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This Seams Interesting: OLYMPIC SPECIAL VOL. 2

Hello and Welcome, Fellow History Lovers. This Seams Interesting is a monthly column highlighting weird, overlooked, and ignored people and events throughout history. Every 4 years, the very best of the very best of the very best in the wide world of sports compete for the gold. Nearly every nation is represented in this titanic
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This Seams Interesting: LASKARINA BOUBOULINA

Hello and Welcome, Fellow History Lovers. This Seams Interesting is a column highlighting weird, overlooked, and ignored people and events throughout history.   When it comes to Greek history most people know about Aristotle, Homer, Alexander the Great (I know he was Macedonian but that’s a story for another day), and the Olympics. Arguably the
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This Seams Interesting: HASEKURA TSUNENAGA

Hello and Welcome, I’m Spencer Seams. This Seams Interesting is a monthly column highlighting weird, overlooked, and ignored people and events throughout history. March’s topic is…   HASEKURA TSUNENAGA: The Pope’s Favorite Samurai   The Samurai, legendary warriors that actually did a lot more than fight with katanas. They were more or less government employees
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This Seams Interesting: AMINA, QUEEN OF ZARIA

Hello and Welcome, This Seams Interesting is a monthly column highlighting weird, overlooked, and ignored people and events throughout history. February’s Topic is…   AMINA OF ZARIA: African Warrior Queen Extraordinaire   Africa has a deep and rich history going from the Pharaohs of Egypt to the golden coast of the Asasnte to the Dahomey
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This Seams Interesting: OLYMPIC SPECIAL VOL. 1 BETTY ROBINSON & WYOMIA TYUS

Hello and welcome, this is This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. January’s topic is…   OLYMPICS SPECIAL VOL. 1 BETTY ROBINSON AND WYOMIA TYUS: The 100M Special   Ah! The Olympics, the apex of athletics, the gold standard of the gold standard of
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This Seams Interesting: TSAREVNA SOPHIA ALEKSEYEVNA ROMANOVA

Hello and welcome, this is This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. December’s topic is…   TSAREVNA SOPHIA ALEKSEYEVNA ROMANOVA: Peter the Great’s Lesser Known but Much More Interesting Sister   When most people think of the Russian Tsars the names that pop up
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This Seams Interesting: QUEEN ANNA NZINGA

Hello and welcome, this is This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. November’s topic is…   QUEEN ANNA NZINGA: The Humiliator of the Portuguese   This has taken far, far, far too long but I am finally tackling African history. I’m sorry and formally
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This Seams Interesting: MONGOLIA UNDER BOGD KHAN

Hello and welcome, this is This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. October’s topic is…   MONGOLIA UNDER BOGD KHAN: Two Revolutions for the Price of One   When it comes to the Mongolian history, most people stop at the death of Genghis Khan
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This Seams Interesting: U. S. CAMEL CORPS

Hello and welcome, this is This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. September’s topic is…   UNITED STATES CAMEL CORPS EXPERIMENT: For A Few Camels More     This is exactly what you think it is. There was a United States Army unit that
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This Seams Interesting: MARGARET I

Hello and welcome, this is This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. August’s topic is…   MARGARET I: Scandinavian Overlord and Overlooked Woman   When it comes to medieval monarchs, the typical names that always pop up are William the Conqueror, Eleanor of Aquitaine,
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This Seams Interesting: The Walker Brothers

Hello, I’m Spencer Seams and you’re reading This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. July’s topic is…   THE WALKER BROTHERS: 60 Years Before Jackie Robinson There Were The Walkers   Moses Fleetwood Walker (nicknamed Fleet) and Welday Wilburforce Walker are two of the
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This Seams Interesting: EMU WAR

Welcome to the inaugural edition of This Seams Interesting. This will be a monthly series highlighting interesting, weird, and overlooked events and people throughout history. June’s topic is…   EMU WAR: Birds of a Feather Stick Together   What do you get when you combine the Great Depression, the Australian Wheat Board, the Lewis Automatic
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Rom Coms: Now and Then Part 2, Modern

You know that movie where the average, normal guy, played by a handsome Hollywood hunk, meets an equally regular and relatable woman, played by a bodacious babe. Not that one, the one where they fall in love then fight then make up and get married. No, the one where the girl’s friends that aren’t so
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Rom Coms: Now and Then Part 1, 50 Years Ago

You know that movie where the average, normal guy, played by a handsome Hollywood hunk, meets an equally regular and relatable woman, played by a bodacious babe. Not that one, you know the one where they fall in love then fight then make up and get married and have a baby. No, the one where
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She Blinded Me With Science Vol. 4

This month is Women’s History Month. In honor of that I wrote a series highlighting women in science and medicine throughout history. Vol. 1 starts in the Ancient Greece and Vol. 4 concludes the series in modern times. Some of them are very famous and others are relatively forgotten in the grand scope of history.
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She Blinded Me With Science Vol. 3

This month is Women’s History Month. In honor of that I wrote a series highlighting women in science and medicine throughout history. Vol. 1 starts in the Ancient Greece and Vol. 4 concludes the series in modern times. Some of them are very famous and others are relatively forgotten in the grand scope of history.
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She Blinded Me With Science Vol. 2

This month is Women’s History Month. In honor of that I wrote a series highlighting women in science and medicine throughout history. Vol. 1 starts in the Ancient Greece and Vol. 4 concludes the series in modern times. Some of them are very famous and others are relatively forgotten in the grand scope of history.
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She Blinded Me with Science Vol. 1

This month is Women’s History Month. In honor of that I wrote a series highlighting women in science and medicine throughout history. Vol. 1 starts in the Ancient Greece and Vol. 4 concludes the series in modern times. Some of them are very famous and others are relatively forgotten in the grand scope of history.
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Happy Birthday Anthony Burgess!

