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World War I Poetry Digital Archive
11 hours ago ago from Virtually PJ
I finally got a chance to watch the recent Designing Worlds episode featuring Frideswide, a recreation of a portion of the Western Front in WWI using the materials of Oxford University's First World War Poetry Digital Archive . This is without doubt, one of the best installations I have ever come across in Second Life and an illustration at how this virtual world can be utilized to its potential. Csteph Submariner and his team of designers ...
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18 hours ago ago from Britball
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14 hours ago ago from The Reality Check
In the movie Ben Hur, one of the Persian Magi who worshiped Christ in Bethlehem, returned to Judea 30 years later to see the adult messiah-king. The old Magi mentioned to Ben Hur that the Christ was close to him in age and and was geographically close to them. He added, Our lives will never be the same again. The traditional Feast of Epiphany (January) celebrates the of the Magi when they saw the Christ as a suckling baby. means a ...
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23 hours ago ago from Free Thought Manifesto
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16 hours ago ago from Massively
Along with violence and game addiction, inappropriate content is one of the bugbears that video games in general and MMOs in specific can't get away from. A recent FTC study took a look at the general safety available in twenty-seven different virtual worlds, including Second Life and Runescape , and their findings were... well, if you're at all familiar with Second Life , you can kind of guess at the results. Nineteen of the worlds surveyed ...
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Spiral Light Over Norway - the 'Star' That Heralds Maitreya's Emergence
18 hours ago ago from PopEater
LONDON , December 11 /PRNewswire/ -- - With Photo An enormous, spiral light with a glowing centre, seen over Norway on 9 December 2009 , has excited and baffled thousands of Norwegians, including astronomical experts. What does it mean? On 12 December 2008 Share International Foundation announced that a large, bright 'star'-like object would soon be seen in the sky. They believe it to be a sign heralding the imminent appearance of Maitreya, ...
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