Kathleen Charters and Lawrence Charters
Explorations large and small
Checklist of World Heritage Sites visited in the United States. This is a dynamic list, with plans for checking off more sites in the future. ✔︎ means “visited,” and ✖︎ means “need to visit.” Mesa Verde National Park – ✖︎ Continue reading World Heritage Sites, United States
Several hundred items were published in the Yokosuka Seahawk and I no longer have copies of most of those stories. It will take me considerable time to convert the articles I still retain. These were scanned from the printed originals. Continue reading Seahawk
Two articles (so far) from: At Your Leisure have been posted. The original publications were printed on newsprint, which is definitely not the medium of choice for long-term preservation. These were reproduced via scans and OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
Some of the most important questions ever posed by humanity involve religion, spirituality, faith and belief. Most people, in every culture, profess to some spirituality, though things get more complicated when it comes to religion. Religion is related to spirituality, Continue reading True religion
The current Earth Day was first observed on April 22, 1970, as an “environmental teach-in” at two thousand colleges and universities and ten thousand elementary, middle school and high schools across the United States. It was a grass-roots response to Continue reading Earth Day
Take two Asian religions (Judaism, Christianity), mix in some pagan and commercial European elements (evergreen trees, stocking caps, candy canes), add in a food from the Americas (cocoa) and a subject that mixes Christian theology (“Follow me, and I will make Continue reading Fishy, but chocolate
Why go to great lengths for a Halloween costume when you can wear a polo shirt from Transylvania University?
Of Monsters and Men, an Icelandic rock group, visited Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, in September. The name doesn’t really seem to describe the group all that well, though a few photos may help clarify things. The opening act Continue reading Of Monsters and Men and Merriweather – and spotlights
This was the early version of Google. Using these humble wooden drawers, generations of scholars and researchers, desperate students and cunning spies, despairing parents and fanatical bibliophiles, and every other shape and size of reader delved into the depth and breadth Continue reading Early version of Google