9 days ago by LongNow

Utah, US | Cultures and Civilizations There are a number places which embody the ideas of long now thinking: Nuclear waste repositories, historical sites, and other long term structures are all excellent places to look for long now inspiration. But there is one facility, though hard to gain access t ...

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14 days ago

Lalibela, Ethiopia | Cultures and Civilizations When young Saint Gebre Mesqel Lalibela was born into the Zagwe Dynasty in Ethiopia, the town of Lalibela was known as Roha. The name Lalibela was given to the young boy when he was surrounded by a swarm of bees soon after birth. His mother believed thi ...

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26 days ago by admin

Star Trash Space, the final frontier… well, it would have been nice that galaxy would have been non-accessible to humanity because these crew is really going to mess the things. Get prepared to make a lot of really “good” friends defending a lot of planets from other races with your crazy army. Nobo ...

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32 days ago by anhie nguyen

Niland, California | Cultures and Civilizations Slab City, or The Slabs, is a free campsite and alternative living community located near an active bombing range in the desert city of Niland, California. Previously an old WWII base, Marine Barracks Camp Dunlap, the campsite earns its name for the co ...

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49 days ago by littlebrumble

Greece, Europe | Cultures and Civilizations Ancient Greek myth tells the tale of King Minos constructing an elaborate maze to contain the ghastly product of his wife’s adulterous bestiality: the flesh-eating, bull-man hybrid known as the Minotaur. Until very recently, this story was thought to have ...

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62 days ago by littlebrumble

Mexico, North America | Cultures and Civilizations Thanks to the brush and grasses that had overgrown its walls, the largest man-made structure in the world has been mistaken for a hill. Even today, it’s understandable how this came to pass, thanks to the old Spanish chapel perched at its summit. Or ...

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93 days ago by Guest

The Bush and Obama administrations' "War on Terror"-by any name-has failed for a simple reason. It is because there is no such a thing as war on terror. Terrorism is a technique, a method, a weapon, a means to an end. Terrorism is not an enemy that can be named or identified, much less fought effect ...

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221 days ago by admin

Meissen The attempts by Count Marcolini, director of Meissen from 1774, to improve the quality of Meissen porcelain were not entirely successful, and at the beginning of the 19th century the factory was still in decline. … » Read more >>Antique Meissen Porcelain after 1800 « Posted in Porcelain

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316 days ago by Steve Crenshaw

Eighteen hundred years or so of Hebrew history, capped by a full exposition in Jesus Christ, tell us that God’s revelation of himself is rejected far more often than it is accepted, is dismissed by far more people than embrace it, and has been either attacked or ignored by every major [...] Related ...