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Peter Laurie works and publishes as a scholar of comparative literature, as a cultural journalist and as a poet and translator of poets. He specializes in the descent of the classical tradition in all historical periods across the arts.
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- Israeli intel exposes 'leaked' documents that supported Netanyahu hostage position as fake
- Lithuania to prepare nationwide evacuation plan over 'hybrid attack' fears
- 70% of Palestinians killed by Israel are women and children, Gaza government data reveals
- Poliovirus that infected a Chinese child in 2014 may have leaked from a lab
- Lindsey Graham not even coy: Washington wants Ukraine's resources
- Mongolia's embrace of Putin despite his ICC warrant exposes South Africa's political cowardice
- North Korea building a new naval base
- Trump unveils plan to stop de-dollarization
- The real barbarians: How the French and British 'civilized' Africa
- EU state could force Russians to choose citizenship
- More than 350,000 people in the U.S. face physical force by police every year
- VW E-car sales plummet...Socialists/Greens insist the way forward is more E-mobility!
- At least 11 dead, 9 missing amid flash floods sweeping various regions in Morocco - a years' worth of rain in 2 days (UPDATE)
- 6 doomsday asteroids that may crash into Earth someday, scientists warn
- Super Typhoon Yagi hits Vietnam killing 59, 17 inches of rain in 24 hours (UPDATE)
- Zio-psycho throws a tantrum: Alan Dershowitz leaves the Democratic Party
- Dick Cheney supports Harris, says Trump 'can never be trusted with power again'
- Biden's astonishing vacation total revealed โ prez took 48 years worth of leave in 4
- Trump pulls ahead of Harris in major national poll
- NYC Mayor Eric Adams compares self to Bible's long-suffering Job, says, 'Pray for me' as federal probes swirl
- Israeli intel exposes 'leaked' documents that supported Netanyahu hostage position as fake
- Lithuania to prepare nationwide evacuation plan over 'hybrid attack' fears
- Lindsey Graham not even coy: Washington wants Ukraine's resources
- Mongolia's embrace of Putin despite his ICC warrant exposes South Africa's political cowardice
- North Korea building a new naval base
- Trump unveils plan to stop de-dollarization
- Dick Cheney supports Harris, says Trump 'can never be trusted with power again'
- Biden's astonishing vacation total revealed โ prez took 48 years worth of leave in 4
- $10 mln is serious money - What's lacking? Serious evidence of crime
- Nuland confirms West told Zelensky to abandon peace deal
- Trump reveals plans for Musk
- German chancellor wants to end Ukraine conflict 'faster'
- SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Trump-Kennedy Unity Govt? Biggest Evar Threat to Democracy!
- Dumb as they come: Scholz and Pistorius
- Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic: Why has Zelensky purged the Ukrainian government?
- Orban names first step to peace in Ukraine
- Meta's policy on Zionism exposed: Cyberwell scrambles after Israel ties revealed
- 'The Axis of Resistance' prepares to get revenge on Israel
- Election upheaval and Volkswagen woes show Germany's ruinous price for being Uncle Sam's lapdog
- Swiss, Muslim politician shoots Icon of Mary and Jesus, posts pictures of it on Instagram
- 70% of Palestinians killed by Israel are women and children, Gaza government data reveals
- EU state could force Russians to choose citizenship
- More than 350,000 people in the U.S. face physical force by police every year
- VW E-car sales plummet...Socialists/Greens insist the way forward is more E-mobility!
