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Linkfest 2022-05-20: The La Sierra System

Art of Manliness: The Insanely difficult standards of history’s hardest PE program A fascinating read on the La Sierra System, an ultra-competitive PE program that produced the kind of fitness you find in elite operators. I don’t think you could just duplicate this everywhere and get the same

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Slavic Marches

I’ve always enjoyed maps. A good map can convey information in an incredibly concise way. And they are of course useful for navigation. However, you do need to be careful. As an example, I saw this map that purported to show the political divisions of Europe circa 1000 A.

Three Hearts and Three Lions on Sale

Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts and Three Lions is on sale on Amazon for $1.99 USD. This is a seminal work of American fantasy, and I can’t recommend it enough.

D&D Clerics: Misunderstood and Improperly Played

In the course of researching wilderness mapping and exploration in AD&D, I stumbled on the very interesting blog Nagora’s Corner, and the even more interesting post AD&D Clerics - Where Did It All Go Wrong? This is a subject I looked at in some detail

Linkfest 2022-02-18: Ruining of Mountains

The Roman mining technique Ruina Montium is an impressive bit of applied engineering. Kirk Dunston: Why Sexual Morality May Be More Important Than You Thought An application of J. D. Unwin’s Sex and Culture to the West, 40 years after the sexual revolution. Unwin’s book was published in

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