https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fall_of_Moondust
A Fall of Moondust is a hard science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1961. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel, and was the first science fiction novel selected to become a Reader's Digest Condensed Book. Plot Sinus Roris, where the Sea of Thirst is located in the novel.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/books/review/madhouse-at-the-end-of-the-earth-julian-sancton.html
On Aug. 16, 1897, the Belgica — a refitted whaling ship under the command of Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery — set sail from Antwerp in an attempt to explore Antarctica. She would limp back to

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149059.A_Fall_of_Moondust
Arthur C. Clarke continues to Just Deliver. A Fall of Moondust is a short 1961 novel about a tourist boat, Selene, travelling across a vast lake of dust on the surface of the moon; after an unexpected geological event, Selene sinks far beneath the surface and mankind has to figure out how to save her passengers and crew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Noble_Truths
The truth of the path (the fourth truth) is traditionally presented according to a progressive formula of five paths, rather than as the eightfold path presented in Theravada. According to Tsering, the study of the four truths is combined with the study of the sixteen characteristics of the four noble truths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination_Truth
Destination Truth is an American paranormal reality television series that premiered on June 6, 2007, on Syfy.Produced by Mandt Bros. Productions and Ping Pong Productions, the program follows paranormal researcher Josh Gates around the world to investigate claims of the supernatural, mainly in the field of cryptozoology.The third season concluded on April 21, 2010, and holds the highest

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truth/
Truth is one of the central subjects in philosophy. It is also one of the largest. Truth has been a topic of discussion in its own right for thousands of years. Moreover, a huge variety of issues in philosophy relate to truth, either by relying on theses about truth, or implying theses about truth. It would be impossible to survey all there is

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsq4d
The contributors to Monster Theory consider beasts, demons, freaks and fiends as symbolic expressions of cultural unease that pervade a society and shape its co

https://theconversation.com/black-death-how-we-solved-the-centuries-old-mystery-of-its-origins-185423
Dubbed the "Great Polytomy" or "Big Bang", the researchers found that this event created the strain (on Branch 1), associated with the Black Death. The research, which was based on

https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/TMR/article/view/5439
The Final Judgement in "Monster Culture". "In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.". —Ralph Waldo Emerson.

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2021-11-04/ty-article/archaeologists-find-lost-capital-of-the-mongols-and-it-was-big/0000017f-dc19-d3a5-af7f-febfa4ef0000
Karakorum was not the only Mongol city but, Bemmann explains, it was the first and most important one, and it was built by the Mongols' captives using "captured" materials. Everything the warriors could extract from the territories they did, from talent to goods, and brought back to Karakorum. "All the booty and embassies too had to go

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/idea-moral-universe-inherently-bends-towards-justice-inspiring-it-s-ncna859661
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." Like a number of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s most famous pronouncements, that proclamation was, itself, a quotation.

https://theconversation.com/has-the-modern-world-discovered-the-ancient-truths-of-buddhism-or-simply-invented-a-new-version-191132
Statue of the Buddha, Thimpu, Bhutan. Loetscher Chlaus / Alamy. A look at whether modern Buddhists adhere to the faith's original religious principles or simply guilty of a cherrypicking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(philosophy)
The term monad (from Ancient Greek μονάς (monas) 'unity', and μόνος (monos) 'alone') is used in some cosmic philosophy and cosmogony to refer to a most basic or original substance. As originally conceived by the Pythagoreans, the Monad is the Supreme Being, divinity or the totality of all things. According to some philosophers of the early modern period, most notably Gottfried

https://academic.oup.com/monist
Volume 106, Issue 1. Faith, hope and trust are attitudes of critical importance, enabling people to flourish in relationships, see good in the world and in others, and pursue long-term commitments. This special issue makes progress on our understanding of these attitudes by exploring the relationships between them.

https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/articles/2023/3/jester
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985 (1986.1180.30) Because the fool crossed class lines, he was considered both a danger and temptation to aristocratic women. Here, within a courtly context, he lurks behind a (phallic) column, ogling a young woman, whose response to his advances is difficult to read.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-myth-of-the-dark-ages-ignores-how-classical-traditions-flourished-around-the-world-180982190/
"Even if it should come from far‐flung nations and foreign peoples, there is for the student of truth nothing more important than the truth." A 13th-century illustration of scholars at an

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo113684735.html
"The Dream of Absolutism is a probing, innovative, scintillating, and daring anthropology of seventeenth-century French political aesthetics. It advocates for a specific way of reading texts, images, and archives in order to apprehend what monarchy, representation, and politics might have meant when understood on their own terms, stripped of all the ideological freight laid upon these

https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/destination-truth
Synopsis. Destination Truth is a weekly American paranormal reality television series that premiered on June 6, 2007, on Syfy. Produced by Mandt Bros. Productions and Ping Pong Productions, the program follows paranormal researcher Josh Gates around the world to investigate claims of the supernatural, mainly in the field of cryptozoology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreality_of_Time
"The Unreality of Time" is the best-known philosophical work of University of Cambridge idealist J. M. E. McTaggart (1866-1925). In the argument, first published as a journal article in Mind in 1908, McTaggart argues that time is unreal because our descriptions of time are either contradictory, circular, or insufficient. A slightly different version of the argument appeared in 1927 as one of

https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/the-world-as-an-illusion-8-mind-blowing-theories-2d72b1eabbb8
8. How real is the reality as we know it? The world as an illusion — a philosopher's point of view…. Plato's Allegory of the Cave: One of the most influential philosophers of all time

https://medium.com/approximations/bending-the-arc-of-history-mlk-human-choices-and-the-dilemma-of-progress-3d978d135246
"The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice." The quote from Martin Luther King, Jr. is catchy and often cited. It

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Truth
The Sword of Truth is a series of 21 sword and sorcery novels and six novellas written by Terry Goodkind. The books follow the protagonists Richard Cypher, Kahlan Amnell, Nicci, Cara, and Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander on their quest to defeat oppressors who seek to control the world and those who wish to unleash evil upon the world of the living

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/Hypostas-Barnstone.html
The rulers took Adam and put him in the garden, that he might cultivate it and keep watch over it. They issued a command to him, saying, "From every tree in the garden shall you eat, but from the tree of knowledge of good and evil don't eat, nor touch it. For the day you eat from it you will surely die.".