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...faith to describe the most important thing that drives their devotion, and they'll tell you it's not a thing at all but a sense--a feeling of a higher power far beyond us. Western religions can get a bit more doctrinaire: God has handed us laws and lore, and it's for us to learn and practice what they teach. For a hell-raising species like ours, however--with too much intelligence for our own good and too little discipline to know what to do with it--there have always been other, more utilitarian reasons to get religion...
...Like its predecessor, The Megalithic European is an immensely practical - as long as it's not in your rucksack - gazetteer of more than 300 sites stretching from northern Denmark to Malta, from Crete to Portugal. Entries are sprinkled with 800 photographs, copious illustrations and maps, along with local lore and diary entries from his visits. The book opens with a series of essays in which Cope sifts through his fascinations with the culture and religions of the Ancients, in search of "our universal drive to ... start building these monuments to whatever god people believed...
...inspirational speeches” (which involved little more than the word “fuck” repeated in varying heavy Glaswegian intonations) by players making fun of him for being on the dole. The team even had its groupies, but unlike the gorgeous blonde cheerleaders of American lore, this was a hodgepodge assembly of four or five socially dysfunctional girls who, unless one had knocked quite a few back, slightly resembled our linemen...
...does it feel to be part of American TV lore...
Despite the man-eating lore and the big headlines that follow attacks by tigers or lions that are kept as pets or performers, wild cats are generally able to live in close proximity to humans without disturbing them. Leopards are seen in the suburbs of Nairobi and Kampala. Mountain lions in Waterton, Alta., have been observed using the angles of buildings and even the beds of pickup trucks to conceal themselves when hunting. In the San Diego area, these animals tend to hang out within 100 yds. of trails used by hikers, though they are rarely noticed, according...