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Space Oddity Killer Queen The Thing That Should Not Be Voodoo Child Evil Woman Riders on the Storm The Unforgiven Iron Man Black Dog Baba O'Riley War Pigs Not forgetting Whole Lotta Rosie, the giant shambling mound; perhaps a resentful, dispossessed Rose Garden

What @Paul Farquhar said.

Too bad they cancelled that show. I thought it showed real potential.

Coin weights in early editions were bonkers. An 18th Century 5 kopeks coin is 1.6oz, and it's copper. So 1cp in AD&D or B/X is this big compared to a modern US quarter:

According to the Paston Letters, the cost of a room in an inn in c.15th was around 8 pence. That's about 9g of pure silver. In D&D, there are 50 coins to a pound, which means a silver coin weighs about 9g. So, 1sp.

My attempt at levity failed miserably. My point was wouldn't it be funny if our heroes' swords routinely broke in combat. I probably shouldn't have included two swords which actually did break.

Stormbringer: Excalibur: Andúril:

The glamour of the 60s/70s era is very well done, with scenes like the astronauts racing their corvettes to the bar. Almost had a kind of Mad Men in Space vibe in places.

I loved S1, and, like you, enjoyed each successive season less than the previous. Still worth watching, though. S5 promises a , so might be pretty cool.

Mary Wollstonecraft was definitely a deist, or a rational theist - she often framed her feminist arguments in religious language. Although she despised the clergy and superstition. Mill called himself a “non-believer” but was not militantly atheist. In Three Essays on Religion, he allows that...

I'd actually go further - at least in Europe. Even in the Renaissance, the idea of a supernatural reality prevailed overwhelmingly. We didn't get whispers of Deism until the 1560s (Pierre Viret). Bruno and Spinoza (although accused of atheism) were pantheists. Deism began to gain traction as a...