Information Sources

The Arts
Worth Mentioning

cf. Brookgreen Gardens

DreamSmithPhotos

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

Flickr photos

Frank FM 107.5 Classic Rock Portland, Maine

Quent Cordair Fine Art

cf. Esthetics in Philosophy

Greenville area Arts
Greenville, SC

Greenville (Little) Theater
Greenville, SC

Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Greenville, SC

Jorge Marin

from Wings of the City
Greenville, SC
Summer 2021

Mauldin Cultural Center
Mauldin, SC

Arts Trail

Mural Project

Medieval Literature

Musée Rodin

Piedmont Blues
guitar-playing style

Pink Floyd

The Ride WXRC FM 95.7
Hickory, North Carolina

cf. School of Athens, Raphael, 1510

SiriusXM

Channel Guide

Nadja Solerno-Sonnenberg, Greenville Symphony Orchestra, 15 March 1984

Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra

Kathie Wheeler
portrait artist

David Zinn's ephemeral art

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Audio-Visual
Worth Mentioning

Cherry Vintage Audio

Don Jones Stereo

HDMI Switch with Remote
3 Input 1 Output

4-Way RCA
AV Switch

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Automotive Sources
Worth Mentioning

Adams Auto Parts

Auto Evolution

Automobile Catalog

Automotive Engineering
magazine

Cadillac

Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham

Cadillac Fleetwood

Cadillac De Ville

Cadillac History

Cadillac & LaSalle Club

Museum

Kevin Whitaker Cadillac
Greenville, SC

Cadillac DTS 2007

Michelin 245/50R18 tire

Pirelli 245/50R18 tire

1984 Fleetwood Parts

Carolina Auto Repair
Mauldin, SC

Christian Brothers
Greenville, SC

CJ Auto Parts
Kenilworth, NJ

Classic Industries
parts and accessories

Dorman Products

Elektrek

Engine Builder

Internal Combustion Engines vs. Electric Vehicles

EVs – half of all owners want to switch back to internal combustion

Gas Prices

Great Lakes Classic Cars
Hilton, NY

Hagerty marketplace

Jay Leno's Garage

Keenan's Tire & Auto Service, 12 Lindsay Ave, Greenville, SC 29607
864-271-4670 Yelp

Taylors, SC

Mauldin Paint & Body
Mauldin, SC

and here
Mauldin, SC

Peach State Classics
Roswell, Ga

Road & Track
magazine

Road Rallying

Rock Auto
parts and accessories

Sexton's Muffler Shop
Greenville, SC

Sports Car Club of America (SCCA)

Williams & Sons Salvage

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The answer to too many days on the road goes right over most peoples' heads.

Aerion Supersonic

AERObridge
General Aviation
assistance in emergencies

Aeronautics

Abbreviations

Aspect Ratio

Chord

Swept Wing

Wing Configuration

Wingspan

Aerospace & Defense Technology magazine

Aerospace Manufacturing magazine

AeroToolbox

Aircraft Wing Area and Aspect Ratio

Density Altitude Calculator

Newton's Laws and the Physics of Flight

Air & Space magazine

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA)

AOPA Pilot magazine

Writers' Guidelines

Aircraft Spruce

Concorde

* 24v battery minder

Angel Flight

Missions

Arrows across America
Transcontinental
Air Mail Routes

Aviation Stack Exchange

cf. Aviation Weather Center

Aviation Week &
Space Technology

Archives

ARI Watch

Ayn Rand Lexicon

A Nation's Unity

The New Ideal

The Philosophy of Objectivism

Objective Thinking

Classical Liberals
of the Carolinas

Clemson Institute for
the Study of Capitalism

Founder Brad Thompson interview on Fred Factor

The Roberts Court and
the Administrative State

Why Athens? Character and the Cultural Revolution

Cognitive Biases

Primacy and Recency

Education – The Missing Link of American Freedom

cf. ESG Policies – What are they, and why are they harmful?

cf. Evolution

Foundation for
Economic Education

Articles

Great Myths of the Great Depression (PDF)

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

cf. Govt. Issues and Theory

Great Homeschool Conventions

Greenville County Schools

Hillsdale College

Imprimis

cf. Rogue Prosecutors and the Rise of Crime, Disparate Impact Thinking

Sociology Professor Jonathan Imber on the importance of respect for conservative ideals in the academic community

LETRS
Transforming Literacy Instruction

What Is LETRS?
Why One Training Is Dominating ‘Science of Reading’ Efforts

LETRS® for Early Childhood Educators

LETRS in South Carolina

The Science of Reading
South Carolina Living magazine

The Math Inspectors
book series for kids

cf. Bakken books

John McCaskey

Objective Standard Institute

Objective Standard Conferences

Objectivism In Depth

The Axioms of Objectivism

Parents Against
Critical Race Theory

Parents Defending Education

Pinnacle Classical Academy

Evy Poumpouras

Prager U

The Redneck Intellectual:
Au Revoir, Harvard
by C. Bradley Thompson

Resources for Teaching Economics & Personal Finance

cf. SiriusXM weather

South Carolina Independent School Association

STEM STEAM - Science

cf. South Carolina Encyclopedia

South Carolina Public Charter School District

Teaching History

Significant Changes in Teaching History over the Past Decade

Students for Liberty

ThoughtCo

University of Austin, Texas

cf. Woodworking classes
at Rockler, Woodcraft.

cf. Writing Process

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Entertainment Sources
Worth Mentioning

Active Interest Media

Camelot Cinemas
movie schedule
Greenville, SC

Poker Run

cf. Railroad Modeling

Regal Cinema
movie schedule
Greenville, SC

Regal Simpsonville
movie schedule
Simpsonville, SC

cf. Road Rallying

cf. Sports Car Club of America

Star Trek

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Equestrian Sources
Worth Mentioning

Belmont

Kentucky Derby

Preakness

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Fiction Reading
Worth Mentioning

For recommended fiction reading, see also the Fiction section of our Great Books webpage

Analog Science Fiction & Fact magazine

Deathbird
by Harlan Ellison

Slow Sculpture
by Theodore Sturgeon

cf. Books Movies Music

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Freedom and Oppression
Worth Mentioning

Alliance Defending Freedom

What Are ESG Policies,
and
Why Are They Harmful?

cf. American Library Association (censorship)

America's
Revolutionary Mind

Thompson

Cato Institute

Civil Liberties

Censorship by the Catholic Church and European governments
Index Librorum Prohibitorum

cf. Citizen's Guide to South Carolina's Freedom of Information Act

Citizen's Handbook TOC

Clairemont Institute

* Founding of America

cf. Education

cf. Home ownership
by country

cf. Human rights in Muslim-majority countries

cf. Open letter to
Clemson students

Dear Democrats
by Dr. Hurd

cf. Dr. Hurd

cf. Govt. Issues and Theory

Hunt for Liberty

Individual Rights – Definition and Examples

International Liberty

Higher Tax Rates Don’t Necessarily Mean Higher Tax Revenue

cf. Legal Issues & Support

cf. Marxist Sources

Mel Brooks: ‘Blazing Saddles’ Would Never Be Made in Today’s ‘Stupidly Politically Correct’ Culture

National Coalition Against Censorship

New Civil Liberties Alliance

cf. NRA-ILA Legal & Legislative News

cf. Philosophy

cf. Pursuit of Happiness

Press Freedom
Around the World

cf. Visual Capitalist

Rules for Radicals
by Saul Alinsky

Summary and discussion

cf. Slavery - Now

Statism

cf. Terrorist Organizations

cf. The Von Mises Institute

Tracinski

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General Sales
Worth Mentioning

Chattic

Jeremy's razors

Patriot Depot

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Geologic Time Scales
and Extinction Events
Worth Mentioning

