Mark Wollacott
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* Story Teller
* Teacher
* Philosopher
* Podcaster
* Eclectic
Novelist
Mark is the author of half a dozen novels, poetry collections, and short story collections. His top books include:
The Tombs and Tomes Podcast
Words, Wisdom and Wonderings. The wandering mind finds itself fascinated by a wide range of topics, ideas, and well, things.
The Tombs and Tomes podcast is for those who want to learn something new and interesting be it philosophy, history, archaeology, human evolution, books, movies, music, nature or just understanding who we are as humans.
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The Tombs and Tomes Podcast will be launched in late 2024.
Winter Homecoming
Winter Homecoming (Winter Bullet Book 1) Frank D. Winter has been on the road for a long time, trying to outpace his past, and put food on the plate for his kids. At home he's considered a runaway widower who abandoned his children. Now he's home and he's not the only...
What is Universally Preferable Behavior?
Growing up as an undiagnosed Aspie, I found it interesting to see how things worked. This meant systems, patterns of behavior, and so on. Eventually this got me into archaeology and then history. More recently this has morphed into philosophy, neurology, and...
Who were Saelferth, Sigeferth and the Secgans?
Saelferth and Sigeferth were two prominent members of the Secgan tribe. They are only mentioned in the Finnesburg Fragment and the poem Widsith. All we can tell for certain is that Saelferth was a king and Sigeferth a landless wrecca. On top of this, I suggest in this...
Plato’s Atlantis
Is the Richat structure Atlantis?
The Richat structure in Mauritania is the closest known match to Plato’s description of Atlantis. There is no positive evidence to directly tie the two together or of an ancient civilization in the Richat, but it is in the right place, matches the geography of Plato’s...
What did Plato say about Atlantis?
I’ve known for a long time that Plato discusses Atlantis and its fall. However, I never knew the context. After watching some videos on Atlantis theory, I decided to grab a copy of Timaeus and Critias and have a look at what Plato actually says about the city. Plato...