A faint interest dawned inside her gaze, as if the amber light had won out and was turned reluctantly on me. She slumped slightly in her chair, relaxed into something like masculine ease, without taking her hands off her book. “What are those letters, exactly?” she asked, in her quiet foreign voice […] Read more
The Historian By Elizabeth Kostova 2
“Stoichev looked as if he had something else to say, but at that moment we heard vigorous footsteps on the stairs. He tried to rise, then shot me a pleading look. I snatched up the dragon folio and plunged into the next room with it, where I hid it as well as I could behind […] Read more
The History Channel Promo
How we lived. Who we loved. And what we overcame. A world premiere event, The Time Capsule. Tonight at 7 Eastern, 10 Pacific on The History Channel […] Read more
The History of Prohibition and Hemp
This film is going to be a 10 minute educational and entertaining story about the history of hemp through the ages up until the point of prohibition at the turn of the century with the great migration. The story will also highlight the uses of the plant through the ages as a medicine and textile: […] Read more
The History of the World – Part 1
Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies, and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Desert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the desert are cultivated by irritation. The Pyramids are a range of mountains between France […] Read more
The History of the World – Part 2
The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn’t have history. The Greeks invented three kinds of columns – Corinthian, ironic, and dorc – and built the Apocalypse. They also had myths. A myth is a female moth. One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx […] Read more
The History of the World – Part 3
Eventually, the romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides if March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made King. Dying, he gasped out the words “Tee hee, Brutus.” Nero […] Read more
The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
This is the story of ‘The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’. Perhaps the most remarkable, certainly the most successful book, ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular than ‘The Celestial Homecare Omnibus’, better selling than ‘Fifty-Three More Things To Do In Zero Gravity’, and more controversial than Oolon […] Read more
The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Intro
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape- descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think […] Read more
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
“I am Mr. Bilbo Baggins. I have lost the dwarves and I have lost the wizard, and I don’t know where I am; and I don’t want to know, if only I can get away.” “What’s he got in his handses?” said Gollum, Looking at the sword, which he did not quite like. “A sword, […] Read more
