Sunday, January 31, 2010

Amazon Blinks

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Here . John Scalzi apples the Mallet of Loving Admonishment
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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Amazon vs. Macmillan

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Amazon.com Inc. has removed all e-book titles published by Macmillan off Amazon and its Kindle e-reader site, according to a statement issue...
Friday, January 29, 2010

The Seneschal of Hainaut Performs a Deed of Arms in Valencia, 1407

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In the year 1405, in the month of May, I left, with my lord the seneschal of Hainaut, to go to see the arms that he, my lord Jacques de Mont...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

"They shouldn't put their caps on back to front."

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So says Nadine Morano, French Deputy Minister for Family Affairs , speaking of those some see as a threat to French cultural identity .

Dinosaur Ballet

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Combat between Sir John Anneslie and Thomas Katrington, squire, 1380

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On the seuenth of Iune,A comb [...] [...]twixt [...] A [...] Thoma [...] [...]tring [...]. a combat was fought afore the kings palace at Wes...
Monday, January 25, 2010

The Seneschal of Hainault and His Companions Do Arms at Smithfield, 1410

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In the x yere of King Henry the senescal of Henaud came to seke aventures yn England, and the Earl of Somerset answerid hym. The next day an...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

Favorite Day to Start a 14th Century Tournament

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Monday! Monday! Monday! At the Smithfield Tiltways! Monday! Monday! Monday! Massive oat-fueled destriers! Monday! Monday! Monday! In the s...
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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Falcon-cam

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The Invisible College: Bigger and Better

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The Invisible College was an informal intellectual enterprise of the 17th century. Robert Boyle described it in a letter to Francis Tallents...