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Welcome to '''Curriepedia''': a compendium of information on people, places, and things, written by [[Michael B. Currie]] and several other contributors.

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=== Upcoming Birthdays ===
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=== Days-Alive Milestones ===
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== Purpose ==

This website is another vain attempt to preserve information longitudinally, a task which has always been a low priority for any civilization:

[https://twitter.com/MichaelBCurrie/status/2022187727048126902 "Newspapers Accidentally Preserved A Record of Civilization and Nothing Has Replaced Them" — X post, February 13, 2026]

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|text=What makes Encyclopedia-style articles so fascinating is how they look at subjects normally seen only in a snapshot at their present moment, and instead provide perspective by showing a little bit of information, the most salient information, spread over their whole lives.  So instead of a LOT of information about the present moment, instead you get a nice even amount of information across their whole lives.  Which creates a perspective that cannot easily be seen otherwise.  It shows a more whole perspective, by showing the dimension of time.

Another reason to do genealogy is to become habituated to the broad sweep of a human life and therefore become better at planning and thinking in one's own life. By studying one's own ancestors and seeing the mistakes they made, it's possible to contextualize events in your own life not as singular, special things but as variations on a theme established by dozens of your forebears.
|author=[[Michael B. Currie]], October 2019
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=== Newest Articles ===

Read, from Curriepedia's [https://curriepedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&amp;limit=50&amp;days=7&amp;enhanced=1&amp;urlversion=2 newest articles]; or its [https://curriepedia.org/wiki/Special:LongPages longest ones]. Some highlights:

* Three of Thunder Bay's seven "elite" [[Dance Studios of Thunder Bay|Dance Studios]] were founded by students of the second matriarch of Thunder Bay elite dance training, [[Sylvia Horn]]. Who was the first?
* [[J.J. Carrick]] introduced Daylight Savings Time while he serving as Mayor of Port Arthur in 1908, making it the first jurisdiction anywhere in the world to use it.
* [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay]] is 1.6 kilometres long and is the address for about 152 detached homes.
* [[Clyde Currie]] has at least 25 step-descendants through his children [[Marilyn Hermiston|Marilyn]] and [[Allan Currie|Allan]].
* [[Ruth Newman]] won the top prize for her Royal Conservatory piano examination in 1941.
* [[Air Force Career of Neill Currie|Neill Currie]]'s bomber's nose was shattered on 27 September 1944, over Germany.
* [[Arthur Currie connection to Michael Currie|Sir Arthur Currie is not closely related]] to [[Michael Currie|Michael B. Currie]].
* The [[First Millennial Foundation]], a non-profit utopian movement to create space colonies, was one of the first organizations to coordinate its activites over the World Wide Web?

== Contributing ==

Due to spam, Curriepedia does not allow anonymous edits nor does it allow accounts to be created.  The administrator has to create an account for you and email you the credentials.

If you would like to contribute, please email Michael using the first initial of his first name, followed by his last name, followed by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign at sign], followed by "gmail.com", to obtain your own editor account.

Consult the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.

== Similar efforts ==

[1] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Addams_Reitwiesner William Addams Reitwiesner], who got a job as a cart-pusher at the library of congress to pursue his hobby of genealogy, and who published the biographies of thousands of royals, and others, before dying of cancer at age 56 in 2010.</text>
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