- Zio-psycho throws a tantrum: Alan Dershowitz leaves the Democratic Party
- Trump pulls ahead of Harris in major national poll
- NYC Mayor Eric Adams compares self to Bible's long-suffering Job, says, 'Pray for me' as federal probes swirl
- Two Gaza hospitals on brink of shutdown due to fuel shortages amid Israeli genocide
- Ukraine running out of cash for front line soldiers - MP
- ฮP (Delta P): Diver pipeline deaths blamed on oil company's 'criminal negligence'
- Bolsonaro leads massive free speech protest in Brazil after Supreme Court bans X
- 300,000 protest in France over Macron's pick of Barnier as PM, poll reports 55% think election was 'stolen'
- Woman tells trial of husband who invited men to rape her: 'I was sacrificed on altar of vice'
- US conservative influencers say they are 'victims' of Russian disinformation campaign
- Hunter Biden pleads guilty to all 9 charges in tax evasion case before trial in Los Angeles
- Canadian journalist outs himself as Canadian, Ukrainian intelligence collaborator
- German industrial output slumps, fueling recession fears; Deutsche Bank CEO urges citizens to 'work harder'
- China stops foreigners adopting children after three decades
- Pavel Durov, Paul Du Rove - Freedom of speech to play fool, stock speculator, fraudster
- Norway reports outbreak of bluetongue disease in sheep, amidst rise in infections across Europe
- The real barbarians: How the French and British 'civilized' Africa
- From Jesus to Nyerere: Africa's fight against Western spiritual colonialism
- Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean
- 1,700-year-old 'barbarian' burial discovered along Roman Empire's frontier in Germany
- New studies confirm that there was indeed a shipyard at Lothal, the commercial center of the Harappan civilization and world's oldest port
- Flashback Anglo-American money masters as the organizers of the Second World War
- Astronomers discover oldest known eclipse reference in 6,000-year-old Hindu text
- Megalithic structure found in Kazakhstan
- GHQ's press code and Japan: Then and Now
- Submerged ancient bridge discovered in a Spanish cave reveals earlier human settlement in the western Mediterranean
- Isolation, endogamy, smallpox, present in early medieval, Christian, 'cave village' in Spain
- How Qatar spreads chaos in the Middle East and fuels Islam in Europe
- 6,000-year-old Dolmen of Menga suggests Neolithic builders had 'amazingly' precise understanding of science
- Humans were living near West Papua at least 55,000 years ago, study finds
- Archaeologists announce discovery of iconic sword lost in WWII Germany
- Ancient DNA sheds light on the genetic diversity of post-Roman elites
- What the hell is happening in Trieste?
- Zelensky's new delusion: Why has the Ukrainian leader decided to claim multiple regions of Russia?
- 13,000 years ago Clovis people used planted pikes to kill mammoths, not throwing spears, new study reveals
- Double, Double Toil and Trouble: The Tale of Maggie Pollock and the Huron County Witch Trial
- 6 doomsday asteroids that may crash into Earth someday, scientists warn
- Hints of a hidden structure detected at the edge of the Solar System
- Food dye tartrazine makes mice skin as transparent 'as glass', revealing organs, scientists discover
- Evidence of human genetic adaptation to carbohydrates since adoption of agriculture 12,000 years ago revealed in new study
- Best of the Web: Sunspot activity reaches 23 year high, DOUBLE the official forecast for solar cycle 25
- Japan prepares to launch world's first pilot steady-state nuclear fusion reactor
- NASA discovers a long-sought global electric field on Earth
- New, exceptionally bright photons bring 'unbreakable' quantum communication closer to reality
- Boeing Starliner astronauts will spend at least 240 days stuck in space - is that a new record?
- SARS-CoV-2 virus uses a secret 'back door' to infect the brain
- Mysterious structures in Earth's mantle that scatter and slow seismic waves found 'everywhere', study suggests
- Sunflowers 'dance' together to balance sunlight and shade with their brethren, new study suggests
- Time and the universe are on an infinite loop
- Ancient tree resin artifacts provide earliest-known evidence of humans dispersing through the Pacific
- Divide and conquer: Bacterial cell division hints at self-healing materials
- 'Catastrophic' climate shifts 4,200 years ago may have been smaller and more regional than initially thought, new study reveals
- Lightning energy is transferred to Earth's magnetosphere by newly discovered 'whistler' wave, study reveals
- Increased volcanic activity significantly reduced wine production at various times in last millennia, new study finds
- NASA made a world-shaking discovery: Compelling evidence of past life on Mars
- Evolution of snakes takes surprise twist โ cobras didn't come from where we thought they did
