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 PLACES An Atlas of Cyberspaces Maps of the virtual geography - by location, topology, data flow - of the Internet and World Wide Web. Bath Stone: the huge Wiltshire underground quarries. Borobudur: tour of the great Javanese Buddhist temple. Business Culture, Customs and Etiquette: how (and how not) to behave in various countries. Chinese Pyramids Great stepped earth pyramids near Xi'an. Down Street Unofficial virtual tour of a long-closed London Underground Station. Friends of Williamson's Tunnels The endangered heritage of the tunnel-building Liverpool merchant, Joseph Williamson, 'the Mole of Edge Hill'. Gosport: tourist guide: town (where I was born) with interesting naval history. Grand Shaft, Dover Amazing triple spiral staircase. Harlaxton College Strange Jacobethan manor recreated for The Haunting. Infiltration Accounts by illicit explorers of non-public urban architecture. Isfahan Home Page Thomas Rochford's on-line tour of the beautiful Islamic architecture of Isfahan. Catacombs of Paris: the extensive underground quarries, partially used as a bone repository. Roy A Gallant's Meteorite Expeditions: Tunguska and other meteorite sites. Mapper's Delight London Underground maps in many variants. Musee Fragonard Museum for the 18th century creator of artistic/ medical dissections. Portsdown Tunnels: underground structures in the chalk hill behind Portsmouth Harbour. Rebirth of the Afghan Buddhas: Wired.com on the photogrammetric reconstruction of the statues destroyed by the Taliban . Souterrains Netherlands interest group for fans of subterranea worldwide. Stromboli On-line. Recent and ongoing activity of Stromboli and other volcanoes (includes live-cams). Subterranea Britannica Home Page Organisation devoted to UK caves, mines, tunnels, fortifications, etc. The Temple Mount, Jerusalem Site of Solomon's Temple and the Dome of the Rock (N.B. Christian religious group site, so be aware of interpretive bias). Topsham town page: I live here. The Underground Cities of Cappadocia: Turkish region whose geology - soft volcanic tuffs - favoured carved underground dwellings. Underground History. Nice study debunking conspiracy myths about the London Underground. Where London stood The archaeology and mythos of ruins and ruined cities, in reality and fiction. HISTORY BBC Online: Horizon Transcripts of the BBC's science/history TV documentaries. Bodies of the Bogs Archaeology magazine feature on the famous corpses mummified in Scandinavian peat bogs. Bugbios: Insects on the Web An exploration of the role of insects in art, history, mythology and religion. Casebook: Jack the Ripper Excellent hypertext guide to the JTR facts and mythos, and to Victorian London in general. Catchpenny Mysteries of Ancient Egypt: terse but informative debunkings of alternative Egypt theories. Charles Booth Online Archive Mapper and documenter of late 19th century London. City of Shadows: Victorian London: "a Gothic city of shadows". Codebreaking and Secret Weapons in World War II Essay originally in Nautical Brass magazine: especial detail and links on the famous Enigma encryption machine. The Crime Library Well-researched and unsensationalised accounts of classic crimes and criminals. |
The Dorset Ooser
Daniel Patrick Quinn's personal investigation into the history of a strange and
now-lost ritual mask. The Empire that was Russia. Remarkable exhibit of reconstructed colour images of Russia taken by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in the early 1900s. English Handwriting 1500-1700: An Online Course: tutorial/reference site on reading and transcribing primary documents. Entoptic Phenomena. Suzanne Carr's thesis exploring the evidence for cave art motifs deriving from universal 'phosphenes'. Fitz Hugh Ludlow hypertext library Surprising Victorian attitudes to drug use and abuse. Freedom, Democide, War: in the 20th century, far more people were killed by their own governments than by wars. Friends of the Hunley Official site for the CSS Hunley, recently-raised American Civil War submarine. The Hallsands Home Page: the the Devon village destroyed by coastal erosion. History and Primitive Technology The atlatl, firepiston and other ancient devices. Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia: art and advertising revealing institutional racism in the southern USA, 1877-1960s. Joe's Freak Show Disturbing gallery documenting the heyday of the American Carny Show. Lies My Teacher Told Me James W Loewen on how American schoolbooks distort and whitewash USA history. la Fée Verte Absinthe House: the 19th century cult drink, the "Green Fairy". London Labour and the London Poor Volume 1 of Henry Mayhew's classic account of Victorian street life. The Mandelbrot Monk The amazing story of Udo of Aachen, the 13th century mathematician. MuslimHeritage.com compendium of excellent articles on the Muslim scientific, technological and artistic heritage. Navajo Code Talkers History of Navajo soldiers used for secure wartime communications. Naval Historical Center FAQs: US naval history: the Indianopolis, the Operation Tiger disaster, Amelia Earhart's disappearance, etc. Old Maps Zoomable 19th century UK maps (occasionally buggy). Alfred Packer: the 'Colorado Cannibal' . The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674-1834, searchable database of transcripts and scans of court records. Propaganda postcards of the Great War WW1 postcard art. Questioning the Delphic Oracle: prophecy under ethylene intoxication. Radio Forts: WWII Thames Estuary forts adapted as pirate radio stations. Radium Girls: 1920s US lawsuit involving workers who literally glowed in the dark. The Red Baron Rittmeister Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen. Secret History Channel 4 series that aimed to "tell the truth that lies behind official stories about the past". Secret Underground Cities: promotes NJ McCamley's book on the history of UK subterranean factories and bunkers. Tattoo History Source Book Preview for Steve Gilbert's worldwide history of tattooing. Text Recovery from the Archimedes Palimpsest How a famous text was recovered, despite near-erasure as a Christian prayer book. The Tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep Old Kingdom Fifth Dynasty tomb of a same-sex couple, "Overseers of the Manicurists in the Palace of the King". Those about to die Daniel P Mannix's gripping account of the Roman games. Vanished: the plane that disappeared BBC Horizon transcript on the rediscovery of Star Dust. MYTH c i r c l e m a k e r s The Circlemakers explain how they make UK crop circles (Guardian Site of the Year award). Crypt Newsletter Devoted to debunking computing techno-myths such as military hacking scares. Fortean Times Online The journal of strange phenomena. In Search of Mathematical Miracles Michael 'Bible Codes' Drosnin: "When my critics find a message about the assassination of a prime minister encrypted in Moby Dick, I'll believe them." Myths & Legends Christopher B Siren's extensive mythology site: 28 pages of links. 
The Pareidolia
Collection: how we see faces etc. in random data.Sleep Paralysis Page Cross-cultural nightmare experience - aka The Hag. sniggle.net (the culture-jammer's encyclopaedia). Trolls, Hoaxes, Poetic Terrorism, Media Hacks, Frauds, Impostors, Spoofs, Counterfeits, Fakes, Pranks, Scams, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. AFU & Urban Legends Archive "This really happened to my grandmother. Are you calling her a liar?". Vmyths.com: deunking guide to viruses and the many fake and/or uninformed warnings. |
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