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Chocolate Revel pictures online
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2008/10/07 - 11:30. Arts and Sciences | Atenveldt | Photo AlbumMaster Godfrey von Rheinfels has posted his photos from Chocolate Revel which took place recently in the Kingdom of Atenveldt.
Roman surgical instruments - Ouch!
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2008/10/07 - 15:14. 601 CE and Earlier | Medicine | RomanThe Claude Moore Health Service Library of the University of Virginia has a website with photos of reproductions of surgical instruments excavated from the House of the Surgeon at Pompeii. The reproductions were acquired by the University in 1947.
[AET] Fifth Known World Bardic Congress and Cooks Collegium
Submitted by Genevieve du Ve... on Tue, 2008/10/07 - 16:50. Aethelmearc | Cooking | Performing Arts2008/11/07 - 16:00
2008/11/10 - 12:00
EST
Greetings, all, from the autocrat and staff of the upcoming Fifth Known World Bardic Congress and Cooks Collegium! Below are supplemental announcements related to the event. We hope that you will forward this message far and wide, so that it will be of best service to all who may benefit.
MARK THE DATE! November 7-10, 2008 at Crestfield Camp & Conference Center, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania (15 minutes from Cooper's Lake). Updated announcements and class listings will be posted on our web page, www.cooksandbards.aethelmearc.org
Crestfield Camp & Conference Center, Slippery Rock, PA
Was the telescope invented in Spain?
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2008/10/07 - 19:55. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | Astrology and Astronomy | BBC News | SpanishAn article for the magazine History Today claims that the telescope may have been invented in Spain by a Burgundian spectacle maker named Juan Roget, rather than in the Netherlands or Italy, as previously believed.
The "New Yorker" looks at "The Florentine"
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2008/10/07 - 22:23. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | Fine Arts | ItalianIn an article for The New Yorker, Claudia Roth Pierpont looks at the life of Niccolò Machiavelli, "the man who taught rulers how to rule."
