Ancient Egyptian obelisks that once lay along the banks of the Nile are now on display in cities like New York, London, Paris, and Rome, and this publication describes how that came to be the case.
“The True Story of the Obelisk” delves into the engineering techniques that were used to transport these massive “Cleopatra’s needles” and describes the weeks, months, and even years required... [click here for more]
Slithery Jungle Tales is a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the old pulp science fiction and fantasy magazines of the early 20th century. The stories are written in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, and Robert Bloch, but they are new and original stories. I play fast and loose with the themes of jungle adventures, swords-and-sorcery, and lurid but not pornographic eroticism. Also included... [click here for more]
Zine Making, a wikibook on how to make your zines, by contributes Mcld and Thenub314, is licensed under the Creative Commons-Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 imported license, and here is the URL Address: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ You wanna make a zine? Now's your chance to make your very own zine! This very Wiki Book will guide you in the process of making the zine you have always... [click here for more]
This very special 80% off bundle contains 22 titles, including two works on gaming by H.G. Wells; a reminiscence on a months-long wargame by Robert Louis Stevenson; our "Stories from the Northern Myths," "Guns and Super-Guns," and "Ironclads"; Andrew Lang’s “The Story of the Golden Fleece” and eight other short stories; four copies of a World War I comic; a... [click here for more]