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Someone else mentioned Graham Chapman's funeral and John Cleese's eulogy. Here's a quotation from it that I particularly like:
> Well, I feel that I should say, "Nonsense. Good riddance to him, the freeloading bastard! I hope he fries. "
> And the reason I think I should say this is, he would never forgive me if I didn't, if I threw away this opportunity to shock you all on his behalf. Anything for him but mindless good taste. I could hear him whispering in my ear last night as I was writing this:
> "Alright, Cleese, you're very proud of being the first person to ever say 'shit' on television. If this service is really for me, just for starters, I want you to be the first person ever at a British memorial service to say 'fuck'!"
> You see, the trouble is, I can't. If he were here with me now I would probably have the courage, because he always emboldened me. But the truth is, I lack his balls, his splendid defiance. And so I'll have to content myself instead with saying 'Betty Marsden...'
Frederick I "Barbarossa", the first Holy Roman Emporer, died while leading his army to the Third Crusade after jumping into a river in full armor and drowning in 1190.
[The] Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. -- Voltaire
Windows 10 will not have native DVD playback support and will require a third party software to do so. (Windows Media Player is deprecated)
It has been suggested that when gambling first originated, it was associated with predicting the future/fate and divinity:
>The origin of gambling is considered to be divinatory: by casting marked sticks and other objects and interpreting the outcome, man sought knowledge of the future and the intentions of the gods. From this it was a very short step to betting on the outcome of the throws. The Bible contains many references to the casting of lots to divide property.
>However, in ancient times casting lots was not considered to be gambling in the modern sense but instead was connected with inevitable destiny, or fate. Anthropologists have also pointed to the fact that gambling is more prevalent in societies where there is a widespread belief in gods and spirits whose benevolence may be sought.
Although Friedrich Nietzsche has been widely associated with nihilism, he wasn't a nihilist at all. Also, iirc Nietzsche's sister is largely responsible for his perceived anti-semitic stance.
Source: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-so-many-people-associate-Nietzsche-with-nihilism
The song Limousine by Brand New is about the tragic death of a 7 year old flower girl whose limousine was struck by a drunk driver going the wrong way.
Sources:
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=7781
The crash itself: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/nyregion/2-days-after-li-crash-mother-tells-of-brutal-loss.html?referer=
Japan's history is really fucking cool, it really feels like it's out of a fantasy novel at times. One example is how the term kamikaze was coined. Most people recognize it in the context of suicide bombing, but the term itself just means 'divine wind'.
The year is 1274. At this point the Mongol Empire (established by Genghis Khan) controls a large portion of Asia (as well as parts of Europe and the Middle East). However at this point his grandson, Kublai Khan, is in power. He decides it's about time Japan is conquered by the Mongols. He gathers a force of about 40,000 troops and sails toward the island country. Once anchored in a Japanese bay (Hakata Bay), one-third of the fleet gets wiped out by a typhoon and the rest of the fleet flees.
Seven years later Kublai Khan tries again, this time with two separate forces containing about 140,000 troops. The forces meet in Hakata Bay and incredibly are once again hit by a massive typhoon. Over half the Mongol force was killed by this storm and the survivors were wiped out by Japanese forces. The Japanese most likely would have been defeated by the Mongols if it weren't for the typhoons since they would have been vastly outnumbered in both instances. It's no surprise this was seen as an act of divine intervention.
Honestly if that interested you at all I highly recommend reading up on Japanese history; it's fascinating.
TL;DR: The term 'kamikaze' was coined after two large Mongol invasions of Japan were thwarted by typhoons.
Source: Took a couple of classes on East Asian History, but here's an actual source: http://www.britannica.com/event/kamikaze-of-1274-and-1281
Their name came from a negative review of a band the two members were originaly in named Darlin', in which someone referred to their music as "A bunch of daft punk"
The Latin word for left is "Sinistra", which is also the root word for Sinister. Thus, left handed people have historically been considered unlucky or evil. The same is true in Sanskrit, as the same word means both "left" and "evil".
Additionally, in many third world countries, the use of the left hand is considered unclean due to the hand's practical uses in lieu of toilet paper and it is considered extremely foul and inappropriate to use one's left hand for eating or greeting someone.
