Category: Resources

The Magical History Tour is a travel guide to many sites in southern England related to Arthurian legend (or just nice places along the route, apparently).

Dedicated to Ancient Egypt, Gavin’s Egyptomania site features links and lots of antique images of ancient egypt. I really liked Brunton’s Portraits of the kings and queens of Egypt.

Ka-BOOM! A Dictionary of Comic Book Words (Kevin J. Taylor, ed.) collects Many Hundreds of New Words which Modern Literature, Science & Philosophy have Neglected to Acknowledge as True, Proper & Useful Terms & Which Have Never Before Been Published in Any Lexicon. It contains such useful terms as HWOKSH [Batman #502, 1993] The sound of a head being kicked and MMMBUH-WHAMMM [The Adventures of Bayou Billy #2, 1989] The complex sound of a monster truck crashing through a wall, it goes far beyond the eponymous KaBoom.

Kronos: A Chronological History of the Martial Arts and Combative Sports is a far more substantial work, and it appears to attempt to list any historical evidence or anecdote pretaining (however peripherally) to its subject. It’s organized as a long list of snippets of information, arranged chronologically and broken up into sections by time periods. It’s absolutely fascinating and well worth dipping into time and again.

I originally found both of these web publications archived at the National Library of Canada Electronic Collection.

An Egypt Tourism site that is an excellent resource about ancient Egypt, its pyramids and temples, its kings and gods. Also of interest is the page of alternative Egyptian theories (i.e, weird and crackpot speculation)…

A site which shows you Playboy’s Playmate of the month for every month between December 1953 and July 2002. Look up the playmate on the month you were born!
Beats a horoscope in my book… [Link from wildernesscat]