Geological History of Earth

History of Earth

Time Scales

eon era period epoch age

mya = milllion years ago
kya = thousand years ago

Hadean Eon
4567-4000 mya

Formation of the Earth
4540 mya

Formation of the Moon
4500 mya

Origin of Earth's Water
4290-3880 mya

Archean Eon
4000-2500 mya
atmospheric methane;
no O2

Eoarchean Period
4000-3600 mya
* first life forms

Paleoarchean Period
3600-3200 mya

Earth's magnetic field established
3500 mya

Mesoarchean Period
3200-2800 mya
atmospheric methane CO2

Pongola glaciation
2900mya

Neoarchean Period
2800-2500 mya

Proterozoic Eon
2500-538.8 mya

Siderian Period
2500-2300 mya

Huronian glaciation
2500-2200 mya

Rhyacian Period
2300-2050 mya

Orosirian Period
2050-1800 mya

Statherian Period
1800-1600 mya

Calymmian Period
1600-1400 mya

Ectasian Period
1400-1200 mya

Stenian Period
1200-1000 mya

↑ > 1 billion years ago
↓ < 1 billion years ago

Tonian Period
1000-720 mya

Cryogenian Period
720-635 mya
Snowball Earth,
Marinoan glaciation

Ediacaran Period
635-538.8 mya

PreCambrian
prior to 541 mya

Phanerozoic Eon
538.8 mya - present

Paleozoic Era
541-251.9 mya

Cambrian Period
541-485.4 mya

Ordovician Period
485.4-443.8 mya

First Extinction Event
volcanos, CO2 reduction

Silurian Period
443.8-419.2 mya

Devonian Period
419.2-358.9 mya

Second Extinction Event
cooling, volcanos

Carboniferous Period
358.9-298.9 mya

Permian Period
298.9-251.9 mya

cf. Dimetrodon
(295–272 mya)

Cisuralian Epoch
298.9-273 mya

Olson's Extinction Event
hot climate, acidic waters

Guadalupian Epoch
273-259.5 mya

Capitanian
Extinction Event
volcanos, CO2, SO2

Lopingian Epoch
259.5-251.9 mya

Third Extinction Event
volcanos, CO2, SO2

Mesozoic Era
252-66 mya

Triassic Period
251.9-201.4 mya

Fourth Extinction Event
volcano, CO2, acidic water

Jurassic Period
201.4-145 mya
first dinosaurs

cf. Dinosaurs
(240-66 mya)

Cretaceous Period
145-66 mya

Fifth Extinction Event
asteroid / meteor

Cenozoic Era
66 mya - present

Eocene Epoch
56-33.9 mya

Eocene–Oligocene
Extinction Event
low CO2, cooling, glaciers

Oligocene Epoch
33.9-23 mya

Miocene Epoch
23-5.3 mya

* first human ancestors
5.6-4.4 mya

cf. Genus Homo Evolution

Pliocene Epoch
5.3-2.58 mya

Pliocene–Pleistocene
Extinction Event
due to supernova
or Eltanin impact

Pleistocene Epoch
2.58 mya - 11.7 kya

* Early Human
Migrations
Out of Africa

Asia-Americas Migrations
30 kya - 300 ya

cf. Temperatures
18kya - present

Younger Dryas
12.9 kya - 11.7 kya
due to volcanism?

cf. Ice Ages

cf. Laschamp event
geomagnetic excursion

Holocene Epoch
11.7kya - present

Greenlandian Age
9700BC-6200BC

8200ya event – 6200BC

cf. Atlantis?, Doggerland, Lake Agassiz, North Sea Tsunami, Storegga Slide

Northgrippian Age
6200BC-2200BC

4200kya event

Meghalayan Age
2200BC-present

cf. World Geologic Map, Maps and Geography, Holocene climate change, Milankovitch cycles, Piora Oscillation, Evolution, Human Evolution, Early Human Migrations, Asian Migration to the Americas, Volcanic winter, Prehistory, Stone Age.

"Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever."

– Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

The Earth's repeated volcanism, ice ages, and extinction events should make that clear.

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Government Sources
Worth Mentioning

Governmental
Issues and Theory

Bill of Rights

Centralization of Power

Civil Liberties

Constitutionalism

Constitutional Republic

Democracy
Tyranny of the Majority

Federal Government

cf. Swiss federal government

Habeas Corpus

Oligarchy

Tyranny

Civil Law

Common Law

Judicial Review

Separation of Powers

cf. Politics in Philosophy,
Freedom and Oppression,
Citizen's Guide to South Carolina's Freedom of Information Act,
Home ownership by country

Council of Europe

in Wikipedia

Russia in the Council of Europe

Acquis Communautaire

City of Greenville, SC

website map

City Clerk

Boards and Commissions

Greenville County, SC

Greenville County Council

meets 1st & 3rd Tuesdays

District maps

Members

Weekly Calendar

Greenville County Legislative Delegation

Greenville County
School Board

cf. Greenville Municipal Airport

Greenville-Pickens Area Transportation Study (GPATS)

Greenville Water System

Agendas and Minutes

Budgets and Finance

Brush and Leaves Pickup Schedules

Calendar

North Atlantic
Treaty Organization

NATO

Types of Elections

Police Officers Association of Michigan

Ranked Choice Voting

in South Carolina

South Carolina

Constitution

Code of Laws

Section 23-31 Firearms

Section 23-31-235 Sign Requirements

Section 23-31-510. Regulation of ownership, transfer, or possession of firearm or ammunition

cf. S.C. A.G. Opinion regarding signs placed at all Charleston County parks prohibiting the carrying of concealable weapons.

Code of Regulations

Residential Electrical Code

General Assembly

Find your legislators

map of State Senate Districts

Senate legislation

map of State House Districts

State House Redistricting 2021

House legislation

Attorney General's Office

Opinions

JUL 22, 2022 Opinion regarding signs placed at all Charleston County parks prohibiting the carrying of concealable weapons.

SEP 30, 2014 Regarding whether the City of Traveler’s Rest possesses the authority to enact an ordinance restricting concealed weapons “from all or any part of Trailblazer Park,” a city-owned, multi-use facility regularly hosting special events.

DEC 07, 2010 Reviewing prior opinion dated March 5, 2009 dealing with the regulation of concealed weapons in a county park.

State Law Enforcement Division (SLED)

cf. Greenville County Legislative Delegation

Switzerland

federal government

cf. federal government
(definition)

United Kingdom

"Constitution"

Parliamentary Sovereignty

cf. British Legal History

United Nations

United Nations System

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(Wikipedia)

cf. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

World Trade Organization

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Government – USA
Worth Mentioning

The Charters of Freedom

The Declaration of Independence

cf. America's Revolutionary War (1775-1783)

U.S. Constitution

cf. federal government
(definition)

Origination clause

Fourteenth Amendment
(equal protection)

1960 Presidential Electoral votes and popular vote

Government Information

Federal Register
The Daily Journal of the United States Government

Congress

Legislative

House Continuing Resolutions

Appropriations bill

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

U.S. Budget

FY 2022 budget (PDF)

The Supreme Court

Judiciary

Supreme Court decisions by Chief Justice, Year

Primer on the
Major Questions Doctrine

Major Questions Doctrine

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Supreme Court guts agency power in seismic Chevron ruling

Supreme Court strikes serious blow against the administrative state

'Big blow to big government': Major SCOTUS decision strips power of 'faceless leviathan' of federal agencies

Grand juries role
in American legal system

The Presidency

Administration

Executive Orders

State Department

Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) and here

Travel Advisories

Disarming Disinformation

Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (Wikipedia)

cf. Trafficking in Persons Report

Treasury Department

Interest Expense on the Debt Outstanding

Federal Bureau
of Investigation

FBI Internet
Scams and Safety

cf. Judicial Watch: FBI Records Indicate Fauci Agency Funded Gain-of-Function Wuhan Lab Research ‘Would leave no signatures of purposeful human manipulation’

Federal Trade Commission

Reporting Fraud

National Do Not Call Registry

Report Unwanted Calls

Internal Revenue Service

Greenville, SC location:
440 Roper Mountain Rd

Retirement Plans

Site Index – Information for Retirement Plans

Types of Retirement Plans

IRAs

Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs)

Retirement plan and IRA Required Minimum Distributions FAQs

Federal Reserve

Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)

News Events

Press Releases

cf. Federal Reserve
Consumer Price Index,
St. Louis Fed
Economic Analysis

Commerce Department

Bureau of Economic Analysis

Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index
(The Federal Reserve's
preferred inflation gauge)

Social Security Administration

Review Your Statement

Consumer Price Index (CPI)
(basis for COLA)

Life expectancy
based on current age

Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Economics Daily (TED)
(CPI by quarter, year)

Travel Security Administration

Contents of carry-on
and checked luggage

cf. carry-on luggage sizes by airline

Department of Defense

Military Ranks

U.S. Air Force

cf. Counter-Drone

U.S. Army

U.S. Army Corp of Engineers - locations

U.S. Navy

Naval Ranks

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)

War in Ukraine

Latest Ukraine Updates

Russia’s "Filtration" and Forced Relocations

Holding Russia
and Belarus Accountable

Elsewhere on this page

cf. Center for Disease Control, CIA World Factbook, Department of Energy, Federal Aviation Administration, Geological Survey (USGS), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NRL Marine Meteorology, Securities Exchange Commission, Trafficking in Persons Report

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US Administrative top

Gun Information Sources
Worth Mentioning

America's Rifle
by Stephen P. Halbrook

Armalite rifles

Attack on Liberty

Barrett

Bearing Arms

Belton Gun Club

Black Community News
Protecting the Second Amendment

Britain Gun-control Laws
(Wikipedia)

Gun Control in Britain
(from 2010)

Gun Laws by State

Civilian Marksmanship Program

Crime Prevention
Research Center

Crosman airguns

Daisy airguns

cf. Firearms Research

Gun Broker

Gun Genius

Top-selling guns of 2022

Gun laws by State
(Wikipedia)

Harvard University Study Reveals Astonishing Link Between Firearms, Crime, and Gun Control

LifeCard

National Rifle Association

11 Things Not To Do
as a Gun Owner

NRA-ILA Legal & Legislative News

First Freedom

Grassroots Alerts

Who is the American gun owner? All of us!

