Kautiliya Arthasastra

Benares

Cahaba Valley Church

Women's Role Study Document

THE HISTORICAL EPHEMERIS - Index and Contents Came across this while doing research on ancient Indian history. Weird and fun!

AncientScripts.com: Kalinga This is a truly awesome site! I can't believe it has escaped my notice. Examples of scripts, too.

Greg Stolze

Character Class Index

Prestige Class Index

Caitlin Kiernan's home page I'm currently reading Kiernan's Threshold (out of order, since I read Low Red Moon first). Highly recommended. Lovecraftian in a subtle way. Knowing where the Birmingham locations are that she references makes it that much scarier.

EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - General - Railroading is bad? OHMIGOSH, someone else has picked up "Belgian Congo" as a gaming phrase! How cool is that?

Strange: June Fortean Events

EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - General - [IronDM] Iron DM Returns! Finals, Match 1 Ingedients posted. Hurray! Stormborn's made it to the finals. What an awful list of ingredients! I think he's done a great job of working with them, though.

The Order of the Stick - by Rich Burlew My favorite line: "Sacrificing minions: is there any problem it CAN'T solve?"

Grocery Store Wars | Join the Organic Rebellion

mearls: Core Stories in D&D

Night Stalker (2005) - TV Series - TV Tome

This is one of those times I'll have to completely forget the old series when looking at the new one. But they're putting it on Thursday night opposite CSI, so doesn't sound like they're serious about it anyway. Playing Kolchak is a guy who was originally supposed to play Aragorn but was thought too young. Oh dear. In other words, NOTHING like the Kolchak of the books.

Oh, well. Just found out that there's a 5-DVD box set of all the Kolchak eps...

May is a month in which falls of various strange kinds have occurred throughout history, according to the esteemed Charles Fort. Here is a list of them, taken from The Book of the Damned in The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, 1974.

• May 1652 - fall of viscous mass with a luminous meteorite between Siena and Rome
• May 1830 - fall of red ("vegetable") matter in rain, Siena, Italy
• May 1858 - fall of great numbers of beetle larvae, "inanimate as if with cold," Mortagne, France
• April 30, May 1 & May 2, [1856?] - fall of reddish to yellowish substance, carbonized, "spread the odor of charred animal matter", France and Spain
• May 1, 1863 - fall of red meal mixed with fine sand, Perpignan
• May 3, 1877 - fall of masses of ice "large as a man's hand, killing thousands of sheep," Texas
• May 3, 1884 - black rain at Crowle, England, near Worcester, accompanied by earthquakes
• May 8, 1802 - fall, during a storm, of a "mass of ice 3' long, 3' wide, and more than 2' thick", Hungary
• May 11, 1894 - fall of a small piece of alabaster, Vicksburg, Miss.; 8 miles away in Bovina, Miss., fall of a gopher turtle, both in a hailstorm
• May 12, 1811 - fall of lumps of ice, a foot in circumference, Derbyshire, England
• May 14, 1849 - ink-colored rain, fetid odor and "very disagreeable taste", Ireland
• May 14, 1864 - fall of "twenty masses, some of them as large as a human head, of a substance that 'resembled a dull-colored earthy lignite'", Montauban, France
• May 16, 1833 - fall of dead and dry fish, Futtepoor, India
• May 16 or 17, 1834 - fall of dead, dry fish (or fish-shaped objects), Allahabad, India
• May 18, 1883 - fall of 'a number of stones of peculiar formation and shapes, unknown in this neighborhood' in a tornado, Hillsboro, Ill.
• May 22, 1884 - fall of flinty stones, Bismarck, [North] Dakota
• May 27, 1884 - peculiar stone "'very like the fourth part of a large Stilton cheese'" found near a fall of a meteorite

I think that pretty well covers the subject for the month of May.

EN World - Morrus' D&D / d20 News & Reviews Site - General - Ernest Adams' Some Thoughts on Archaic Language

The Order of the Stick - by Rich Burlew