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Today, even people of the same religion often have different beliefs about Hell. Does it exist? Is it a literal place of punishment, or just a symbol of spiritual suffering? But those questions are really just the beginning. Throughout history, people have imagined vastly different scenarios for those who didn’t do things quite right during [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under History, People, Religion · Tagged Afterlife, Akheronian Lake, Belief, Charlotte Coville, Christian eschatology, Diarrhea, Diyu, Emanuel Swedenborg, Erkil Khan, food, Forest of Sword Blades, foul food, Helheim, Hell, Jewish mysticism, Life after death, Mythological places, Naraka, Philosophy of religion, prince, prince of the underworld, religion, rotten food, shamanism, Tartarus, the Hindu
Whether you believe its God’s word, a historical relic, or a load of hogwash, there’s no doubt that the Bible contains some interesting stuff. Like monsters, for example. All sorts of terrible creatures and mythical beasts can be found in its pages. Like… 10. The Behemoth In Job, one of the Bible’s oldest books, the [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Religion · Tagged Abaddon’s Locusts, author, Behemoth, bible, Biblical monsters, Book of Revelation, Cain, Charlotte Coville, Christian eschatology, cryptids, daniel's beasts, Dragons, emperor, Internet community, James Bible, Jewish mysticism, Judaism, King, Leviathan, monsters in the Bible, Nero, religion, religious, Revelation, Satan, Seth, the 200 million horsemen, The Beast, the dragon, The First Beast, the nephilim, The Second Beast, Unicorn, United States
Dressing as a member of the opposite sex has a long and varied history. In the past, men and women cross-dressed to assume new roles, to enable them to do things they otherwise couldn’t, or because they just plain wanted to. Here are some individuals who for whatever reason decided to adopt the clothing of [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Monday, July 18, 2011 at 12:01 am
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Looking for some movies to watch this Independence Day that will make you fiercely proud to be an American? Well look no further, because these films will have you bursting with so much patriotism that you’ll barely have room for any of that all-American barbequed meat. 10. The Patriot This one could have clawed its [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies · Tagged 4th of July, Afghanistan, Air Force, Air Force One, America, American can, American film directors, Captain, Charlotte Coville, Citigroup Inc., clint eastwood, D.C., Entertainment, Entertainment_Culture, films, Flags of Our Fathers, Frank Miller, Hamburger Hill, Harrison Ford, Harry Dean Stanton, Heartbreak Ridge, Independence Day, Jeff Goldblum, Letters from Iwo Jima, Mel Gibson, mind-control device, New York, New York City,New York,United States, North Korea, Obama, osama bin Laden, Pakistan, patriotic movies, Patriotism, president, Private, Rambo, Rocky, Rocky IV, saving private ryan, Soviet Union, Sylvester Stallone, Team America: World Police, Tony Stark, United States, Washington DC, Washington,United States, Will Smith, World Police
Inventing a language from scratch might seem like an odd way to spend your time, but there are good reasons to do it. People create languages for scientific, cultural and artistic purposes: to test theories about how the brain works, to help people communicate, to ‘improve’ existing languages, or because they just need a new [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Literature, Misc · Tagged accomplished composer, Agglutinative languages, Alfred Korzybski, astrologer, Charlotte Coville, communication, Constructed languages, Edward Kelley, Esperanto, Francois Sudre, George Orwell, Interlinguistics, International auxiliary languages, John Dee, Klingon language, language, League of Nations, linguist, linguistics, Ludovik Zamenhof, Newspeak, Poland, professor of linguistics, Quenya, Suzette Haden, the Star, The Star Tribune Company, Toki Pona, tolkien
As writing goes, English is pretty straightforward. Sure, it has its weird parts: some of our letters combine to make new sounds, we have extra letters we don’t really need and there are spelling rules that only apply half the time. But on the whole, we have it easy. It’s not always like this. The [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Friday, June 17, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under History, Science · Tagged Alphabet, Alphabetic writing systems, Charlotte Coville, codes, communication, Cuneiform script, Hunan,China, Iraq, languages, linguistics, Naxi language, Phoenician alphabet, rune chips, top 10 weird, top 10 writing systems, TopTenz, Typography, weird writing, writing, Writing systems of Africa
Did you ever stop to wonder: “Hey, what was the manliest thing anyone ever said?” Well, you need wonder no more. The quotes in this list are the rare real-life equivalents of the one-liners we’ve all seen Arnie and Bruce Willis spout in action movies. A quote of this type might not always be the [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Friday, June 10, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under History, People · Tagged Charlotte Coville, Chiune Sugihara, David Farragut, frostbite, George Custer, George Mallory, Hannie Schaft, historical quotes, John Paul Jones, Lakota War Leader, Lawrence Oates, manliest, manliness, manly, manly quotes, Milwaukee, Theodore Roosevelt, top 10 manliest, TopTenz, We shall fight on the beaches, winston churchill