- Mayan hieroglyphic stairway found in Mexico | ABlogAboutHistory.com
- "Typically, hieroglyphic stairways are part of the central or core elements of the elite ruling class, however, this was not the case at El Palmar because the building was located on the outskirts of the site, away from the center. The location of the stairway perplexed Javier: …"
- Vietnam’s Own Great Wall | About.com Asian History
- …a marvelous work of human engineering and perseverance. More properly called the Long Wall of Quang Ngai, the series of stone and earth ramparts stretches about 130 kilometers through the forests of central Vietnam. Sections may be up to 500 years old, although the wall was likely linked into a unified structure in the nineteenth century.
- Fox News Reacts Surprisingly Calmly To Superman Renouncing His American Citizenship | The Mary Sue • by Susana Polo
- …Superman gets in some hot water with the president’s National Security Advisor for showing up in Tehran in support of Iranian protesters. Just showing up, non-violently. Since Superman is an American hero, Iran’s Government construes his actions as being with the tacit permission of the US Government. This desire to remain autonomous from whatever administration exists in Washington is what motivates the Man of Steel’s decision (panels above). Controversial comics stuff, treating superheroes like they exist in greater world full of regular human beings and their governments! …if you’re Superman in 2011 and not, to pick one example, The Authority in 1999.
Fox News, or, at least, Fox Nation, the conservative blog attached to the news network, has risen to the task. Then again, their post about the issue is kind of… well. Disappointing. In that it is a bare recitation of the facts that doesn’t even make a slightly larger molehill out of a molehill.
- "Life is Hell, Then You Become One With The Force": Darth Vader explains Sartre | io9 • by Meredith Woerner
- …recut version of the film (packed with Jean-Paul Sartre quotes) replays Star Wars as an existential journey.
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