Also, in many cultures, left handed people have historically been linked with witchcraft and Satan.
One last thing from my personal experience, as a lefty, using a can opener is a bitch!
Harry Houdini grew up here and it's a general rumor that his greatest escape was getting out of here. Also Joseph McCarthy grew up just outside of my town and is buried in the same graveyard as a lot of my family.
The darknet has two sides, and people seem to mainly talk about one. The illegal markets (/r/DarkNetMarkets) have made headlines, and child porn is a real problem there; these both make the news a lot so everyone is very aware of this side. I believe both of these are very real problems that need addressing, and I'm sure there's more of this side that I just don't know about. But I want to talk about what less people seem to talk about - how people like journalists use Tor, or how people in oppressed countries like China can access information their government would rather block, or how people like Chelsea Manning use it to protect themselves, or how military personal have used it to protect themselves on the battlefield, hell it can be how you can talk to someone without the NSA knowing you sent it...I think these are hugely important things. Much like how when you give people people pseudonymity on the the regular internet by letting people hide behind usernames some will do bad things, it's just a reflection of the people using it. The internet isn't bad because people do bad things on it, and neither is the darknet. It's a tool, used for both bad and good. The difference here is if used correctly, it can offer arguably absolute anonymity. You can access the darknet using Tor, a special web browser configured to hide your IP address. Here's a page on their website about who uses it and why. This is also a really interesting talk on how darknet users have been caught out if that sounds interesting to you.
A decrease in the cat population due to superstition and belief had a direct result on the increase in spread of the Black Death. Cats generally used to keep vermin in check but were innocently killed for their obvious connection to Satan and later killed because they were associated with fleas (Black Death spread by rat fleas).
I don't know where I know this from originally but here's a source
Gilgamesh is the oldest piece of epic Western literature.
And I'm going to venture a guess on why this is being posted. Fall semester just started. You're probably taking some sort of class called "Western Civilization" or "Culture and Society in the West." This is one of the first texts you've been assigned, so you're seeking some help. Maybe you need to write a paper.
Did I get it right OP?
"Approximately 93% of adult male psychopaths in the United States are either in prison or jail or on probation or parole." Source
Many languages, particularly Asian ones, do not have any conjugation of words. For example, in Indonesian, plural forms can sometimes be created by repeating the noun, so 'child' is 'anak' and 'children' is 'anak anak'. In Thai grammar, they use often modifier words to indicate past or future tense, so instead of "I ate" they might say "Phom gin laew" which basically translates to "I eat already".
Cambyses II of Persia used cats to fight a battle.
He was fighting the Egyptians in the battle of Pelusium in 525 B.C. and as we all know, the cat held a high place in Egyptian society as sacred creatures and the Achaemenid Empire sought to use this to their advantage in the invasion of Egypt.Cambyses ordered his men to paint felines on their shields, and he brought hundreds of actual cats into his front lines. The plan worked: The Egyptian archers refused to fire on his felines, fearing that they would injure the animals—a crime punishable by death. Instead they retreated, and most were massacred by the pursuing Persians. This ultimately led to the capture of the pharaoh.
The famous Irish playwright Oscar Wilde has a little-known writing named "The Soul of Man Under Socialism", which is considered to be an incredibly important writing in the history of libertarian socialism, which anarchism is a form of. Wilde's essay was strongly influenced by Peter Kroptokin, a Russian anarchist who is considered one of the founders of anarcho-communism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_Man_under_Socialism http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/22753/anarchism
It can be used for practically anything (with the help of c++ based libraries and the giant amount of packages that do a world of different things). You can mess with sockets, http, cryptography, 3d graphics, GUIs, content management systems, automation of anything, and runs on many platforms.
Even if there is no support for whatever it is you want to do, there is the ability to import your own dll and use ctypes to call functions from it, you can literally do ANYTHING.
the only downside is that it is not a statically typed language so it is not very popular for HUGE projects, this is why you still see c++ and java, on stuff that is too complex for one person to understand the entire code base.
