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Diarmada (born June 23rd, 1976 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American Archivist best known for being Diarmada.
Thanks to the visionary contribution of Wikipedia to the world wide web by fellow Alabamian Jimmy Wales, Diarmada has been able to present aspects of Alabama's culture, diversity and history.
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Sweet Home Alabama
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Home as of last week, Washington, D.C.
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Buchanan Street, A few blocks from my old apartment in Glasgow, Scotland
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Birmingham, Alabama: The Magic City
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"To me it has always seemed that God is so sickened with men, and their unending cruelty to each other, that he covers the places where they have been as quickly as possible." - William March
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"If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God." - Thomas Jefferson
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"The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured- especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised." - E. O. Wilson
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Interesting Stuff
editThe Death of Marat is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David depicting the artist's friend and murdered French revolutionary leader, Jean-Paul Marat. It was painted when David was the leading French Neoclassical painter, a Montagnard, and a member of the revolutionary Committee of General Security. Created in the months after Marat's death, the painting shows Marat lying dead in his bath after his murder by Charlotte Corday on 13 July 1793. Art historian T. J. Clark called David's painting the first modernist work for "the way it took the stuff of politics as its material, and did not transmute it".Painting credit: Jacques-Louis David
Did you know...
edit- ... that Dutch agriculturist Hermanus Johannes Lovink (pictured) used a suitcase gramophone during his lectures?
- ... that the Vancouver School Board's alleged attempt to censor a student newspaper led to the drafting of a press-freedom act?
- ... that fans on TikTok were behind the choice of name for one of SZA's singles?
- ... that when sales slowed on the Texas Centennial half dollar, Senator Tom Connally suggested minting five separate versions?
- ... that the Green Bay Packers once had fourteen players selected to a national All-Pro team?
- ... that Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos bought New York City's Crown Building because of a tearful plea?
- ... that the magazine Acoustic Guitar said that Dan Erlewine "might be the most famous guitar repairperson on earth"?
- ... that models in the runway show for Nihilism by Alexander McQueen were dressed in plastic, locusts, rust, and clay?
- ... that literary critic Leslie Fiedler called the novel Band of Angels "operatic in the worst sense of the word"?
More 'wooden nickels'
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"Thomas Paine had passed the legendary limit of life. One by one most of his old friends and acquaintances had deserted him. Maligned on every side, execrated, shunned and abhorred -- his virtues denounced as vices -- his services forgotten -- his character blackened, he preserved the poise and balance of his soul. He was a victim of the people, but his convictions remained unshaken. He was still a soldier in the army of freedom, and still tried to enlighten and civilize those who were impatiently waiting for his death, Even those who loved their enemies hated him, their friend -- the friend of the whole world -- with all their hearts. On the 8th of June, 1809, death came -- Death, almost his only friend. At his funeral no pomp, no pageantry, no civic procession, no military display. In a carriage, a woman and her son who had lived on the bounty of the dead -- on horseback, a Quaker, the humanity of whose heart dominated the creed of his head -- and, following on foot, two negroes filled with gratitude -- constituted the funeral cortege of Thomas Paine." - Robert G. Ingersoll
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"...I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." - Eugene V. Debs
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"His power we allow is infinite: whatever he wills is executed: but neither man nor any other animal is happy: therefore he does not will their happiness. His wisdom is infinite: he is never mistaken in choosing themeans to any end: but the course of Nature tends not to human or animal felicity: thereforeit is not established for that purpose. Through the whole compass of human knowledge, there are no inferences more certain and infallible than these. In what respect, then, do his benevolence and mercy resemble the benevolence and mercy of men? Epicurus's old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?" - David Hume
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Pages I've created or contribute to
editWilliam March ---- Company K ---- Gustav Hasford ---- Laurence Stallings ---- Roy S. Simmonds ---- Sarah Parcak ---- The Big Fellow ---- The Bad Seed ---- Waterman Steamship Corporation
Pages to create or edit
editJohn W. Thomason, Jr. ---- Conrad Aiken ---- Robert Clem ---- Babs H. Deal ---- Augusta Jane Evans