User:Protoblast

Below is a set of links to Wikipedia pages that have interested me in one way or another. I'll add to it as I stumble across things.

Pages to read and digest

 * AdS/CFT correspondence
 * Black hole information paradox
 * Audio programming languages and audio synthesis environments -- ChucK, Pure Data, OpenMusic, SuperCollider, Csound
 * Recursive descent parser

"Future events such as these will affect you in the future."

 * Speculative fiction portal
 * Human extinction scenarios
 * Outline of transhumanism
 * Some Catastrophists:
 * Immanuel Velikovsky
 * Hans Schindler Bellamy -- Moon lunacy!
 * Ignatius L. Donnelly
 * Welteislehre -- aka the world ice theory
 * Captain Video and His Video Rangers
 * UFO religion
 * New religious movement

Important People Who Don't Exist

 * Cherubina de Gabriak -- the great, non-existent poet
 * Anne Whateley, who probably did not exist, wrote most of the major literature of the later 16th century. She may only be the result of a scribal error, but she was still a hell of a gal!
 * Ghost character
 * List of fictitious people

Interesting Wikipedia pages

 * Iffland-Ring
 * Protoplast -- false metal
 * King in the mountain
 * Batrachomyomachia -- It's so much better with the Greek title!
 * Meaning of life
 * Subterranean rivers of London
 * Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss
 * Attack. Attack! Attack!!
 * Bear attack
 * Shark attack
 * Killer whale attack
 * Wolf attack
 * Coyote attack
 * Dog attack
 * Tiger attack
 * Crocodile attack
 * Tapir attack
 * Tree attack
 * Goonch attack
 * Man-eater -- watch out boy, she'll chew you up!
 * Uchronia (and Uchronia: The Alternate History List)
 * Vasyl Velychkovsky, a saint in Winnipeg.
 * Havergal Brian
 * Phaistos Disc
 * Quantum immortality
 * Bir Tawil -- land not claimed by any country
 * Canons of page construction
 * Cagot
 * Enchanted Moura
 * Camillo Agrippa
 * Syncretism -- so often a combination of the admirable with the lunatic
 * The Tremulous Hand of Worcester
 * Pseudoscientific metrology
 * Historic regions of the United States
 * 52-hertz whale
 * Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den
 * Bachelor's Grove Cemetery -- my local haunted cemetery
 * Ghost ship
 * Galium verum, aka lady's bedstraw

Everyone and his cousin came to pre-Columbian America

 * Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact hypotheses
 * L'Anse aux Meadows
 * Norse colonization of the Americas
 * Vinland
 * Vinland map
 * Great Ireland
 * Greenland saga
 * Kensington Runestone
 * AVM Runestone
 * Beardmore Relics
 * Elbow Lake Runestone
 * Heavener Runestone
 * Maine penny
 * Turkey Mountain inscriptions
 * Poteau Runestone
 * Shawnee Runestone -- "However, they did find an oval stone about 14 inches long in the weeds, buried about an inch in the soil. When they turned it over, instead of finding the hoped-for snake, they saw a neatly-cut inscription of five strange letters on the underside of the stone. The find was reported to Estep's mother-in-law, Vondell Lindsay, who asked him to retrieve the stone. The letters were filled with dried mud. Unfortunately, young Mikel used a frog-gig to clean some of it out."
 * Newport Tower
 * Davenport Tablets
 * Petroform
 * Spirit Pond runestones
 * Viking Altar Rock
 * Westford Knight
 * Bat Creek inscription
 * Grave Creek Stone
 * Cardiff Giant -- "In 1870, Mark Twain wrote 'A Ghost Story' in which the ghost of the Cardiff Giant appears in the hotel room in Manhattan to demand that he be reburied. The giant is so confused that he haunts Barnum's plaster copy of himself."
 * Izapa Stela 5
 * Los Lunas Decalogue Stone
 * Newark Holy Stones
 * Bourne stone
 * Tucson artifacts -- "The Tucson artifacts were believed, by their discoverer and main supporters, to be of a Roman Judeo-Christian colony existing in what is now known as Arizona between 790 - 900 AD."
 * America's Stonehenge
 * 1421: The Year China Discovered the World
 * Nazca Lines
 * Mesoamerican pyramids -- The Persian king Cambyses II conquered the Yucatan in 523 B.C., as you probably know. Why else would there be pyramids in America?
 * Antilia
 * Satanazes
 * Isle of Demons
 * Institute for the Study of American Cultures -- Which is now sadly defunct...
 * Pre-Columbian era
 * Settlement of the Americas
 * Dare Stones -- Post-Columbian, but they sort of fit here.

Reading lists!

 * Ballantine Adult Fantasy series
 * Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library
 * Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
 * List of alternate history fiction
 * New Naturalist -- series on the natural history of Great Britain
 * Novels set on islands

Lists!

 * List of lists!!
 * List of lists containing lists!!!
 * List of unusual Wikipedia articles
 * List of unexplained sounds
 * List of mythological objects
 * List of extreme points lists
 * List of extinct baronetcies -- In case you are interested in buying a title.
 * List of current pretenders
 * List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations
 * List of fictional islands
 * List of fictional countries
 * List of fictional European countries
 * List of former sovereign states
 * List of historic states of Italy
 * List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
 * List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
 * List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics
 * List of people who have claimed to be Jesus -- As of July 2014 there are 12 living Jesuses.
 * List of duels, and...
 * List of people killed in duels
 * List of unusual deaths
 * List of people who disappeared mysteriously
 * List of new religious movements
 * List of animal names
 * Lists of fictional animals

Of Personal Interest

 * Giovanni Francesco Straparola and his Facetious Nights
 * Giovanni Mercurio da Correggio
 * Camerino
 * Arboretum Apenninicum
 * Megalithic architectural elements
 * Wellesley Tudor Pole, who was mixed up in the affair of the Blue Bowl of Glastonbury
 * Wentworth Smith
 * Cockaigne
 * Aston Cockayne
 * John Taylor, the "Water Poet"
 * John Taylor, the painter and, maybe, player
 * Admiral's Men
 * Samuel Rowley
 * The Roaring Girl
 * Fortune Playhouse
 * Richard Gunnell
 * John Shank
 * Thomas Coryat
 * Elizabeth of Bohemia
 * Three hares
 * Basil Valentine
 * School and university in literature
 * Midsummer
 * St John's Eve
 * St. John's Eve (the Gogol story)
 * Saint Jonas' Festival
 * Fern flower
 * Golowan
 * Blue Flower
 * Pietro Della Valle
 * Timothie Bright
 * Glossary of literary terms