Edit:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/? - list of many available packages and apis
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-advantages-of-Python-over-C++ - python vs c++, very different languages, you should learn both
Russia once considered banning "gay" emoji. It was later decided that the emoji didn't show positive or negative tone by themselves, so they were allowed.
The Dark Ages lasted twice as long as the U.S. has been a country.
> The Dark Ages, or the early medieval period of western European history, specifically refers to the time (476–800) when there was no Roman (or Holy Roman) emperor in the West; or, more generally, to the period between about 500 and 1000, which was marked by frequent warfare and a virtual disappearance of urban life.
Grass grows from something called an intercalary meristem, which means new growth occurs at the bottom of the blade and propels old growth upward. This is why grass continues to grow after you cut it.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/289983/intercalary-meristem
If you want a good insight into medieval cookery why not read some recipes yourself? The forme of cury is a medieval cookbook from the 14th century that carries ~250 recipes from the period, you can get the e-book free from project gutenburg
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When he had his accident in the late 90s, he woke up to the guy that hit him squatting on a stump with a cane. He thought he was going to have been killed by a character in one of his novels.
Source: On Writing, his auto biography/guide to writing.
In 1212, between the 4th and 5th Crusades, there was an unofficial one known as the Children's Crusade. It only lasted a few months but thousands of young people went to Jerusalem to try and take the Holy Land.
Bittorrent is used by quite a few big companies (including facebook) to distribute big files to their servers and end users.
Python is one of 3 official languages that Google uses (alongside C++ and Java)
source (as well as a ton of other information in regards to Google and Python) on stack overflow
Almost everything in space in magnetized. Stars, most planets, galaxies, interstellar gas, and the solar wind all have magnetic fields; only comets and asteroids and some planets don't seem to have measurable magnetic fields. Electric fields are weaker/more rare; to my knowledge the only electric fields we have detected are in the Earth's magneto-tail. I study magnetic fields in our Galaxy. More on galactic magnetic fields
During the 2010 Olympic Gold Medal game, an estimated 80% of the the country was watching the game. EPCOR published a chart of water usage during the game to back this estimation. The use of water is in drastically low valleys during game time and huge peaks during intermission and ultimately after the game.
The Czech Republic, Prague, is home to the two most found geocaches in the world, both of them having been logged over 12,000 times.
A random alphanumeric password that's 8 characters long can be brute forced in 11 minutes by your average PC. 9 characters would take 7 hours, 10 characters increases that to 10 days, 11 characters would take a year, 12 would take 37 years, and 13 would take 1000 years. In three more characters and you'd need 1 million years to run through all possible options.
Well.. yeah. But if privacy is an issue just use Enigmail. It's an addon (for Thunderbird, not sure about support of different email clients) that encrypts your email in such a way that only the person for whom this email was encrypted can also decrypt it.
Not saying that your source/fact is wrong, it's not, but there are always alternatives :)
For those interested: https://www.enigmail.net/
There is a great “roguelite” minesweeper game called r/DemonCrawl
Check it out on steam! Or even on android for free :)
Among the professions with suicide rates 1.5 times or more than the rest of the population are doctors, dentists, veterinarians, financial workers, lawyers, and engineers, according to the CDC National Occupational Mortality Surveillance Database.
Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-more-white-collar-workers-are-at-risk-for-suicide-2015-07-01
You can create your own stamp with your photo on it in Bhutan!
Highly recommend Crime Junkie Podcast.
Picture this: Just as you're beginning to drift off, your body jerks awake in a response to the sensation of falling. These are known as hypnic jerks. Source
Similar to fingerprints, each person has a unique iris, which is the colored portion of the eye.
edit: also, fyi, the white part of the eye is the sclera, and the black (as most people know) is the pupil.
"Office work" is a vague term that covers many diverse professions including law, software development, and human resources just to name a few.
Weird connection but follow me on this one. Crayola was created by Edwin Binney and Harold Smith. Binney had a daughter named Dorothy who married a man named George Putnam.
Putnam was a publisher and became successful after launching Charles Lindbergh's autobiography detailing his iconic flight, which also kindled his interest in aviation. Putnam decided to manage a young up-and-coming female pilot named Amelia Earhart, but the two fell in love so Putnam eventually divorced the Crayola heiress to marry the aviation pioneer.