National Shooting Sports Foundation

No Concealable Weapons signs by state

Polymer80

Aynor, SC

Second Amendment Foundation

Smith & Wesson

SCACA Shows

South Carolina Carry

cf. South Carolina
gun laws

U.S. Concealed Carry Association

Concealed Carry Reciprocity, Gun Laws

Nat'l Parks, Wildlife Refuges, Forests, Airports

U.S. Practical Shooting Association

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History Sources
Worth Mentioning

cf. Prehistory, Science

For great books on history, see our Great Books webpage

Peter Abelard

America's Revolutionary War (1775-1783)

Battles of Lexington, Concord, Parker's Revenge, and the Siege of Boston

South Carolina's essential role to victory

Archimedes

The Archimedes Palimpsest
(see also Wikipedia)

Method
of Mechanical Theorems

Stomachion Ostomachion

Quotes

Read the story!

Siege of Syracuse

Aristotle

Barbados and
South Carolina

cf. South Carolina Encyclopedia

Boethius

British Legal History

Monarchs
English Scottish British

Magna Carta (1215)

American colonies 1607-1700

Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639-1653)

Charles I execution (1649)
"pronounced sentence not only against one tyrant but against tyranny itself"

Commonwealth of England (1649-1660)

Stuart Restoration (1660)

Charles II (1660-1685)

Habeas Corpus Act (1679)

cf. Habeas Corpus

James II (1685-1688)

Invitation to William (1688)

Glorious Revolution (1688)
Sovereignty derived from Parliament, not birth.

William III of Orange (1689-1702)

John Locke

Locke's Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina 1669

Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration 1689

Locke's Two Treatises of Government 1689

Petition of Right (1689)

Bill of Rights (1689)

Britain 1754 to 1783

British taxation of
the American colonies

Boston massacre (1770)

Boston Tea Party (1773)

cf. America'a Revolutionary War (1775-1783)

Parliament Acts
of 1911 and 1949
supremacy of the
House of Commons

cf. Tyranny of the majority

Bronze Age

The Bronze Age and
the Ships of the Minoans

Cartegena

Circassian peoples

Confederate States
of America

Constitution Day

Cuneiform

Cuneiform clay tablet translated for the first time

(PDF)

European colonization
of the Americas

First wave of colonization

Catholic Church and the Age of Discovery

Basque colonization

British colonization

Curonian (Latvian) colonization

Danish colonization

Dutch colonization

French colonization

German colonization

Hospitaller (Knights of Malta) colonization

Italian colonization

Norse colonization

Portugese colonization

Russian colonization

Scottish colonization

Spanish colonization

Swedish colonization

Colonization history
of Canada

Colonial history
of the United States

Decolonization of the Americas

Junta and
Military junta

cf. Asian Migration
to the Americas

Egypt

Prehistoric Period
prior to 3150 BC

Early Dynastic Period
3150–2686 BC

cf. Piora Oscillation

Enheduanna

cf. Founding of America

Gadsden flag

Germany

Germania

Holy Roman Empire
(800/962-1806)

Dissolution of the
Holy Roman Empire
(1806)

Confederation of the Rhine
(1806–1813)

German revolutions
of 1848–1849

German Confederation
(1815-1866)

North German Confederation
(1866-1870)

German Empire
(1871-1918)

Otto von Bismarck

Zimmerman telegram
(1917; cf. WWI)

German Revolution
of 1918–1919

Weimar Republic
(1918-1933)

Enabling Act of 1933

Nazi Germany
(1933-1945)

Nuremburg trials
(1945-1946)

Post-WW2 Germany
(1945-1990)

Reunification
(1990)

Germany since 1990

Greenville
South Carolina

Heritage Daily

History A2Z

How Writing spread across the world year-by-year

Iron Age

Ishtar / Inanna and here

The Library of Alexandria

cf. Hypatia

Malala Yousafzai

Massacre at Béziers

Mikhail Gorbchev resigns as President of the USSR

The Netherlands

Dutch Revolt /
Eighty Years War

Act of Abjuration
26 July 1581

Nova Albion (California)
claimed in 1579 by Sir Francis Drake for England

Phoenicians (Wikipedia)

Carthage

Banking, Trade & Commerce In Ancient Phoenicia

cf. Cartegena

Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth

Constitution of 3 May 1791
(Europe's first modern Constitution)

cf. Religious Information

Rome

Founding of Rome 753BC?

Roman Kingdom 753?-509BC

Roman-Etruscan Wars 509?-264BC

Roman Republic

477BC Battle of Cremera

Military of Ancient Rome

The Roman Emperors

Roman Empire

Periplus of
the Erythaean Sea
Roman trade with
India, east Africa

Greek East and Latin West

Byzantine Empire

Western Roman Empire

Fall of Western Roman Empire to Odoacer 476

Latin and Nicaea Empires

cf. Venetian Republic

The Roots of Progress

Sappho - the Poetess

Paolo Sarpi

cf. School of Athens, Raphael, 1510

Sea Peoples

Philistines

Egypt Pharaoh
Ramesses III

cf. Slavery – History

South Carolina Encyclopedia

Strategy & Tactics
magazine

cf. Sumer

Trinity nuclear test

Unusual Discoveries
in Unusual Places

Venetian Republic

cf. What Went Right?
An Objectivist Theory of History

World History Encyclopedia

World History Maps

World War I

cf. Zimmerman telegram

Aftermath

World War II

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Home & Housewares
Worth Mentioning

Bird Feeder

Better Bird bird seed

cf. carry-on luggage sizes by airline

CoasterStone

cf. Clothing

Dog Bark Deterrent

solar-charged hand-crank-charged flashlight

Genco Pools
Simpsonville, SC

cf. Hearing Aids & Cochlear Implants

Home generator usage

Home ownership
by country

Laurens Electric Co-op

cf. A Million to retire on may not be enough

cf. NiCad batteries,
NiMH batteries

Olde Homestead
Appliance Repair

Pentel hi-polymer eraser

cf. Personal Finance

Shop your values.

Replacements

Mikasa Meadow Sun dinner plate

cf. Balloon plates. Goblets

cf. Shop Tools & Hardware

cf. Vinotemp wine storage

Westshore Baths

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Human Prehistory
Worth Mentioning

cf. History, Science, Geologic Time Scales, Toba eruption 74kya.

Ancient DNA upends European prehistory

Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples

Bronze Age

Chalcolithic Period
(Copper Age)

Doggerland, North Sea

cf. Storegga Slide 6200 BC,
8200ya event

Early Human Migrations

Early Human Migrations
Out of Africa

Asia-Americas Migrations

Fox News - Archaeology

Genus Homo Evolution

mya = milllion years ago
kya = thousand years ago

cf. Primates,
Chimpanzee.

Last common ancestor
with chimpanzee
8-4mya

Human Taxonomy

Timeline of
human evolution

Genus Australopithecus
4.5-1.2mya
predecessor to
Genus Homo

Genus Homo
2.8mya-current

Homo habilis
2.31-1.65mya

Olduwan tool use

Homo rudolfensis
2.5-1.5mya

Homo ergaster
2.04mya-878kya

Homo erectus
2mya-108kya

Acheulean tool use

Homo naledi
335-236kya

Homo heidelbergensis
700-200kya
last common ancestor to:

Homo neanderthal
430-40kya

cf. Mousterian culture

Homo denisovan
285-25kya

Homo sapiens
300kya-current

Human Evolution in Subdivided Populations

cf. Toba eruption 74kya, Early Human Migrations, Stone Age, Evolution.

Hunter-gatherer

Iron Age

Lake Agassiz
to 8,200ya, North America

cf. 8200ya event

Last Glacial Maximum

Late Bronze Age Collapse

Lost City of Atlantis
Found in the North Sea?

cf. Storegga Slide, 6200 BC,
8200ya event

Asian Migrations
to the Americas

Migration from North America back to Asia

cf. European colonization
of the Americas

Archaeology World

Prehistoric Atlantis in North Sea hit by tsunami 8200 years ago?

cf. Storegga Slide, 6200 BC
8200ya event

Ice Ages
2.58 mya - 11.7 kya

Anglian Stage

cf. Geologic Time Scales,
Pleistocene Epoch,
Toba eruption 74kya.

