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I put together a montage of many of the artists who have done Hawkman over the years. Hawkman is a character who has been blessed with some of the greatest artists in comics. I'll list …

In the mid 1950s Geril and Gosta Muller arrived on the west coast. They were born in Denmark and had graduated from a Hotel and Restaurant School in Copenhagen in 1943. Following that Geril had …

I’ll be in London this December to launch the new book, Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies, and to discuss some of my other work. There will be multiple in-person events in London. If you’re in the …

Adding Google Web search to FirefoxRecently I read this blog post which highlights some bad practices by Google and also provides a way to make the new web search results tab the default search provider …

Following on from my previous article I added GPS1 (well, GNSS) to my tiny drone – the Meteor 75 Pro. I wanted to add GPS so I could make use of GPS rescue in betaflight …

The Gutter is a substack anthology that mostly publishes very short stories or serials. Of late, they've gotten more serious about things, going to a paid subscription model for comics in 2025 and releasing their …

I usually stick to the subject of fragrance here, and I’m generally bored with end-of-year listicles, but a recent Starving for Beauty newsletter recently reminded me that I do enjoy learning about other people’s favorite …

Bev and I fly off to the, sun-soaked, island of Corfu on Wednesday afternoon. Gatwick isn't a particularly pleasant airport from which to start our latest adventure, yet is certainly better than the Luton alternative …

Reflecting on my reading over the past year, I have found that I have been drawn to a considerable amount of historical fiction, most of which takes the lives of marginalised women as a starting …

(1968) Directed by Mario Bava; Written by Dino Maiuri, Brian Degas, Tudor Gates and Mario Bava; Based on the comic by Angela Giussani and Luciana Giussani; Starring: John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo …

ProjectHere is the O scale barbershop for my Fn3 Oahu Sugar Company layout. I removed the mullions from the Grandt Line Victoria Window to give the structure a more modern appearance depicting the 1940s. I …

by Laura Luebbert and Lior Pachter Background (by LL) Four years ago, during the first year of my PhD at Caltech, I participated in a journal club organized by the lab I was rotating in. …

This is the fourth round-up (of five) of pubs from this year’s Winter Warmer Wander, Stockport & South Manchester CAMRA’s annual celebration of dark, strong and festive beers. This one covers the Oxford Road/Wilmslow Road …

Here is a puzzle for middle school students from the Möbius tournament. Puzzle. For which natural numbers n greater than 1 it is possible to arrange n numbers 1 through n in a circle so …

The Fokker D-II was a fairly mediocre and uninspired successor to the E-III monoplane responsible for the “Fokker Scourge” of 1915-’16. The D-III improved on it, but not enough to make it competitive with the …