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Critical mass (sociodynamics)

Summary: {{Template}} In [[social dynamics]], '''critical mass''' is a sufficient number of adopters of an innovation in a social system so that the rate of adoption becomes self-sustaining and creates...

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May 5, 2013

Summary: {{Template}} [[Nude photo]] of [[female killer]] [[Violette Nozière (female murderer)|Violette Nozière]][http://image-in-multimedia.eu/zoummeroff/galerie-virtuelle/nozieres/mac09061d_121.jpg]...

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Exi (subculture)

Summary: {{Template}} The '''Exis''' (pronounced "Exies") were a youth movement in Hamburg, Germany, in the 1950s. The Exis took their name from the [[existentialist]] movement, and were influenced by...

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Counter-economics

Summary: {{Template}} '''Counter-economics''' is a term originally used by [[Samuel Edward Konkin III]] and [[J. Neil Schulman]], [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] activists and theorists. Konkin defined...

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Guerrilla theatre

Summary: {{Template}} '''Guerrilla theatre''', generally rendered "guerrilla theater" in the US, is a form of [[guerrilla communication]] originated in 1965 by the [[San Francisco Mime Troupe]], who,...

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Nambassa

Summary: {{Template}} '''Nambassa''' was a series of [[hippie]]-conceived festivals held between 1976 and 1981 on large farms around [[Waihi]] and [[Waikino]] in [[New Zealand]]. They were music, arts...

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Quinqui jargon

Summary: {{Template}} '''Quinqui [[jargon]]''' is associated with ''[[quinquilleros]]'' ([[tinker]]s), a semi-nomadic group who live mainly in the northern half of [[Spain]]. They prefer to be called...

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Tinker

Summary: {{Template}} A '''tinker''' was originally an [[itinerant]] [[tinsmith]], who mended household utensils. The word is attested from the 13th century and may be of imitative origin. Some...

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Gitano

Summary: {{Template}} '''Gitano''' may refer to: * [[Romani people in Spain]] * [[Gitano (1949 film)|''Gitano'' (1949 film)]], a 1949 Filipino film * [[Gitano (1970 film)|''Gitano'' (1970 film)]], a...

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Eleuterio Sánchez

Summary: {{Template}} '''Eleuterio Sánchez Rodríguez''' (born 1942), known as '''El Lute''', was at one time listed as Spain's "Most Wanted" criminal. He was a legendary [[Spain|Spanish]] outlaw who...

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Muerte de un quinqui

Summary: {{Template}} ''[[Muerte de un quinqui]]'' (1975) by León Klimovsky ==See also== *[[cine quinqui]] {{GFDL}}

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Cine quinqui

Summary: {{Template}} Se conoce popularmente en [[España]] como '''cine quinqui''' al [[género cinematográfico]] que narra las vivencias y aventuras de conocidos delincuentes (habitualmente jóvenes)...

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La Ricerca della Lingua Perfetta nella Cultura Europea

Summary: {{Template}} '''''La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea''''' ('''''The Search for the Perfect Language in the European Culture'''''; trans. James Fentress) is a 1993 book by...

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The Garden, the Ark, the Tower, the Temple. Biblical Metaphors of Knowledge...

Summary: {{Template}} '''''The Garden, the Ark, the Tower, the Temple. Biblical Metaphors of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe''''' is a book by [[Jim Bennett (historian)|Jim Bennett]] and S....

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Bishop John Wilkins's digression on the technicalities of the Noah's Ark in...

Summary: {{Template}} [[John Wilkins]]’s ''[[An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language]]'' (1668) features technicalities of [[Noah's Ark]]. Citations via...

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Sexual bullying

Summary: {{Template}} '''Sexual bullying''' is a type of [[bullying]] and [[Sexual harassment|harassment]] that occurs in connection with sex. It can be [[physical abuse|physical]], [[verbal...

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Hebephilia

Summary: {{Template}} '''Hebephilia''' is one of several types of [[chronophilia]] (a preference for a sexual partner who appears to be of a specific age), in this case a primary or exclusive sexual...

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Institutional abuse

Summary: {{Template}} '''Institutional abuse''' can typically occur in a [[care home]], [[nursing home]], acute hospital or in-patient setting and can be any of the following: *...

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The Last of the English Roses

Summary: {{Template}} “'''The Last of the English Roses'''” is the debut solo single by [[Pete Doherty|Peter Doherty]]. The single is the first from his solo album ''[[Grace/Wastelands]]''. The single...

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Marcel Coulon

Summary: {{Template}} [[Marcel Coulon]] (1873-1959) was a French literary historian and expert on [[priapea]]. He is the author of ''[[La poésie priapique au XVIe siècle : bois originaux de V. Le...

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