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The idea of a hollow Earth is a common element of fiction, appearing as early as Ludvig Holberg's 1741 novel Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum («Niels Klim's Underground Travels»), in which Nicolai Klim falls through a cave while spelunking and spends several years living on a smaller globe both within and the inside of the outer shell.
Twelve Tribes. The Twelve Tribes, formerly known as the Vine Christian Community Church, [5] the Northeast Kingdom Community Church, [6] the Messianic Communities, [6] and the Community Apostolic Order, [7] is a new religious movement [7] : 155 founded by Gene Spriggs that sprang out of the Jesus movement in 1972 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. [2 ...
In his book The Great Good Place (1989), Ray Oldenburg argues that third places are important for civil society, democracy, civic engagement and establishing feelings of a sense of place. Before Oldenburg died at 90-years-old in 2022, he asked Karen Christensen , with whom he had corresponded and collaborated for many years, to write a new ...
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
K. A. Applegate's 2001–2003 book series, Remnants, details the end of the world by asteroid collision. The first book, The Mayflower Project (2001), describes Earth in a sort of hysteria as 80 people are chosen by NASA to board a spacecraft that will go to an unknown destination away from the destroyed Earth. The later books deal with the few ...
Pictured are the Giza Pyramids. A cradle of civilization is a location and a culture where civilization was developed independent of other civilizations in other locations. The formation of urban settlements (cities) is the primary characteristic of a society that can be characterized as "civilized". Other characteristics of civilization ...
Living: 1819 life, includes a law office, print shop, land surveyor's office, post office, cabinetmaker's shop and residence Landmark Park: Dothan: Alabama: Living: 1890s living history farm and village Pioneer Living History Village: Phoenix: Arizona: Living: Late 19th-century town Sharlot Hall Museum: Prescott: Arizona: Open-air
The term "megacity" entered common use in the late 19th or early 20th centuries; one of the earliest documented uses of the term was by the University of Texas in 1904. Initially the United Nations used the term to describe cities of 8 million or more inhabitants, but now uses the threshold of 10 million. [13]