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The Royal Castle in Chęciny from a bird's eye

11 Jul 2021 2 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68

A brief history of the castle Krótka historia zamku [EN] The Royal Castle in Chęciny, probably at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. It was built on a hill that is 367 m above sea level. The construction was initiated by the king of Poland...

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

10 Jul 2021 5 minute read 1 comment The Archivist

(The Library: Book Review) Cosmic horror is hard to define. It seems to invade your universe and your soul from within. It exists and is present whether you admit it or not. There is no denying the ravaging effects and pure evil, it seems, lurks in t...

Week 22: THE MOODY BLUES (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

10 Jul 2021 6 minute read 0 comments jozefkrichards

Their blend of rock and classical music became (what would be known as) progressive rock, the dominant style of many of the 1970s' greatest rock albums. The Moody Blues made a slew of great albums in this style, beginning in the late 1960s with Days...

[Series] From Nothing to Everything: Cryptocurrencies in Smith's World

9 Jul 2021 3 minute read 0 comments 1x0Fx0 - 100

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, thus defined Adam Smith, the book that would change the systematics of the commercial governments of the time and the entire structure of the conception of the world before the full in...

January 9, 2009: First Bitcoins mined

9 Jul 2021 1 minute read 1 comment ScreenTag

It took Satoshi Nakamoto 6 days to come up with a mechanism to attribute coins mined to an entity. Today this entity is known as 'Bitcoin address' and is considered to work as an account. In the first days of the Bitcoin though, the intended use of a...

His Name was Frank

8 Jul 2021 5 minute read 0 comments Jinno

  Your world is going to end in 6 months 28 days 15 hours 42 minutes and 12 seconds. Do you know why Donnie Darko is such a cult classic? Because it's deeper than skin level everything is not what it appears to be. The tangent world that Donnie inhib...

Week 21: ENNIO MORRICONE (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

8 Jul 2021 6 minute read 5 comments jozefkrichards

The soundtracks to over 400 films were composed by Ennio Morricone, among them some of my very favorites of all time, such as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Movie soundtracks represented some of my first exposures to music as a child, but while man...

Week 20: GORILLAZ (420 to 30: A Music Retrospective)

8 Jul 2021 7 minute read 1 comment jozefkrichards

Sometimes the whole really is greater than the sum of its parts. In this case, literally, as the four virtual band members, 2-D, Murdoc Niccals, Noodle, and Russel Hobbs, collectively known as Gorillaz, are the creation of just two people: one musici...

Chris Paul - The Point God

7 Jul 2021 4 minute read 0 comments DRB9490

Now in his 16th NBA season, Chris Paul has finally reached the NBA finals, and he hasn't disappointed. He has had many accomplishments, and will most certainly be inducted into the NBA Hall Of Fame. The one thing missing from Paul's resume? A champio...

Protestantism: the root of cryptorevolution

6 Jul 2021 4 minute read 2 comments 1x0Fx0 - 100

  Emerged from the non-conformity of the German Augustinian Father Martin Luther (1483-1546) in accepting some practices of the Catholic Church, including the sale of indulgences, promises of paradise for payment and kidnapping of land and goods in t...