by Beat Schindler | Jan 8, 2025 | You
Today’s post consists of a short description of 15 women that helped and help make the world a better place for women and their children regardless of gender. These 15 women — and countless others — did and do so at the risk of persecution, imprisonment, torture, and...
by Beat Schindler | Jan 7, 2025 | Words, You
The Red Cross was founded 161 years ago by Henry Dunant and Gustave Moynier with a little help from their friends. When they founded the Red Cross, Henry Dunant and Gustave Moynier knew more about aiding word-users in need regardless of their nationality, race, or...
by Beat Schindler | Jan 7, 2025 | Words, You
Charles Darwin, born 215 years ago, died 142 years ago, didn’t believe the most successful lie ever told, according to which the past is in a book. Instead of that he decided to find out what happened in the past by himself. Aged 22 he embarked on a five-year voyage...
by Beat Schindler | Oct 9, 2024 | Words, You
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”, said William Shakespeare some 430 years ago. Now, 430 years later, so it is with words. A word by any other word is a word. No matter what you call it, if you have aword for it, it’s a word. WORDS You are either...
by Beat Schindler | Sep 23, 2024 | Words, You
James Frederick Ferrier (born 216 years ago / died 160 years ago) was a Scottish word-user, writer, lawyer, and university professor. His wife Margaret Anne Wilson wrote under the pseudonym Christopher North. At a time when the word-user population of 1 billion...
