Archive for September, 2008

  • Piri Reis Map

    Piri Reis Map

    Posted on September 27, 2008 | No Comments
    In 1929, a group of historians found an amazing map drawn on a gazelle skin. Research showed that it was a genuine document drawn in 1513 by Piri Reis, a famous admiral of the Turkish fleet in the sixteenth century. His passion was cartography. His...

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  • The Hyperboreans of Atlantis/Mu

    The Hyperboreans of Atlantis/Mu

    Posted on September 27, 2008 | No Comments
    The passage of Pliny (Hist. Nat. 4:26) on the Hyperboreans is worth quoting: “Beyond the Aquilon one finds a blessed nation called, according to tradition, the Hypeboreans. Among them, men reach an extreme age. Many marvels are told of this people. Some say that the...

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  • The Invisible College

    The Invisible College

    Posted on September 26, 2008 | No Comments
    One of the key plot ideas in the story is to create a series of different secret orders and societies. Each with their own agenda. One of the first to catch my attention was the Invisible College, a precursor of the Royal Society; It consisted...

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  • The most interesting clock

    The most interesting clock

    Posted on September 23, 2008 | No Comments
    37|300 I found this marvellous device a few years back and have been fascinated by it ever since. There is something about it’s design that invokes the same kind of reaction in me that the Victorians would have had about the new technology of their...

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  • Hollow earth

    Hollow earth

    Posted on September 23, 2008 | No Comments
    One of the things that has intrigued me most throughout my research is the sheer gullibility of the Victorians. It may be a reflection on our lack of innocence or post modern rationalism – but they used to really believe in the most amazing of...

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  • The idea was quite simple to begin with

    The idea was quite simple to begin with

    Posted on September 20, 2008 | No Comments
    So i thought i would write a tv script – because everything i saw on TV was pretty dire and I had all these ideas bouncing around in my head. Turns out the first few attempts were nothing but bad recycled versions of existing ideas....

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  • The start of something interesting

    The start of something interesting

    Posted on September 19, 2008 | No Comments
    This is my attempt to sort out my own website, and create an environment for the worlds of infinitum, a story concept that will evolve over time

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