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History and Use of Dungeons
The dungeon has been a disturbing thought to many individuals, as they picture a dark, humid underground prison full of toothless criminals, foul smells, chains and rats. The word "dungeon" is derived from the Old French word "donjon". But "Donjon", in France, actually means the "keep" of a castle. What does a real dungeon look like and what purpose did it serve?
Mark D Jordan
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The Far Side of Forty
Hopefully, that childhood rhyme about life being but a dream is true. At least there is something to look forward to: waking up. Forest Gump fans are going to be thinking about chocolates right now.
David Snape
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Greek Fire - a Terrifying Early Medieval Weapon
Greek Fire, also known as Byzantine Fire, Greek Byzantine Fire, and Sea Fire, was a terrifying naval weapon mastered by the Greeks and the Byzantines during early Medieval times. This may be the earliest form of naval napalm, and allowed their ships to fight with fire, with some claims that there was so much fire that it seemed like they could light the water itself.
Shane Dayton
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Japanese Antiques History - Shoguns, Swords to Now
Japanese history involves warlords, two fearful Mongol attempts to invade, fearful and inward until Admiral Perry's fleet forced open trade. From 1854 to now has been quite a ride, swords, bombs, now prosperity, peace.
Derek Dashwood
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Metaphores and Our Daily Iranian Life
Metaphors are part of our daily life. We use them sometimes to make a point, another time because we do not wish to be direct in our language. We use a third person and make stories in order to make a point. To tell the door that the wall would listen, is one of the most usual use of metaphors in our Iranian culture.
Poran Poregbal
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Simply the Best
Bobby Fischer died in January of this year in Reykjavik, still tilting at windmills, with the bats of paranoia still fluttering around his head and with his prejudices firmly in place. He had come back in a thirty-six year loop to the scene of his greatest triumph and, although nobody realized at the time, to the place where his career virtually ended.
Donaldson Collins
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What Is KENWA; It's A Start!
With all the news on our television about trivial things, children are starving to death in Africa and their parents are dying of AIDS. Many of them are afraid to die and AIDS is a Monster that is ripping apart families and threatening billions of people there. Is anyone doing anything about it? Indeed they are and KENWA is a group who is in the trenches with big plans of the future.
Lance Winslow
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Surrealism - Exalting The Unconscious
The shift from pure representational art to a quest to express feelings continues to be a fundamental difference between the traditional art of realism and the concerns of modernism. Read about the weird and the cool art known as surrealism.
Kathleen Karlsen
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Martin Luther King Jr - American Leader
Being known as a man beyond his years, Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned something that many during his time period didn't. He saw a possibility of change for minorities all throughout the United States. Despite the fact that slavery had been abolished for sometime, Dr. King noticed that hatred, oppression, and the want for true freedom was still apparent throughout the country. Instead of sitting there waiting for change, he took action and sparked a revolution that had...
Leonard Taylor
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Up the Elevator and Up in Smoke
After we were on the elevator and the doors were closed I noticed that he had hidden his burning cigarette in the cup of his hand and was just holding on to it. In the way things are viewed in China, if you get away with something without getting caught you are looked at as being successful.
Todd Cornell
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