The Mastermyr Find - A Viking Age Tool Chest from Gotland
The chest was found in Mastrmyr on the island of Gotland Sweden in 1936. More than 200 objects were found in and around it. Most are tools that were used by blacksmiths and carpenters, many of them amazingly modern in appearance.
Course No. 146 By Seth / SETI Institute Shostak (Author)
Our Place in the Cosmos Aliens in the Neighborhood - Fiction and Fact Prospects for Life in the Solar System - Mars, Europa, Titan Other Worlds - The Search for Habitable Planets Interstellar Travel and Colonization Why aren't the Aliens Everywhere Why UFOs are Bunk What is E.T. Made Of Alien Appearance and Motivation - Can Science Tell us Anything Searching for E.T - Modern Techniques Estimating the Number of Civilizations - The Drake Equation
Post-Pop Cinema - The Search for Meaning in New American Film
Starting in the early 1990s, artists such as Quentin Tarantino, David Foster Wallace, and Kurt Cobain contributed to a swelling cultural tide of pop postmodernism that swept through music, film, literature, and fashion. In cinema in particular, some of the art's most fundamental aspects--stories, characters, and genres, for instance--assumed such a trite and trivialized appearance that only rarely could they take their places on the screen without provoking an inward smirk or a wink from the audience.
Billy is sent off on a bus to Camp Nightmoon by his mom and dad. The bus driver stops partway to the camp and leaves all the children in the middle of the desert. A group of creatures appear and prepare to slaughter the children, but are scared off by the appearance of a man with a gun who claims to be the leader of Camp Nightmoon.
The British occupation of Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War brings together two unlikely comrades, redcoat Sam Gilpin and rebel Jonathon Becket. The story of these two young men evocatively illustrates the divided loyalties that characterized this war. Though both men love the same woman, the true heroine of the novel is Becket's patriot sister, Martha Crowl. She commands the attention of the reader with every appearance. The grim and gory reality of war is skillfully played out against the gaiety of Loyalist society.
