There are several Easter, christmas and thursday islands. Why?
Easter Island, in the Pacific was so named by Admiral Roggeveen in commemoration of the day upon which the land was discovered, it had not been regularly christened by either of the earlier navigators who claimed to have sighted it. The Spaniards afterwards gave it the name of San Carlos, but the Dutchman's title of Easter Island was preferred by the chart-makers and was adopted by the world in general. http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/ei/ei04.... Captain William Mynors of the Royal Mary, a British East India Company vessel, named the island when he sailed past it on Christmas Day in 1643 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_I... Torres Strait. ... Probably named Thursday in keeping with Wednesday & Friday Islands. The name Thursday Island first appeared on a Hydrographic chart in June 1855. The survey data drawn up by Owen Stanley after his 1848 voyage through the Torres Strait named Thursday & Friday Islands, but in reverse order. His survey data was later changed, before the chart engraving was made. Foley suggests that this change was done at the Hydrographic Office, under the authority of the Hydrographer himself, Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort. The local name is Waiben. Thursday Island was not named by William Bligh in June 1789 when he gave Wednesday Island its name. The township on Thursday Island was officially known as Port Kennedy, but the town gradually became widely referred to as T.I., standing for Thursday Island. In the 1950s & 1960s T.I also unofficially stood for "Thirsty Island" as under the Queensland Government legislation of the time it was illegal for Torres Strait Islanders to buy or consume alcohol in public places on Thursday Island! http://queenslandhistory.blogspot.com/20... Places are often named for a time or date associated with the feature (e.g. Whitsunday Islands, Pentecost Island, Trinity Bay, Paasavonds land 'Easter Eve's land', Restoration Island, Wednesday Island, St Patrick's Head, Ile du Nouvel-An 'New Years Island') http://s6.zetaboards.com/man/topic/8724395/1/
I don't know very much about Friedrich Nietzsche, could somebody tell me about some of his main views?
This is like asking Yahoo answers "I need to do brain surgery in a half hour -- please give me a run through." Nietzsche, born in what would be considered middle class nowadays, is credited with having one of the highest IQs in history. He did to philosophy what Einstein did to physics. His work was also misunderstood and exploited. Most of his work revolved around how humans create their own truth, much to their disadvantage in the long run. National Socialists loved this idea, thinking that they could borrow his concept of "Will to Power" as a justification for their rule. Communists actually loved the incorrect assumption that Nietzsche was an atheist. (He sought Truth, not necessarily any religion's gods. To him, Truth is God.) People quote Nietzsche as saying "God is Dead." But they should have finished the line which is: "God is Dead and you have killed him." Meaning, of course, that people have a tendency to warp truth to suit their own will to power. He wanted to understand what the real, inhuman Truth was, and to do so would require understanding the nature of the humans and their lesser truths. Read "Thus Spake Zarathustra." It's an easy read compared to Kant and most of the others, and it's a good intro for further reading. Once you get a feel for the man, please note that Nietzsche didn't like actors, philosophically. He considered them false. Dancers, however, exhibit true philosophical virtues, in that they do what they do from the heart and from their will and physical skill without pretense. Gotta go now. Long answers never count for much on Yahoo Answers. Promised myself I'd keep it shot. (LOL). Suffice to say Nietzsche lead to many late night hours of discussions back in my college days. The guy is hot. Read him. And find discussions about his work written by scholars who don't misjudge him. And like I said, it's pretty much heavy-duty brain surgery. But worth the study. And Scarlett's answer is excellent. Just keep in mind that Freddy didn't condone lying (like Hitler or relgious bigots,etc have done), but that it a natural function to be understood. As I said, he treated actors with disdain...