Archive for October, 2008

  • Library of Constantinople

    Library of Constantinople

    Posted on October 29, 2008 | No Comments
    The Library of Constantinople, in the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, was the last of the great libraries of the ancient world. Long after the destruction of the library of Alexandria and the other ancient libraries, it preserved the knowledge of the ancient Greeks...

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  • Spring Heeled Jack

    Spring Heeled Jack

    Posted on October 23, 2008 | No Comments
    119 Spring Heeled Jack (also Springheel Jack, Spring-heel Jack, etc), is a character from English folklore said to have existed during the Victorian era and able to jump extraordinarily high. The first claimed sighting of Spring Heeled Jack that is known occurred in 1837. Later...

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  • The Greenwich Observatory

    The Greenwich Observatory

    Posted on October 21, 2008 | No Comments
    Went to Greenwich park on Saturday. What a fine day out that was, the whole of Greenwich park and the observatory, Maritime museum etc was a great inspiration to the infinitum thought process. In the main you can still picture how it would have been...

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  • John Dee

    John Dee

    Posted on October 21, 2008 | No Comments
    117 John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was a noted English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, occultist, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He also devoted much of his life to alchemy, divination, and Hermetic philosophy. Dee straddled the worlds of science and...

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  • The Knight’s Tour

    The Knight’s Tour

    Posted on October 19, 2008 | No Comments
    The Knight’s Tour is a mathematical problem involving a knight on a chessboard. The knight is placed on the empty board and, moving according to the rules of chess, must visit each square exactly once. There are a great many solutions to the problem, of...

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  • Madame Blavatsky

    Madame Blavatsky

    Posted on October 14, 2008 | No Comments
    111 Elena Petrovna Gan (Russian: Елена Петровна Ган, also Hélène, 12 August [O.S. 31 July] 1831, Yekaterinoslav, Ukraine, Russian Empire — May 8, 1891, London), better known as Helena Blavatsky (Russian: Елена Блаватская) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of Theosophy...

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  • Fomorians

    Fomorians

    Posted on October 14, 2008 | No Comments
    The fomorians, whose name means ‘dark of the sea,’ were a race of Gaelic demons said to be the offspring of Noah’s son, Ham. They are said to have the body of a man and the head of a goat, according to an 11th century...

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  • H.P. Lovecraft: Cthulhu

    H.P. Lovecraft: Cthulhu

    Posted on October 10, 2008 | No Comments
    The most detailed descriptions of Cthulhu in “The Call of Cthulhu” are based on statues of the creature. One, constructed by an artist after a series of baleful dreams, is said to have “yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature…....

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  • The Cuicuilco Pyramid

    The Cuicuilco Pyramid

    Posted on October 7, 2008 | No Comments
    There is a great deal of controversy in certain circles regarding the Cuicuilco Pyramid. Cuicuilco was an ancient city in the central Mexican highlands, on the southern shore of the Lake Texcoco in the southeastern Valley of Mexico, and for sometime there was speculation that...

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  • The Great Flood Myth…

    The Great Flood Myth…

    Posted on October 4, 2008 | 1 Comment
    For years i have discounted the idea of the Flood, probably because it was linked so heavily to the Bible and all those other apocryphal stories. Then I happened upon a book called ‘The day the Sky fell‘ by Rand Flem-Ath, and found myself wondering...

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