If you answered five, you may not be right. The BBC recently posted an article that outlines the possibility of many more senses we have that go uncredited. If everyone has these extra senses, does that mean everyone has ESP (Extra Sensory Perception)? You may go ahead and groan now.
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Years ago, when I had a new cover to show off, I would put it “below the fold” — far enough down the page so readers would have to scroll to reveal the cover. That meant I could do a drum roll and pull back the curtains…ta da! Only, thanks to Facebook and other social
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I’ve been doing some mind-blowing research on sailing ships lately (that I might put together in another post someday). We usually consider steel-hulled steam or diesel turbine ships to be better and faster than the sailing ships of old. However, the only way that the world could have been discovered, mapped and settled was with sailing
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Roy C. Sullivan must be the unluckiest man alive. He’s been hit seven times by lightning. On the other hand, he’s one of the luckiest men. He lived. There are hundreds of people struck by lightning every year, and the effects of being struck are never the same. From a lightning strike support group, the
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This post ran seven years ago, so it has drifted deep into the archives. I thought I’d refresh it and bring it forward. –t. I’m almost afraid to mention Shakespeare. There is a whole generation of readers out there, including my kids, who had Shakespeare in Love shoved down their throats in English class at
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Like skyscapers going viral in Dubai, “tall” is a modern phenomenon. Man has grown four inches higher in just the last 100 years. If the cause was genetics, that would be a freaky-fast change, but the causes are actually far more prosaic: Better food, absence of disease, and a social preference for height, which makes
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I’ve seen many pictures of women in third world countries carrying water. Buckets and jugs on their heads, or jerry cans in both hands, sometimes with babies strapped to their backs. I’m sure you’ve seen them, too. Thing is, not so long ago, everyone had to carry water from the nearest source, back to their
Authors can go to extraordinary lengths to build their fictional worlds. They have travelled the world, and spent decades in research. James Cameron has gone where few men have gone before–in ocean depths that few have ever seen. Based on his research he wrote The Abyss (one of my favourite movies ever) and Titanic. J.R.R. Tolkien invented
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I wrote this post almost exactly two years ago. I thought I’d bring it forward, because it has a lot of the information in it and all the far more interesting asides (like Oded Fehr). I’m digging back into the history of the Legion once more, this time not just because my curiousity bump was
Héros de la Légion étrangère française, oh mon dieu! Read More »
Freedom Fighters, book 4 of the Vistaria Has Fallen series, was released just over a week ago and has already snagged some fantastic reviews. Here’s some snippets. Oh and a little something extra from Mother Nature thrown in just for added fun. The tension ramps up with each book in this series. If you enjoy
More Romantic Suspense. More Hot Latin Heroes. More Military Muscle. Read More »