A Commonplace Book
Deeds of Arms and Other Matters Medieval and Otherwise
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Alternate Timeline Meteorite Strike on Westminster Abbey Averted..
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... Dr. Who spotted in audience at Royal Wedding.
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Living in the Future: When Algorithms Run Wild
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A $23 million book about flies. That's the trouble with computer programs. Give them a simple instruction like "don't tell the ...
More Illustrations
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I've opened another Cafepress store, Commonplace Space , featuring some of my Science Fiction illustrations.
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Courts of Chivalry and Military Careers
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Here is an illuminating study of men deposed in the court of chivalry who were also recorded as serving in the campaigns of 1387-1388 in Th...
Some Events of 1414
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Henry V had been king since March 21, 1413 An on-and-off civil war between the Burgundian and Armagnac factions had been taking place, inter...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Training Lords' Sons (1457)
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John Hardyng, Chronicle , 1457 And as lordes sonnes bene sette, at four yere age, To scole to lerne the doctryne of letture, And after at se...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Flutes in Space II
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This performance doesn't have the wonderful view out the cupola . On the other hand, it does have Ian Anderson. Best tribute to the cour...
Monday, April 11, 2011
Spin the Mourners
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The mourners from the tomb of John the Fearless features high resolution 360° views of the mourners which can be viewed in stereo 3-D, as w...
Monday, April 04, 2011
Flutes in Space
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Astronaut Cady Coleman plays her flute in space, in the cupola of the International Space Station with her hair spreading in microgravity an...
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Sunday, April 03, 2011
Crivelli's Good and Bad Girls
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During the Middle Ages, Mary Magdalen was believed to have been a repentant prostitute. Crivelli's Magdalen is considerably more wanton ...
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