A colonial settlement was established in the middle of Cape Ann in the late 1600's in woodlots and cleared land known as the Commons. Some say people settled there as protection from pirates and enemy Indians. Others say it was because the land was free. Commoners earned their living as farmers, weavers, shepherds, and fishermen. The settlement doubled in size to about fifty families by the mid 1700's. But then, unlike most places that continued to grow to the present day, the population began to decline. With the emergence of coastal industries like fishing, shipping, and trading, people moved back to the harbor. The houses left behind were rented and soon fell into disrepair. By the mid 1800's all of the houses in this part of Gloucester, which became known as Dogtown, were torn down. Only the root cellars - today's cellar holes - remained. Combining maps, genealogy data, and oral history, THE CELLARS SPEAK offers new insight into the spatial and social structure of Dogtown. It explains how the original settlement started and may have developed in its early days, and how family trees "connect" the homes of parents to those of their children forming social networks. These networks suggest the Commons and later Dogtown were not unlike the rest of town, in fact, not all that different from today's Gloucester, where as someone once joked, "everyone knows everybody, and everyone is related.
What would the remains of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization look like? How can we determine if strange-looking formations or regular-seeming landforms on the surface of another world are artificial or not? In The Cydonia Controversy, imaging specialist Mark Carlotto not only updates his conclusions about various unusual features in the Cydonia region of Mars, including the famous "Face", but also lays the groundwork for an exciting new science -- exoarcheology.
Most people naturally associate Cape Ann - the other cape along the Massachusetts coast - with the sea - with seafood restaurants, scenic vistas, sailing, scuba diving, and surfing. Few are aware of the mysteries that lie hidden in the middle of the Cape. Hiking through the woods one encounters all kinds of interesting things: gigantic boulders, rock walls, stone foundations, collapsed wells, abandoned quarries, old roads and more. Covered by bittersweet and cat briar, much of the interior has been undisturbed for hundreds of years. It is not the coastline of Cape Ann with its quaint shops, sandy beaches, and ocean vistas, but the inland woods - the vast unsettled area stretching from Lanesville south to Blackburn Circle, from Riverdale east to Rockport - that is the subject of this book. For here are the remains of a colonial settlement that became known as Dogtown in its latter days, old quarries now popular (but private) swimming holes, and "word rocks" scattered about the rocky terrain telling us how to live our lives. All of this connected by a maze of old roads and trails whose origins can be traced to colonial times but still confuse and confound even the most experienced hiker. This book complements the many books both historical and fictional that have been written about Dogtown and Cape Ann. The narrative and photographs are wrapped around a new map that serves as a "time machine" for exploring the inland woods. This new map combines information from historical maps with highly accurate GPS measurements presented in the form of an "image-map" that is displayed over high-resolution aerial photography. We follow old roads the early settlers used to travel point-to-point from one hamlet along the coast to another, not all the way around along Route 127 as we do today. These roads take us to the Commons Settlement - one of the first settlements on Cape Ann, where we try to imagine what it was like to live here without running water and other modern conveniences. We can find the homes of Peter Lurvey, Judy Rhines, Liz Tucker, Easter Carter, Granny Day, and other characters from the stories of Charles E. Mann and Anita Diamant, or go to where James Merry, the tragic figure of Charles Olson's poem, "Maximus of Dogtown" died. We might even discover the places where Marsden Hartley painted his rocky landscapes. From Dogtown we can head north to visit the quarries and compare what we see today with the stark landscapes of past centuries when quarries and quarry railroads dominated the northern hills of the Cape. Or we can fast forward to the 1930s and follow trails south to the Babson Boulders - Roger Babson's beliefs and philosophy etched in stone - and beyond to the Babson Reservoir - the Babson family's enduring legacy to the people of Gloucester. We leave the reader with descriptions of cellar holes, stone foundations, and other unidentified structures to consider and perhaps investigate on foot, and a mysterious map of Dogtown drawn in the early 1900s by a Methodist minister that shows features that no one has yet been able to identify.
