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[Babe Ruth]
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Beginning in the mid 2010s, there was controversy in the shipping-fanfiction community, which discusses fan-created relationships ("shippings") between fictional characters. This centered on the ethical implications of taboo and abusive content in romantic and sexual pairings between characters. Some fan-created works depicted disturbing content such as rape, incest, abuse, and pedophilia, often with little connection to the source material. Debate over this material became prevalent on websites such as Tumblr and Archive of Our Own, especially among younger and heavily LGBTQ communities. "Anti-shippers" view such fictional portrayals as normalizing harmful behaviors and posing a threat to children and abuse survivors. "Pro-shippers" reject the notion that such works influence the behaviors of their readers and writers. Anti-shippers have been criticized for spreading moralistic attitudes towards sexuality, while pro-shippers face criticism for minimizing all critiques of fan work. (Full article...)
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On this day: May 3
May 3: World Press Freedom Day; Constitution Memorial Day in Japan (1947); Constitution Day in Poland (1791)
- 1491 – Nkuwu Nzinga, the ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo, was baptised as João I by Portuguese missionaries.
- 1616 – The Treaty of Loudun was signed, ending a war that originally began as a power struggle for the French throne.
- 1911 – Edith Maryon's statuette The Dance of Anitra (pictured), one of the few of her works known to survive in private hands, was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts.
- 2021 – An elevated section of the Mexico City Metro collapsed, killing 26 people and injuring 98 others.
- Henry Garnet (d. 1606)
- Catherine of St. Augustine (b. 1632)
- Nona Gaprindashvili (b. 1941)
- Florian Wirtz (b. 2003)
Knowledge about Earth
Facts and Figures
- Age of Earth: ~ 4.568 billion years
- World Population: 7.3 billion (July 2015)
- Continents: 7 (Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia)
- Mean Radius: 6371.0 km
- Axial Tilt: 23,44°
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Our Solar System
Our solar system consists of
1 star (Sun) and 8 planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).
- 1 AU (astronomical unit) is roughly the distance between Earth and the Sun (about 150 million kilometres).
- The space probe Voyager 1 was launched by the NASA in 1977 and is meanwhile (autumn 2015) about 133 AU away from Earth.
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Why you should extend your general knowledge:
There are many reasons why one should or wants to extend his knowledge.
First you should consider that "general knowledge" is knowledge which a group of humans - who belong together regional, temporal or otherwise - owns. Thus, it describes a basic understanding of specific categories of knowledge.
As the English philosopher Francis Bacon said before: "Wisdom is Power" [Bacon 1597].