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# B. O. Flower

Benjamin Orange Flower (October 19, 1858 – December 24, 1918) known most commonly by his initials "B.O.", was an American muckraking journalist of the Progressive era. Flower is best remembered as the editor of the liberal commentary magazine The Arena, published in Boston, New York City, and Trenton, New Jersey by the Arena Publishing Co. from 1889 until 1909.

## Quotes

* It seems to me that there is nothing in literature more valuable for young people to read than the lives of those who, in travelling the journey of life, have left their impress for good or bad on society. Every life carries its lessons - it matters not whether they are warnings or inspirations, they are alike valuable to the young who have the journey before them.
** Lessons Learned from Other Lives (1889), page 3
* However little she may realize it, every girl who rides her steel horse is a vivid illustration of one of the greatest waves of progress of this century, the advancement of women in freedom and opportunity.
** Fashion's Slaves (1892), page 32
* I have always made it a rule of my life to try and understand a subject before attempting to criticize or to influence others either for or against it.
** Christian Science as a Religious Belief and a Therapeutic Agent (1909), page vii
* History and experience are the two master teachers of nations and civilization.
** Righting the people's wrongs; a lesson from history of our own times (1917), page 3
# Arthur Mee

Arthur Mee (21 July 1875 – 27 May 1943) was a British writer, journalist and educator. He is best known for The Children's Encyclopedia and The King's England. He also produced other works, usually with a patriotic tone, especially on the subjects of history or the countryside.

## Sourced
### The King's England: Essex

* It is, of course, the great forest of Epping that givs an air of serenity and tranquillity to a piece of England the Industrial Age might so easily have spoiled.
** Page 1.
* The Venetian Bridge and the fine cliff walks are a handsome background for a wealth of entertainment which most visitors find irresistible.
** Page 63, Clacton on Sea.

### The King's England: Hertfordshire

* Beyond are greens where pink chestnuts, may trees and copper beeches flaunt themselves gaily.
** Page 69, Harpenden.

## About

* A narrow-minded nonconformist.
** Lord Northcliffe; quoted in The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature ISBN 0-19-211582-0, art. "Arthur Mee" p. 347.
# Arthur Leo Kennedy

Arthur Leo Kennedy (January 9, 1942 –) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston.

## Quotes

* Faith and reason for Catholics are unified, they're both gifts of God's creation. Faith takes nothing away, but gives them a whole new way of being human.
** Program #0204 for Tuesday, December 20, 2011: Bishop Arthur Kennedy (20 December 2011) The Good Catholic Life
# Brooke Nevin

Brooke Candice Nevin (December 22, 1982–) is a Canadian actress.

## Quotes

* I love sci-fi, especially when it comes to dialogue with fans; they're so involved with the series. It's a great experience to be able to talk with the fans of the show. As an actor, you know much more about your character, even more so sometimes than gets shown on the show. Sci-fi fans really have a commitment to the characters even as much as the actors do. There's a synergy between making television and who gets to watch it.
** 'Breakout Kings' Actor Brooke Nevin Grows Up (June 1, 2011)
# Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a census-estimated 2,648,771 residents in 2017. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, it borders the borough of Queens, at the western end of Long Island. Brooklyn also has several bridge connections to the boroughs of Manhattan (across the East River) and Staten Island (across the Verrazano Narrows Bridge).

## Quotes

* Man of my dreams, are you out in Brooklyn grabbing a pizza?
** Alessia Cara, "Find My Boy", In the Meantime (2021), New York City: Def Jam Records
* Spread love; it's the Brooklyn way.
** The Notorious B.I.G., "Juicy", Ready to Die (1994), New York City: Bad Boy Records

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Brooklyn on Wikipedia
# Brooke Theiss

Brooke Theiss-Genesse (October 23, 1969 –) is an American actress who has starred in film and on television.

## Quotes

* The first time I did a convention, I didn’t know what to expect. But I was so pleasantly surprised with all the people and all the kindness and all the love they have for this franchise. I am just one lucky actor … Who again, was in the right place at the right time. I am so grateful the be a part of this franchise…it is truly timeless.
** Hellter Interviews Brooke Theiss (April 27, 2018)
# Brooke Fraser

Brooke Gabrielle Fraser (born December 15, 1983, in Wellington, New Zealand) is an award-winning New Zealand singer-songwriter. She is also one of the main worship leaders of popular Christian praise and worship band Hillsong United.

