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  2. An Essay on Humanity to Animals - Wikipedia

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    The book is divided into several chapters, each addressing a specific aspect of human-animal relationships. The opening chapter establishes the connection between cruelty to animals and broader societal brutality. Young argues that acts of violence against animals desensitise individuals, fostering a general disposition of cruelty that can ...

  3. Juan Flores (outlaw) - Wikipedia

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    His eyes, neither black, grey, nor blue, greatly resembling those of the owl—always moving, watchful and wary, and the most cruel and vindictive-looking eyes that were ever set in human head." [ 2 ] Of course, Bell's depiction of Flores reflects the widespread racism of the times, especially in Bell's use of dehumanized animal terms.

  4. Humankind: A Hopeful History - Wikipedia

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    Humankind: A Hopeful History (Dutch: De Meeste Mensen Deugen: Een Nieuwe Geschiedenis van de Mens) is a 2019 non-fiction book by Dutch historian Rutger Bregman. It was published by Bloomsbury in May 2021. [4] It argues that people are decent at heart and proposes a new worldview based on the corollaries of this optimistic view of human beings.

  5. Misanthropy - Wikipedia

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    For Nietzsche, a noteworthy flaw of human beings is their tendency to create and enforce systems of moral rules that favor weak people and suppress true greatness. [123] [126] He held that the human being is something to be overcome and used the term Übermensch to describe an ideal individual who has transcended traditional moral and societal ...

  6. The Great Big Book of Horrible Things - Wikipedia

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    The paperback was published by W. W. Norton in May 2013 under the new title Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History. The British edition (Canongate Books, 20 October 2011) is entitled Atrocitology: Humanity's 100 Deadliest Achievements. It has been translated into Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.

  7. The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

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    The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by the American white nationalist author Michael H. Hart. Published by his father's publishing house, it was his first book and was reprinted in 1992 with revisions. It is a ranking of the 100 people who, according to Hart, most influenced human history.

  8. History of life - Wikipedia

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    The history of life on Earth traces the processes by which living and extinct organisms evolved, from the earliest emergence of life to the present day. Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago (abbreviated as Ga, for gigaannum) and evidence suggests that life emerged prior to 3.7 Ga. [1] [2] [3] The similarities among all known present-day species indicate that they have diverged through the ...

  9. Dachau (US Army report) - Wikipedia

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    The OSS section, introduced by a Summary (pp. 3, 4), comprises twelve pages and is divided into the sections History (pp. 5 to 6), Composition (pp. 6 to 8), Organization (pp. 9 to 11) and Groupings of Prisoners (pp. 11 to 15). The summary is followed by a brief outline of the history of Dachau Concentration Camp from 1933 to 1945, describing ...