There is a geocache on the international space station that was left by the developer of the Ultima series of computer games.
Sony's first commercial product (in 1946) was a rice cooker that failed miserably due to it overcooking and undercooking rice, they only made a $300 profit on $7000 of sales
At one point during his days as a hustler living in Harlem, Malcolm X was being hunted down by four different groups of people at once. By the police for a myriad of crimes including robbery, drug dealing, and arms dealing; By a Native American man who was after Malcolm for a gambling debt; By a fellow hustler that Malcolm punched in a subway station; And by the husband of a white woman that Malcolm was dating on and off. Crazy life.
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
In the 17th Century, the tapestry of small, autonomous principalities in what is today Germany was torn apart by the Thirty Years' War, a struggle between France and the House of Hapsburg, a dynastic family which was royalty in Germany, England, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Ireland, Mexico, etc. It was one of the deadliest per capita wars in history, and estimates put the death toll between 25 and 40% of the entire population of Germany.
A series of treaties called the Peace of Westphalia ended the war in 1648. The treaties famously laid the philosophical and legal groundwork for the modern concept of a world made up of co-existing sovereign nations, and is one of the most important events of the Early Modern Period-- the centuries of change which connect the Middle Ages and Renaissance with the Industrial and Modern Eras.
http://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Europe#ref=ref310375
Traditional Russian family names have a male and a female version. For example in a married couple the wife might be called 'Gargarina' and the husband would be referred to as 'Gargarin'.
Source: A Russian friend of mine and also this
"The oldest archaeological evidence of the Celts comes from Hallstatt, Austria, near Salzburg. Excavated graves of chieftains there, dating from about 700 bce, exhibit an Iron Age culture (one of the first in Europe) which received in Greek trade such luxury items as bronze and pottery vessels. It would appear that these wealthy Celts, based from Bavaria to Bohemia, controlled trade routes along the river systems of the Rhône, Seine, Rhine, and Danube and were the predominant and unifying element among the Celts. In their westward movement the Hallstatt warriors overran Celtic peoples of their own kind, incidentally introducing the use of iron, one of the reasons for their own overlordship."
http://www.britannica.com/topic/Celt-people
Sound can have various different envelopes that can change the timbre (sound quality/tone color) of the sound. It consists of an attack, decay, sustain, and release.
In terms of musical instruments, instruments that generate a large attack, large decay, little sustain, and quick release are percussion instruments and plucked acoustical string instruments (snare drum, pizzicato strings, harpsichord).
Instruments that generate a moderate attack, small decay, long sustain, and full release are more wind instruments (clarinet, flute, oboe, trumpet, voice, etc.).
Instruments with a large attack, moderate decay, moderate sustain and long decay would be a piano (or an amplified electric guitar/bass).
This image provides a nice graphic representation of what happens when a note is struck at the piano. (From making-music.com)
(a) Source: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/189111/envelope
The TOG II* was designed by the same committee that did the original WWI tanks (TOG stands for The Old Gang) in case WWII ever evolved into trench warfare. It was 10.13m (33ft) long for crossing trenches, mounted the successful 17-pdr gun, and could move at a blistering 14 km/h (8.5mph). It's now on display the the Bovington Tank Museum. Source.
In Bhutan, the people have been pretty happy with their kings, especially after seeing the corruption and violence under other southern Asian democracies.
The king basically made them adopt democracy because he thought it would be better for the country in the long term, and that the nation's leader should not be determined by birth, but by merit and virtue.
It's not the same as computer engineering. I've been corrected IRL with a scold many a time.
Most manufacturing facilities use 3 phase power, while your home usually uses single phase. Here is a source that tells you the difference. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141106222822-3267680-single-phase-vs-three-phase-power-what-you-need-to-know
Lovecraft's ideas, especially Cthulhu, form a central role in the storyline of the MMO "The Secret World."
The band's name was taken from Swindon Oasis Leisure Centre in south west England, a clothes shop in the Manchester Arndale Market called Oasis, and a taxi rank round the corner from where they lived. Liam Gallagher told NME in 2013: "It meant that we were out there, because we were different. It was a s--t name."
