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Interactive Fiction is a literary form that, in my opinion, still has a lot of room for exploration. It arguably had its highlight back in the 1980s, between the series of insanely popular Choose Your Own Adventure books, and the popularity of early text-based computer games like Zork. (Which I won, by the way. Just throwing that out there. Played it on a Kaypro II.)
The latest talk from the North Korean front says that they may indeed be ready to put some nuclear weapons into the air. This comes via a recent
Movies like Lincoln, Gods and Generals and Gettysburg are exceptions. Usually Hollywood trawls out utter dreck when it comes to dramatizing real-life historical events. Here is a rouge's gallery of the worst of the worst.
It’s 3 a.m. and every nerve in my body wants to stay in bed but quickly the intellect clears enough to remind me that the world’s largest fish market is springing to life just a few blocks away and I’ve been invited to witness the structured chaos within its gates.
Waterfalls have always held a special place of fascination in my heart. There’s something about great rivers of water meandering across the landscape until they find no place left to go but down that appeals to my sense of inevitability. In their travels, these rivers create stunning landscapes and end up producing some of the most attractive natural sites in the world.
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Anyone who’s had to arrange a funeral knows that burying a loved one isn't cheap. Even in the
Whenever a new leader is brought into power, it isn't long before the eyes of the country, and eventually the world, fall upon the lady he has by his side. With the raising of Xi Jinping to the position of president in
For those fascinated by the world of bizarre architecture or those that love a little bit of low-impact (i.e.: safe) urban exploration, the city of
Canadian oil pipelines have been in the talks for years as foreign oil prices continued to rise, but as the closing date draws near on three of them, it's raising the ire of local aboriginal groups.
The Canadian government has been hit hard by bottlenecks at their current pipelines and an oil glut that has cut prices for Alberta oil, but they see a light at the end of the tunnel with the creation of three new multi-million dollar pipelines.
