languid days of summer drag out the time before Halloween. In truth, the actual name “Summerween” derives primarily from an episode of the Disney animated seriesGravity Falls, which is sort of a cartoon
The first planet from the Sun is Mercury, taking its name from the Roman god for messengers, thieves, commerce, and travel (and by extension through his earlier Greek counterpart Hermes, a psychopomp who guided the souls of the dead on their final journey into the Underworld). Mercury has a...
The grid I’m referring to here was found at a place called Götavi, in what was once the historic Swedish province of Närke. Götavi is thought to be a theophoric toponym, or a place name that refers to or bears the name of a god/s. When I was first researching this site,...
Then there was the portable radio, a black plastic Shintani model with all of the regular features of a mass-produced Japanese radio. Next to the forged trademark, however, I once again found the familiar figure-eight of the angel sign, stamped a bright white with a tiny "TM" etched righ...