"I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky."
Useful notes on a variety of subjects, the purpose of which is threefold:
- To debunk common media stereotypes.
- To help you understand some media better.
- To educate, inform, and sometimes entertain.
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Animation
- Anime and Manga
- Anime Fan Speak
- Names to Know in Anime
- Animators
- History of Animation
- Looney Tunes And Merrie Melodies Filmography
- The 50 Greatest Cartoons
- The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes
- Noteworthy Disney Staff
- Noteworthy Fleischer Staff
- Noteworthy Looney Tunes Staff
- Noteworthy MGM Cartoon Staff
- Supermarionation
Art (Painting, Sculpting, Photographing, Performance)
Business
Comic Strips
Culture
- Broadway and the West End
- Fringe Festival
- Funerals
- Furry Fandom
- Graffiti
- Green is Blue
- Great American Novel
- Interacting with Persons Different Than Yourself
- The Irish Diaspora
- Juggalo
- Kawaisa
- Kimono
- Lolita Fashion
- Mexican Americans
- Muramasa And Masamune
- Meditation
- Nudism
- Otherkin
- Peking Opera
- Pride Parade
- Skinheads
- Society for Creative Anachronism
- Subcultures
- Whovians
Economics
Education
Film (Live-Action)
Folklore & Mythology
- Aboriginal Australian Myths
- Aztec Mythology
- Celtic Mythology
- Classical Mythology
- Chinese Mythology
- Egyptian Mythology
- Fairy Tale
- Hebrew Mythology
- Hindu Mythology
- Inca Mythology
- Japanese Mythology
- Korean Mythology
- Lusitanian Mythology
- Mesopotamian Mythology
- Modern
- Native American Mythology
- Norse Mythology
- Persian Mythology
- Popol Vuh
- Russian Mythology and Tales
- Slavic Mythology
- Tarot Cards
Food and Drink
Games
Gender & Sexuality
- Asexuality
- BDSM
- The Bechdel Test
- Bisexual
- Erotic Film
- Erotic Literature
- For the Love of Many (swingers, polygamists, etc.)
- Homophobia
- Homosexual
- Pornography (To understand the subject in an informative, non-titillating way.)
- Romantic Orientation
- Transgender
- Westermarck Effect
Geography
History
- The American Revolution
- Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Attila the Hun
- Barbary Coast Wars
- Cultural Revolution
- Dada
- Dynasties from Shang to Qing
- The Enlightenment
- Explorers
- The French Revolution
- Grand Vizier Jafar
- The Habsburg Empire
- The Hashshashin
- The Hindenburg
- History Of The Cold War
- History of English
- Iron Curtain
- The Knights Templar
- Meiji Restoration
- Middle East Uprising 2011
- Moorish Spain
- The Napoleonic Wars
- National Reorganization Process (Argentine military junta)
- Pillarisation
- Pre-Columbian Civilizations
- Red October
- The Renaissance
- Romanovs And Revolutions
- RMS Titanic
- Sengoku Period
- The Shinsengumi
- The Silk Road
- The Space Race
- The Kingdom Of Spain for a brief list of Spanish Monarchs and the Spanish Empire
- The Spanish Inquisition
- To Get Rich Is Glorious (current China)
- The Trojan War
- Tsarist Russia
- Victorian Britain
- The Wild West
- The Forties
- The Fifties
- The Sixties
- The '70s
- The '80s
- The '90s
- The Oughts (Zeroes, Noughties, Ohs, etc.)
- The New Tens
- Wars In History
- World War I
- World War II
Language
- Ancient Greek Language
- Arabic Language - Desperately needs more love and possibly a rewrite.