## Sourced

* Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead.
** "Albertine", in Albertine (2006)

## External links

* Official website
# Battle of Khanwa

The Battle of Khanwa was fought at Khanwa on March 16, 1527. It was fought between the invading Timurid forces of Babur and the Rajput Confederation led by Rana Sanga for supremacy of Northern India.

## Quotes
### Tuzk-e Babri

    Babur. Tuzk-e Babri. (trans.) Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khanan. illuminated. Delhi: Akbar, 1589. p. Folio 318b. This manuscript is available in National Museum, New Delhi. The Persian translation was done from the original Turkic manuscript of Babur. quoted in Aabhas Maldahiyar - Babur_ The Chessboard King-Vintage Books (2024)
* (March 17th, 1527) On Saturday the 13th day of the second Jumāda of the date 933, a day blessed by the words, God hath blessed your Saturday, the army of Islām was encamped near the village of Kānwa, a dependency of Bīāna, hard by a hill which was four miles from the enemies of the Faith. When those accursed infidel foes of Muḥammad’s religion heard the reverberation of the armies of Islām, they arrayed their ill-starred forces and moved forward with one heart, relying on their mountain-like, demon-shaped elephants, as had relied the Lords of the Elephant1 who went to overthrow the sanctuary (ka‘ba) of Islām. Having these elephants, the wretched Hindus Became proud, like the Lords of the Elephant; Yet were they odious and vile as is the evening of death, Blacker than night, outnumbering the stars, All such as fire is but their heads upraised In hate, as rises its smoke in the azure sky, Ant-like they come from right and from left, Thousands and thousands of horse and foot. They advanced towards the victorious encampment, intending to give battle. The holy warriors of Islām, trees in the garden of valor, moved forward in ranks straight as serried pines and, like pines uplift their crests to heaven, uplifting their helmet-crests which shone even as shine the hearts of those that strive in the way of the Lord; their array was like Alexander’s iron-wall, and, as is the way of the Prophet’s Law, straight and firm and strong, as though they were a well-compacted building; and they became fortunate and successful in accordance with the saying, They are directed by their Lord, and they shall prosper. In that array no rent was frayed by timid souls; Firm was it as the Shāhanshāh’s resolve, strong as the Faith; Their standards brushed against the sky; Verily we have granted thee certain victory. Obeying the cautions of prudence, we imitated the ghāzīs of Rūm by posting matchlockmen (tufanchīān) and cannoneers (ra‘d-andāzān) along the line of carts which were chained to one another in front of us; in fact, Islām’s army was so arrayed and so steadfast that primal Intelligence and the firmament (‘aql-i-pīr u charkh-i-aīr) applauded the marshalling thereof. To affect this arrangement and organization, Niāmu’d-dīn ‘Alī Khalīfa, the pillar of the Imperial fortune, exerted himself strenuously; his efforts were in accord with Destiny, and were approved by his sovereign’s luminous judgment.
# Battle of Lepanto

The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of w:Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras. The Ottoman forces were sailing westward from their naval station in Lepanto (the Venetian name of ancient Naupactus – Greek Ναύπακτος, Turkish İnebahtı) when they met the fleet of the Holy League which was sailing east from Messina, Sicily.

## Quotes

* I sing a wondrous worke of God, [...] To wit, a cruell Martiall warre, A bloudy battell bold, Long doubtsome fight, with slaughter huge, And wounded manifold. Which fought was in LEPANTOES gulfe, Betwixt the baptiz'd race, And circumcisèd Turband Turkes Rencountring in that place.
** James VI and I, His Maiesties Lepanto, or Heroicall Song, being part of his poeticall exercises at vacant houres (London: Simon Stafford, and Henry Hooke, 1603)
* Then Satan answered, Fayth? Quoth he, Their Fayth is too too small; They striue, me thinke, on eyther part, Who farthest backe can fall: Hast thou not giuen them in my hands, Euen both the sides, I say, That I, as best doth seeme to me, May vse them euery way?
** His Maiesties Lepanto (1603)
* Vivat Hispania! Domino gloria! Don John of Austria Has set his people free!
** G. K. Chesterton, "Lepanto" (1911)
# Battle of Surat

Battle of Surat, also known as the Sack of Surat, was a land battle that took place on January 5, 1664, near the city of Surat, in present-day Gujarat, India; between Maratha ruler Shivaji and Inayat Khan, a Mughal commander. The Marathas defeated the Mughal force, and ransacked the city of Surat for six days.

