Footnotes Intro duction In July , after great trepidation, I finally decided to revise this essay. It was my website’s last major essay to be revised, in order to align my site with my big energy essay. To do justice to this essay’s subjects would take months of work, but I do not have the time or emotional reserves to do it. When I wrote the first draft of this essay in , it was a harrowing ordeal and the process inspired me to quit drinking, which I accomplished the next year.

This essay will not be an enjoyable read, particularly for Americans. The beg innings of warfare can be seen in today’s chimpanzees, who are our closest biological cousins.

Omar Mir Seddique (November 16, – June 12, ), also known as Omar Mateen, was an American mass murderer and domestic terrorist who killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in a mass shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, , before he was killed in a shootout with the local was the deadliest shooting by a single shooter in United States history.

See Article History Number symbolism, cultural associations—including religious, philosophic, and aesthetic—with various numbers. Humanity has had a love-hate relationship with numbers from the earliest times. Bones dating from perhaps 30, years ago show scratch marks that possibly represent the phases of the Moon. The ancient Babylonians observed the movements of the planets, recorded them as numbers, and used them to predict eclipses and other astronomical phenomena.

The priesthood of ancient Egypt used numbers to predict the flooding of the Nile. Pythagoreanism , a cult of ancient Greece , believed that numbers were the basis of the entire universe, which ran on numerical harmony. Numbers were associated with names for magical purposes: More recently, cranks have sought the secrets of the universe in the dimensions of the Great Pyramid of Giza , an aberration so common that it even has a name—pyramidology.

Millions of otherwise rational people are terrified of the number 13, to the extent that hotels omit it from their floors, airplanes do not have a row 13, and the numbers for Formula 1 racing cars skip from 12 to 14 so that, for example, 22 cars would be numbered from 1 to