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Which philosopher died voluntarily eating like a concentration camp prisoner?

French politician Simone Veil was a prisoner of Auschwitz as a child and survived. Another Simone Weil, a French philosopher, as a sign of sympathy for the prisoners of Nazism, limited her food intake to the level of rations in concentration camps, which led to her premature death.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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How long have the Celts lived in Britain?

Since June 21, 1792.

It was on this day that a group of London "bards" staged a completely invented ceremony on Primrose Hill - they even laid out a stone circle from the cobblestones - declaring that by doing so they supposedly revived a ritual that goes back to the ancient tribes of the Celts and their druids.

According to official sources, to this date the word "Celt" as a description of the inhabitants of Britain or Ireland before the arrival of the Romans was never used, and certainly not a term that these peoples called themselves.

The word "Celt" was coined by the Greek historian Herodotus in 450 BC. e .: he named them the tribes that lived in the upper reaches of the Danube, north of the Alps.

The Romans used another word, Galli (meaning "chicken people"). The inhabitants of the British Isles they called Brittani and never called them "Celts".

The appearance of the word "Celt" in the English language occurred in the XVII century. Oxford-based Welsh linguist Edward Lluyd drew attention to the similarities inherent in the languages spoken in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. He called these languages "Celtic" - and the name stuck.

The word "Celtic" is also used to describe the "curl" style of various jewelry sold in Irish souvenir shops. There is, however, no evidence that such a design was conceived by an ethnically homogeneous group of people.

Most modern historians believe that the language and culture that we are accustomed to call "Celtic" spread through contact, not invasion. People "became" Celts, adopting architecture, fashion, manner of speaking, because they found them useful and attractive, and not at all because they belonged to the same ethnic group.

The romantic notion of the Celtic empire - skilful craftsmen, horse-loving old and wise druids, harp-stringing poets, ferocious bearded warriors - is all a product of the so-called "Celtic Renaissance" that began at the end of the XNUMXth century. And it has much more to do with modern Irish, Welsh and Scottish nationalism than with historical reality.

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