Vedic Yoga
The yogic teachings found in the above-mentioned Rig-Veda and the other three ancient hymnodies are known as Vedic Yoga. The Sanskrit word veda means "knowledge," while the Sanskrit term rig…
Preclassical Yoga
This category covers an extensive period of approximately 2,000 years until the second century Preclassical Yoga comes in various forms and guises. The earliest manifestations were still closely associated with…
Classical Yoga
This label applies to the eightfold Yoga-also known as Rāja-Yoga-taught by Patanjali in his Yoga-Sūtra. This Sanskrit texts is composed of just under 200 aphoristic statements, which have been commented…
The Post Classical Yoga
This is again a very comprehensive category, which refers to all those many types and schools of Yoga that have sprung up in the period after Patanjali's Yoga-Sūtra and that…
In the Spirit of Tradition
By Nazim Baksh "Tradition" in academic circles has come to signify old fashioned customs, archaic cultural practices, ossified ideas handed down from the past and articulated to the letter by…
Bandwidth, Connection Speed & Download Time
"Bandwidth (the width of a band of electromagnetic frequencies) is used to mean (1) how fast data flows on a given transmission path, and (2), somewhat more technically, the width…
Edged Weapons from the Civil War
The American Civil War was not fought by highly trained, professional armies, but by a whole population forced to fight for the family values and ideals they believed in. This…
Knives as Weapons
What distinguishes the knife for eating and the knife as a weapon is the latter's aggressive character as a cutting, slashing and stabbing implement. Short edged weapons with a sharp…
Geology Of Ward Valley
By Howard Wilshire and Jane Nielson Ward Valley has a long geologic history, but many of the valleys geological facets relevant to nuclear waste dump siting are of quite recent…
Catfish Spelunking in Mexico
by Shane Linder While up in Mexico last week (Dec 2001) I managed to make a stop at a cenote just outside of Chichen Itza in Yucatan State. A cenote…
The Big Move
Jane Simmonds has watched her small city garden take off over the last four years, but now she’s off to the country. What’s it like to say goodbye? This is…
Tree Gardening Flowering Cherry
One of the most admired is the weeping Japanese which has its long, graceful weeping branches full of the tiny pink blossoms North and Central Georgia are prime growing areas…
Types of Knives
Strictly speaking, knives fall into the general collecting catchall definition of "edged weapons", along with battle axes, swords, bayonets, daggers, and so on. The most spectacular collectable knife is surely…
The Edged Weapon Factory at Toledo
by Juan José Pérez From the 15th to 17th centuries, the Castillian city of Toledo in central Spain, flourished with an exceptional blade making industry, surpassing other Spanish cities like…
Sword Care and Maintenance
Iron Swords Iron was used shortly after Mankind developed civilized, community dwellings. It followed the Bronze Age and was a vast improvement to the bronze axes from that period. Meteoric…
Society Swords – Markings & Makers
Society Swords carried by so-called secret societies or fraternal societies were popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Society and military associations became very popular after the Civil…
History of Bayonets
"All nations boast of their prowess with the bayonet, but few men really enjoy a hand-to-hand fight with the bayonet. English and French both talk much of the bayonet but…
The Samurai Warriors
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings The Samurai rose out of the continuing battles for land among…
Typology of Medieval Swords
Written by Björn Hellqvist. Illustrations by Peter Johnsson. (c) Björn Hellqvist & Peter Johnsson. Visit Björn's Sword Site for more articles on swords ~ This is an attempt to introduce…
Medieval and Renaissance Swords and Daggers Terminology
List of Medieval and Renaissance Types of Swords and Daggers. Arming Sword - after the 14th century, with the appearance of the longsword the simple, single-handed weapon became known as…