The Valkyries

The Valkyries were warrior maidens who would go to battlefields and pick through the bodies of those who had fallen. After finding the mos...

Sigurd the Dragon Slayer

A hero of the Poetic Edda, Sigurd was born after the death of his father. Sigurd's mother gave him the broken shards of his father...

Myths of the island Celts of Great Britain

Myths of the island Celts of Great Britain and Ireland were introduced into medieval culture and thus survived to the present day, althoug...

The Apocalypse, mass kills and the magnetic pole shift

The myriad of reasons given for the mass deaths of various species of animals around the world is almost as baffling as the events themsel...

What is going on?

The bird and fish kills are not, apparently, isolated incidents in the United States of America, nor indeed in the region. In recent days ...

PARIS: THE TEMPLE

The Paris Temple was in the area known today as the Marais, which is on the Right Bank just west of the Bastille. The Marais is one of the...

THE TEMPLARS IN MOVIES

Grand Master Gérard de Ridefort was beheaded by Saladin in 1189 at the Siege of Acre. For decades, Hollywood’s perception of the Templars b...

GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY

absolute location –exact location of a place on the earth described by global coordinates basin –area of land drained by a given river and...