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Runes, Odin and Wotan worship

Ankou’s Page of Runes is an excellent source of information about Runes, and includes a mapping of the runes to the magic spells described by Odin in the Hávamál.

The site also describes some interesting variant Rune sets, including one by the Austrian racist mystic (and neo-pagan) Guido List, who claimed to have seen the “original” set of runes in a vision while blinded by cataract. The best pages about List seem to be in German, but some info appears in this dissertation about the roots of German national socialism, this distasteful rant about the ties between Homosexuality, Occultism and Nazism, and this article about Nazis and the Occult, which is part of a site that covers overall weirdness but has a special section on occult conspiracies and mystic societies.

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Hundreds of Years Ago

Medieval Life & The Hundred Years War is an online book about the Medieval period, provided by as site for a game called The Hundred Years War (HYW) (online strategy-roleplaying thing)

Also, on further historical linkage The Siege of Constantinople (more about Byzantine military history) and Battle of Hastings site.

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The Red Kaganate

The Red Kaganate is an association of reenactors that have a lot of fascinating historical background on their site about the steppe nomad peoples of central asia (mongols, scythians, etc.).

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Shameless Hussites

Some links about John Huss (or Jan Huss), Priest and Martyr (1374-1415) and his followers, the Hussites. This interesting Wargaming site has some information about them and their (military) leader, the remarkable Jan Zizka (c1360 – 1424). He also links to the KMLA world history site and to Polish Renaissance Warfare site.

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Chemical nerve chip

New Scientist:

bq. A microchip that uses chemicals instead of pulses of electricity to stimulate neurons has been created. It could open the way to implants that interact with our nervous system in a far more subtle way than is possible now.

Found through Warren Ellis’ “diepunyhumans”:http://www.diepunyhumans.com