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Alternate Terminology: The Forgotten 19th Century Poet Who Named Our Modern World
By Thomas Anderson. The subject of our article, when he was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1863; photograph taken by Ernest Edwards, courtesy wikimedia commons via the State Library of New South Wales. I’m aware that on Youtube nowadays there is an irritating prevalence of using the word “forgotten” (or “that you’ve never heard of”) in video titles, which is frequently not true. Possibly the worst case I saw was a video describing Vichy France as “the forgotten Nazi
44 minutes ago7 min read


Tales from Development Hell: Mad Max Fury Road
By Ryan Fleming. In no way mediocre! Special edition blu-ray, image courtesy Amazon. Mad Max: Fury Road was released in May 2015. It was the fourth film in the Mad Max series, and the first without original leading man Mel Gibson. Though it saw disappointing returns as far as the studio was concerned, it received critical acclaim, received ten nominations at the Academy Awards and won six of them, was critically acclaimed, making multiple top ten films that year, and later
4 days ago8 min read


Caribbean Corsairs
By Gary Oswald. "Oriental Warrior" by Pier Francesco Mola (1650), a painting of a contemporary Barbary pirate. Could they have dominated the Caribbean coasts? Art in public domain, provided by wikimedia commons. The European colonisation of the Americas was done by numerous countries. England, Scotland, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Belgium, Netherlands, Prussia, Tuscany, Spain, France, Portugal, Norway, Malta, and Courland in modern day Latvia all made attempts to settle in vario
Dec 910 min read


Winter Sale!
Smashwords is having a sale for the rest of the month and dozens of Sea Lion Press books have 25% off, just in time for Christmas! Whatever your favourite period of history and preferred tone for AH tales, there's going to be a SLP book for you at Smashwords. Discuss this Article
Dec 81 min read
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