Monthly Archives: December 2015

Nicolas-Edme Rétif or Nicolas-Edme Restif 1734-1806 age 72 Nicolas-Edme Rétif or Nicolas-Edme Restif, also known as Rétif de la Bretonne, was a French novelist. The term retifism for shoe fetishism was named after him. His novels are rambling and carelessly … Continue reading →

Chauvinism and its origins The character was developed by Arrago in searching for the etymology of “Chauvinism” for the Dictionnaire de la Conversation 1834 or in the Cogniard brothers’ 1831 play La Cocarde Tricolore (The Tricolor Cockade), who uttered the … Continue reading →

The Need for Space and Power In all the fields of geography the modern political geography has become the most ideological. There are geographers whose approaches to research are radical. i.e. capitalist, communist, nihilist ( extreme pessimism), determinist and even … Continue reading →

Defining Life on our planet There are many living things in a variety of different forms. Some are very complex multi-cellular organisms to trees, fish or an elephant are classified as taken in and using energy to grow and survive … Continue reading →