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Medieval fights with 55-pound weapons and armor in a Madrid gym: "A sword strike hurts less than a boxing punch"
The competitors' equipment, made of steel and titanium, must be historically accurate. The sound of steel when a sword hits ...
A Man Went on a Hike—and Found a Mysterious Cart Buried Under Ice for Decades
A hiker in the Swiss Alps’ Splügen Pass ran across a bamboo cart dated to the 20 th century. The cart was likely protected by ...
AP PHOTOS: Death by water, burial by mud. Images of Spain's floods of the century
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Twelve days have passed since catastrophic flash floods carved a muddy scar through eastern Spain, ...
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Medievalist William Chester Jordan receives Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement
William Chester Jordan, the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, emeritus, and the director of the Program in Medieval ...
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Remains of man thrown into a well and used as a weapon in 1197 saga uncovered in Norway
More than 825 years ago, in 1197, an ancient saga tells the story of a man's body being thrown into a well by those looking ...
Richard Price’s ‘Lazarus Man’ asks what you’d do with a second chance
Richard Price plays with those resonances in his arresting if occasionally diffuse new novel, “ Lazarus Man ,” which percolates with all manner of rebirths in the wake of a building’s explosion amid a ...