Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi, the famous 16th century samurai swordsman. Also a rather long history of the Karliner Hassidim, in Hebrew,...
I've learned quite a lot about Chinese history, but mostly a bit earlier. You are talking about the late Tang dynasty. I recommend the "China...
Hi. Writing is largely a lonely business, but , as you said, at some point you want to bounce your work off of somebody. Family, friends and even...
I'm barely sane as it is, so I'm afraid of mind-altering substances. What would be left?
I can't let "Journey to the West" go by without, well, saying "wow!". I've read it twice. In English, I'm afraid. And as some here know, I'm...
Geronimo dictated an autobiography that might be of interest. I found it fascinating. https://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Geronimo/GerStory.pdf
There were all sorts of ancient water systems. Canals and ditches if you had springs uphill-there are still many in use. Shadoof, which can lift...
Zoroastrianism and the Gnostic religions are good places to go demon shopping.
As usual, I'll chime in with a translated Chinese poem, from the Journey to the West. The author uses this structure quite often. Marvelous rain!...
I haven't used this myself, though I understand that Terry Pratchett used it: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable - Wikipedia You can find it...
As a curious aside, we were in Woodstock NY yesterday and I saw a store advertising "Modern Mythology". I had a hard time wrapping my old head...
To a Jew, the "strange rules" of Islam don't seem odd at all.
Hi. This is a fascinating subject. I'm not quite sure what you are looking for. You say "the main aspect of it is how humanity was lifted from...
You can get the history of Daoism from The China History Podcast, but it's more history oriented than actual Daoism oriented. There's a cute book...
That would fit. My father was discharged just before the Korean war. And being a physician, he was an officer. In fact, though three generations...
I know of "gunpowder tea"- I even have some. Here's an example of the term in use: "Sunday evening the Sandbergs were my guests at gunpowder mess"
Going through some letters from 1948, I ran in to the following term for a US Army dining hall: "Gunpowder Mess". I haven't been able to find...
Here, In Israel, we plain soldiers were taught how to place a tourniquet, but only to write the initials (in Hebrew) that indicate a tourniquet...
Medics are are taught to mark on a person's forehead if they have a tourniquet and what time it was put in place, so that when the wounded soldier...
Not a tool- a human proofreader. Maybe you meant to post in a different thread?
