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A Disturbing lesson for Modern Times

19 Jul 2025 3 minute read 0 comments rah

Please note the eye witness account that inspired this post was (obviously - I wasn't there) not originally mine, but in this increasingly polarising and dangerous world it is a timely reminder of where hate and intolerance can take us.  Images are r...

What The Tech?! Bulletin Board Systems

14 Jul 2025 5 minute read 1 comment Investigator515

The humble BBS was the precursor to Forums and Social Media. The internet is everywhere today, and we’re now evolving the internet of things, which gives us remote sensors that are able to change the way we tackle certain problems. There was a time,...

Russia's Incredible Help for the US

11 Jul 2025 2 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard

Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aHDcAmO5F0FYdouY In Russia, they are once again talking about some incredible assistance that the "Russian Empire" provided to the young United States during the War of Independence. Trump shoul...

Wrapping up on Undesigned Coincidences

10 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet

I think the time has come to wrap up my series on undesigned coincidences, and lay them to rest, at least for now. This is in no way a definite last ever post on the subject from me, but I intend to move on to other topics for now at least. What I ha...

Alms to the poor that give evidence for Acts and the Epistles

5 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet

I have previously covered some undesigned coincidences from the Gospels, specifically four from the narratives that describe the feeding of the five thousand miracle, and also an undesigned coincidence from the Old Testament. Next I would like to cov...

The largest Gothic castle in the world - Malbork Castle in Poland

5 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  Next to the Order of Knights Hospitaller and Templars, it was a symbol of the power of the Order of the Hospital of the Holy Virgin Mary of the German House in Jerusalem. It is the most powerful fortress of medieval Europe and an example of...

Exploring Espionage: The Thing

5 Jul 2025 4 minute read 3 comments Investigator515

The Soviet-designed “thing” was god-tier levels of surveillance wizardry. In a world full of computers, if you’re younger, it’s often hard to picture a world where they didn’t exist at the same levels that we see today. In the post-WW2 years, though,...

2022: an epic summer continues

4 Jul 2025 12 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey

  July 11 Emma walks through back door saying she feels like a “sack of meat” after long day. I came across Firestarter today, in my boxes of books, and give it to her to read – she seems excited. I make this creamy ravioli from Dinnerly...

What The Tech?! The Graphics Card

30 Jun 2025 5 minute read 2 comments Investigator515

We’ve come a long way since the inkpot. And while the typewriter would give us legitimate work processing capabilities, it would take personal computers to truly supercharge our productivity. When we had computers, though, we decided we needed more....

Who Betrayed Who First?

29 Jun 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet

  I have previously covered four undesigned coincidences that together show that the miraculous feeding of the five thousand that is retold in all four Gospels is a historical event; Why Philip?, Green Grass and Miracles, Counting to a Miracle, and T...