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Encyclopedia Astronautica

A big space travel resource: Encyclopedia Astronautica, from a link in a Pyramid article about Sergei Korolev, the ‘Chief Designer’ behind the USSR’s space program.

For example, they have a
A Brief History of the HARP Project, which gave us Gerald Bull and the Babylon Gun, the so-called “Iraqi Super Cannon”.

On the evening March 22, 1990, at the age of 62, as Bull approached his apartment
door in Brussels, he was shot six times in the back of the head. The assassin
was reported to be Israeli military, although the case was never solved.
Gerry Bulls last Supergun was cut up and scrapped by the UN at the conclusion
of the Iraq/Kuwait war. It was never assembled or fired.

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An Irish stew of links

An Irish stew of links – Irish literature, Mythology, Folklore, and Drama covers Cuchulainn to Samuel Beckett.

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Pulp and Victorian Heroes

Just discovered that the wonderful Fantastic, Mysterious, and Adventurous Victoriana site, which I blogged a while back, has moved (to the linked address).

The author also has a site dedicated to the Pulp Heroes which appears to also be of the high standard of quality found on the Gentleman’s Victorian concordance.

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Modeling sites

Two modeling sites: Models Modeling and www.erhymez.com, both found through a site called blackcuties.com. Which I hit on a Google search looking for some good photos of black men (Samuel Jackson is tragically under photographed, at least as represented online).

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Victorian Drug Abuse

Victorians’ Secret: Victorian Substance Abuse documents the drugs of the Victorian era, including such favorites as Absinthe and Cocaine toothache drops.