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POPSThree Mile Island: True Conspiracy Revealed. This article will give you absolute chills. Randall Thompson and wife, Joy, both worked at TMI and investigated the meltdown. During the investigation, their lives were threatened and they left Pennsylvania for New Mexico. They were in process of writing a book on the meltdown and coverup with Joy's brother, Charles (a nuclear Navy vet). One night, while Randall and Charles were driving home, they were run off the road and Charles was killed. The book manuscript that was in the trunk of the car, went mysteriously missing. Oh, just read the article. It's genuinely creepy.
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POPSThe Romance of Alexander the Great The gorgeous full and half page illuminated manuscript miniatures seen above - definitely click through to large and very large versions for the full impact - were produced by the workshop of the Flemish illuminator, Jehan de Grise, between 1338 and 1344.
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POPSResearcher uncovers secrets of Kells 'angels' more (at source): The monks could then refine any disparities by minimizing the apparent vertical depth of the images -- ultimately replicating the design element to submillimeter precision. Cisne proposed the idea in the July 17 issue of the journal Perception (Vol. 38, No. 7). The paper suggests that the technique, called free-fusion stereocomparison, which takes advantage of the brain's ability to perceive depth by integrating the slightly different views from each eye, was known nearly a thousand years before it was articulated by stereoscope inventor Sir George Wheatstone in the 19th century. Cisne analyzed the most detailed illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, created between 670 and 800 A.D., including the Book of Kells (circa 800 A.D.); some have as many as 30 lines per centimeter.
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POPSMystery in Grand Central Station NYC solved Articles describes the controversy around why the constellations on the ceiling of the MAin Concourse of GCT are reverse. It finds the medieval designs used for the design and discovers the reasons for the mix-up.
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POPSThe Law of Self-Discipline Without discipline there is no excellence, no progress, no satisfaction. People who learn to manage themselves can reach any objective. Find out how to develop self discipline at http://www.davidneagle.com/newsletters/diamonds_v68.html
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POPSWriting Through Rejection What is the difference between George Orwell, C.S. Lewis, Margaret Mitchell and the authors whose work never sees the light of day? Published authors don’t give up. They know that editors aren’t always right. They keep on marketing and writing, driven by the passion to tell their stories to the world. very true!
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POPSSixty years since Orwell wrote 1984 4,000 words a day, seven days a week – mostly done propped up in bed.The effort produced excruciating pain and high temperatures. A week before he finished typing he was still unsure what to put on the title page: ‘I am hesitating between Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Last Man In Europe.’ Orwell died six months after publication, aged 46.
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POPSWorld's Oldest Bible Now Online The Codex Sinaiticus is the oldest known complete copy of the Judaeo-Christian bible known to exist. It is now online, and it will give you a chance to read a text uncorrupted by the fog of translation. Of course, you'll have to be fluent in classical Greek and a number of other dead languages, but, after all, if you're serious about scripture, what's a little learning?
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POPSMysterious Book: Codex Gigas more (at source): The legend surrounding the Codex is that one of the monks from the Bohemian Benedictine Monastery had committed a terrible sin and was facing the ultimate punishment from the monastery...... to be walled up alive in is cell. To redeem himself from a terrible slow death, the monk offered a deal to the monastery leaders.....if he were to write the biggest book that the world had ever seen, in one single night, then he should be allowed to live.
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POPSCodex Gigas - The Devil's Bible No records about it's origin, author or reason for writing it have been preserved. It's been said the manuscript is "eerily flawless". Some think the Codex Gigas was written by the Devil himself. Oooh, creepy! :) http://www.nkp.cz/files/codex_gigas_en.pdf
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POPSABOUT ISLAMIC WORLD IN,MEDICINE,QURAN TRANSLATION ,ISLAMIC LAW,SUNNAH,SCIENCE,HISTORY,Etc.,
FROM HAZARTH IBN SINA TO TUSI ,THE SCIENTIFIC TRADITION IN MEDIEVAL ISLAM (SCIENCE & ISLAM) From Ibn Sina to Tusi: The Scientific Tradition in Medieval Islam From the ninth century onwards, scholars in Muslim lands were engaged in all of the disciplines of science. A treasury of Greek, Indian, Persian and Babylonian philosophic and scientific thought became available through translations into Arabic, and philosopher-scientists, physicians, mathematicians and astronomers - a community of scholars that included Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians as well as Muslims - enriched this intellectual legacy with their own contributions. Title page of volume 5 of Ibn Sina’s Qanun Title page from the Latin edition of Ibn Sina’s Canon of Medicine Half-title page from the 1608 Latin edition of Ibn Sina’s Canon of Medicine Opening page from the 1572 Latin edition of Ibn al-Haytham’s Book of Optics Table from Ibn Butlan’s Taqwim al-Sihha Page from the Sharh al-tadhkirah of al-Birj
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POPSCatalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts This catalog provides "a simple means to discover medieval manuscripts available on the web." Searchable, or browse by location, shelfmark, title, author, language. The site notes that " s the project develops, a richer body of information for each manuscript, and the texts in these codices, will be provided, where available." From the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. URL: http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/ LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/28150
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