Society & Culture
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- Religion & Spirituality (74)
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http://onelibrary.com/links/links.htm
Rick Crume, a genealogist, writer, and speaker, has assembled an extensive curated directory of genealogy links covering census records, DNA databases, immigration resources, military records, and more. The collection spans dozens of categories with a strong focus on Scandinavian, German, Irish, and Eastern European ancestry research alongside general how-to guides and vital records tools.
https://tngenweb.org/
The TNGenWeb Project bills itself as the single best free online resource for Tennessee genealogy and history research, active since 1996 as part of the broader USGenWeb Project. Visitors can browse county-by-county records, search a cemetery database, submit genealogy queries, and find volunteer opportunities to help expand the project.
http://hauntednevada.com/
Haunted Nevada is a guide to the ghosts, hauntings, and supernatural history of Nevada, covering locations like the Goldfield Hotel, Washoe Club in Virginia City, and haunted spots in Reno and Las Vegas. Created by Janice Oberding, the site also promotes the Reno Ghost Walk, a guided tour running since 2002 that explores the dark and mysterious past of downtown Reno.
http://cognitiveengineer.blogspot.com/
Jimmy, a physics-trained engineer, explores cognitive engineering through the lens of hypnotism, NLP, and practical mind-hacking techniques. Posts cover topics like flow states, subconscious processing, clean language, and how hypnotic principles can be applied to everyday thinking and behavior change.
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.
http://aleph.se/Trans
Anders Sandberg's comprehensive transhumanism resource hub covers life extension, cryonics, nanotechnology, mind uploading, and the technological singularity across five organized spheres of interest. A rich reference for anyone exploring posthuman philosophy, the site bridges cutting-edge science with speculative futures and links to the broader transhumanist community.
https://www.riri.my/
Riri's personal corner of the internet blends a medical/clinical aesthetic with diary entries, a photo collection, and unfiltered personal musings in a style deeply rooted in old-web and Neocities subculture. The site features a creatively styled void_log with a dark-whimsical tone, a self-created webring, and a changelog documenting its evolving identity across domains and redesigns.
https://tilde.town/~gobbldyg00k
Elanor's tilde.town homepage documents her very first steps learning the command line and HTML, with a charming list of terminal discoveries she made along the way. A link to her HTML and CSS experimentation page suggests this is a budding old-web explorer just getting started in the tilde community.
https://biblicalcyclopedia.com/P/phut.html
The Biblical Cyclopedia digitizes the classic McClintock and Strong Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, originally published in 1880, making it searchable online. This entry on 'Phut' exemplifies the depth of the reference, tracing the biblical name through Hebrew, Greek, and Coptic sources alongside commentary from Josephus and Ptolemy.
https://accesstoinsight.org/lib/index.html
Access to Insight, managed by the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, hosts a vast Theravada Buddhist library containing hundreds of essays, meditation guides, sutta commentaries, and full texts from the Pali canon. Visitors can browse by author, title, or nikaya, or discover content randomly, making it an exceptional reference for serious students of Theravada Buddhism.