## Quotes

* Sivagy, in the mean time, was resolved to be revenged on the Mogul by any means whatsoever, provided it might be to his advantage, and knowing very well that the Town of Surrat was full of Riches, he took measures how he might plunder it: But that no body might suspect his Design, he divided the Forces he had into two Camps; and seeing his Territories lie chiefly in the Mountains, upon the Road betwixt Bassaim and Chaoul, he pitched one Camp towards Chaoul, where he planted one of his Pavillions, and posted another at the same time towards Bassaim; and having ordered his Commanders not to plunder, but on the contrary, to pay for all they had, he secretly disguised himself in the habit of a Faquir. Thus he went to discover the most commodious ways that might lead him speedily to Surrat: He entered the Town to examine the places of it, and by that means had as much time as he pleased to view it all over. Being come back to his Chief Camp, he ordered four thousand of his Men to follow him without noise, and the rest to remain encamped, and to make during his absence as much noise as if all were there, to the end none might suspect the enterprise he was about, but think he was still in one of his Camps. Every thing was put in execution according to his orders…Sivagy’s Men entered the Town and plundered it for a space of four days burning down several Houses….it is believed at Surrat that this Raja Carried away in Jewels, Gold and Silver, to the value of above thirty French Millions…The Great Mogul was sensibly affected with the Pillage of that Town, and the boldness of Sivagy…when he Plundered Surrat in the Year One thousand six hundred and sixty four, he was but thirty-five years of Age.
** Thevenot and Careri, Indian Travels of Thevenot and Careri, Edited by Surendra Nath Sen, National Archives of India, 1949.quoted from Jain, M. (editor) (2011). The India they saw: Foreign accounts. New Delhi: Ocean Books. Volume III Chapter 12
# Battle of Uhud

The Battle of Uhud (Arabic: غَزْوَة أُحُد‎, Arabic pronunciation: [ɣaz'wat'u uħud]) was fought on Saturday, 23 March 625 AD (7 Shawwal, 3 AH), in the valley north of Mount Uhud. The Qurayshi Meccans, led by Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, commanded an army of 3,000 men toward Muhammad's stronghold in Medina. The battle was the only battle throughout the Muslim–Quraysh War in which the Muslims did not manage to defeat their enemy and it came just a year after the Battle of Badr.

## Quotes

* A devout Muslim Uwayah Qami lived in the valley of Urfa. He told Umar... that “when I learnt that a tooth of the Prophet had been martyred (in the Battle of Uhud) I broke one of mine. Then I thought that perhaps some other tooth of his had been martyred. So, I broke all my teeth… It is only after that that I felt at peace”.
** Shykh Fariduddin Attar, Tazkirat-ul-Auliya, trs. into Urdu by Maulana Zubair Afzal Usmani, Delhi, n.d., 16, and quoted by Sita Ram Goel, Islam vis-a-vis Hindu Temples, New Delhi, 1993, 59-60. Quoted from Lal, K. S. (1994). Muslim slave system in medieval India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 12
* After Uhud came revelations to explain the setback. While Badr was Allah’s victory, Uhud was not Allah’s defeat but the result of the Muslims’ failure of courage and lust for the things of this world, specifically in this case the spoils of war, the goods and women they hoped to win from the Quraysh.
** The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS (2018), Robert Spencer
# Battle of Haldighati

The Battle of Haldighati was a battle fought on 18 June 1576 between the Mewar forces led by Maharana Pratap, and the Mughal forces led by Man Singh I of Amber. The Mughals carried the day after inflicting significant casualties on Mewar forces, although they failed to capture Pratap, who reluctantly retreated persuaded by his fellow commanders.

