The Great Pyramid – George’s Folly?

When guests exit the visitor’s center at Nathan Hale Homestead, they invariably ask, “What’s that big thing over there?” and “Why do you have Thomas Hooker’s bones?” The short answers are, “A memorial pyramid” and “We don’t, it only looks that way.” Wait a minute, a pyramid in Coventry, CT?
Memorial pyramids have [...]

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Cathar Country – Languedoc

The Cathars were a religious group who appeared in Europe in the eleventh century, probably filtering in from Persia, the Balkans, and Northern Italy. Catholic theologians debated for centuries whether Cathars were Christian heretics or not Christian at all, a question that has never been resolved.
Known as “Good Christians”, this sect believed in two [...]

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