Amass: Lists & Collections That Fascinate Me

Important people alive in 1888

Susan B. Anthony
P. T. Barnum
Alexander Graham Bell
Niels Bohr
Johannes Brahms
Robert Browning
Marc Chagall
Coco Chanel
Grover Cleveland
Ty Cobb
Marie Curie
Claude Debussy
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Marcel Duchamp
Wyatt Earp
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Ralph Waldo Emerson
W. C. Fields
Henry Ford
Mata Hari
Benjamin Harrison
Edward Hopper
Jack the Ripper
Scott Joplin
James Joyce
Franz Kafka
Boris Karloff
Helen Keller
Paul Klee
D. H. Lawrence
Béla Lugosi
Harpo Marx
Henri Matisse
A. A. Milne
Claude Monet
Jelly Roll Morton
Friedrich Nietzsche
Florence Nightingale
Georgia O'Keefe
Maxfield Parrish
Louis Pasteur
Gen. George Patton
Pablo Picasso
Beatrix Potter
Ezra Pound
Queen Victoria
Rasputin
Diego Rivera
John D. Rockefeller
Will Rogers
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Carl Sandburg
Sitting Bull
Joseph Stalin
Bram Stoker
Johann Strauss
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nikola Tesla
Leo Tolstoy
Harry S. Truman
Mark Twain
Vincent Van Gogh
Giuseppe Verdi
Virginia Woolf
Frank Lloyd Wright
N. C. Wyeth
Cy Young

Cities, Regions & Countries of Antiquity

The connections between the countries & places of "antiquity" and modern times has become clearer for me over the last decade or so. I must admit that I was ignorant of much of these connections when I was younger. I just never put two-and-two together until I started having an interest in history, etc. as a pass time and not just a school subject.

This is in part inspired by a classmate in my "Germs, Diseases, and The Plague" class who raised her hand and asked, "What's a Sioux?" the other day. No, it gets better! She bitched to me after class that she didn't know how to begin studying for our upcoming quiz because she didn't know where any of the places were that were discussed in class. She quipped, "I mean, where the hell is Cyprus, or whatever?"

I don't wanna make fun of her, really... it's more sad to me than anything. Sigh.

Alexandria: with a population of 3.5 to 5 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt, and its largest seaport.

Antioch: an ancient city on the eastern side of the Orontes River, located on the site of the modern city of Antakya, Turkey.

Carthage: an ancient city in Tunisia (on the northern coast of Africa) and a civilization that developed within the city's sphere of influence.

Constantinople: an ancient city first known as Byzantium, and now in modern times: Istanbul; located in Turkey.

Dalmatia: an ancient Roman province now in modern day Yugoslavia.

Delphi: is located in lower central Greece.

Gaul: part of the Roman Empire; modern day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and western Germany.

Hanging Gardens of Babylon: near present-day Al Hillah in Iraq.

Hispaniola: the island of Haiti & the Dominican Republic; the second largest island of the Antilles.

Olympia: Greece; site of original Olympic Games and origin of the flame used today.

Persia: the traditional name used to describe Iran, its people, and its ancient empires since 600 BC.

Rhodes: a Greek island about 11 miles west of Turkey between the Greek mainland and the island of Cyprus.

Siam: modern day Thailand was called by this name until the 1940s, officially.

Sparta: lies at the southern end of the central Laconian plain in Greece.

Tenochtitlan: the ancient name for modern Mexico City.

Troy: archeological ruins exist near the town of Truva near the western coast of Turkey. The modern name on maps of the region is Trola.

Phobias related to food, beverages, and consumption of such

This list comes from "The Phobia List", and, being the sort of person who "fears the man of one book", I will endeavor to massage this list with time, should I find any other sources that discount the reality of any of these. So, it's mostly for fun.

Alekotorophobia: fear of chickens
Alliumphobia: fear of garlic
Arachibutyrophobis: fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth
Bacillophobia: fear of microbes
Carnophobia: fear of meat

Cibophobia (Sitiophobia): fear of food
Consecotaleophobia: fear of chopsticks
Defecaloesiophobia: fear of painful bowel movements
Doraphobia: fear of fur of skins of animals
Emetophobia: fear of vomiting

Geumophobia: fear of taste
Ichthyophobia: fear of fish
Lachanophobia: fear of vegetables
Mageirocophobia: fear of cooking
Methyphobia: fear of alcohol

Mycophobia: fear or aversion to mushrooms
Oenophobia: fear of wine
Ostraconophobia: fear of shellfish
Parasitophobia: fear of parasites
Phagophobia: fear of swallowing, of eating, or of being eaten

Pnigophobia: fear of choking
Pocrescophobia: fear of gaining weight
 

Extinct Species of Michigan

I live in Michigan, so, I thought this would be an enlightening list. See the full list of threatened and endangered species HERE. There are many more categories, including: mussels, insects, and amphibians. Also, this list below is of things categorized as "Probably Extirpated", they don't outright use the word 'extinct'.

BIRDS
1. Lark Sparrow (Chondestes grammacus)

FISH
2. Deepwater Cisco (Coregonus johannae)
3. Blackfin Cisco (Coregonus nigripinnis)
4. Shortnose Cisco (Coregonus reighardi)
5. Bigeye Chub (Hybopsis amblops)
6. Ironcolor Shiner (Notropis chalybaeus) - fish
7. Weed Shiner (Notropis texanus)
8. Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula)
9. Bluepike (Stizostedion vitreum glaucum)
10. Arctic Grayling (Thymallus arcticus)

Hello

This is my new blog where I'd like to amass (hence the catchy name) a large collection, of well, collections. I am more than mildly obsessed with list-making, collections, and the like.

I hope you like this little experiment.