of your life.
Say thank you,” Cheryl Strayed counseled in her endlessly soul-stirring Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar . Debt … is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion. Graeber goes on to offer a counterexample via the history of two of our most common cultural habits of civility: Consider the custom, in American society, of constantly saying “please” and “thank you.” But not all such courtesies are meaningless echoes of bygone hierarchical structures: Imagine we are on a crowded bus, looking for a seat. 'Please' by Debbie Millman (1993) 27 Surreal Places To Visit Before You Die. F-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s: Lost Underwater Lion City:... Welcome To The Page Of Generators! How to Pick a Lock: 9 Steps. This article was co-authored by our trained team of editors and researchers who validated it for accuracy and comprehensiveness.
Together, they cited information from 15 references. wikiHow's Content Management Team carefully monitors the work from our editorial staff to ensure that each article meets our high standards. Categories: Featured Articles | Lock Picking In other languages: 100 Medieval Careers. February 6th, 2009 Taking a brief break from adventure design, I present a related topic: 100 jobs NPCs in your game-world might have.
Helps with creating those random NPCs — pick a job, then add a name, race, gender, and a quirk or two. I’ve broken them down into some broad categories, in case you want to go old school and turn it into multiple subtables to randomly roll on. If you’re taking that approach, note that the “Working Class” and “Scoundrels and the Underclass” categories should be most common in the typical medieval-European-style game worlds, followed by Professionals, Entertainers, and Martial, with Learned and Lesser Nobility being least common. 100 jobs, after the jump. Learned Lesser Nobility Professionals The Working Class Martial BodyguardBounty HunterForester – a ranger or game warden, often empowered to act as law enforcement within the forestGatekeeper or Toll KeeperJailerMercenary or SoldierWatchman Scoundrels and the Underclass Entertainers. The Victorian Steampunk Society. 33 Pictures That Will Make You Proud To Be A Human Being Again.
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