On the surface of Mars lies a formation that looks remarkably like a humanoid face. Forever staring up into the vastness of space it has attracted our attention. Some think that that is why it is there, beckoning us to come and explore. Others believe that it is simply an odd looking geological landform - a formation carved over the ages by the random forces of nature. It is our imagination and our desire to find other forms of life in the universe that makes us see it as an intelligently crafted object. Opinions about the possibility of life on Mars have changed over the years from Percival Lowell's canals, to the dead planet image by the early Mariner missions to Mars, to the enormous volcanoes, great canyon systems, and channels carved by water seen by Mariner 9 and Viking. In the first edition of The Martian Enigmas, Dr. Mark J. Carlotto presented a detailed analysis of the controversial Viking photographs. The revised edition greatly expands on his early work and constains new research results that further supports the claim that these objects may be precisely what many scientists have sought for decades: the first hard evidence that we are not alone.
On the surface of Mars lies a formation that looks remarkably like a humanoid face. Forever staring up into the vastness of space it has attracted our attention. For some, that is why it is there, beckoning us to come and explore. Others believe that it is simply an odd looking geological landform - a formation carved over the ages by the random forces of nature. It is our imagination and our desire to find other life in the universe that makes us see it as an intelligently crafted object. Opinions about the possibility of life on Mars have changed over the years from Percival Lowell's canals, to the dead planet image by the earlyMarinermissions to Mars, to the enormous volcanoes, great canyon systems, and channels carved by water seen byMariner 9andViking. In the first edition ofThe Martian Enigmas, Dr. Mark J. Carlotto presented a detailed analysis of the controversial Viking photographs. The revised edition greatly expands on his early work, containing new research results that add further support to the claim that these objects may be precisely what many scientists have sought for decades: the first hard evidence that we are not alone.
What would the remains of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization look like? How can we determine if strange-looking formations or regular-seeming landforms on the surface of another world are artificial or not? In The Cydonia Controversy, imaging specialist Mark Carlotto not only updates his conclusions about various unusual features in the Cydonia region of Mars, including the famous "Face", but also lays the groundwork for an exciting new science -- exoarcheology.
From the author of Children of the Camps, a look at the disturbing activities of the Kempeitai, Japan’s feared military and secret police. The book opens by explaining the origins, organization, and roles of the Kempeitai apparatus, which exercised virtually unlimited power throughout the Japanese Empire. Author Mark Felton reveals their criminal and collaborationist networks that extorted huge sums of money from hapless citizens and businesses. They ran the Allied POW gulag system that treated captives with merciless and murderous brutality. Other Kempeitai activities included biological and chemical experiments on live subjects, the Maruta vivisection campaign, and widespread slave labor, including “Comfort Women” drawn from all races. Their record of reprisals against military and civilians was unrelenting. For example, Colonel Doolittle’s raid on Tokyo in 1942 resulted in a campaign of revenge not just against captured airmen but thousands of Chinese civilians. Their actions amounted to genocide on a grand scale. Felton backs up his text with firsthand testimonies from survivors who suffered at the hands of this evil organization. He examines how the guilty were brought to justice and the resulting claims for compensation. As a result, Japan’s Gestapo provides comprehensive evidence of the ruthlessness of the Kempeitai against the white and Asian peoples under their control.
During World War II's battle for control of the Mediterranean, both the British and Italian navies planned to bring their battle fleets into play. At the centre of both of these fleets was a core of battleships which both sides expected to play a decisive role in the conflict. On 9 July 1940, the two navies met in the central Mediterranean, as two Italian battleships faced off against three of their British counterparts. Christened the Battle of Calabria, the action allowed the ships to play to their strengths, engaging in a long-range gunnery duel, the very thing they had been designed for. Though both sides shot well, the only hit was scored by Warspite on the Italian battleship Giulio Cesare. The Italians were forced to withdraw, and the action ended up being indecisive, but it was the largest fleet action fought in the Mediterranean during the war. As well as this battle, there were other occasions during the war when both British and Italian battleships were present and influential, but during which they never engaged each other directly – the Battle of Spartivento on 27 November 1940, and the Battle of Cape Matapan on 28–29 March 1941. Packed with full-colour artwork, carefully selected archive photographs and expert analysis, this title explores in detail the role played by British and Italian battleships in these encounters, and their influence in the Mediterranean theatre of World War II.
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