- At least 11 dead, 9 missing amid flash floods sweeping various regions in Morocco - a years' worth of rain in 2 days (UPDATE)
- Super Typhoon Yagi hits Vietnam killing 59, 17 inches of rain in 24 hours (UPDATE)
- Waterspout spotted off the coast of Quiberon, France
- Pony killed by freak lightning bolt on Isle of Wight, UK
- Lightning strike kills 7 people in Chhattisgarh, India
- France's Lourdes grotto reopens to public after flash flooding
- Man mauled to death by dogs in Oakland, California; dogs' owner charged
- Lightning kills 22 in 48 hours in Yemen, 160 killed since start of year
- Lightning kills 50 in Cambodia in 8 months of 2024
- Shallow 6.0-magnitude earthquake hits off Tonga
- Torrential rains, deadly flooding hit areas of Qinghai, China - 9 killed
- Tourists helicoptered down from Swiss mountain resort after mudslide cuts off road access
- Torrential rains in northern Italy flood Milan and leave a man missing
- Strongest typhoon in a decade, Yagi makes landfall in Chinese island province
- Surge in 'Turkey's granary' sinkholes imperils agriculture
- 4 year old dead after dog attack in Visalia, California
- Six killed in highway landslide triggered by cloudburst in Nagaland, India
- "Atlantic Tropics Are Completely Broken"
- British woman dies in flash floods on Majorca, Spain
- Jackals attack several people in Uttar Pradesh, India
- Best of the Web: Astronaut watches meteor explode over Earth in bright green fireball in stunning video from ISS on September 2
- Best of the Web: Moment asteroid hits Earth's atmosphere like a ball of fire over the Philippines on September 5 (local time)
- Meteor fireball over Tennessee and other states on August 30
- Meteor fireball over Kansas and other states on August 27
- Meteor fireball over Alberta on August 27
- Meteor fireball over Michigan and other states on August 24
- Meteor fireball spotted in South Africa on August 25 [Update: Calculated total impact energy 0.092kt TNT]
- Meteor fireball over Kentucky and other states on August 23
- Meteor fireball over France and 2 other countries on August 21
- Meteor fireball over Florida and other states on August 15
- Stunning photos of the Perseid meteor shower captured over Stonehenge
- Perseid meteor fireball caught on camera in skies above Macedonia on August 13
- Giant meteor fireball lights up the night sky in Makurazaki City, Japan on August 11
- Meteor fireball over Kansas and other states on August 6
- Meteor fireball over Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil on August 3
- Meteor fireball over Kansas and Oklahoma on July 29
- Meteor fireball over south of Spain (July 25)
- Meteor fireball over Connecticut and 2 other states on July 27
- Meteor fireball over Connecticut and other states on July 26
- Meteor fireball over California and 2 other states on July 26
- Poliovirus that infected a Chinese child in 2014 may have leaked from a lab
- So...What's the deal with Gaza's polio vaccination campaign?
- Surprise, surprise: FDA authorizes new COVID-19 Vaccine without clinical data
- There are no licensed COVID vaccines for kids under 12 โ But CDC wants babies to get 3 Pfizer shots by age 9 months
- France updates mpox's vaccination strategy
- Vegan fad over? 'Most people I know who went vegan have gone back to eating meat'
- Distrust in vaccines grows among U.S. adults, survey shows
- UNICEF launches emergency tender for mpox vaccines
- Why is Israel agreeing to a ceasefire in order to allow the polio vaccine into Gaza?
- 'Gene Edited' vs 'Genetically Modified' - What's the difference?
- New study explores how food choices shape mental health
- Research mounts showing statins are Pharma trash
- Injecting Babies: 1986 v Today
- US gov't admits fluoride in drinking water linked to lower IQ in children
- Best of the Web: S. African vaccine injury Medico-Legal group sounds alarm over Mpox vaccine
- Alarming report reveals number of girls who may have undergone 'gender-affirming' surgeries
- Metal wire fragments trigger recall of 167,000 lbs of Perdue chicken products
- Washing fruit doesn't remove pesticide residues, study confirms
- Even when it came to children, German government ignored own scientists to impose strict COVID vaccine, mask mandates
- Popular sweetener linked to increased risk of blood clots, heart attack, and stroke
- How to investigate successful predators
- Studying the Psychopath: The Bones of Contention
- Religion goes digital: They want to play God, become gods, and build God(s)
- What do you notice? And why it matters
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Predators in High Places with Dr. Karen Mitchell
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: The Varieties of Inner Experience with Russ Hurlburt
- The Upside of Adversity
- SOTT Focus: Whom The Gods Would Destroy...