- Chinese Language
- Cyrillic Alphabet
- Esperanto, the Universal Language
- Fonts
- German Language
- Grammar In Foreign Languages
- Japanese Language
- Korean Honorifics
- Liddell and Scott Greek-English Lexicon
- Latin Language
- Linguistics
- Norwegian Language Struggle
- Portuguese Language
- Romanization
- Separated by a Common Language
- Signed Language
- Spanish Language
- Tenses
Law
- Activists
- The Common Law
- Court Systems
- Criminals
- Fair Use
- Gun Politics
- IC Number (British police code for ethnicity)
- Miranda Rights (American form of being read one's rights upon arrest)
- Police Forces
- Staying Out Of Legal Trouble (staying out of jail and court)
- You Do Not Have to Say Anything (British form of being read one's rights upon arrest)
Medicine
Military
- Air-Launched Weapons
- Archery
- Big Brother Is Watching This Index (Real Life espionage agencies)
- Castles
- Cool Guns
- Firearms
- Forces with Firepower
- Armenia: Armos with Armor
- Australia: Aussies with Artillery
- Brazil: Brazilians with Bazookas
- Canada: Canucks with Chinooks
- China: Chinese with Chopper Support
- Chinese Nuclear Weapons: The Dragon's Teeth
- Confederate States of America: Rebels with Repeaters
- Finland: Finns with Fearsome Forests
- France: Gauls with Grenades
- French Nuclear Weapons: The Ultimate Resistance
- Germany: We Are Not the Wehrmacht
- East Germany: Ossis with Osas
- Nazi Germany: Nazis with Gnarly Weapons
- Greece: This Is Hellas
- Habsburg (Austro-Hungarian) Empire: The Sound of Martial Music
- India: Indians with Iglas
- Indian Nuclear Weapons: The Third Eye of Bharat
- Iran: Persians with Pistols
- Israel: Israelis with Infrared Missiles
- Israeli Nuclear Weapons: The Samson Option
- Italy: New Roman Legions
- Ancient Rome: The Glory That Was Rome
- Japan: Kaiju Defense Force
- Imperial Japan: Katanas of the Rising Sun
- Jordan: Warriors of Desert Winds
- Mexico: Mexicans with Machine Guns
- Nepal/the Gurkhas: Nepali With Nasty Knives
- North Korea: North Koreans with Nodongs
- Pakistan: Pakistanis with Panters
- Pakistani Nuclear Weapons: Pak Attack
- Phillippines: Filipinos with Firearms
- Poland: Poles with Poleaxes
- Portugal: Portuguese Men-of-War
- Russia: Russians with Rusting Rockets
- Russian Nuclear Weapons: From Russia with Nukes
- USSR: Reds with Rockets
- Imperial Russia: Russians with Rifles
- Republic of China (Taiwan): The Other Chinese Army
- Singapore: Singaporeans with Stealth Frigates
- Slovakia: Slovaks with Sappers
- South Africa: South Africans with Surface-to-Air Missiles
- South Korea: South Koreans with Marines
- Spain: New Spanish Armada
- Sweden: Swedes with Cool Planes
- Switzerland: Swiss with Army Knives
- Turkey: Turks with Troops
- United Kingdom: Brits with Battleships
- UK Nuclear Weapons: Ultimate Defence of the Realm
- United States: Yanks with Tanks
- US Nuclear Weapons: Peace Through Superior Firepower
- Common Ranks
- Common Military Units
- Gun Safety
- Krav Maga
- Military Personnel
- Modern Battlefield Weapons
- The Modern Day Rambo (Special Operations Forces)
- Mounted Combat
- Naval Gazing
- History of Naval Warfare
- Naval Weapons
- Types of Naval Ships
- Plane Spotting
- Reporting Names
- Silencers
- Swords
- Nuclear Weapons
- The Laws and Customs of War
- The Poor Man's Atomic Bomb
- The Rest of the Nuclear Club
- The Thirty-Six Stratagems
- When You Need Something Dead
- Wild Weasel
Music
Natural Sciences
- Alchemy
- Black Holes
- Constellations
- Dinosaurs
- Explorers
- Evolution
- Evolutionary Levels
- The Longitude Problem
- Genetics
- DNA
- Mathematics
- Fermat's Last Theorem
- Fermi Paradox
- Obsidian
- Planets
- Prehistoric Life
- Quantum Physics
- Random Number Generator
- Relativity
- Scary Scorpions
- Schrödinger's Cat
- The Milky Way Galaxy
- The Scientific Method
- Scientists And Inventors
- Snow Means Cold
- The Solar System
- Stars
- Tornadoes
- Theorum
People
- Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud
- Adolf Hitler
- Pope Alexander VI
- Augusto Pinochet
- Flavius Belisarius
- Bernard Law Montgomery
- Al Capone
- Carolus Rex
- Albert Einstein
- Authors
- Benjamin Franklin
- Blackbeard
- Black Douglas
- Carl Sagan
- Catherine the Great
- Charlemagne
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Manson
- Che Guevara
- Christopher Hitchens
- Dom Pedro II
- Duke of Caxias
- Erwin Rommel
- Eva Peron
- Evel Knievel
- Fidel Castro
- Sir Francis Drake
- Francisco Franco
- Genghis Khan
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Harriet Tubman
