Indiana Jones: The Antikythera, the Ark, and the Fact and Fiction Behind the Movies

Along with Harrison Ford’s iconic character’s exploits cracking whips, globetrotting, wearing a fedora and leather jacket regardless of climate, and — we cannot emphasize this enough — punching Nazis, what turned audiences into voracious fan of Indiana Jones is how the treasure hunter would pursue artifacts that belong in a museum (preferably a museum in the area whence the artifact originated). What we love about Indiana Jones is how the franchise tapped into real-world archaeological di...

US Highway 231 - Everything2.com

US Highway 231 - Everything2.com US Highway 231 was one of the original United States federal highways commissioned by the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO, now AASHTO) in November, 1926. Its original routing, as laid out in the Joint Board on Interstate Highways plan of 1925, was from Montgomery, Alabama to Marianna, Florida. The highway was given the number "231" since it was to be the second branch of US Highway 31 (US Highway 131 was already in existence in Michiga...