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• Wow! I didn’t know that….Now, what do I do?

  
  Funny Emails — Authority: 145
  Anything Golf Very FunnyQ: Why are many coin banks shaped like pigs?A: Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of a dense orange clay called “pygg”.  When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became known as “pygg banks.” When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a ...
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• History Books of the Year

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  Dominic Sandbrook gallops through the best of the years history books, ranging from the splendour of Byzantium, through the Middle ages, right up to modern Britain, and from some of our most popular historians, including Anthony Beevor, David Kynaston and Jenny Uglow.
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• 4000+

  
  Muhlberger's Early History — Authority: 129
  Now that Im back from a family trip to Oklahoma, Ive managed to push chapter 2 of Men at Arms up past the 4000 word mark. Wish me luck for tomorrow...
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• Online Business - A Really Wise Choice!

  
  Free Internet Marketing Information — Authority: 161
  During the lifetime you want to set up your own business but all the attempts you have done are not easy for you and they are failed in addition. You do not have to be tired because today the World Wide Web has got lots of functions you are able to use. For instance online business! It is a nice kind of business; it ...
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• William the Conqueror vs. King Malcolm III Canmore of Scotland

  
  Steven Till — Authority: 121
  After securing his hold over majority of England, William the Conqueror invaded Scotland in 1072. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: This year King William led a naval force and a land force to Scotland, and beset that land on the sea-side with ships, whilst he led his land-force in at the Tweed; but he found ...
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• Blogging the Middle Ages: A Brief and Personal History of In the Middle

  
  In the Middle — Authority: 422
  by  J J Cohen [An installation in a noncomprehensive series on the history of medieval-focused blogs. I invite you to leave your ruminations on this history in the comments, especially if you experienced ITMs development differently. I also invite my co-blogges to leave their own accounts, or add to my own.] ...
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• Human attitude towards Nature throughout History – interesting overview

  
  1000petals... — Authority: 120
  The earliest phase was characterized by a conception of the universe as extremely small and of the Earth as the only inhabited planet. The world, however, possessed, besides our physical plane, a number of other planes, also material but with a materiality of a different nature and possessing different properties ...
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• Sharon Kay Penman: When Christ and His Saints Slept

  
  themacinator — Authority: 115
  Im not sure what keeps drawing me to these long, long and longer books, but I should have known, right? I mean just looking at the cover of "When Christ and His Saints Slept" should have told me this was a saga. And sagas are long: physically and in the way they twist and turn and confuse the reader. I dont know ...
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• Writing Proves Shroud of Turin a Jesus Relic

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 671
  Faint writing on the famous linen proves it cant be of medieval origin, claims a researcher.
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• Medieval History Term of the Week: Arbalest

  
  Steven Till — Authority: 121
  Arbalest [ahr-buh-list] Etymology: Middle English arblast, from Anglo-French arblaste, arcbaleste, from Late Latin arcuballista, from Latin arcus bow + ballista — more at arrow 1) A crossbow with a steel box stave. (Wise, Terence. Medieval Warfare , 246) The arbalest was similar to the crossbow, but it was much ...
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• Great mosque of Córdoba | Spain

  
  SkyscraperCity — Authority: 177
  One of the most important mosques in the world, was built by the umayad dinasty since the 8th century and was expanded several times, last in the year 990. In the 16th century a part of the mosque was reformed to host the cathedral.
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• Featured Medieval Historical Fiction Novel

  
  Steven Till — Authority: 121
  Mercenaries: The Conquest Trilogy, Book I by Jack Ludlow Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Allison & Busby (October 12, 2009) ISBN-10: 0749007850 Product Description: Six brothers, trained since birth to become great warriors, prepare to experience their first taste of battle. 1033, along the Norman/French ...
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• Winemaker Pedro Hipólito ~ Adega Coop de Redondo ~ Redondo: Alentejo, Portugal

  
  Wine Blog — Authority: 127
  Another day in the life with Enoforum Wines as my host… Winemaker Pedro Hipólito of Adega Coop de Redondo (established in 1956) is based in the town of Redondo, in Portugal’s Alentejo district.  This is a municipality of the Évora District, in Portugal. As I’ve written earlier this ...
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• Blogging the Middle Ages: Medievalists.net

  
  In the Middle — Authority: 422
  by Peter Konieczny and Sandra Alvarez From our ongoing series, a history of electronic medieval studies . Perhaps its best to begin by saying that Medievalists.net is not a blog, or least not a blog like the others on this list. Parts of our site are like a blog, such as the Medieval News section, but it might ...
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• Slogging forward

  
  Muhlberger's Early History — Authority: 129
  Despite the international plot to keep me away from Men at Arm s, I am up to 3000 words on Chapter 2. Of course, family business now takes me away from the book, but its the kind of thing that cant be helped.
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• Hopelessness

  
  Blogonoscopy — Authority: 115
  Have you ever wondered what it looks like when a real estate agent gets fired? Well, wonder no more: Its not pretty, is it? First, their sign--their standard --gets publicly ripped out and discarded, its dangling "Home Warranty" and "Sale Pending" and "Million Dollar Seller" extensions lost or ...
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• The Invention of Heterosexual Culture

  
  BELOW THE BELT — Authority: 462
  Historicizing Heterosexuality Until recently, Le Petit Robert (the French equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary) defined “heterosexuals” as people who experience a normal sexual appetite for individuals of the opposite sex. This perspective is still widespread in modern social discourse, which assumes ...
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• Textbooks

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 146
  (A note for my SWBTS students:)  You have been asking what textbooks I will be using next semester. Hopefully, this advance notice will allow you to shop for the best prices. You will find below a list of the textbooks for the three sections I am teaching. CHURCH AND EMPIRES (sections 1203a and 1203b) A Short ...
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• Your Xmas Wish List Pt. 1

  
  Dane's Blog — Authority: 123
  Why not get a jump on the holiday season this year by figuring out exactly what you want. Its a time for giving right? The least you could do is know what you want. In this ongoing seasonal segment you’ll be introduced to hot items. Boots? CHECK. Bags? CHECK. Bazooka’s? MOTHER FUCKING CHECK. YOUR XMAS WISH LIST ...
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• Prior to treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation, how were cancer patients treated?

  
  The Word Is Hope — Authority: 142
  This got me thinking. After hearing a rather gross story from the Middle Ages that dealt with a nun treating a cancerous tumor, how were cancer patients treated prior to the advent of chemotherapy and radiation?And here’s an additional question: why does chemotherapy cause hair loss and nausea in patients?
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