Although U.S. laws do not specifically prohibit hiring one's relatives, studies show that between 10 and 40 percent of U.S. companies maintain formal policies prohibiting such a practice. Many of these anti-nepotism rules were instituted in the 1950s with the aim of preventing the hiring of incompetent male relatives of male employees. In the 1960s and 1970s the same rules applied but failed to reflect the change in the workforce as more women entered the job market; females were often the victims of these rules, however, and many were forced to quit.
>The horse botfly secretes an irritating substance that is used to attach its eggs to the body hairs of a horse, mule, or donkey. When the animal licks off the irritant, the larvae are carried into the host's mouth and later migrate to the stomach. They attach themselves to the lining, where they feed until ready to pupate, and then drop to the ground with the faeces.
From what I learned in my 4 years of Latin classes, Hannibal was hiding out in Turkey when the Romans finally found out where he was. Facing capture, he ingested poison stashed in his family signet ring, rather than be captured and humiliated at the hands of his mortal enemies. Had I been in his shoes, I would've gone with the poisoning too.
Source: http://www.ancient.eu/hannibal/
I2P, one of the implementations of a "darknet", uses encryption that is much more resistant to many types of attacks than standard SSL while also hiding sender and reciever. This makes it very suitable for transmitting PII when even the address of the sender can be considered personally identifying.
Candy cigarettes are now just called "candy" because of the negative connotation with the adult vice. They are still exactly the same, including packaging, contents and overall appearance, but just don't have the word "cigarettes" on the boxes.
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The granddaddy of capitalism is Adam Smith, a Scottish philosopher who essentially invented economics with his 1776 book The Wealth of Nations. In this book, Smith argues that the various self-interests of every individual, when viewed as a system rather than individual parts, reveals a self-correcting, self-perpetuating, self-improving system where each village and city will tend to have just the right number of blacksmiths, coopers, doctors, etc. based on the demand for each profession, who, on average, will tend to offer their services at precisely the most acceptable price. These trends are driven by the market for their profession. This is sometimes called the "invisible hand" of the market.
Smith's thesis can be summed up as follows: "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages."
edit: don't get snippy with me, sourcebot: http://www.ibiblio.org/ml/libri/s/SmithA_WealthNations_p.pdf
When the African diamond mines were discovered but before deBeers artificially messed with the market, it was a little flooded. Diamond-encrusted jewelry was everywhere in the 1870s-1880s. (This is also the context for Sara Crewe's father's friend's diamond mines in A Little Princess.)
With the latest Linux kernel, you are able to update the kernel on a running system without rebooting. Previously, this was only possible with proprietary software like Ksplice, http://www.ksplice.com/.
Source: http://www.zdnet.com/article/no-reboot-patching-comes-to-linux-4-0/
The Deep Web isn't just a hotline for drug markets and illegal shit. It's just the name for websites which are not indexed by traditional search engines (Google, Bing, etc). If you make a website, it is in the deep web until you register it onto a search engine. But because the sites are so hard to find, it is a great choice for all kinds of crooks. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web_(search)
Bonus fact: 97% of websites on the entire internet reside in the deep web. Source: https://www.quora.com/How-big-is-the-deep-web
Pu, often translated as the "uncarved block," is an important component of Taoism. Basically, it holds that the ideal course of action is to merely be yourself effortlessly - everyone and everything is already in its ideal natural order. Don't fight the current of water or you'll drown, just go with it.
Source: Taking AP World Religions, The Tao of Pooh (which is a great book if you're interested in more)
The historical lineage of the group Russia is named for, the Rus, is very much in debate. Northern European scholars in the 18th C. argued that the Rus were an offshoot of the Vikings, based mostly on philology and linguistics. However, Russian scholars and others contest this hypothesis, and claim that the Rus were a Slavic tribe which predated the Baltic Viking presence.
Many of the most famous lines from the films were never said at all in the novels. For example, Boromir's famous "One does not simply walk into Mordor" is never once spoken in the books.
One of the first people to suggest African slavery was a friar named Bartolomé de las Casas, also known as "Saviour of the Indians", who was renowned for his advocacy against the mistreatment of Native Americans. Later in his live Barto regretted the suggestion.
