Matthew Wills

1 week ago | daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. John Henry Wilkins, a Pullman sleeping car porter on the Kansas City Special out of Jacksonville, Florida, disappeared from the train he was working on between 4:00 and 5:00 a.m. on April 5, 1930. His body was found 17 miles from the nearest scheduled stop in Georgia on that same morning. He had multiple injuries.

2 weeks ago | daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. People in the Pacific Northwest have been putting it in their pipes and smoking it for at least 4,500 years. The “deep antiquity of smoking in the region” is “among the earliest and longest records of ancient smoking pipes anywhere in the Americas,” write William J. Damitio, Shannon Tushingham, Korey J. Brownstein, R. G. Matson, and David R. Gang.

2 weeks ago | boredpanda.com | Matthew Wills

The webcomic Swords has entered its eighth year and is currently following the adventures of Choplet, a small dungeon monster who one day decided to take on bigger challenges and explore beyond the floor he calls home. Swords began in 2018 as a one-off joke episode but quickly escalated into a long-running series all about magical swords, mysterious samurai, and sword-spitting dragons — all set in a world built on the bones of ancient demons.

2 weeks ago | aol.com | Matthew Wills

The webcomic Swords has entered its eighth year and is currently following the adventures of Choplet, a small dungeon monster who one day decided to take on bigger challenges and explore beyond the floor he calls home. Swords began in 2018 as a one-off joke episode but quickly escalated into a long-running series all about magical swords, mysterious samurai, and sword-spitting dragons — all set in a world built on the bones of ancient demons.

2 weeks ago | daily.jstor.org | Matthew Wills

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Before the fifth century of the Common Era, Romans constructed at least fifty-eight domes over temples, tombs, and public baths. The most famous of these is the nineteen-hundred-year-old Pantheon, which continues to host millions of visitors a year under what is still the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome.