The World's Most Mysterious CastlesDundurn, 16.10.2005 - 304 sivua Castles are among the most mysterious buildings on earth. Their grimly silent stones are signposts to a past filled with high adventure, grim tragedies, and glorious victories. Ghosts, hauntings, and other paranormal phenomena are frequently reported from castles. Do strange paranormal powers lurk among their ancient ruins? The World's Most Mysterious Castles takes you on a journey through hidden chambers and subterranean tunnels of castles all over the world. Their walls served the sinister needs of spies, traitors, and assassins. Do the spirits of attackers and defenders who died in long-forgotten sieges still linger where they fell? Screams of unbearable pain and despair were muffled within their deepest, darkest torture dungeons. Do they echo there still? |
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... seem both ephemeral and lightweight, and yet, on occasion, the apparently facile drawings will drive home a truth the world forgets at its peril. One such cartoon, drawn many years ago, made a considerable and lasting impression. The ...
... seems to be a projection of what goes on inside the human mind. No matter how fortunate a person is, no matter how many mental and physical advantages she, or he, might have, life is a battle — and as John Bunyan would readily have ...
... seem to have been mainly cave dwellers from Spain and southern France. Their technology was ahead of that of their Neanderthal contemporaries, and they made better and more extensive use of the animals they hunted and killed. Skins ...
... seems to have enabled them to produce one of the earliest calendars about thirty-five thousand years ago. Other very early species of humanity included such groups as Homo erectus, those who were able to walk upright, and Homo habilis ...
... restricted by any previous structure, and this gave its architect, Master James of St. George, freedom to exercise his genius to the full. James seems to have been the genius behind at least 22 THE WORLD'S MOST MYSTERIOUS CASTLES.