## Quotes

* Akbar sent Raja Man Sing and Asaf Khan against Rana Pratap of Mewar in 1576. There were Rajput soldiers on both sides; those under Rana Pratap were fighting the ones under Raja Man Singh. At one stage in the fierce struggle, Badaoni asked Asaf Khan how he could distinguish between the friendly and the enemy Rajputs. Asaf Khan replied: “Shoot at whomsoever you like, on whichever side they may be killed, it will be a gain to Islam.”
** Battle of Haldighati. Quoted from K.S. Lal, Indian Muslims who are they, 1990
* When Man Singh was appointed the leader of the expedition against Maharana Pratap, the appointment caused some resentment in the Muslim military circles. Badayuni accompanied Man Singh in this expedition. On the battle-field he failed to distinguish between the Imperial Rajputs and those led by Maharana Pratap. He consulted a Muslim friend nearby who told him that he need not worry. He should shoot indiscriminately ; whosoever would be killed would mean one Rajput less and hence Islam would gain.
** Sharma Sri Ram. 1988. The Religious Policy of the Mughal Emperors. 3rd ed. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal. ch 3
# Battle of Khe Sanh

The Battle of Khe Sanh (21 January – 9 July 1968) was conducted in the Khe Sanh area during the Vietnam War.

## Quotes

* Khe Sanh, one of the major battles in the Vietnam War, was just one little piece of a huge malignant disaster in a war that was criminal from its inception, and that had no purpose beyond perpetuating the neocolonialist control by the US of a long-subjugated people who were fighting to be free, just as our own ancestors had done. The over 58,000 Americans who died in that war, who contributed to the killing of over 2 million Vietnamese, many or most of them civilians, may have engaged in personal acts of bravery, but they were not, as a group, heroes. Nor were they over there fighting for American freedom. Some, like Lt. William Calley, who did not die, were no doubt murderers. Most, though, were simply victims–victims of their own government’s years of lying and deceit. If we memorialize them, it should be by vowing never again to allow our government to commit such crimes, and to send Americans to fight and die for such criminal policies. Sadly, we’ve already allowed that to happen, though, over and over again–in the Panama, in Grenada, in Iraq, and now in Afghanistan and perhaps, before long, Iran and/or Pakistan.
** Dave Lindorff, The Glorification of War (May 31, 2010), CounterPunch.
# Economy of Serbia

The economy of Serbia is a service-based upper middle income economy with the tertiary sector accounting for two-thirds of total gross domestic product (GDP) and functions on the principles of the free market. Nominal GDP in 2019 is projected to reach $51.523 billion, which is $7,397 per capita, while GDP based on purchasing power parity (PPP) stood at $129.298 billion, which is $18,564 per capita. The strongest sectors of Serbia's economy are energy, automotive industry, machinery, mining, and agriculture.

## Quotes

* [N]othing against making money, but I know how money was made [in Serbia] during the '90s...
** Dragan Bjelogrlić, as quoted in "Dragan Bjelogrlić: Uloge su bolje" (March 2011), Status
** Original Serbo-Croatian: [N]emam ništa protiv zarađivanja para, ali znam kako su se pare zarađivale 90-ih...

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Economy of Serbia on Wikipedia
# Economy of Russia

The economy of Russia has gradually transformed from a planned economy into a mixed market-oriented economy. It has enormous natural resources, particularly oil and natural gas. In 2023, it was the world's 11th-largest economy by nominal GDP, 6th-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP) according to IMF, and 5th-largest according to World Bank. Due to a volatile currency exchange rate, Russia's GDP as measured in dollars fluctuates sharply. Russia was the last major economy to join the WTO, becoming a member in 2012.