Mousterian Culture

cf. Neanderthal

Stone Age

Paleolithic Period

Mesolithic Period

Neolithic Period

cf. Geologic Time Scales, Mousterian culture.

Sumer

Recorded history begins with Sumer

The first protowriting (4000-2500 BC)
and written language (3350-2500 BC)

Timeline of Prehistory

cf. Geologic Time Scales

Toba eruption 74kya

"... dated a rapid growth [of Homo sapiens] from a small effective population size of 1,000 to 10,000, sometime between 35,000 and 65,000 years ago ..."

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Investing & Finance
Worth Mentioning

cf. Investopedia

* 401k average vs.

median shows people
are not saving properly
for retirement

cf. Average vs. Median

cf. Will 45 Years of Working Pay for Your Life?

AMRMX Mutual Fund

Barron's newspaper

Berkshire-Hathaway

Business Insider

Charles Schwab

Bitcoin FAQs

Chicago Board of Exchange (CBOE)

^VIX Volatility Index

CNBC Premarket

CNN Business

Congress marches toward September budget showdown to avert government shutdown
(2023)

Dow Jones Index companies sorted by weight

Edward Jones

Entrepeneur

cf. ESG Policies – What are they, and why are they harmful?

Federal Reserve
(Wikipedia)

Quantitative Easing
(Wikipedia)

Five Books Warren Buffett Recommends

Finance Inquirer

Fox Business

Fungibility

Home Depot
Executive Team

Inc.

Investing.com

Investopedia

Average 401(k) Balance
by Age

Mutual Funds

P/E Ratio Definition

Purchase Managers' Index (PMI)

Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipt
Exchange Traded Fund
(SPDR ETF)

What Are Small-Cap Stocks, and Are They a Good Investment?

ETF XLK performance

newspaper

Kiplinger magazine

List of American Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)

Market Realist

Market Watch

Economic Calendar

Historical Stock Quotes

Meme Stock

Gamestop Short Squeeze

cf. Short Selling

cf. A Million to retire on may not be enough

NASDAQ

* Historical Stock Quotes

Qualified vs. Unqualified Stock Dividends

Pershing Square Holdings

Bill Ackman

cf. Personal Finance

Portfolio-tracking
sample spreadsheet
(download)

Puts vs. Calls

Qualified vs. Ordinary Dividends

SEC Company Search

Seeking Alpha

Short Selling

The Street - Investing

S&P 500 History

cf. S&P ETF

Tickers

Dow Jones

NASDAQ

S&P 500

TradingNinvestment

DJIA 1920-1980

DJIA 1980-2010

DJIA 2011-2017

Wall Street Journal

The Wealthiest Investor

Woke corporate governance often stems from involved investment firms

Yahoo! Finance

cf. S&P 500 History

Stock Prices Lookup

Page top Subject top

Legal Issues & Support
Worth Mentioning

Disparate Impact Thinking

cf. Freedom and Oppression

cf. Fungibility

Institute for Justice

Judicial Watch

FBI Records Indicate Fauci Agency Funded Gain-of-Function Wuhan Lab Research ‘Would leave no signatures of purposeful human manipulation’

National Coalition Against Censorship

cf. NRA-ILA Legal & Legislative News

Rogue Prosecutors
and the Rise of Crime

South Carolina Carry

Was a Paving Contractor Really to Blame for a Deadly Crash?

Page top Subject top

Magnifying Glasses
Worth Mentioning

Clic reading glasses

Page top Subject top

Manufacturing
Worth Mentioning

Dixie Rubber & Plastics

Wevolver

Page top Subject top

Maps and Geography
Worth Mentioning

World Geologic Map

Ocean Currents

Africa

Antarctica

Arctic Ocean

Asia

Atlantic Ocean

Gulf Stream

Labrador Current

Australia

Caribbean Sea

Europe

Gulf of Mexico

Indian Ocean

New Zealand

North America

Pacific Ocean

Humboldt Current

South America

cf. World History Maps, Economic Freedom Map, Spread of Writing.

Page top Subject top

Marxist Sources
To Be Aware Of

analysis: Karl Marx'
Labor Theory of Value

Crimes against humanity under communist regimes

Critical Race Theory history

Democratic Socialists
of America

cf. Freedom and Oppression

Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights

Marxism's insidious
master strategem

Marxists Internet Archive

Patrisse Cullors: BLM co-founders ‘trained Marxists’

Rashad Turner speaks out against BLM falsehoods

Useful idiot(s)

Victims of
Communism
Memorial
Foundation

cf. What Are ESG Policies, and
Why Are They Harmful?

Page top Subject top

Medical Sources
Worth Mentioning

Actinic keratoses

CancerSEEK

Cell Press

Center for Disease Control

COVID-19 Vaccine Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)

Claroxan

Colonoscopy and here

* If age 40+, get it done!!

Sigmoid colon

Diverticulosis

COVID Science-Based Information

COVID vaccination plus infection: 'super immunity'

Eczema

FDA's war against truth on Ivermectin

"First, Do No Harm."

Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance

I-MASK Prevention & Outpatient Treatment

I-RECOVER
Management Protocol

Summary of Evidence
for Ivermectin

Essential Documents

"Gain of Function"
Definition

Hepatitis A

Hepatitis B

Hepatitis C

causes and symptoms

Howard's Pharmacy
Simpsonville, SC

Kegel exercises
for Men for Women

cf. Mastic Gum

Diseases and Conditions

Drugs and Supplements

Symptoms

Tests and Procedures

Actinic keratosis

cf. Basic Med pilot's medical, Colonoscopy, Eczema, Hepatitus, Kegel exercises, Ulcers and H. Pylori bacteria.

Medicine (un)Censored

Memorial Sloan Kettering

Cancer Center News

National Cancer Institute

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

COVID-19
Treatment Guidelines

Pancreatic Cancer

Amylase

Lipase

Singlera Genomics

PanSeer

Stat Medical News

Ulcers and
H. Pylori bacteria

virological.org

WebMD

Quercetin

Page top Subject top

Motorcycling Sources
Worth Mentioning

Cycle World

Motorcycle Classics

Page top Subject top

News
Worth Mentioning

The Algemeiner

Aljazeera

American Enterprise Institute

American Greatness

American Journal Daily

American Military News

Biden says gun owners would need F-15s and nukes to take on the US gov’t
So Biden would use nukes on his own citizens?!?

The American Thinker

Americans for Limited Government

Americans for Prosperity

America's Freedom Fighters

Business News

Science News

Armstrong Economics

Asia Times

Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC)

Axios News

Citi U.S. Economic Surprise Index 07-19-23

South Carolina primary elections

BBC News

BGR

Big League Politics

The BL

Black Community News

The Blaze

Bored Panda

Breitbart News

Campus Reform

Canada Free Press

cf. Open letter to
Clemson students

Cato Institute

Center for Individualism

Centipede Nation

Chebeague Island News

cf. Chebeague Island

Citigroup Economic Surprise Index
(PDF)

Citizen Free Press

CNBC

cf. America’s Top States
for Business 2024,
Premarket

The College Fix

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Conservative Firing Line

Conservative Review

Conservative Treehouse

Report: RNC Corporation Has Lowest On Hand Bank Funds Since 2016

The Conversation
Academic rigor,
journalistic flair

Creators

Crime Prevention Research Center

Daily Caller

Daily Wire

The Dan Bongino Show

Diamond and Silk

Die Welt

The Dispatch

Drudge Report

Dr. Michael Hurd

Dr. Robin Craig

The Energy Advocate

The Epoch Times

Express (Britain)

Extreme Tech

Fact Check

The Federalist

cf. Trump tariffs prove
free-traders right

Flipboard

Flowing Data

Flyover Culture

Forbes

Foreign Policy

The 4pm

Fox News

Fox Business

(refresh display to remove ad-blocker message)

President Biden lies about inflation

France24

Fraser Institute

Economic Freedom

Freedom Headlines

FreedomWire

Frontpage Mag - David Horowitz Freedom Center

The Future of Capitalism

Futurism

The Gateway Pundit

The Globe and Mail

The Guardian

Handelsblatt

Sean Hannity

Heartland Institute

Herald Mail Media

The Heritage Foundation

The Hill

House Freedom Fund news

House of Sunny Podcast

HumanProgress

Imgur

Independent Journal Review

Independent News International

humorus posters

millenial ignorance

Indian Express

Infowars

InfoTale

Insider

Instapundit

Institute for Justice

Institute for
the Study of War

Irish Central Newsletter

Gregg Jarett

John Locke Foundation

JoNova

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Vol. 86 Issue 1, Fall 1995
Firearms Research

