Society & Culture
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- Religion & Spirituality (74)
- History (162)
- Philosophy (121)
- Paranormal & Occult (42)
- Subcultures (333)
https://beckysgraceandglory.blogspot.com/
Becky Thompson's genealogy blog traces her family connections through cemetery visits, historical records, and FamilySearch research across Idaho and beyond. Posts feature surname studies, headstone photography, and discoveries like unusual naming patterns in 19th-century families that bring ancestors to vivid life.
https://tilde.town/~joshumax
Joshumax's tilde.town homepage greets visitors with a quirky BASIC interpreter shell aesthetic, simulating an old-school terminal session complete with copyright notices and interruption errors. A minimal but charming artifact of the tilde community revival, where retro computing culture meets collaborative indie web hosting.
https://distressedegg.fun/qvp
Created by Distressed Egg, this page introduces the Queer Villain Pride flag and explains the meaning behind each of its five colors, from pink representing passion to black representing defiant chaos and rebellion. The flag is presented as a campy, theatrical symbol of queer community solidarity and is available for free download under a Creative Commons license.
https://freeafricanamericans.com/revolution.htm
Compiled by researcher Paul Heinegg, this meticulously documented resource catalogs over 900 free African Americans who served in the American Revolution from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware. Drawing on pension records, tax lists, court documents, and military rolls, it offers deep genealogical and historical evidence for colonial-era free Black military service.
https://www.wicca-spirituality.com/best-links.html
Wicca-Spirituality.com is an extensive resource created by erin Dragonsong covering Wiccan traditions, holy days, rituals, and spiritual practice for beginners and experienced practitioners alike. The site includes a curated links page connecting visitors to other Wiccan, Pagan, and metaphysical websites, alongside offerings like a Wiccan Mystery School and Book of Shadows samples.
https://lonego.tripod.com/
Dialegesthai is a bilingual (English/Italian) philosophical resource exploring major themes of Western metaphysics through the lens of logic, covering topics like negation, contradiction, dialectics, and reason. Featuring articles, online texts, and translations, it engages with thinkers from Plato and Leibniz to Wittgenstein and Marx, with a charming sidebar dedicated to Tristram Shandy.
http://nieniedialogues.com/
NieNie Dialogues is the long-running personal blog of Stephanie Nielson, a Latter-day Saint mother who shares her faith, family life, and resilience through pregnancy, motherhood, and daily challenges. With an archive stretching back to 2003 and a New York Times bestselling book to her name, the site blends heartfelt religious reflection with candid updates on her large family.
https://orgenweb.atwebpages.com/
ORGenWeb is a genealogy resource hub dedicated to Oregon family history research, offering county lists, maps, archives, obituaries, vital records, and pioneer biography indexes. Coordinated by Bob Jenkins and Martha A. Crosley Graham, the site serves as a gateway to Oregon-specific genealogical records including birth, death, marriage, land, and cemetery data.
https://theoi.com/
The Theoi Project is an exhaustive reference guide to Greek mythology created by Aaron J. Atsma, covering over 1,500 pages of gods, spirits, heroes, and mythical creatures sourced from classical literature and art. Visitors can explore detailed entries on every major deity and monster, browse an A-Z encyclopedia, view over 1,200 images from ancient vase paintings and mosaics, and read original classical texts.
https://cagenweb.org/capioneer
The California Pioneer Project maintains a crowdsourced list of settlers who migrated to or were born in California prior to 1880, compiled from genealogical researchers across the country. Visitors can browse pioneer names by county, access Gold Rush-era diary bibliographies, search county biographical indexes, and connect with other researchers through a contact directory.