Animals of different species have contributed to show us the way in taking benefit of the chances which nature affords us both to protect and to feed ourselves, but the trapdoor spider is surely one of the most […]

Shakespeare in the Movies

Henry IV (1945),  Hamlet (1945), and Richard III (1945): these films were directed by Laurence Olivier,  Starring Laurence Olivier.

These three interpretations of Lawrence Olivier a […]

The Shadow line,  by Joseph Conrad (1917), is a very intriguing novel from the psychological point of view. The novel tells the story of a young petty officer, dissatisfied with his present work life. […]

Alan Sillitoe was born in Nottingham in 1928 and was an enterprising young man, leaving school at 14 to work in a bicycle factory, and later working also at a plywood mill. Sillitoe began to write in Malaya, and […]

Leslies Poles Hartley became known to the large public after the publication of The Go-Between, 1953, in which he tells the disturbing story of the difficult relationship and the psychological development of an […]

Jules Verne was born at Nantes in 1828, and occupies a unique place in the history of literature because he was one of the first writers to make systematic use in fiction of accurate scientific knowledge. After […]

The most reliable studies show that many people suffer from memory loss. Memory can play dirty tricks. Without any doubt,  individual memory  is the essential core of personal identity, and its alteration has s […]

Poe was both a man of inspired genius and the master of the supernatural and the terrible, and his Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque represent the best of his prose work. Poe was around 30 years old when […]

In the late 1999 I read an interesting article about UFOs sightings appeared in the Daily Mail signed by Nick Pope, who, with a very engaging idea, entitled his article in such a way

Britain’s X Files (and y […]

Document Signed Maxwell AF3 A / s 35112

August 8, 1958

In this document which bears the title UFO Program, the author gives a brief history about UFOs, and states that this history can help people better […]