Just the News

Knewz

Laurens County Advertiser

Law Enforcement Today

Law Officer

Legal Insurrection

Liberty Tree

Liberty International

Lifezette

The Local
News from Swizerland

MAGA Daily Report

Master Resource
Free Market Energy Blog

McClatchy DC

Media Resource Center

Michelle Malkin

Military Times

mrc News Busters

National Interest

The National Pulse

National Review

Peter Navarro

Nerdist

New York Post

NewsMax

Newsner

NewsPunch

The NOQ Report

Not the Bee (not satire)

Novaya Gazeta
Russian opposition news

The Observer

Oh!MyMag news

One America News Network

Outkick

Overton Report

Pacific Legal Foundation

Newsroom

Palmetto Promise

Patriot Network

Patriot Post

People's Rights

Newsroom

PJ Media

The Pluralist

Political Geography Now

Politico

Politifact

PoliticsHome (Britain)

Polizette

PowerLine

Public Intelligence Blog

Puppet String News

Reader's Digest magazine

Real Clear Politics

Reason magazine

Red Paper News

Red State

The Register

ResearchGate

Reuters Business

The Right Scoop

Rush Limbaugh

The Savvy Street

Senate Conservative Fund news

The old Sentinel website

Our Articles

cf. Articles in the Sentinel on the Economy,
Will 45 Years of Working Pay for Your Life?

Sky News

European Headlines

cf. Slavery – Now

Socialist Spending Spree

Soul:Ask

South Carolina Press

Association

Citizen's Guide to South Carolina's Freedom of Information Act

Spiked

Stand for America

Stilton's Place

The Straits Times
Singapore

The Street

SwissInfo

The Tablet

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Townhall

Trending Views

True Pundit

Trump Transition Website

Trump's accomplishments

Trump tariffs proving
free-traders are right

Truth Finder
Public Records Search

Jonathan Turley

Turning Point USA

Ukrainian News

Upstate Business Journal

Vintage News

Visualizing Economics

Voice of America

Washington Examiner

Washington Free Beacon

Western Journalism

Whatfinger News

WND

Open Knowledge Repository

Zero Hedge

Page top Subject top

Personal Finance
Worth Mentioning

cf. America’s Top States
for Business 2024

The Balance

cf. Fungibility

cf. Home and Housewares, Investing & Finance.

A Million to retire on
may not be enough

Thriving in retirement

Vermont Democrats
want to tax wealth

Wallet Hub

* Tax Burden by State

Will 45 Years of Working Pay for Your Life?

Page top Subject top

Worth Mentioning

Metaphysics

The nature of reality

Primacy of Existence vs. Primacy of Consciousness

Platonic Realism

Sense of Life

Metaphysical
Value-Judgments

Benevolent universe premise

Malevolent universe premise

Epistemology

The means of knowledge

Axioms

Axiom Concepts

Perception Concepts

Perceptual vs. Conceptual

Reason

Abstractions and Concretes

Hierarchy of Knowledge

Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge: Reflections on Objectivist Epistemology
Gotthelf & Lennox

Logic

Induction

Deduction

Reduction

Empiricism

Rationalism

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
– George Santayana

Ethics

Given reality, our lives, and our means of knowledge, what should we do?

Values Virtues

Ethics and Morality

The Virtue of Selfishness

Duty

Freethinker

Politics

The application of ethics to relationships, including forms of government, personal relationships and lifestyle choices, commerce, etc.

Capitalism

* Capitalism in One

Lesson: Capitalism Is the Only Practical System Because It Is the Only Moral System
by Andrew Bernstein

Constitutional Republic

Democracy

Freedom

Freedom – orgination

cf. Human rights in Muslim-majority countries

Love, Friendship, Respect, Admiration

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

cf. Pursuit of Happiness

Republic

cf. Statism

Tyrant, Dictator,
Autocrat, Despot

Tyranny of the majority

Visual Capitalist

cf. Govt Issues and Theory,
Freedom and Oppression,
Marxism

Esthetics

The need to bring our widest metaphysical abstractions into immediate, perceptual awareness.

cf. The Arts, Metaphysical Value-Judgments

The School of Athens,
by Raphael, 1510

The System Philosophers

Plato Aristotle

Immanuel Kant Ayn Rand

Peter Abelard

Ayn Rand Lexicon

Dictionaire philosophique
by Voltaire

cf. Education

Prometheous Foundation

cf. Religious Information

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

TANSTAAFL

* cf. What Went Right?
An Objectivist Theory
of History

Page top Subject top

Political Cartoons, Satire
Worth Mentioning

PoliticalCartoons.com

Al Goodwyn Cartoons

The American Thinker

Ben Garrison Cartoons

Bob Gorrell Cartoons
and here

Cagle Cartoons

Chip Bok Cartoons

Comically Incorrect

Daily Torch

Dana Summers

Also here.

Legal Insurrection

Marshall Ramsey

more Marshall Ramsey

Memes

Michael Ramirez

Mike Lester Cartoons

Pat Cross Cartoons

Patriot Post Cartoons

The Political Cartoon Gallery

Reality Bites

Steve Kelly

Scott Stantis

Tom Stiglich

Townhall
Political Cartoons

ViewsEurope

Page top Subject top

Political Organizations
Worth Mentioning

Alliance Defending Freedom

Americans for Public Trust

1792 Exchange

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

Greenville Tea Party

Republican Governors Association

Senate Conservative Fund

South Carolina Republican Party

State Freedom Caucus Network

Trump 47
2024 Presidential campaign

Turning Point USA

Page top Subject top

Precious Metals Sources
Worth Mentioning

JM Bullion

KitCo Gold & Silver

Swiss America

Page top Subject top

Printing Services
Worth Mentioning

Simpsonville, SC

Vistaprint Business Cards

Page top Subject top

Promotional Sources
Worth Mentioning

1/2" Silk Screened
Silicone Wristbands

1/2" Debossed
Silicone Wristbands

1/2" Debossed Color Filled
Silicone Wristbands

Mauldin, SC

Page top Subject top

Quotes
Worth Mentioning

A-Z Quotes

Brainy Quotes

Quote Fancy

Quotes 1

Quotes 2

Subhas Chandra Bose Quotes

Great Quotes

Flying Quotes

Fortune Cookie Quotes

General Quotes

Graffiti (author unknown)

Latest Quote

Personal Choices Quotes

Political Quotes

Page top Subject top

Railroading Sources
Worth Mentioning

Hill City - Keystone, SD

American Locomotive Company (ALCO)

ALCO Diesel Locomotives

Baldwin Locomotive Works

Triplex 2-8-8-8-2
steam engine

Blue Ridge, Ga

BNSF Railroad

Canadian National Railway

Canadian Pacific Railroad

Cass Scenic Railroad
Cass, WV

CSX Railroad

Chama, NM

Durango & Silverton Railroad
Durango, Co

EMD Locomotives

Genosee & Wyoming

Carolina Piedmont Railroad

Laurens, SC

(Wikipedia)

GE Locomotives

Georgia State Railroad Museum
Savannah, Ga

Bryson City, NC

Greer Inland Port
Greer, SC

Kansas City Southern Railway

Lima Locomotive Works

2-6-6-6 Allegheny
steam engine

Norfolk Southern Railroad

Still Evolving 1989

Metamorphosis 1991

Chasm 2001

Weathervane 2003?

Tree 2006

Lonely Gallon 2007

Power of the Thoroughbred 2008

City of Possibilities 2012

What's Your Function? 2013

Pennsylvania RR
T1 4-4-4-4

Rushford Historic Depot
Rushford, Mn

Railroad memorabilia.

Saluda, NC

Train Depot & Museum

Videos & Photos

Union Pacific Railroad

4-8-8-4 Big Boy 4014

Skagway, Alaska

Railways
American Canadian World

Railroad Magazines

Railway Age

Railfan & Railroad

Page top Subject top

Railroad Modeling
Worth Mentioning

Blue Ridge Hobbies
Model Railroad Supplies

Central Railway Model & Historical Association Central, SC

Model Trains Station

Taylors, SC

Modeling Magazines

Page top Subject top

Reference Sources
Worth Mentioning

Abbreviations

Anagrams

Average Median

Average vs. Median

Biographies

Calculators

"cf."

