Just what it says on the tin. Based on the real Wicker Man movie, not the Nick Cage one. Very well done. Read in the full size.

First is about how the cruise industry really hasn’t changed much in the last hundred years. Second is about Boy Scouts doing the awesome, clearing a woman’s home of vultures.

The actual site of the Battle of Bosworth has been found about a mile from the traditional site. Found on the field were cannon balls, arrows and armor as well as a boar pin thought to be carried by someone close to Richard III, who died on the field.

February 17th: Today in 1621 Myles Standish is appointed the the first commander of the Plymouth colony. He was a soldier hired by the colonists and arrived with them on the Mayflower. He led the early defenses of the colony and later founded the town of Duxbury.

Bird Feeder-8 Originally uploaded by Tancread A cardinal waits while her mate feeds at our bird feeder during Washington DC’s Snowmaggedon 2010.

The Battery Originally uploaded by Tancread Went walking at Antietam Battlefield this morning. This was my favorite of the photos I took.

Never bring a grasshopper gun to a siege gun’s job.

A remarkable database of English soldiers has been made available online for research into medieval soldiers. The records are the compiled information on soldiers who served between 1369 and 1453, which includes the Battle of Agincourt. A more recent collection of US Military records is available at the Ancestry web site.

The second book of Lars Brown’s North World has just come out and it is very good. I have been reading this strip on the web since just after it started. On the web I felt the current story line dragged a bit, though it has picked up solidly as the story wrapped up, in [...]