When I was a child the 1982 film based on Peter S Beagle story "The Last Unicorn" was one of my favorite movies. Like everything else I have encountered in life that I liked a little more than usual, I became obsessed with unicorns and would get any book I could find at the library that featured a unicorn
"Bogs represent one of the last true wildernesses in Europe, and people have been burying things in them for thousands upon thousands of years. This has proved a boon for archaeologists, because the unique chemistry of bogs can preserve organic artifacts to an incredible degree – scarves, leather shoes, wooden cups, wolfskin capes, wagon wheels,...
You find yourself sitting on a dock, the air thick with humidity and insects, but the breeze coming in across the water is refreshing after a long dayYou're in Venezuela, you had flown in to the El Vigia airport that morning where your tour guide picked you up. You were in the car for a little over an hour, the...
In some ways, this is a short version of the history of wax. An incredibly malleable material that doesn't degrade the way other organic compounds do, wax can make molds, absorb paint, and be made into incredibly accurate, often eerily exact replicas of bones, tissue, and whole people (like in Madame Tussaud's famous wax celebrity museums).
Stubborn, focused, and an all-around badass, Leo Major is one of very few soldiers to receive the coveted DCM metal and receive a bar in addition. A native of Montreal, Canada he earned the nickname "The Rambo of Quebec" for his wild feats during WWII and the Korean War.
It's 2015. Every day seems to come with more bad news. It feels like the world is collapsing in on itself. Everyone is miserable and you and your friends just keep saying, just gotta make it to 2016, maybe that won't be another shit year. Naturally none of you have any idea just how much more intense the...
Swearing is one of those things that carries a ton of weight in our world. Whether we've been chastised by parents, grandparents, teachers, etc. It always comes with a visceral reaction. However, most of us find it to be cathartic, fun, a manifestation of how we're feeling in a moment, or just part of our day to day. Interestingly enough,...
"Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood." —Susan B. Anthony in The New York...
It's easy to forget that the written language is still a relatively recent phenomenon in human history, we take for granted that everything in modern times is written down and anything posted to the internet is forever, for good or for bad. We write texts and posts memes without thinking about it, we jot down grocery lists, reply-all to email...
Most history books will tell you that the Maori were the firsts inhabitants of New Zealand, first settling the islands between 1280-1350 CE but Maori tradition tells of a different people nestled deep in New Zealand's foggy mountains where they could hide from sunlight which was deadly to them