Raiders of the Lost Ark begins just as the Third Reich is forming. The forces of the fuhrer are searching for a long lost artifact of infinite, immense power called the Ark of the Covenant. History tells us that the Nazis were global, in Europe very much so, though this film elaborates and imagines the Axis powers establishing archeological digs in places as remote as Mongolia and Egypt.
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Meriwether Lewis became an interesting character study for me when I learned that there is strong evidence that he not only had clinical depression but that he (allegedly) committed suicide. There are, of course, historians that still hold to the murder theory. These poems emerged as a kind of dialogue with this great American explorer and statesman. They were first published in Projected Letters, an on-line poetry zine based in the UK (and it seems the publishers have closed...
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