J. D. Adams was born in Salem, Oregon, a descendant of Oregon Trail pioneer William Lysander Adams. By day Mr. Adams is employed as an Electronics Engineering Technician, by night he maintains a web presence with a signature presentation in genres including history, travel, and technology.

j1mcm0s@earthlink.net

My passion is ...

Seeking truth and justice.

I know too much about ...

electronics engineering and photography.

My parents always told me ...

Be humble.

My childhood ambition ...

To learn the art of sailing.

My favorite memory ...

Floating on a raft on Pamelia Lake in the Jefferson Wilderness.

Why I write ...

Because I was born to.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Lost Mines and Treasures of the Pacific Northwest.

My first job ...

I tutored blind students.

My best moment ...

Meeting my future wife.

My inspiration ...

The good people in the world.

Society & Lifestyle > Mythology & Folklore Mysteries of the deep: Mythology and folklore of the sea

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Time stands still in the depths of the sea, where conditions remain relatively unchanged, and ancient forms dwell in the darkness. In these deeper waters live the giant squid, immortalized as the fearsome Kraken of Norse mythology. As noted in this Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken, mariner's tales describe ships attacked by sea monsters with tentacles over a hundred feet long, and recent incidents have corroborated the existence of squid and octopus on a massive scale. The nemesis of the giant squid, the sperm whale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whale, has been seen ...

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