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The Blade of the Courtesans
Keiichiro Ryu translated by James M. Vardaman
Looking for well researched historical with a sensuous wealth great great prose style interesting characters and action. Visit Edo with young Seiichiro and disocver the...
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The archeologists say that Australia is one of the most ancient of land masses on our planet. Before the time of the dinosaurs, and well before the advent of man, an extended range of mountains was pushed up from below the seas, huge volcanoes...
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Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, better known as Caligula, was the third emperor of Rome. His reign lasted a mere four years, from AD37 to AD41.
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So recently we talked about the founder of the the Illuminati, Adam Weishaupt and now were going to take a look at the beginning of the organization. Like the pyramid on the back of the U.
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The Cambridge Companion to
THE AEGEAN BRONZE AGE
Edited by Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Cambridge University Press 2008
A comprehensive survey of the Aegean Bronze Age from the Final Neolithic period up to the fall of the palaces and the Sub...
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Hatshepsut, the first female ruler, gained and held power in ancient Egypt during a time of prosperity. Her rule was to last for twenty two years, beginning in 1504BC.
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I think the best way to start shedding light on the Illuminati is to look at the founder of the organization, Adam Weishaupt, While his ideas for the Illuminati are not new, the certainly are worth a closer look. As we move...
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It's one of the saddest and at the same time one of the most moving images in history. A lone Chinese student, seemingly blocking the entire Chinese army from entering Tiananmen Square in 1989.
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CLARE Werbeloff, the so-called Chk-Chk Boom woman who became an internet sensation after witnessing a shooting in Sydneys King Cross red-light district, has inspired a YouTube dance remix.
It follows in the wake of other hit YouTube remixes of...
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OK so let the journey begin. In order to go to the root of all conspiracies we need to start at the beginning, or at least the beginning of the modern movement towards the new world order.
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Anime, educational? Sure!
Everyone has heard about the kamikaze pilots from World War II. Most kamikaze aircraft were pre-existing planes, ranging from fighters to bombers to trainers, but before the end of the war, a few aircraft were...
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An extraordinary animal story is told in a Letter to the Editor just published in a Melbourne, Australia, community newspaper.
The letter, written by Keith Ashton, says 169,000 horses left Australia for overseas during World War I. Of that huge...
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Seemingly impossible to construct and transport - Ancient megaliths remain the subject of awe and speculation to modern society. Has ancient knowledge been hidden or lost over time?
The modern construction industry is capable of producing...
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Land of the High Flags
(Afghanistan when the Going was Good)
Rosanne Klass
This is a 2007 reprint of a 1964 classic, a memoir of Afghanistan in the late 1950s by an American woman who was teaching English there at the time and later went back...
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Social Security Column
DONT BE FOOL WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR ECONOMIC RECOVERY PAYMENT
By Elizabeth Wertime
Social Security Public Affairs Specialist in Upstate, New York
If youre receiving Social Security or Supplemental Security Income...
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The term windfall is used to denote some special turn of events or luck. The word itself tells what windfall means something blown down by wind, such as trees, or fruit blown from trees. But the word has taken on a special meaning. This meaning ...
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With the news of swine 'flu sweeping the globe, seeming to be closely followed by the virus itself and with the word 'pandemic' being liberally bandied around the media, I thought I'd take a look at history in regards to pandemics.
According to...
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A WW II Russian tank with German markings has been dragged from the bottom of a lake after more than half a century. On the 19th September, 1944, German troops began an organized retreat along the Narva front.
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ANYTHING GOES
Lucy Moore 2008
A Biography of the Roaring Twenties.
A Social History thats well researched and readable.
If you're interested in the 1920s you'll love this book which discusses personalities including the founder of the...
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The Brave Traveller is aware at once of a distance between him and his surroundings, a kind of space in between his experience of a place and a culture and an affinity as he relates what he experiences with what he now sees. As travellers, we are...
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