## Quotes

* At the end of Soviet times, some talked about creating “socialism with a human face.”. But now, Russia instead has created “capitalism with an inhuman face,” a system in which the worst features of capitalism have been exacerbated and its best minimized or eliminated, [economist] Igor Nikolayev says.
** Paul A. Goble, "Russia Now has ‘Capitalism with an Inhuman Face,’ Nikolayev Says", Window on Eurasia (July 22, 2019)

## External links

* Media related to Economy of Russia on Wikimedia Commons
* Encyclopedic article on Economy of Russia on Wikipedia
# Economy of the Netherlands

The economy of the Netherlands is the 17th largest in the world in 2019 according to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

## Quotes

* It is true that if you simply have market capitalism not embedded in a true democratic system, then you will get increasing inequality... And that is why every modern capitalist system has a welfare state and in Europe these welfare states consume 50 percent of GDP, redistribute it in fairer ways. I have always thought the European Union represented a truer embodiment of what I would regard as something like the end of history... The United States' model is a little bit more liberal and therefore we do less redistribution than, let's say, Holland or Sweden, but all modern states do that.
** Francis Fukuyama, as quoted in "Fukuyama: 'Putinism', Radical Islam No Alternative To Liberal Democracy" (30 January 2016), by *Charles Recknagel, Radio Free Europe: Radio Liberty.
* Hollanders are not a nation to rob another of its property, but desire to live in friendship with all people, and trade with them.
** Jan van Riebeeck, Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope (c. January 1656 - December 1658), as quoted in Riebeeck's Journal (1897), by H. C. V. Leibrandt, Cape Town, p. 67
* The composition of Unilever should serve as a warning that colonialism was not simply a matter of ties between a given colony and its mother country, but between colonies on the one hand and metropoles on the other. The German capital in Unilever joined the British in exploiting Africa and the Dutch in exploiting the East Indies. The rewards spread through the capitalist system in such a way that even those capitalist nations who were not colonial powers were also beneficiaries of the spoils. Unilever factories established in Switzerland, New Zealand, Canada, and the U.S.A. were participants in the expropriation of Africa’s surplus and in using that surplus for their own development.
** Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Howard University Press. 1972. p. 190. ISBN 978-0-9501546-4-0.

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Economy of the Netherlands on Wikipedia
# Economy of South Korea

The economy of South Korea is the 4th largest in Asia and the 11th largest in the world. It is a mixed-economy dominated by family-owned conglomerates called chaebols.

## Quotes

* Countries are different, but people are people, and the Koreans are the same as anyone else. Their rise out of poverty in the face of such circumstances to democratic capitalism underlines the theme of our age.
** Michael Breen, The New Koreans: The Story of a Nation (2017), New York: St. Martin's Press, p. 16

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Economy of South Korea on Wikipedia
# Christopher Minkowski

Christopher Zand Minkowski (born 13 May 1953) is an American academic, who has been Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford since 2005.

## Quotes

* Modern scholars, then, sought a method for containing Sanskrit’s potential to activate its cultural politics, by subjecting the study of Sanskrit to scholarly protocols which were antithetical to the language’s genius and charisma. They opted for a decidedly unromantic array of curatorial and antiquarian forms of scholarship: philologizing, cataloguing, typologizing, organizing into chronologies, and so on; eminently useful practices, no doubt, but none of them glamorous.
** Minkowski, C. King David in Oudh: a Bible story in Sanskrit and the Just King at an Afghan court. Inaugural Lecture, Oxford University. (2006) quoted in Kak, S. Racism, Eurocentrism, and Indology.
# Christopher McGowan

Christopher McGowan is curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada, and professor of zoology at the University of Toronto.

## Quotes

* The lioness sinks her scimitar talons into the zebra's rump. They rip through the tough hide and anchor deep into the muscle. The startled animal lets out a loud bellow as its body hits the ground. An instant later the lioness releases her claws from its buttocks and sinks her teeth into the zebra's throat, choking off the sound of terror. Her canine teeth are long and sharp, but an animal as large as a zebra has a massive neck, with a thick layer of muscle beneath the skin, so although the teeth puncture the hide they are too short to reach any major blood vessels. She must therefore kill the zebra by asphyxiation, clamping her powerful jaws around its trachea (windpipe), cutting off the air to its lungs. It is a slow death. If this had been a small animal, say a Thomson's gazelle (Gazella thomsoni) the size of a large dog, she would have bitten it through the nape of the neck; her canine teeth would then have probably crushed the vertebrae or the base of the skull, causing instant death. As it is, the zebra's death throes will last five or six minutes.
** The Raptor and the Lamb: Predators and Prey in the Living World (1997) ISBN 978-0788198014

## External links

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