A cause célèbre (/ˈkɔːz səˈlɛb/; French: koz selɛbʁ, famous case, plural causes célèbres) is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning and heated public debate.1 The term is particularly used in connection with celebrated legal cases.2
I think of history as a wonderbox, similar to the curiosity cabinets of the Renaissance — what the Germans called a Wunderkammer. Collectors used these cabinets to display an array of fascinating and unusual objects, each with a story to tell, such as a miniature Turkish abacus or a Japanese ivory carving. Passed down from one generation to another, they were repositories of family lore and learning, tastes and travels, a treasured inheritance. History, too, hands down to us intriguing stories and ideas from a cornucopia of cultures. It is our shared inheritance of curious, often fragmented artefacts that we can pick up at will and contemplate in wonder. There is much to learn about life by opening the wonderbox of history.
rdsfox commented on the list 外来語
A cause célèbre (/ˈkɔːz səˈlɛb/; French: koz selɛbʁ, famous case, plural causes célèbres) is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning and heated public debate.1 The term is particularly used in connection with celebrated legal cases.2
February 6, 2014
rdsfox commented on the list 外来語
I think of history as a wonderbox, similar to the curiosity cabinets of the Renaissance — what the Germans called a Wunderkammer. Collectors used these cabinets to display an array of fascinating and unusual objects, each with a story to tell, such as a miniature Turkish abacus or a Japanese ivory carving. Passed down from one generation to another, they were repositories of family lore and learning, tastes and travels, a treasured inheritance. History, too, hands down to us intriguing stories and ideas from a cornucopia of cultures. It is our shared inheritance of curious, often fragmented artefacts that we can pick up at will and contemplate in wonder. There is much to learn about life by opening the wonderbox of history.
February 15, 2014