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Since my earliest memories, my life has been defined by books. I have always loved reading widely, and have especially enjoyed fiction, preferably of the

Space has always held a sort of fascination for us. Ever since before we even knew anything about it we have been looking up into that star-speckled sky trying to explain it and comprehend it all, our minds reaching out across that vast expanse long before any ship of ours did. Among all of our

It is a common saying to say that one can’t be in two places at once, but what if that was not necessarily true? Throughout history there have been decidedly bizarre accounts of mysterious individuals who have done just that, somehow managing to bend and subvert the laws of reality to literally exist in two

Some people seem to be destined to lodge themselves into history as particularly odd. Born in Paris in 1868 as Louise Eugénie Alexandrine Marie David, the remarkable woman who would go on to be called Alexandra David-Néel was from a very young age a bit different from her peers. As a young girl she would

Throughout history, certain societies have had various beliefs on the idea of our sins in life carrying on into death. There are many religions that deal with this concept, notably Christianity, in which one way to absolve oneself of these accumulated sins is to confess them and ask for forgiveness, but there have been myriad