A Commonplace Book

There were at least two different ways of shooting bows for recreation or practice in fourteenth-century England. The first was shooting at...

The Kessler Syndrome is a real problem. There's a lot of hardware in orbit, most of it derelict spacecraft and rocket stages. If nothing...

This detail from Altdorfer's The Battle of Alexander at Issus seems to show camp enclosures created by rows of simple ...

How Jousts Were Structured Ca. 1340 Hatmaking Tents and Pavilions: 1380-1415 Script for a Judicial Duel No Educated Person in the Mi...

The abbey was reserved for housing the queen, noble ladies, officers of the court and princes of the blood; the house could not, without de...

At the Anglo-French negotiations at Leulinghen in 1393: To avoid the boredom of the wait, spacious pavilions had been erected in the form ...

NASA has recreated the iconic Earthrise photo from Apollo 8, using data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

A tent with turrets and crenellation is shown in Gabriel Angler's painting of Ehud killing Eglon in his tent. Interestingly, the Old ...

Squee! What I've been waiting for.

An unrelated stranger can't decide to take your money and spend it on something you don't want to. But there are entities that can...