Mark R. Whittington (markwhittington) Joined: May 18, 2005 06:02:07 pm Gender: Male Location: Houston, USA Age: 49 Occupation: Writer Web Page for Mark R. Whittington
Mark R. Whittington is the author of Children of Apollo and the coauthor (with Chantal Whittington) of Nocturne, a novel of suspense. He has also published numerous articles on space exploration and other subjects.
Cairo! declared Salah in the film Raiders of the Lost Ark. City of the living! And it is indeed a city in which history lives going back fifty centuries. ...
Venice is a city that not only delights the eye and mind, but is a place that one cannot help but fall in love with, like an old lover, faded perhaps by the years, but still green in the memory. In hi ...
There are five films among many by director John Ford that are fine examples, not only of the western genre, but of portraits of life in the US Cavalry of the 19th Century. ...
Despite the immense distances and the horrific conditions involved, the exploration of the Outer Planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto has begun. ...
Space travel has been the realm of highly paid government employees for the past forty years. All of that is about to change, as the first paying customers get ready for the adventure vacation of a li ...
Florence, once center of the Italian Renaissance, is today filled with attractions to delight the mind and the eye. The city is a primary stop for any visitor to Italy with an interest in art and hist ...
The first great age of lunar exploration is one of the great epics of the 20th Century. It looks like, with any luck, there will soon be a new age of lunar exploration, with profound implications for ...
The space shuttle was supposed to answer all of America's space launch needs, commercial, military, and NASA. Despite many accomplishments, the shuttle failed to lower the cost of space travel and, wi ...
Going to the movies is something that everybody can enjoy, in the dark, among strangers, for a couple of hours or so. The greatest living artisan of the cinema has to be Steven Spielberg. ...