https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh Interesting Stuff from the Ancient Mediterranean World en-us 2022-01-21 14:59:27 UTC 2026-01-01 11:52:16 UTC hello@padlet.com jandersonius https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005230121 Circe visits here during the book. Sometime in the second milenium BCE.]]> 2022-01-21 15:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005230121 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005233134 This is the town that The Sound of Music takes place in. ]]> 2022-01-21 15:26:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005233134 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005233902 Camelot?

Camelot is a mythical location. If I remember correctly, A Connecticut Yankee doesn't name any real locations outside of the US. A Google search suggests that, if it were real, it probably would have been near Leeds.]]> 2022-01-21 15:27:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005233902 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005234206 HBO The Pacific: One of the first major amphibious landings by the Marine Corps against the numerous islands that Imperial Japan controls in the Pacific.]]> 2022-01-21 15:27:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005234206 maxledesma1 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005234293 Setting for The Crucible, site of the Salem Witch Trials. ]]> 2022-01-21 15:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005234293 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005234871 In the story, Beowulf comes from Geatland in southern Sweden.]]> 2022-01-21 15:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005234871 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005235360 This region is around the location of where the movie "Alpha" is supposed to take place. The ancient society is called Solutrean, which  lived in Europe. ]]> 2022-01-21 15:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005235360 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005236610 Thebes Greece was one of the most prominent Greek cities. It was home to oedipus and his throne. ]]> 2022-01-21 15:28:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005236610 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005236620 The Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms mostly taking place in the modern day Henan province of China.]]> 2022-01-21 15:28:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005236620 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005236910 This is considered a "place of power" in American gods. According to the book, people are drawn to these places naturally and build things like strange roadside attractions there, explaining why there are so many around the U.S.]]> 2022-01-21 15:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005236910 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005237664 This was the home of the last Czars before the revolution ]]> 2022-01-21 15:28:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005237664 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005238848 Velvet was the Night is set primarily in Mexico City, Mexico]]> 2022-01-21 15:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005238848 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005239188 Home of Nicholas II and his family until they are moved to a remote village by the Bolsheviks.]]> 2022-01-21 15:29:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005239188 glendaluu https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005239795 Perseus and his family watch as soldiers from the city of Argos destroy the statue of Zeus, declaring war on the gods. King Acrisius of Argos wants a son but only has one beautiful daughter Princess Danae. The setting is mid-14th to early 13th century BCE 

]]> 2022-01-21 15:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005239795 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005239910 This is the approximate location of the La Renaissance cafe in Paris, where one of the main characters in Inglourius Basterds plots to assassinate Hitler.]]> 2022-01-21 15:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005239910 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005239985 In Calliope (Issue #17 of the Sandman), the author Erasmus Fry describes how Calliope was the muse of Homer, and finds her residing at Mount Helicon.]]> 2022-01-21 15:30:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005239985 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005240436 The hometown of the protagonist of Kingdom Come: Deliverance.  It was destroyed in April of 1403 when King Sigismund of Hungary invaded to take the throne of the Holy Roman Empire from his half-brother, Wenceslaus IV.

]]> 2022-01-21 15:30:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005240436 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005240558 One of the most important battles of the show Vikings was their siege of Paris.]]> 2022-01-21 15:30:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005240558 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005241511 A major setting in the Assassin's Creed Odyssey video game. The main character, Alexios, a mercenary, is in charge of finding out what happened to his parents as well as taking out the cult in the game. Set during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. ]]> 2022-01-21 15:30:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005241511 joeybassett2000 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005242644 Maximus Decimus Meridius dominated the Gladiator pits of Rome to earn back his respect and have a chance to avenge the murder of emperor Commodus.]]> 2022-01-21 15:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005242644 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005248540 2022-01-21 15:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005248540 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005249296 This is the modern location of Damascus.]]> 2022-01-21 15:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005249296 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005250129 2022-01-21 15:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005250129 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005250462 2022-01-21 15:35:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005250462 glendaluu https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005250608 2022-01-21 15:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005250608 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005252052 2022-01-21 15:35:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005252052 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005252615 2022-01-21 15:36:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005252615 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005255550 Present day location of the ancient city of Ur

]]> 2022-01-21 15:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005255550 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005256760 2022-01-21 15:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005256760 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005257442 2022-01-21 15:38:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005257442 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005257494 Group 4

]]> 2022-01-21 15:38:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005257494 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005260753 "The ancient historian Thucydides described Pylos as a deserted headland in 425 BCE, when Athens defeated Sparta there in a land and naval battle during the Peloponnesian War."(Encyclopedia Britannica)]]> 2022-01-21 15:40:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005260753 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005265019 HBO The Pacific: One of the final and major battles of the Pacific]]> 2022-01-21 15:41:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005265019 https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005275888 River that Anicent Egyptians, as well as modern Egyptians, use as the basis for civilization. River was, and is, used for irrigation, fishing, and farming.]]> 2022-01-21 15:47:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jandersonius/6xs1l389tdrmqhsh/wish/2005275888