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It really boils me when people doing these Greek myth movies are using the wrong attires (800 years off target!). The new pic released from Chris Nolan's #Odyssey ( variety.com/2025/film/news/the ) shows an attire from the Classical period, and not from the #Mycenaean times. Here's how they really looked at the time instead.

Also, please stop showing Greek landscapes completely bare in #movies. We have trees. Especially on the mainland.

Get ready to sail back in time! ⛵️ Dive into the fascinating world of the ancient Mediterranean, where the Greeks 🇬🇷 and Phoenicians 🇱🇧 were the ultimate power players! 💥

Listen to the newest AI-generated podcast episode:
🎙️ t.uzh.ch/1Nv 🎙️
🎙️ creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ 🎙️

These seafaring civilizations dominated trade, built incredible structures, and shaped history! 🏛️ But it wasn't all smooth sailing... 😉 Intense rivalry brewed beneath the surface, leading to some juicy stereotypes. 🤫 Think cunning traders and maybe even a little kidnapping! 😲 (Remember Eumaios from the Odyssey? 👀). Explore the complex relationship between these ancient giants - a story of admiration, envy, and fierce competition for control of the seas! 🌊

Interestingly, our artificial hosts deviated from the main topic to an interesting discussion about "cultural literacy".
#AncientHistory #DigitalHumanities #AI #Phoenicians #TradeWars #Mythology #HistoryBuff #Odyssey #AncientCivilizations #Lebanon #greece #CulturalLiteracy

As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House next week with Elon Musk at his side, the pair are planning to write the next chapter in US spaceflight history with an ambitious agenda that includes the first human footprints on Mars.How...CHECK THE FULL ARTICLE BELOW👇
#Featured #gallery #lead #NASA #Odyssey #rocket #Science #ships #Space #Trumps

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#PennedPossibilities How did you come up with the title for your WIP?

I wanted to write an #Odyssey of a cargo space ship with a captain who didn't want to be a captain. The story would of course be called like the ship. So, this ship needed a name.

I didn't want to have a straightforward #ScienceFiction universe like we see it so often: clean, streamlined, functional. Because humantity isn't like that, history isn't like that. There are always fallbacks into earlier eras, idiosyncracies, counterintuitive, illogical bits. It is complex, not simple.

So, the ship would need a name that reflects that. And since it is part of a fleet it needed a name that fit into a naming convention for the rest of the fleet. The most obvious choice is to name a ship after a bird. I looked around and found the herald petrels which are part of the gadfly petrels, so there are a lot of other petrels for the sister ships.

Also, the name sounds somehow strong and a bit scary because of the "Herald", at the same time it echoes the name of its captain Harold Galahad.

The Herald Petrel was born.

The book: books2read.com/b/HeraldPetrel
The bird: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herald_p

books2read.comAvailable now at your favorite digital store!Herald Petrel by Strange Seawolf