If you’ve read my previous articles on authors (Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip K. Dick) that I really love and appreciate, there’s a recurring element. It is movies. This one is no different. I had recently started high school and just discovered Stanley Kubrick. I wanted to watch A Clockwork Orange but learned that there
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Famous Redheads Throughout History Vol. 3

Throughout history there have been thousands upon thousands of people that have changed the course of humanity. Some of them had red hair, here are a few of them. Lettice Knolleys, 1540 – 1634, British Noblewoman and Cousin of Elizabeth I   She was born to Sir Francis Knolleys and Lady Catherine Carey. Her mother
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Dystopian Future: Now and Then Part 2: Electric Boogaloo

Everyone loves a good old-fashioned dystopian future. They are cool now so I decided to study this movie trope. More specifically I looked at the 1960s idea of a dystopian future and the modern film’s dystopian future. I watched the following films in preparation for this series. Three from the 1960s, The 10th Victim –
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Famous Redheads Throughout History Vol. 2

Redheads are a big part of history. They helped shape our modern world and have made strides in every field imaginable, ranging from artists to monarchs to just being an interesting person. Learn and enjoy the illustrious achievements and lives in redhead history. Some are very famous and others are relatively unknown. Learn and enjoy!
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Today is Philip K. Dick’s Birthday

What is reality? Should we trust those in power? Who am I? These are among the questions that legendary cult god science fiction prophet Philip K. Dick weaved into his decades’ worth of novels and short stories. He had 44 novels and 141 short stories published between 1951 and 1982. Today, he would be 86.
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Dystopian Futures: Now and Then Part 1

Everyone loves a good old-fashioned dystopian future. They are cool now so I decided to study this movie trope. More specifically I looked at the 1960s idea of a dystopian future compared with the modern film’s dystopian future. I watched the following films in preparation for this article. Three from the 1960s, The 10th Victim
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Famous Redheads Throughout History Vol.1

Everyone loves history. Everyone loves Redheads. Here’s a combination of the two. Vol. 2 will happen at some point in the future. Rurik, 830-879, founder of the House of Rurik and basis for the name Roderick The specific details surrounding his life are vague. What is known however; is that he was a Varangian prince
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Athletes with names that sound like fantasy characters

Here’s a list of professional athletes that could be easily be a Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings character. The list was originally around 500. I narrowed it down, with some help from fellow writers J.P. Behrens and Heather Lin, to a reasonable amount. Enjoy! National Hockey League: 2. Torey Krug, Boston Bruins
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Ursula K. Le Guin turn 85 today.

When most people think of science fiction/fantasy writers the usual names that pop up are Octavia Butler, J.R.R. Tolkien, Ray Bradbury, H.G. Wells, and, of course, Ursula K. Le Guin. Today Mrs. Le Guin celebrates her 85th birthday. For 85 years we’ve been lucky to have this wonderfully talented woman grace us with her writing.
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Happy Emerald Anniversary, Twilight Zone!

“There is a television program, an elegant, enigmatic element of entertainment that engaged and ensnared the collective consciousness of American culture. That very program challenged, changed, and contorted culture considerably for decades afterwards. That program is, The Twilight Zone.”   Today at exactly 10:00pm will be the fifty-fifth anniversary of the aforementioned, The Twilight Zone.
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Axl and Eva Sitting in a Tree

Here it is, my last recap of the Almighty Johnsons Season 1. Will the Norse gods finally get their powers back? Will Axl and Eva get along? Will the mystery of who pays for Zeb and Axl’s rent finally be answered? Will Anders stop being a douche? Will Ty and Dawn’s romance blossom into full
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Remember to Get Your Norse God Spayed or Neutered

The Johnsons brothers aka the Norse gods in human form are searching for Frigg so they can get their full powers back. Last time some stuff happened. Axl, Olaf, and Anders finally saw the goddesses face to face. They met Thor. He’s a big drunk dummy and bad dad. Ty, who I just realized might
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Cocaine, Thor, and a Meteorite

First, I have to address something; I have been calling the character Shakira the wrong name this whole time. I misheard Gaia for Shakira, not sure how that happened but if you were confused, all two of you reading these, I am sorry.   (Dramatic music fades in, loud pulsing drumbeat, tuba and trombone join
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Zebras and Apple Martinis

(Dramatic Music) Last time on the Almighty Johnsons; Axl Johnson had a very special 21st birthday. He went from being a boy to a god…literally. He’s the avatar of Odin. Ty Johnson, the avatar of Hoor, the god of winter, is lonely. Ty hasn’t had much to do. Olaf Johnson, former Odin avatar also Axl’s
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Norse Gods in New Zealand!?

Syfy channel is famous for a few things; original films, the Battlestar Galacica reboot, and reruns of other shows. Recently it started airing the New Zealand show, the Almighty Johnsons. I know I’m a little late on this, they started airing it in July. So I will cover two episodes at a time. Five seconds
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