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.
Beijing is a city steeped in the ancient history of China, and yet reaching toward the future at a break neck speed. One finds artifacts of Emperors and revolutionary communists coexisting with modern ...
Warsaw is a city that is truly like a phoenix rising from the ashes. All but destroyed in World War II, lanquished under fourty years of Communist misrule, Warsaw is rapidly becoming a national capita ...
Vienna has hundreds of years of imperial glory under the Hapsburg family and that is reflected in its sumptuous palaces and monuments. But is is also known as the capital of classical music, as befitt ...
Ernest Hemmingway once wrote, If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a Moveable Feast. ...
Pompeii, the tragic Roman city that was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 AD, now lives again as a prime tourist destination and the source for much of what we know of daily life ...
Nottingham is and forever will be associated with the adventures of Robin Hood and his band of merry men and their struggle against the evil Sheriff. Robin Hood seems to be a combination of several ou ...
The concept of space elevators, which would send payloads from the surface of the Earth to geostationary orbit along a ribbon of high strength carbon nanontube, is at least thirty years old. It may be ...
Stratford-upon-Avon is best known as the birthplace of the world's greatest playwright, William Shakespeare. As a consequence it is filled with artifacts of the bard's life. ...
In the 1960s cartoon series, the Jetsons, people regularly commuted to work in flying cars. It was considered increadible science fiction. But, science fiction may be on the verge of becoming reality ...
Moscow is one of the most well known, yet in a strange way, mysterious national capitals in the world. Emerging from the darkness of Soviet rule, the city is a treasure house of history dating back fr ...