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Albert Goodwill Spalding and the Mythic Origins of Baseball
Learn how one man helped create the creation of "America's Game."
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Renaissance Festivals in Oregon
Renaissance Faires are fantasy events brough to life in recreated 16th Century Villages. Stoll the market lanes with medieval characters and winged faeries.
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Godzilla's more than a movie
Godzilla is not only a movie, it's also a computer game. This online game debuts May 20.
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Warhammer Online Pre Order Bonus Items
Gamers who pre order Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning can receive in game items as well as beta access and priority entry to the live servers.
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Action Movie Review: Rambo (2008)
Sylvestor Stallone reprises his role as John Rambo; a reluctant action hero with a penchant for violence. Julie Benz costars.
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Review of The Writer's Journey
Christopher Vogler's how-to structure plots and create believable characters. Step by step guidelines to develop bestselling stories using the enduring wisdom of myths.
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Myth, Monomyth and Middle-earth
This month’s article should be considered the preface to an on-going examination of the value of Tolkien’s Middle-earth writings.
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Goddesses of Love: How the Romance Genre Has Embraced Feminine Myths and Archetypes PART 2

Joseph Campbell and Harry Potter
A very brief mythological analysis of J.K. Rowling's fantasy universe.
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Two Gallants: Review
4/5: Two Gallants employ stylized imagery from the past to produce a powerful commentary on the present in their unconventional new album, What the Toll Tells.
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Review: The Summer Country by James A. Hetley
This week's article is a book review of <u>The Summer Country</u> by James A. Hetley.

Origin Spawns a New Expansion!
This edition of MMOG News clues you in on the newest Ultima expansion pack, a plethora of free trials on various MMOGs, the latest on Brad McQuaid’s newest venture, and so much more!
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Review: Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood by Merideth Ann Pierce
This week's article is a book review of <u>Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood</u> by Merideth Ann Pierce.

Origins of Man
Man was the product of the spirit world's actions, continuing what Iyan had begun.
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Six Books on The Craft of Writing
There are so many how-to books about writing one could easily fill a room. But which books are really needed to help improve writing skills?
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The Creator Spirit
Among indigenous tribes there are two predominant mythologies with respect to a central creator spirit.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
Delve into the ancient tale of Gilgamesh and his quest for immortality.
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Blizzard!
While the media rush to call any severe or heavy snowstorm a blizzard, true blizzards have a strict definition according to meteorologists, and snow need not even fall in a blizzard. Blizzards take on different characteristics when they rage around North America, combining wind and temperature and snow into a variety of recipes, though they all start as low pressure systems.
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Goddesses of Love: How the Romance Genre Has Embraced Feminine Myths and Archetypes PART 1

Tall, Dark and Handsome: The Themes, Symbols and Imagery at the Romance Genre's Heart PART 2

Jules Verne - Mysterious Island
Some books we read more than once; others multiple times; our favorites can never be read enough. Jules Verne's "Mysterious Island" is this reviewer's favorite.
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Wagner on CBC
"One ring to rule them all." The Canadian Opera Company is about to perform one of the most elaborate and massive opera works ever composed: Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle.
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A Quebecois Paean to Lost Love -- 'Annabel Lee' Revisited
Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee" was published days after his death in 1849. More than a century later, Gilles Tibo's picture book interpretation of Poe's haunting work is an uneasy amalgamation of grown-up themes and naive imagery.
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13 Moons Echoes Cold Mountain
Award-winning Charles Frazier writes purely epic novels about the American South with a unique voice.
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Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
This is not the first sword and sorcery mmorpg , but it is the first to be based on the works of a specific author and a film that has a cult following.
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Ceremonial Magick
Ceremonial Magick has been practiced in varying form for centuries. What separates it from other schools of thaumaturgy are analyzed and brought forth in this article.
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Interview with Victoria Strauss
This week's article is an interview with Fantasy author Victoria Strauss.

Skiing New Zealand
Skiing the Southern Hemisphere's New Zealand offers skiers, snowboarders and all wintersports lovers a chance to enjoy winter in the Northern Hemisphere's summer.
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Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo
Twenty years after the last film, "Rambo" still comes on strong in this newest release.
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What Did James Joyce Mean When He Wrote Ulysses Anyway ? Part II
If you hang out at City Lights Bookstore long enough, sooner or later, you will have to know about Ulysses. This article continues to examine the elements working inside this famous novel, what they mean, and the reasons for the novel becoming banned on the American shores in the l930's.
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Act 2 End Game
The End of Act 2
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Fool's War: Imagine Fool’s in Space at War
Review of the science fiction novel Fool's War by Sarah Zettel.

Reports from the Field
Dragon*Con 1999 and Origins 1999
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The Finnbranch Trilogy by Paul Hazel
This week is about the Finnbranch trilogy Paul Hazel.

A Well-Located Virgin Gorda Hotel
On Virgin Gorda, the Guavaberry Vacation Rentals sit cheek-by-jowl with granite boulders that dot the landscape like primeval creatures bleaching themselves in the sun.
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Cohen's Passionless Catholics
As a young poet, Leonard Cohen was preoccupied with passion and mythic imagery. In "St. Catherine's Street" he examines how one diminishes the other.
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Context by John Meaney
Meaney is regular Interzone contributor. Volume 2 of Nulapeiron, an epic British SF space opera trilogy sets Tom Corcoran against the Anomaly, a mysterious new foe.
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Czech Greenways Cycling Tour
Going on a Czech Greenways Cycling trip is a fun way to improve one's fitness level, protect the environment and steep in the rich culture of Eastern Europe.
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Download the Warhammer Online Game Client
Register and download the open beta client in order to take part in upcoming MMORPG Warhammer Online's Preview Weekend Aug. 22-25 and the open beta beginning Sept. 7.
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DVD Review: Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler
Mickey Rourke stars in Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler with a performance that delivers a top rope "ram jam" to audiences and critics alike. It's also his finest hour.
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Fearless Jones: Mosley, Walter
It Ain't Easy, Yet Mosley Fearlessly Does It Again: A review of Walter Mosley's "Fearless Jones" A definite must read, but perhaps not the best introduction to Mosley'
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Foundations of Belief
At the heart of Native American religious philosophy is the belief that everything carries with it an unique spirit.
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Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
Reviews and spoilers have focussed upon the body count and the plot of the final Potter installment, but what is the legacy of the series and the hype surrounding it?
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Japan's Visions of Empire
Incorporating racial biases is essential to understanding more fully the brutality which characterized the Pacific War.
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Kimon and the Agora
Kimon, a political leader during the Classical period, was responsible for turning Athens from dusty and arid to green and bountiful, with a few additions to the Agora.
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Mature Themes in Fantasy
A discussion of how contemporary writers' use of mature themes like politics, sex, military strategy and crime has helped evolve and foster new sub-genres in Fantasy
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Nair Directs The Namesake
An Indian Family Immigrates To New York. Nair, The Director, Chronicles Two Generations of Their Lives Through Marriages, Births, Deaths, and Cultural Identities.
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Poetry and Western Films
In response to inaccurate and damaging portrayals of Native American culture and U.S. history in Western films, poets have created art that communicates the truth.
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Superman, Batman, and Hercules
This week in comics: Hercules tosses kegs, Batman gets ready for his close up, and all is well at Wayne Manor this Christmas.
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The Importance of Poetry and Myth in Daily LIfe
Poetry and myth both relate us back to collective soul. Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell were journeyers into poet's realm of collective unconscious relating to myth.
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