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Culture and History

quotes

  • BilLee's Fabulous Quotes Page
    -- quotes from a range of people. click on the names for individual pages of quotes! :)
  • Mary Van Sell's Quotation Collection
    -- ranging from the past to contemporary.

    interesting reads

  • Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts
    --folklore from around the world!
  • Lost Illusion - Beauty and the Beast
    --site dedicated to beauty and the beast, with choice tales in the foundations/folklore section

  • Bulfinch's Mythology
    -- volumes I through III online.
  • Legends
    --european legends. more of a detailed index to sites than anything else
  • The Robin Hood Project
    --putting the original texts of robin hood online.

  • The Pantheon
    -- Greek Mythology online. very complete
  • The Olympians
    --brief overviews

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Texts
    selections from his many writings
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson - American Author, Poet and Philosopher
    --brief background and myriad links to useful resources
  • The Talk.Origins Archive
    --pro-evolutionism site. some interesting reads, though all using negative discourse.
  • The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
    -- complete text of the work online!

    urban legends

  • The AFU and Urban Legends Archive
    -- archive of urban legends since 1991
  • Urban Legends @ about.com
    -- nice resource of urban legends here, all categorized :)
  • Andrew Warinner's pages on great urban legends.