Hannibal "served Prussia in that war [Prussia's war with King Eumenes II of Pergamum], and, in one of the victories he gained over Eumenes at sea, it is said that he threw baskets of snakes into the enemy vessels in one of the earliest documented examples of biological warfare."
Niccolò Machiavelli was the first modern political scientist, presenting a guide for rulers, or 'princes' on how to obtain and hold on to power in his book The Prince. A large part of the book is spent on analyzing the actions of his contemporary rulers, and determining what the causes were of their failure or success, thus making his book very practical instead of philosophical.
I just saw a chart that says node.js was one of the highest, weirdly. Still up there, and I'd say programming with rails is a lot more fun than using javascript all of the time ;)
Fender musical instruments produces an estimated 1,000 guitars a day in more than 100 different colors and finishes.
Anarchism does include anarcho-capitalism, despite what a lot of anarchists think, because words can mean two things.
http://www.vocabulary.com/articles/chooseyourwords/homonym-homophone-homograph/
I guess you will find a bit of literature on this subject in German (obviously due to the local topic). One book is this https://www.amazon.de/Lieutenant-Adkins-Schicksal-desertierter-Nato-Soldaten/dp/3861537095
You should ask Bill Browstein. He literally wrote the book on Schwartz's history.
Edit: I see someone on /r/goforgold also suggested this. Let us know if you ever get your answer!
Albert Lowry scraped by until a coworker told him he could get some extra income by buying houses and renting them. He learned the business by experience, and after retiring he got a PhD and wrote a book on how to do what he did. It is basic instruction material for all first time house buyers. https://www.amazon.com/Become-Financially-Independent-Investing-Estate/dp/0671449591/ref=sr_1_1
I was told by a historian that Jonathan Riley-Smith is one of the leading academics on the Crusades.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Crusades-History-Jonathan-Riley-Smith/dp/0300101287
Just as interesting and, from what I've been told, respected (to me, even more interesting, since the Arabs tend to be real drama-queens and the book seems to enforce that)
http://www.amazon.com/Crusades-Through-Arab-Eyes-Essentials/dp/0805208984
He wrote an excellent novel about a compulsive liar caught up in a matter of international intrigue. http://www.amazon.com/Liar-Stephen-Fry/dp/1616954663/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438554688&sr=1-8&keywords=stephen+fry
I was actually going to post something similar, essentially that he had a very troubled childhood/young adulthood, far from his characteristic sophistication that you typically see on TV.
In addition to that wiki article, I'd recommend reading his autobiography, Moab is My Washpot if you're interested in his early life. I found it to be pretty interesting, at least.
Edit: I misread your post, and thought you were referring to the time he spent in prison. Either way, I still recommend reading about his childhood, as it also sheds some light on his mental health and early struggles.
It's a technique described in a lot of detail in a super entertaining book called Moonwalking with Einstein. http://smile.amazon.com/Moonwalking-Einstein-Science-Remembering-Everything/dp/0143120530?sa-no-redirect=1
Exactly. Once China closed it borders and started book burning his discoveries were mostly forgotten. But when Magellan visited the Asian islands he found Chinese technology and influence. I have read about Ze in this fantastic book. But I don't know everything about him:
http://www.amazon.com/Over-Edge-World-Terrifying-Circumnavigation/dp/006093638X
A lot of people have the false impression Walt Disney animated all of his films himself by his own hand. He was an animator in the early days when he formed Silly Symphonies but as the company grew, he did less animation work and by the time they started work on Snow White, Walt had given up on drawing altogether and nothing drawn by his own hand ever made it to screen afterwards. The only time Walt ever exercised his drawing skills was when he was in production meetings working on story boards and layouts, where he would point out changes and corrections he wanted made.
There are several biographies that cover this extensively, but I think the best would be Disney Animation The Illusion of Life written by Disney's Nine Old Men of animation.
We used to have shared ownership in our natural environment. The whole band would also share some foods all big game meat. Men hunted women gathered. And 50% of all kids died if being weak.
Source: http://www.amazon.com/Limited-Wants-Unlimited-Means-Hunter-Gatherer/dp/155963555X