A Commonplace Book

Stitch London has produced an 8-metre knit giant squid as well as a lovable smaller version and other sealife . Update: But wait, that...

There's an annual camping event that's been compared to Burning Man, except it recreates a different time, and everyone there is sup...

Although there are about 1.5 billion Muslims world-wide, Pew’s 2007 survey estimates that they only form .6% of the U.S. population. There a...

Will Wilkinson responds to the argument that "America’s distinction is that it was the first nation founded on the principle that you ...

As far as I can tell, Feisal Abdul Rauf seems to be arguing that nations with Muslim majorities would be better off and more true to Islami...

">Holy Warriors is even worse than I thought. Aside from the mangled history mentioned in the previous post, O'Neill has accept...

Carl Prydum appropriately eviscerates Newt Gingrich’s distorted history of Cordoba: If it's legitimate for Newt Gingrich to say the Gre...

The first and third pavilions from the left show a convex shape that would seem to require internal support by radial ribs. Meliadus , ca. 1...

Green sarcenet, for the " boos" (boughs) of the forest, 26 ft. lo'ng, 16 ft. broad, and 9 ft. high, 153 yds.; lining a pavilio...

A Jehan de Montfort (...) : pour quatre poullies pour le grant pavillon (...), pour cordes pour les poullies de l'espervier (...), pour ...