CIA World Factbook

Conversions

Definitions

Dictionary

cf. Greenwich Mean Time

Idioms

Literature

Lyrics

Newspapers archive

Omni Calculator

Right Triangle Side and Angle Calculator

Periodic Table
of the Elements

References

Scripts

Solstices & Equinoxes
(Eastern Time)

cf. South Carolina Encyclopedia

Stack Exchange

cf. Aviation

Symbols

Synonyms

Thesaurus

ThoughtCo.

Thrust-Horsepower conversion formula

The Time

Unit Converters

micron to millimeter

Units of Force

Urban Dictionary

U.S. Population Counts
by Generation

cf. Statista

Wikipedia

cf. Writers' References

Zip Codes

Page top Subject top

Religious Information
Worth Mentioning

Ancient Greek Religion

Arian Christianity

Cairo Declaration of Rights
(Islam)

Christianity in
Late Antiquity 313-476

Christology

Coptic Orthodox Church

Council of Chalcedon 451

Criticism of Christianity

Criticism of Islam

Cyril of Alexandria

cf. Hypatia

First Seven Ecumenical Councils

cf. Historical Information

Human rights in Muslim‑majority countries

cf. Cairo Declaration of Rights

Manichaeism

The Necessity of Atheism
by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1811)

Wikipedia article

Nestorianism

Persecuted by Christians

Francois-jean de la Barre

Giorano Bruno

Galileo Galilei

cf. Hypatia

Persecuted by Moslems

Salman Rushdie

cf. Human rights in Muslim-majority countries

cf. Philosophy

Simulation Hypothesis

cf. Slavery by Religion

The Soul

Judeo-Christian

Moslem

Hindu-Buddhist (Atman)

Page top Subject top

Restaurants
Worth Mentioning

Alaska

Juneau

* the best King Crab legs *
* anywhere *

Arizona

* * * ½

The Depot Steakhouse
and here; Tombstone

Georgia

* * * * ½

Savannah

* * * *

Sun Dial Restaurant

Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta

* *

Atlanta

Maine

* * * ½

Chebeague Island Inn

cf. Chebeague Island

* * * ½

Diamond's Edge
Restaurant and Marina

Great Diamond Island

New Mexico

* * * * *

Geronimo

Santa Fe

* * *

The Teahouse

Santa Fe

* * * ½

The Trinity

Carlsbad

North Carolina

* * * * *

Azalea Bistro

Saluda

* * * * *

Lake Lure Inn & Spa

Lake Lure

* * * *

Blue Ridge Parkway

* *

Saluda

* * * * ½

Flat Rock

Pennsylvania

* * * * *

Yellow House

Douglassville

Quebec

* * * * *

Montreal

South Carolina

* * * * ½

BrickTop's

Greenville

* * * * ½

Greenville

* *

The Farehouse

on Trip Advisor

Fountain Inn

* * * *

Greg Norman’s
Australian Grille

North Myrtle Beach

* * * *

Charleston Columbia Greenville Summerville

* * * * ½

Greenville

* * * *

Greenville

* * * * *

Charleston

* * * ½

Piccola Italia
Mauldin

* * * ½

Pomegranate on Main
Fresh Persian Cuisine

Greenville

Spill the Beans

* * * Ice Cream

Greenville

* * * ½

Simpsonville

Greenville fine dining list by Tripadvisor

cf. Runway Cafe
Greenville

cf. S.C. Breakfast Club

South Dakota

* * * *

Spearfish

Texas

* * * * *

Fig Tree, San Antonio

Virginia

* * *

Gabriel Archer Tavern

Williamsburg

Wisconsin

* * * * ½

Freighthouse Restaurant

La Crosse

* * * * ½

The Canadian
Toronto to Vancouver

Other

100 Most Romantic Restaurants in America

Page top Subject top

Science & Technology
Worth Mentioning

cf. Prehistory, History

Academia Papers

Aerospace and Defense Technology magazine

Aerospike Rocket Engine

Air & Space magazine

Amateur Radio Relay League (Ham Radio)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Science / AAAS

Science magazine
warning: 'woke' orientation

Information for authors

Archaeolgical Institute of America

Archaeologists
You Should Know

Archaeology magazine
and also here

cf. Archimedes

Archosaurs
(birds, crocodilians)

cf. Astrophysical Journal

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Aviation Week &
Space Technology magazine

The famous
B-2 photo scoop

Birds

Riley Black

Niels Bohr
Atomic Theory and
the Description of Nature

Brayton-cycle heat engine

Butterfly Effect

Edward Lorenz’
Chaotic Butterfly

cf. Lorenz

Cambridge University Press

Cell Press

Center for Disease Control

COVID Vaccine Tracker

Chemistry

Periodic Table

Chimpanzee

cf. Primates

Chordates

Metaspriggina

Notochord

Tunicates

Classical Physics

cf. Quantum Mechanics,
Particle Physics

Comet MetEd Geosciences

Cosmos magazine

Dimetrodon
(295–272 mya)

Dinosaurs
(240-66 mya)

Dinosaur physiology

Theropods and Birds

Earth Science Reviews

Earth's

Geomagnetic poles

Equinoxes and Solstices (PDF)

Earth’s
magnetic poles
flipped some
41,000 years ago;
here’s how

cf. Laschamp event
geomagnetic excursion

Electromagnetic Radiation

Photons

cf. Quantum Mechanics,
Particle Physics

Radio Waves

Microwaves

Infrared (IR)

Light

Ultraviolet (UV)

X-rays

Gamma Rays

Emirates Mars Mission

U.S. Dept. of Energy

Advanced Small Modular Reactors

Engineering News-Record

Leonhard Euler

Famous Scientists

Famous Islamic Scientists

Fox News

Air and Space

Archaeology

Galago (Bush Baby)

cf. Primates

Galaxy formation
and evolution

Galileo Unbound

cf. Geologic Time Scales

Geology Cafe

Greenwich Mean Time

Hearing Aids &
Cochlear Implants

Bluetooth (Wikipedia)

What is a T-Coil
and how does it work?

Hearing Aid Telecoil (T-coil) and Loop Systems: What You Need to Know

How to turn off iPad sound and listen thru Bluetooth

Med El
Cochlear Implants

History of Science

Human Evolution Timeline

cf. Evolution

Hypatia

Ibn al-Haytham

Book of Optics

Ingenuity
Mars helicopter

cf. Ingenuity on NASA

Ion Propulsion:
Farther, Faster, Cheaper

IOPscience

Upward magazine

Junk Science

Laschamp event
geomagnetic excursion

Live Science

Space

cf. Maps and Geography

Mathematics

Muhammad ibn Musa
al-Khwarizmi
Algebra, Algorithm

cf. Medical

Geology and Oceanography Textbooks

Aeronautics

Apps for
Smartphones, Tablets

Hubble Space Telescope

Image Galleries

International Space Station
also: on Wikipedia

Facts and Figures

Spot the ISS
Tracking the
International Space Station

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA News

Spaceflight History

Mars

Ingenuity helicopter

Ingenuity flight log

Ingenuity status

cf. Ingenuity on Wikipedia

Perseverance rover

Perseverance
Real-time Tracker

Mars Weather Report

National Space Society
dedicated to the creation of a spacefaring civilization

Natural History magazine

Nature magazine

Unusually bright explosions in space

Giant black hole formed less than half billion years after Big Bang

NiMH batteries
advatages disadvantages

Oceanography

Robert Oppenheimer

Paleontological Society

Journal of Paleontology

Particle Physics

Standard Model

cf. Quantum Mechanics,
Electromagnetic Radiation

Penn State University
Science Journal

Periodic Table
of the Elements

Physics
cf. Classical Physics,
Quantum Mechanics,
Particle Physics,
Electromagnetic Radiation

Astrophysical Journal

What happens if you put a black hole into the sun?

Resourceful ways bacteria thrive in the human gut

Popular Science

Power Units Conversion

cf. Prehistory

Primates

cf. Genus Homo Evolution, Human Taxonomy, Chimpanzee, Galago, Slow Loris, Evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Quantum Dynamics

Quantum Mechanics

cf. Classical Physics,
Particle Physics

Reptile Handbook

Science Advances

Science Alert

Science Daily

Science Direct

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Science Focus

Simostronomy
Sun is a variable star

cf. Simulation Hypothesis

Slow Loris

cf. Primates

Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

Solstices & Equinoxes

Space.com

Calendar News

Science & Astronomy

James Webb Space Telescope

Space Flight

Is our sun going into hibernation?

What is Time?