- Heads Of State
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Hideki Tojo
- Idi Amin
- Isaac Newton
- Jack the Ripper
- Jacques Cousteau
- Jackie Robinson
- Jacques Derrida
- Joan of Arc
- John Milton
- Johnny Appleseed
- Josef Stalin
- Josip Broz Tito
- Pope Julius II
- Leon Trotsky
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Lizzie Borden
- Louis XIII
- Louis XIV
- Louis XV
- Louis XVI
- M. C. Escher
- Malcolm X
- Mao Zedong
- Marie Antoinette
- Marilyn Monroe
- Mark Twain
- Marquisde La Fayette
- Maximilien Robespierre
- Michael Jordan
- Miyamoto Musashi
- Muammar Gaddafi
- Muhammad Ali
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Nikola Tesla
- Notable Swedish Monarchs
- Musashibo Benkei
- Oda Nobunaga
- Osama bin Laden
- Other Royal Families
- Otto von Bismarck
- Robert The Bruce
- Peter the Great
- Peter Mandelson
- Pope Pius XII
- Prussian Kings
- Richard Dawkins
- Richard Feynman
- Rupert Murdoch
- Saddam Hussein
- Sasaki Kojiro
- Stephen Hawking
- The 47 Ronin
- The Men of Downing Street
- The Presidents
- Religious Leaders
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Thomas More
- Tsar Tsar Autocrats
- Vincent van Gogh
- Vladimir Lenin
- Vlad the Impaler
- Walter Cronkite
- Wayne Gretzky
- William Shakespeare
- Wilt Chamberlain
- Wong Fei-hung
- Yagyu Jubei
- Yuri Gagarin
Philosophy
Politics
- American Political System
- Anarchism
- Astro Turf
- Australian Politics
- British Political System
- Canadian Politics
- French Political System
- Heads Of State
- Irish Political System
- Japanese Political System
- Mexican Politics
- Post-War British Politics
- Political Ideologies
- Political System of Germany
- Politicians
- Russian Political System (modern, not Soviet)
- Singapore Politics
- Standard European Political Landscape
Psychology
- Abuse
- Alcoholism And Alcohol Abuse
- Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar Disorder
- Cult
- Depression
- Dyslexia
- High Functioning Autism
- Holmes & Rahe Stress Scale
- Id, Superego and Ego
- IQ Testing
- Lack of Empathy
- Mensa
- Myers-Briggs Temperament Indicator
- Passive Aggressive
- Psychology
- Psychologists
- Suicide
- Trigger
- Victim Blaming
Religion
- Religion
- Agnosticism
- American Churches
- Atheism
- Buddhism
- Christianity
- Amish
- Mormonism
- Orthodox Christianity
- Patron Saints
- Deism
- Discordianism
- Flying Spaghetti Monster
- Gnosticism
- Heresies And Heretics
- Hinduism
- Islam
- Judaism
- Jewish Life Events
- Jewish Holidays
- The Noahide Laws
- Neo-Paganism
- New Age
- Pandeism
- Pantheism
- The Pope
- Religious Leaders
- Satanism
- Shinto
- Sikhism
- Spiritism
- Taoism
- Voudoun
- Wicca
- Zoroastrianism
Sports
- Sportspeople
- Olympic Games
- NCAA
- American Football
- Australian Rules Football
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Bodybuilding
- Competitive Swimming
- Competitive Diving
- Cricket
- Cycling
- Equestrian Sports
- Humans vs. Zombies
- Ice Hockey
- Martial Arts
- Motorsports
- Formula One
- Formula E
- Indy Car
- NASCAR
- Rallying (Needs More Wiki Magic)
- 24 Hours of Le Mans
- United Sports Car Championship
- Rugby
- Soccer/Association Football
- Robot Combat
- Radio Taiso
- Skydiving
- Fantasy Sports
- Tennis
- Pool Sports
- Synchronized Swimming
- Water Polo
- World Rally Championship
- Professional Wrestling
Technology & The Internet
- Alice and Bob
- Artificial Intelligence
- Assistive Technology
- Automated Dialogue Recording
- BB Code
- Blu-ray
- CED
- The C Language
- Compact Disc
- Computer Wars
- Console Wars
- Desura
- DOS4GW
- DIVX
- DVD
- Region Coding
- Encryption
- Entertainment Software Ratings Board
- 555
- Flash Memory
- The Great Video Game Crash of 1983
- High Definition
- LaserDisc
- Lua
- Mac OS
- Magnetic Disk
- Mass Storage
- Microsoft Windows
- Misplaced Nationalism
- Going Mobile
- Mozilla Firefox
- N-Gage
- Optical Disc
- Ouya
- PC vs. Console
- Professional Gaming
- Python
- Ren'Py
- SD Card
- SNES CD-ROM
- Steam
- Two Way Radio
- Unity
- UNIX
- VCR
- Video Game AI
- Video Game Design
- Web Video Creators
Television
Transportation
Other
- Air Guns
- All Hallows' Eve
- Columbine
- Cat Communication
- Chernobyl
- Fire And Explosive Safety
- GCSEs
- Geocaching
- Gold
- Graphical Perspective
- Hachiko
- Homelessness
- Identification by Dental Records
- Lotus Position
- Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
- Patronymic
- Plagiarism
- Roleplaying
- Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time
- Termites
- Writer's Resources
- Yu-Gi-Oh! East Academy
