• Ubi sunt (literally "where are they") is a rhetorical question taken from the Latin Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?, meaning "Where are those who were before...
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    always been met with approval. J. R. R. Tolkien, who adopted the poem's ubi sunt passage (lines 92–96) into The Lord of the Rings for his Lament for the...
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    the beer and swig it And gaudeamus igit-ur Ars longa, vita brevis Gaudy Ubi sunt For instance, the noun membrum (member) has the same double meaning in...
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    published numerous scientific articles, essays, op-eds, and the books Ubi Sunt (2022) and Who Are We Now? (2023). He appears regularly at TED. Blaise...
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  • Its rhetorical "where?" and meditation on death place the song in the ubi sunt tradition. In 2010, the New Statesman listed it as one of the "Top 20 Political...
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    Solastalgia Sturm und Drang Suffering Theory of mind Tikkun olam Transcendentals Ubi sunt World view "Weltschmerz | Romantic literary concept". Encyclopedia Britannica...
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    famous women in history and mythology, and a prominent example of the ubi sunt? genre. It is written in the fixed-form ballade format, and forms part...
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    salience Sic transit gloria mundi Tempus fugit Terror management theory Ubi sunt Vanitas YOLO (aphorism) Campbell, Lorne. Van der Weyden. London: Chaucer...
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  • Impermanence Memento mori Mono no aware Ozymandias Sic transit gloria mundi Ubi sunt Yorick "Works of Edward FitzGerald". Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws...
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    of works upon the subject of buildings and their stories of Bloomsbury. Ubi sunt, 2011. Editor with Rizzoli International Publications: A Picture History...
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