Edgar Allan Poe is popularly known for writing early-American horror stories. But for me, he is a social scientist who used fiction instead of theory and statistics to make his arguments about human behavior.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
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Monthly Archives: May 2025
Erik Kurilla was born
on this day in 1962
Michael Erik Kurilla – United States Army general who was appointed the 15th commander of United States Central Command – was born on this day – May 16, 1962.
General Kurilla holds an aerospace engineering degree from the United States Military Academy. Additionally, he earned an MBA at Regis University as well as a masters in national security studies from the National War College.
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Learning Object
via David Allen
[Twitter] @gtdguy
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Quote, Unquote
Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Jasper Johns was born
on this day in 1930
Jasper Johns – the American painter whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art – was born on this day – May 15, 1930 – in Augusta, Georgia.
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Quote, Unquote
In the Surrealist period I wanted to create the iconography of the interior world – the world of the marvelous, of my father Freud. I succeeded in doing it.
~ Salvador Dali
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