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- Zodiackiller.com by Tom Voigt - THE Definitive Zodiac Resource
- Web Sleuths - Amazing what people learn online!
- Today's Front Pages (hundreds of local newspapers)
- The Why Files - the science behind the news
- The Paranormal Database
- The Drudge Report
- Seattle News - The Seattle Times
- Post Secret - Fascinating site where people share secrets
- Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
- Global Security.Org - Read for Yourself
- Edible Dirt - Great cartoon
- CLEWS - The Historic True Crime Blog
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A Very Partial List of Books I've read
- 1797: Nelson's Year of Destiny
- 1906
- American Caesar
- Aubrey/Maturin Series
- Blue Blood
- Fermat's Enigma : The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
- Flu : The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
- Gates of Fire : An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
- Heart of Darkness
- John Sandford's t Prey Novels
- Lonesome Dove
- Lord of the Rings
- Lost Japan
- Memoirs of a Geisha : A Novel
- Mornings on Horseback
- Patton on Leadership : Strategic Lessons for Corporate Warfare
- The Boys of '98 : Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
- The Butch Karp Series
- The Civil War by Shelby Foote
- The Harry Potter Series
- The Hobbit
- The Lion's Pride : Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War
- The Medical Detectives
- The Roads to Sata : A 2000-Mile Walk Through Japan
- The Seat of the Soul
- The Strenuous Life
- The Visitation
- You Can't Be Too Careful : Cautionary Tales for the Impetuous, the Curious and the Blithely Obvious
- Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea