Marginal Revolution has an interesting post and comments on what to do if you suddenly find yourself in the year 1000. Interesting points include how we would stand out for our height, how soft our hands are (the old Khmer Rouge standby) and how vulnerable we would be to the diseases of the era. [...]

Most readers of this site will know Dunwich more for HP Lovecraft’s version than for the historical city, but the News For Medievalists site points out a story in the London Times I missed about the historical city, long lost to the sea. Dunwich was once one of the most powerful cities in England, one [...]

This year seems to be slow for animal panic stories to me. We have Coyotes, Sharks and Squirrels all running close but I am disappointed by the showing from fan favorites, the bear so far. Anyhow, here are squirrels burning down someone’s home because they are evil little monsters.

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Super Villains Inc. Comic Store, originally uploaded by gleefulgecko.

This is the boy out in front of Super Villains Inc. Comic Shop in Nottingham, MD. where we celebrated Free Comic Book Day 2008. We got some [...]

This is an interesting story I missed in the Guardian, but Cronaca didn’t, about the stone circles of Gobekli Tepe which have been dated about 7,000 years earlier than Stone Henge in pre-agricultural history. Nothing that sophisticated has been found from that far back.
Compared with Stonehenge, they are humble affairs. None of the circles excavated [...]

Hark! A Vagrant is a brilliant Live Journal comic that features Kate Beaton’s take on her life and history. Her Hastings comic is fantastic, even better after being colored by a fan. Even better the author is a Canadian, so this counts as a cultural comic strip! This is one of the best history [...]

I missed this when it passed around a month or so ago. Just stumbled across it and think it is brilliant.
An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.

Once the empire fades, what is left?
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on [...]

Is it the end of Feudalism? Sark finally allows universal suffrage.

Ok, I do have some sympathy for the descendants of Admiral Byng, but not much really. They have put a petition to Parliment to ‘restore his honor’, but not pardon him. They say
It has been a long time … but if we were moved by the families of World War One, which was a long [...]