History , Archeology, Mythology
Stuff I read for fun, and further insight to the human condition Sep 16
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Another reason the web is such a great tool. by May 28
Northvegr Home page
Hello and welcome to the New Northvegr Center (NNC.) This domain has undergone a major transformation via professional web development driven by a change of ownership to make it a world class heathen web resource. Our goals are to renew, update and enhance this valuable web resource for the advancement of knowledge and understanding in areas related to heathen lore and literature. Our further intent is to make NNC a clearing house for the latest scholarly research so that heathens the world over can stay abreast of cutting edge developments on the Northern Way.
Ireland is in your hands, in your power. If you do not save her, she cannot save herself. I solemnly call upon you to recollect that I predict with the sincerest conviction that a quarter of her population will perish unless you come to her relief.
The History Place - Irish Potato Famine
The Vampire Cat of Nabeshima - Old Tales of Japan - SaruDama
The Vampire Cat of Nabéshima There is a tradition in the Nabéshima family (of the Hizen daimyo) that, many years ago, the Prince of Hizen was bewitched and cursed by a cat that had been kept by one of his retainers. This prince had in his house a lady of rare beauty, called O Toyo: amongst all his ladies she was the favourite, and there was none who could rival her charms and accomplishments.
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) was an artist, inventor, scientist, architect, engineer, writer and even a musician. Now we know that he was also a fashion designer. After several months of meticulous research, scholars have reconstructed some fragmented drawings of a unique bag designed by the Renaissance genius around 1497. (…) Overlooked for more than three decades, it has been reconstructed and reassembled by Agnese Sabato and Alessandro Vezzosi, director of the Museo Ideale in the Tuscan town of Vinci, where da Vinci was born in 1452.Internet Sacred Text Archive Home
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O'Neill's Electronic Museum
Originally it was our goal to keep the collection intact and present it to the public locally. Sadly we are ceasing efforts in this area due to health issues of the primaries involved. Because of our inability to find a proper local venue we are now placing the entire collection, as a whole, up for sale. The value was incredibly difficult to estimate. There are many items without precedent as far as establishing value is concerned.
This is my (Yokai's) actual site. It has many odd and unusual items of electronic history. It includes one of the first 5 CRT's ever made, Crookes Tubes, and many other items. Sir William Crookes was outcast from the scientific community becasuse of his work with occult matters, his rebuttal to his detractors is presented.
There is also a biography of a WW II fighter pilot, including his picture diary of the last months of the pacific war from the viewpoint of a corsair pilot (as XO of VBF-85, included in the site because he is family, and we felt it should be somewhere). by Sep 16
EyeWitness To The Middle Ages and Renaissance
Life in a Christian Monastery, ca. 585 "When he was dead his body was not placed with the bodies of the brethren, but a grave was dug in the dung pit, and his body was flung down into it. . . " Crime and punishment in a medieval monastery: the monastery's Abbott provides insight into the monastic life. The Vikings Discover America, ca. 1000