Pillars of Creation
JWST NIRCam Image

Space Weather
Prediction Center

SSRN
Reseach Papers

Stars

Main Sequence
of stellar evolution

Metallicity of Stars

Pre-main-sequence star

Protostar

Stellar Evolution

T Tauri Star

cf. Galaxy formation
and evolution

cf. Statista

Storegga Slide, Norway
6200 BC

cf. 8200ya event

Tech Briefs

Counter-Drone Tracks and Disables Drone Swarm

Unit Converter

USB hardware

U.S. Gelogical Survey

USGS Store

cf. USGS Climate

Van der Waals force

Virgin Galactic

cf. Weather

Web of Science Database

JWST images gallery

Zealandia continent

Page top Subject top

Search Engines
Worth Mentioning

DuckDuckGo
privacy search engine

Friends dont't let
friends get tracked

Freespoke

Page top Subject top

Shop Tools & Hardware
Worth Mentioning

5-minute Crafts Men
and on Facebook

18-inch locking
C-clamp pliers

Acme Threads
guide

Auto Body Dent Puller Kit

Bainbridge Plastics

Batteries Plus

* to replace tool batteries:

NUN4/5A-2 Dantona 1.2V 1200mAh NiCad Battery

cf. PFCTART
Battery Spot Welder,
NiMH batteries

Central Machinery
S-5154 Combination Sander

manual

belt, sandpaper

City Electric Supply
515 Airport Road
Greenville, SC

radial arm saw
vs. power miter saw

Machinery

8" Drill Press
manual (PDF)

40-560 Scroll Saw
review repair

scroll saw blades

cf. PS Wood
scroll saw blades

Dremel Tools

Family Handyman

36 Miter Saw Tips and Tool Reviews

Everything to Know About Pivot Hinges

Family Hardware

Irwin 6", 12"
drill bit extensions

Fine Power Tools

Air Tools

Coping Saw vs. Scroll Saw

Impact Driver vs. Impact Wrench

Nailers

Screw Thread Types, Design, and Terminology

What Is a Step Drill Bit Used For?

Woodworking

Bevel vs. Chamfer

Cedar wood

How to Plane Wood Without a Planer

Rounding Edges

Five-Knuckle Hinges

cf. Genco Pools

Glue Things
Guides and tips about glue

Glueing to Granite

cf. Loctite PL 530

Greenville Woodworkers Guild

* Semi-annual Tool Sale

Gunk
Degreasers, Cleaners

Circuit Detective

Chicago Electric Power Tools – 10 in. Sliding Compound Miter Saw

cf. Home & Housewares

Home Depot

Step Drill Bit Set

How to Make a Hidden Tool Storage Workbench

Youtube video

Irwin Tools

Klein Tools

Impact-Driver Screwdriver

Woodworking Tools

Liquid Wrench

Lithium Grease uses

Loctite PL 530
construction adhesive
technical data sheet

Lowe's

Spax screws

cf. Torx screws

cf. Magnifying Glasses

Manuals Library

cf. Manufacturing

McMaster-Carr

8-point Sockets

Mini Spot Welders

Joseph Moxon

Mechanick Exercises book

Moxon Vise
construction example

Mr. Pen
Wheel Marking Gauge

cf. NiCad batteries,
NiMH batteries

Northern Tool
& Equipment

Pentel hi-polymer eraser

* PFCTART

Battery Spot Welder

cf. Batteries Plus

Pro-Tech band saw parts

on eBay

PS Wood Machines

Scroll Saw Blades

Rockler Woodworking
and Hardware

Five uses for
Toggle Clamps

Roto-hinges

Classses & Workshops

Router Forums

Skil Router Base Plate

Saws Hub

Scroll Saw Village

Best cutting speed?

practice patterns

Signature Things

Double L-R Hinges

Test Equipment

Distributors by State

* Old

Battery Tester

still valuable

spring-loaded latches

Starrett

T-tracks - 4 types

Tool Associate

ToolTekt

Torx screws

cf. Spax screws

Torx Security bits

cf. USB hardware

Vintage Machinery

Crescent Machine Co.
product list

Wisconsin Electric Co.
Dumore motor

cf. Watches, Clocks

Unusual uses of WD-40

WelderStream

Beginner Guides

Welding Techniques

Wood Furniture Legs

Woodcraft

magazine

Greenville, SC store

classes

Woodline USA
woodworking tools

Woodpecker
woodworking tools

magazine

library including

Workbenches & Simple Shop Storage Solutions, Volume 2

Ultimate Guide to Router Bits and Techniques

Finishing Tips Tricks, Techniques and Projects

Tools, Techniques

Wood Routers

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Slavery – History
Worth Mentioning

African slave routes
past and present

History of Slavery

New York Slave Revolt of 1712

Slavery by Religion

Christianity

Romanus Pontifex

* Islam

17,000,000 slaves
from 650 to 1905

Crimean–Nogai slave raids 1,000,000 1474-1769
from Eastern Europe

graphic not found

When Europeans Were Enslaved by Moslems

Slavery among
American Indians

* Slavery in China

Human trafficking in China

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

* Estimates

What they didn’t teach you about slavery and racism in school

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Slavery – Now
Worth Mentioning

Slavery levels by country

30 million in slavery now

Slavery in the 21st century

Slavery in Mauritania

10-20% enslaved in Mauritania

Slaves for sale now!
$400 each in Libya

Video Of Migrants Sold In Slave Auction In Libya

African slave routes
past and present

Slavery in Africa

Modern-day Islamic Slavery

cf. Modern-day Slavery in China

* Trafficking in Persons

Report

Walk Free Foundation

The Global Slavery Index

Global Slavery Index

Slavery Today!

Thomson Reuters Foundation
slavery webpage

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Social Media
Worth Mentioning

Diamond and Silk's ChatDit

Gab

GTTR

GroupMe

Medium

Parler

RedBalloon Marketplace

What is Red Balloon?

Rumble

What is Rumble?

how to access

8kun

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Terrorist Organizations
To Be Aware Of

Antifa

cf. Freedom and Oppression

Hamas

Hezbollah

Muslim Brotherhood

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Travel Destinations
Worth Mentioning

cf. carry-on luggage sizes by airline

see also
Railroads and Restaurants
Worth Mentioning

Trip Advisor

Alabama

U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville

Alaska

Alaskan Inside Passage
and cruise

cf. Tracy's Crab Shack

cf. White Pass & Yukon RR

Arizona

Grand Canyon

Hoover Dam

Meteor Crater
Winslow

Painted Desert

Petrified Forest

Austria

Vienna

Canada

The Canadian

Toronto to Vancouver

Colorado

Mesa Verde

Cliff Palace

Spruce Tree House

Florida

Kennedy Space Center

Walt Disney World
Orlando

Georgia

cf. Blue Ridge Scenic Railway

Georgia Aquarium
Atlanta

cf. Georgia State Railroad Museum

Italy

Florence

Venice

Maine

Chebeague Island

Chebeague Island Boatyard

Chebeague Transportation Company

Casco Bay Lines

Chebeague Island schedule

Chebeague Historical Society

cf. Chebeague Inn,
Chebeague Island News

Freeport

L. L. Bean

outlet stores

Maryland

cf. Western Maryland RR

Minnesota

cf. Rushford Historic Depot

Nevada

Hoover Dam

New Mexico

Carlsbad Caverns

cf. Cumbres & Toltec RR

Manhattan Project
Los Alamos

North Carolina

Chimney Rock

cf. Great Smoky Mountains Railroad

Lake Lure

Blue Ridge Parkway

Mount Mitchell

cf. Pisgah Inn

Old Salem

Reynolda House
Winston-Salem

Saluda

cf. Train Depot & Museum

South Carolina

Brookgreen Guardens
Murrells Inlet

from 2008 May 10

from 2006 August 30

Ehrhardt

Day Trips from the Greenville area

A Blue Ridge Day Trip

Falls Park, Liberty Bridge
Greenville

cf. Passerelle Bistro

Table Rock State Park

South Dakota

Black Hills & Badlands

Custer State Park

Deadwood

Dinosaur Park,
Rapid City

cf. Hill City - Keystone Railroad

Mount Rushmore

Reptile Gardens,
Rapid City

Spearfish Canyon

cf. Killian's restaurant

Spain

Barcelona

Madrid

Tennessee

Blue Ridge Parkway

Cade's Cove

Texas

Alamo and Riverwalk
San Antonio

Utah

Bryce Canyon

Zion National Park

Virginia

Blue Ridge Parkway

Monticello
Charlottesville

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy
Air & Space Museum,
Chantilly

Williamsburg
Historic Jamestown

West Virginia

cf. Cass Scenic Railroad

Wisconsin

Riverboat Cruises
La Crosse

Wyoming

Devils Tower

Grand Tetons

Yellowstone Park

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Watches, Clocks Sources
Worth Mentioning

