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Hi, I'm a 35 years old male from Switzerland.
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From one world to another
I joined Fakeologist.com on the 15th of March 2019, and my interests are media, politics and religion, health, ancient civilizations, language and books.
1. Background |
2. Topics of research |
3. Geris' Fakeologist contributions |
4. Geris's treasure chest |
Background
- no academic background, everything is firsthand experience, acquired knowledge and wild guesses
- subjects of interest: history, culture creation, health, legal systems, conspiracy culture,
- mainly the FRAC (Friday audio chat) a weekly audio-chats where I (we) address a topic or just introduce new members, organizations or topics
- a collection of links, books, movies and articles that I think are of interest:
- Books
- the whole Georges Orwell bibliography
- the Hagakure
- Gustave le Bons best book: The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
- Molière, but only in French; Tartuffe and Dom Juan being my favorite ones
- and last but not least Titus Andronicus
- Movies
- Brazil (1985)
- Comme un aimant (2000)
- Girlhood (2014)
- Battle Royale (2000)
- and all (even the lamest) zombies movies
- Documentaries
- Sub Genius recruitment video
- The Arrivals
- High on Crack Street
- Defamation
- Andy Hug - Von Rocky zum Samurai
- Articles
- Others
Geris day
- 1638 - Cornelis S Goyer takes possession of Mauritius (uninhabited, except dodos)
- 1660 - Isaack B Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni
- 1953 - Record 537-kg swordfish is caught by LE Marron, in Chile
- 1718 - The city of New Orleans founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
- 1983 - August Hoffman performs record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
- 1824 - Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna, often regarded as his greatest work
- 1913 - British House of Commons rejects women's right to vote
- 1928 - The United Kingdom lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
- 1914 - US Congress establishes mother's day
- 1966 - Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
- 1977 - 22nd Eurovision Song Contest: Marie Myriam for France wins singing "L'oiseau et l'enfant" in London
- 1945 - Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League
- 1930 - Duleepsinhji scores 333 for Sussex v Northants in 330 mins
- 1895 - Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates the world's first radio receiver in St. Petersberg; celebrated as Radio Day in Russia
- 1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, later renamed Sony, is founded with around 20 employees
- 1952 - The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer
- 1902 - La Soufrière volcano on St. Vincent kills 1,680 people
- Psyops
- 1727 - Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
- 1934 - Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autonomous Region
- 1832 - Greece becomes independent, Otto of Bavaria is chosen as king
- 1866 - German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassination attempt
- 1915 - RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland
- 1938 - Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"
- 1942 - Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
- 1943 - Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
- 1955 - West European Union established
- 1958 - US Air Force Major Howard Johnson sets world aircraft altitude record in Lockhead F-104 at 27,810 m
- 1963 - SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
- 1984 - $180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit, Vietnam
- 1989 - Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency
- 1991 - France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll