Poisoning the well

Poisoning the well is a type of informal fallacy where adverse information about a target is preemptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing something that the target person is about to say. Poisoning the well can be a special case of argumentum ad hominem, and the term was first used with this sense by John Henry Newman in his work Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864). The etymology of the phrase lies in well poisoning, an ancient wartime practice of pouring poison into sources of fresh water before an invading army, to diminish the invading army's strength.

Miners in the Sky

Miners in The Sky is a 1967 science fiction novel by American writer Murray Leinster

Stefan Jäger

Stefan Jäger was a painter known for his depiction of and deep identification with the Danube Swabian community to which he belonged

Bååt

Bååt was an important Swedish noble family, originally from Småland in south-eastern Sweden

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta was an Italian journalist, nationalist, revolutionary soldier and later a pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He adopted the motto In varietate unitas! which later inspired Motto of the European Union

A Cage of Eagles

A Cage of Eagles is a 1989 thriller by James Follet, taking place at 1941 in the POW Camp at Grizedale Hall at England's Lake District, where some of the most capable of the German officers captured by Britain were kept

Mollie Bean

Mollie Bean was a North Carolinian woman who, pretending to be a man, joined the 47th North Carolina Infantry, a regiment of the Confederate army in the American Civil War

Mid-City Tower

Mid-City Tower is a skyscraper in Mid-City Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Its exterior surface is wrapped entirely in concrete and glass. Completed in 1966, it has 14 floors and stands a height 53 meters (174 ft) tall. It is currently the seventh-tallest

Fire on the Mountain (Bisson novel)

Fire on the Mountain is a 1988 novel by the American author Terry Bisson. It is an alternate history describing the world as it would have been had John Brown succeeded in his raid on Harper's Ferry and touched off a slave rebellion in 1859, as he

Hibernia (personification)

Hibernia as a national personification representing Ireland appeared in numerous cartoons and drawings, especially in the nineteenth century

Jakub Landovský

Jakub Landovský, is a Czech politician, lawyer, and university pedagogue, who is currently an ambassador to NATO since 5 August 2019. He had served as the Deputy Minister of Defense from 2015 to 2019