- SOTT Focus: Hyperdimensional Realities: A Scientific and Consciousness Perspective
- SOTT Focus: Unraveling the Early Christian Narrative: From Paul to Mark
- Doodle nation: A linguist's notes on distracted drawing
- Cancel culture is 'killing mental health'
- SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Do NPCs Have an Inner Monologue? Discussing the 5 Pristine Inner Experiences
- World War 100: The survival of humanity depends on which theory of mind is correct
- Best of the Web: The perversion of mental health practice: Woke capture of clinical & counseling psychology
- Transcending our left-brain limitations
- Rebalancing
- The Beast of Ideology Lifts the Lid on Transformation
- Behavioural science at its worst
- SOTT Focus: The Goldilocks Enigma
- Starliner spacecraft has started to emit strange noises
- Palmdale UFO scare leads to revelations about mystery drone incursions over secretive Plant 42
- Why is the Pentagon's UFO office so clueless about UFOs?
- Witnesses to 2004 Tic-Tac-shaped UFO sighting reveal shocking cover-up of infamous USS Nimitz encounter
- UAP disclosure not 'a sprint. It's a marathon': Ex-Pentagon official
- Former Pentagon UFO investigator makes claims of 'non-human' craft, biological implants in memoir
- Mysterious lights spotted in the sky above California desert amid huge spike in UFO reports
- Airplane pilots record multiple UFOs 'dancing' in the sky: 'It wasn't on our radar'
- Report says 3-fingered 'alien mummies' found in Peru have fingerprints that do not appear to be human
- Tom DeLonge Talks the UFO Phenomenon and 'Sekret Machines: War'
- Best of the Web: What on Earth is going on in Greece? 8 tourists go missing on 5 Greek islands - 5 turn up dead, 3 still missing
- Best of the Web: Overton Window Hacking
- Lack of transparency surrounding US govt's former UAP office director raises concerns
- Key senators believe the Pentagon's UFO office is lying
- SOTT Focus: What is 'The Wave'? Raising Your Vibration To Prepare For The Realm Border Crossing
- Aliens might be living among us disguised as humans โ or in a base inside the moon, according to new Harvard study
- Missing 411? UK TV presenter found dead on Greek island, wife confirms
- Senior military officer states there is 'zero doubt' non-human intelligence interacting with humanity exists
- Ongoing search for Loch Ness Monster captures unexplained noise and 'sighting' photo
- UK: Scientist is '99pc sure' a panther is eating sheep in Cumbria
- Trump practicing for debate against Kamala by arguing with drunks at wine bars
- 'Stop foreigners meddling in our elections!' screams party inviting foreigners to meddle in elections
- 'What do YOU think my policies might be?' Kamala asks CNN's Dana Bash during interview
- Kamala explains that 93% of her staff quit because they 'couldn't handle the joy'
- Kamala campaign releases new slogan: 'We decline your request for an interview'
- Harris Veep pick Tim Walz promises to make America as great as Minneapolis
- 'Did you mean: Donate to Kamala Harris?' Google asks user searching for info on Trump
- As Kamala campaigns, nation longs for the clarity and coherence of Joe Biden
- Reporters suspicious of White House Biden press conference: 'Looks like it was shot in Minecraft'
- Meet Kamala Harris's 6-Year-Old Speechwriter
- Biden to make future statements via ouija board
- Jill Biden finally agrees to drop out of presidential race
- 'Literally Anybody Else' wants your vote!
- Revealed: Biden's nickname for each member of his administration
- Trump hit with indictment for inciting assassination attempt
- Song for our times: "Quiet Man" by Rusty Weld
- Biden turns blue after aides forget to include 'remember to breathe' card in cue packet
- Dems insulted: Veep chosen for her race and gender is NOT a 'DEI hire'
- White House installs interactive toy desk so Joe Biden feels like he's working while Jill runs the country
- Biden solves Dem fundraising woes: Will become new mascot for Sleepytime tea
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Recent Comments
Ex navy diver. Getting fouled up and drowning were always on my mind. I have done some commercial diving and safety was not always forefront....
Crisis of No Confidence - NOTA - Do Not Comply ๐คก๐ฉ๐ช
I'm pretty sure this article is utter bs - pathetic narrative self-fulfilling bs. Dig a bit deeper and one realizes tis "easy" for Mongolia to...
Many people don't understand why I steadfastly refuse to travel in the US. With my attitude towards abusive authority I'd come back in a pine box.
I keep wondering if maybe 5G is influencing animal behavior. So many attacks by domestic and wild animals lately.
