Tintin in the Land of the Soviets is the first volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle as anti-communist satire for its children’s supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was serialised weekly from January […]
Novel by William Gibson Do you watch movies and a bibliophile too? The Wachowskis when they were making The Matrix, was inspired by this book. His iconic cyberpunk novel gave the word “matrix” which has now entered the geek vocabulary. The Matrix was set in a future in which […]
The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an otherwise unknown writing system, referred to as ‘Voynichese’. The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438), and stylistic analysis indicates it may have been composed in Italy during the Italian […]
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