Tag Archives: Smithsonian Museum of American History

Looking for the Mark III

By Mark | August 19, 2018

I rarely share them here, but I’m known to go off on wild goose chases every now and then, trying my best to track down useless historical facts and obscure items that, for whatever reason, I’ve become obsessed by. A few years back, as you may recall, I decided that I needed to know what […]

Posted in Art and Culture, History, Pop Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1973, 1976, adult films, Alan Frybach, Andrea Marie Truden, Andrea True, Art 1 and 2, computer game, disco, Don Knotts, dongs, Edith Massey, film history, Germany, Henry Ford Museum, Hot Channels, Illinois, International Hot Channels Symposium on Virtual Reality and Popular Culture, Johnny Mnemonic, Mark III, Mark's obsessions, More More More, North Washington Street, Orson Welles, Paul Williams, porn, pubic hair, R.G. Benjamin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Serial Mom, Smithsonian Institution, technology, The Hearts of Age, The Lawnmower Man, The Matrix, virtual reality, Virtuosity, VR, Welt am Draht, Woodstock, World on a Wire | 13 Comments

Now we know the names of the men whose graves we just walked on in Jamestown

By Mark | July 28, 2015

Earlier this month, the family and I loaded up the car and drove south to Savannah, Georgia, making stops along the way at a number of significant historical sites. Among other places of interest, we visited Colonial Williamsburg, the site of the Wright Brothers’ first flight, and the “lost colony” of Roanoke. My favorite stop […]

Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged archeology, astronauts, caltrops, cannibalism, chancel, colonialism, Douglas Owsley, England, English Colonies, Gabriel Archer, historic archeology, James River, Jamestown, Jamestown Rediscovery, Jamestowne, John Rolfe, King Philip III of Spain, lead, lead poisoning, Mars, Mars colonization, Pedro de Zuniga, reliquary, Robert Hunt, Sir Ferdinando Wainman, Spain, spying, Virginia, Virginia Company, We'll Make Our Kids Appreciate History If It Kills Us tour, where Pocahontas, William Kelso, William West | 8 Comments

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