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  • The Universal Decimal Classification system that he designed explicitly mapped multiple relations between multi-media objects ( When THE POLITICIAN won a Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913, he donated half of the prize money to Le Palais Mondial. Also THE MEGACORPORAT
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  • ...les: Editiones Mundeum 1935): 448.</ref> It became a lifelong project that he tried to establish together with [[Henri La Fontaine]] in the beginning of ...of the League of Nations, but his designs were rejected. It was then that he first met his later ''cher ami'' Paul Otlet. Both were already familiar wit
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  • ...of music on legs covered by the brown folds of a towelling dressing gown. He had the air of someone who had seen something of great amazement but yet la <noinclude>{{RT|volapuk}}</noinclude><section begin=volapuk />In his youth he had dabbled with the world-speak language Volapük, one designed to do away
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  • ...an, that his projects were not profit oriented, and most importantly, that he was living in the temporal and cultural context of modernism at the beginni ...he librarian should follow, which characteristics are required, and so on, he briefly mentions the existence of “Bibliotecaire-adjoints, rédacteurs, c
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  • ...ism and trust in science was driving us without possibility of doubt.. now he ave NPOV which is somehow the working surrogate of objectivity and universa Artist andrew norman wilson represented one element of this hidden class that he found out was really next to him, the scanops.
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  • ...um]] was 'temporarily' transferred to the house at [[Rue Fétis 44]] where he lived with his second wife, [[Cato Van Nederhasselt]].</div> ...orated with a globe and the inscription "Il ne fut rien sinon Mundanéen" (He was nothing if not Mundanéen).</div>
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  • He must be cold Ah, he's happy, he's in bee heaven
    554 bytes (51 words) - 15:51, 10 June 2015
  • He must be cold Ah, he's happy, he's in bee heaven
    554 bytes (51 words) - 16:09, 10 June 2015
  • ...i La Fontaine]] was part of several international initiatives. For example he launched the 'Bureau International de la paix' as early as 1907 and a few y ...tition and the regulation of natural goods (think: diamonds and gold ...), he writes:
    18 KB (2,539 words) - 05:48, 28 June 2016
  • temple in his International Museum in Brussels, in which he gave the Mundaneum. He argued that the functionality of modern
    9 KB (1,459 words) - 17:00, 26 June 2016
  • File:John Johnston The Allure of Machinic Life (BookZZ.org).pdf
    ...w they are already changing. This understanding is a necessary first step, he further argues, that must precede speculation about the meaning and cultura ...role played by neuroscience in several contemporary research initiatives, he shows how further success in the building of intelligent machines will most
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  • ...um]] was 'temporarily' transferred to the house at [[Rue Fétis 44]] where he lived with his second wife, [[Cato Van Nederhasselt]].</div> ...orated with a globe and the inscription "Il ne fut rien sinon Mundanéen" (He was nothing if not Mundanéen).</div>
    32 KB (5,200 words) - 09:20, 23 September 2016
  • ...]] [[:Category:dressing|dressing]] [[:Category:gown|gown]]. [[:Category:he|He]] [[:Category:have|had]] the [[:Category:air|air]] of [[:Category:someone|s ...ing]] [[Category:dressing|dressing]] [[Category:gown|gown]]. [[Category:he|He]] [[Category:have|had]] the [[Category:air|air]] of [[Category:someone|some
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  • 'He also wrote extensively about the need for a universal network for the commu
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  • ...covered the [[Mundaneum]] at Chaussée de Louvain in Brussels. Ever since, he would return to the same building, making friends with the friends of the P ...e away from the paper. And my husband loved cats. So in the eighties, when he was finally in a position to save the archives, the cats had to be taken ca
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  • ...in, a modest 10 kilometers away from the current Mundaneum archive center. He was also involved in setting up the collaboration agreement between the meg
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  • ...who have taken a direct part in the civilising work of the Congo’. While he was unfortunately not alone in taking such a position, the racism expressed ...lso helps to understand why Otlet remained loyal to ‘his’ king and how he could negate the atrocities taking place in Congo, long after these facts w
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  • ...documentalist [[Paul Otlet]] died as a disillusioned man. In his lifetime he only partially realized The Mundaneum, an encyclopedic survey of human know
    33 KB (5,262 words) - 14:38, 25 June 2016
  • ...and television all worthy substitutes for the book as information carrier. He envisaged them interconnected into a ‘radiated library’, an intellectua
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  • ...ments that influence life and cultural production. As a specific interest, he is looking into the tensions that surround cultural appropriation, in relat
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