The internet contains many millions of web pages and each of these pages requires interesting and informative content. Although much of this content is written by the website owners, there are many sites that seek contributions from freelance writers, and are willing to pay for them.
One such site is Triond. The articles submitted [...]
Halloween is a night of fun. It’s a night of dressing up in ghoulish costumes and telling scary ghost stories. But lurking beneath the surface are a host of evil creatures intent on causing mayhem and destruction. Who are these monsters and how can we avoid them?
This article about evil creatures from folklore [...]
The menu bar for this website now includes an item for Article Indexes. Many of my articles form part of a series, and article indexes are a way of grouping these pieces together.
So far I have created indexes for my Elements of the Periodic Table and Kings and Queens of England series, but [...]
Edward the Confessor
Often in the study of history a reputation must be stripped away to reveal the real historical figure (or as much as the evidence allows). This applies to the story of Edward the Confessor more than most. Far from being the saintly old man seen in the Bayeux tapestry, Edward was [...]
The fifth entry in my Elements of the Periodic Table series is boron. Boron was first isolated in 1808 by Sir Humphey Davy, in Britain, and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis-Jacques Thenard, in France, and is the first of the semi metals.
Although pure boron is almost chemically inert, its compounds have numerous uses. These [...]
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