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The Long Way Home

Here’s a little something for the Hollow Earth Expedition crowd —  a wonderful story from the golden age of aviation:

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A Little Something For a Pulp RPG

As per NPR, archeologists have found the ruins of a ancient Cambodian city using remote-sensing technology. Mahendraparvata, a 1,200-year-old lost city that predates Cambodia’s famous Angkor Wat temple...

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The Dynasphere! Why Ride Two Wheels When You Can Have One!

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A Mobile Phone For Your Pulp Campaign

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The Real Agent Carter: Phyllis “Pippa” Latour Doyle

Maybe she wasn’t based specifically on Doyle, or the hundreds of other women that served in OSS, SOE, and other agencies during the war, but it’s a worth title. The young New Zealander Doyle joined...

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Pulp Stuff: 10 Floorplans from NYC Apartments

Here’s a site with flooplans for an assortment of pre-WWI apartment buildings in New York City that should be useful for pulp games set in the 1920-1940s.

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How Sword Fighting Really Looked

Here’s a documentary Back to the Source from the Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) regarding how traditional views of sword fighting were crafted by stage and movie performance, not reality.

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Timekeeping on Mars (and Earth)

I have a class I teach that deals with time and the creation of “time” as we think of it, but this video is a pretty good primer for those that haven’t thought about it. Time standardization wasn’t a...

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Footage: Sikorsky S.38 “Osa’s Ark”

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Newspapers of the International Settlement & French Concession

Here’s a bit of errata that didn’t make it into The Queen of the Orient. (There’s always room for a second edition, I suppose…) To keep up with events in the world and China, English-speaking visitors...

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