Waltham Mainsprings

Waltham Riverside 25680910

Pocket Watch Group
on Facebook

Mechanical
Year Clock
"Germany
No (0) jewels unadjusted"

S. LaRose
parts for watches, clocks
1-336-621-1936

Timepiece
536 Rutherford Road
Greenville, SC
1-864-232-8741

Upstate Clock Repair

Waltham Watch Company

Waltham watch
serial number decoder

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Weather & Climate
Worth Mentioning

1911 Eastern North America heat wave

AccuWeather

World Weather

AirNow.gov

national air quality charts

Almanac Weather History

Glossary of Meteorology

Australia weather

Australian Climate Sceptic Blog

Turning Science on its head

Aviation Weather Center

Current Conditions

Observations

METAR data

TAF data

Beta Experimental Charts

Bishop Hill

C3 Headlines

Canada Weather

Weather Information

Cape Weather

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Chart Symbols

CO2 in the atmosphere

Climate Audit

Climate at a Glance

120 Years Of Climate Scares

Climate Change
During the Holocene
(Past 12,000 Years)

Climate Depot

Climate Etc.
Judith Curry

Climate Intelligence (CLINTEL)

Climate Prediction Center Long Range Forecasts

Climate Realism

Climate4you

Greenhouse gases

Sea Temperatures menu

Climatologist
Dr. Roy Spencer

"CO2 is essential for life"

CO2 Science

Cornwall Alliance

Cycles of Global Climate Change

Danish Meteorological Institute

Density Altitude Calculator
by AeroToolbox

cf. Density Altitude Calculator by NWS

Deplorable
Climate Science Blog

DUATS

The Earth is Getting Greener!

earth.nullschool.net

Earth Winds Map

Sea Surface Temperatures

Surface CO2 Concentration

on Facebook

Eldorado County
World Weather

Energy Talking Points

The Myth of an Overheated Planet

Ensemble Forecasting

cf. Global Ensemble Forecasting System

European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)

Europe weather

Explaining Rapid Climate Change: Tales From the Ice

FAA AC 00-6B -
Aviation Weather

Geology Cafe

Atmospheric Circulation

Georgia State University
Relative Humidity

Global Warming . org

The Global Warming Policy Forum

Global Air Weather

Icing & Freezing Level Forecast

cf. Global Air

Golden Gate Weather Services

Meteorologist's Links

El Niño / La Niña
Resource Page

El Niño and La Niña
Years and Intensities

Harris-Mann Climatology

Historical Worldwide Climate and Weather

Long-Range Weather Trends

From 2500 B.C. To 2040 A.D. graph

Hawaii weather

Heartland Institute
Climate Change

How to Read
the Symbols and Colors
on Weather Maps

Ice Age Now .info

Ice Age Now .com

Intellicast Weather

Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change
(UN IPCC)

IPCC 2001 Report

"Climate has always varied on all time-scales" – p.97

"The long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible." – p.771

Jeppesen Weather

JoNova on Climate

Long Range Weather

Edward Lorenz

cf. Butterfly Effect

Making Sense
of the Weather (PDF)

Mathematical Algorithms

Mesoscale Meteorology

Atmospheric Processes
and Climate

Earth

Climate

Earth Observatory

Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth's Climate

Paleoclimatology Evidence

National Geographic
Ocean Currents

National Snow and Ice Data Center

Arctic Sea Ice

Site Map

Cold & Warm Episodes
by Season

Density Altitude Calculator

Forecast Maps

National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)

Prevailing Winds

global & geography-based

Skew-T Log-P Diagrams including blank charts

* Tornado Watch

- Warning - Emergency

Wind Barbs Description

cf. NavCanada

NCAR
Climate Data Guide

Pairing climate data with climate data experts

No Tricks Zone

Glossary

8-14 day outlook

Atmospheric Rivers

Aviation Weather

climate.gov

Disrupted polar vortex brings sudden stratospheric warming in February 2023

Precipitation
monthly totals

Environmental Modeling Center

Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS)

NCEP Global Ensemble Forecast System
(graphic not found)

cf. Ensemble Forecasting

Global Forecast System (GFS)

GOES Image Viewer

GOES Images

GOES Meteorological Images

Graphic Forecasts

High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR)

Hurricane Center

METARs and TAFs

National and Pacific Hurricane Center

National Forecast Charts

North American Mesoscale (NAM)

Paleoclimatology Data

Precipitation Amounts
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts - Days 4-5, 6-7

NOAA Research

Short Range Forecasts

Storm Prediction Center

Convective and fire outlook shapefiles, KML files

Hourly Mesoscale Analysis

Skew-T Log-P Charts

Skew-T Log-P charts source data

SPC Experimental Sounding Analysis System

What are
El Niño and La Niña?

WPC 6-Hour Probabilistic Precipitation Guidance
for Days 1-3

Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change

Ohio State Univ.
weather website

Outflow boundary

Passage Weather

Penn State Univ.
weather website

Piora Oscillation

cf. Holocene Epoch

US weather and
Skew-T Log-P charts

Polar Bear Science

Science and Environmental Policy Project

cf. SiriusXM weather

Skew-T Log-P Charts

"Weather in the Vertical"
video 1 video 2

Skew-T Log-P diagram

app for iPhone, iPad

Synoptic scale meteorology

Temperature
Past 18,000 Years

Tidal Tables

Turbulence Forecast

Twister Data

Ultimate Weather Education

Thermo and Skew-T Education

University of Wisconsin
- Madison

Space Science and Engineering Center

Images and Data

Sea Surface Temperatures

7-day US weather video

University of Wyoming
Atmospheric Soundings

US Air Sports Net Weather

US Naval Research Laboratory (cf. here)

Marine Meteorology

USGS Climate

Climate 101

Climate Impacts
on Plants and Animals

Coasts, Storms,
and Sea Level Rise

Droughts
and Climate Change

Greenhouse Gases
and Carbon Storage

Paleoclimate

Snow, Ice, and Permafrost

Wildfire
and Climate Change

Volcanic winter

Volcanic winter of 536

1257 Samalas eruption

Little Ice Age
1300-1850

Mount Tambora
(Wikipedia)

1815 eruption of Tambora
world's worst
in recorded history

1816 - Year without
a Summer

cf. Toba eruption 74kya, Younger Dryas 12.9kya.

Watt's Up With That?

Weather Channel

La Niña

Weather Nerds

Weather Street

Weather Underground

WindFinder

Wright Weather

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Wine and Food Sources
Worth Mentioning

Asher's Dark Chocolate Covered Pretzels

Direct from Asher's

Black Cherry Juice benefits

grape varieties

and here

Dinosaurs for dinner

Is Chocolate
Good For You?

Is Red Wine
Good For You?

Mastic Gum
Uses and Benefits

Ice Cream

Murray's Cheese

Fromager d'Affinois

Greenville

Tastings Schedule

cf. Restaurant

Orange Juice benefits

Orchard Goblets

Pistachio Nuts

Vinotemp wine storage

Self-contained cooling system

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Worth Mentioning

Writers' Markets

Submissions

32 Poems

AAAS Information
for Authors

AOPA Pilot magazine Writers' Guidelines

American Poetry Review

American Short Fiction

Analog Science Fiction & Fact magazine

Article submissions

Baltimore Review

Brevity

Cincinnati Review

Contrary Magazine

Creative Nonfiction

The Federalist
article submissions

The Georgia Review

The Gettysburg Review

Heresy Press

The Idaho Review

The Iowa Review

Kenyon Review

Kirkus Reviews

The Malahat Review

Michigan Quarterly Review

The Missouri Review

New England Review

New Letters

The Objective Standard

One Story

Palette Poetry

Pedestal Magazine

Plane and Pilot magazine Writers' Guidelines

Ploughshares

Poetry

Poetry Magazine Submittals

Rattle

Real Clear Politics

storySouth

Subtropics

The Sun

Swamp-Pink
(formerly Crazyhorse)

Virginia Quarterly Review

Wall Street Journal
Op-Ed Guidelines

The Yale Review

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Writers' Reference Sources

The Associated Press
Style Book

Five Ws

Strunk and White's
Elements of Style

cf. General References

Grammar

Rhymes

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Writers' Sources

How I became a
Syndicated Columnist

Freelance Writing

6 Important Tips for Magazine Article Writing

Master Writer

cf. References

Salt Lake
Mailing & Printing

Tips for Publishing
Your Own Book

What Is Copywriting?

Writer's Digest magazine

Writers-Editors Network

Writing Process

Composition

Diction

Prewriting

Writing Style

Who is
Richard Castle?

cf. Writers' References

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