German Scientists
This German scientist believed the highly-evolved megafauna and highly-evolved human civilizations were both organized as cell monarchies.
Ernst Haeckel
He established this dog breed with allegedly pure German values.
Max von Stephanitz
This is the ritual slaughtering of animals for a Jewish kosher diet.
Shechitah
She received little profit, but her book from the point of view of a horse became a worldwide best seller.
Anna Sewell
At one point he was the most famous “professional” runner in Germany.
Fritz Käpernick
The German scientist and liberal politician Rudolph Virchow used this concept to characterize the organization of a complex multi-celled organism.
Cell Republic
This South African scholar explains why the SA apartheid regime favored imported German Shepherds rather than native African “kaffir dogs”.
Sandra Swart
He was a journalist and Orthodox rabbi who fought to defend Jews against attacks on kosher slaughter and charges of ritual murder.
Hirsch Hildesheimer
This device used to keep a horse’s head lifted was a major target of the book Black Beauty.
Bearing rein
One part of this competition has involved riding a horse that you meet 20 minutes before the event.
Modern Pentathlon
Known as “Darwin’s Bulldog,” this British biologist suggested that civilized people could rise above their base Darwinian instincts.
Thomas Huxley
This Historian of Japan (based in Utah) writes about the global spread of German shepherds – even to Japan, where they were honored alongside Akitas and Shiba Inus as advanced and civilized dogs.
Aaron Skabelund
A Ritual murder accusation in 1892. Jews accused of killing Christian children using the same methods they used for slaughtering animals.
Xanten
He had extraordinary talents, but because he couldn’t really read a calendar or calculate he was sent to WWI.
Clever Hans
Including such things as nature worship, nudism, and vegetarianism, these loosely organized groups characterized the bohemian side of turnoff the century Europe.
Lebensreform (Life Reform) Movements
A political ideology that is advocates for communal cooperation instead of centralized power and capitalist cutthroat competition.
Anarchism
This is the most famous Akita dog in Japan, who according to Saito Hirokichi, President of the society for the Preservation of the Japanese Dog, waited loyally for his deceased owner at the train station for 9 years.
Hachikō
Often defined as presenting common things in uncommon ways, this literary technique was often used by authors such as Leo Tolstoy.
Defamiliarization