The first two are fun to watch, too.

An old custom is showing a revival in Iceland.  Nithing poles such as this have been popping up in Iceland more and more over the last few ...

So I saw an article about this program that the UK's Exeter University is offering, but they're really burying the lede here: The...

I went to see GWAR in Asheville. It was cartoonishly violent and profane, much akin to a heavy metal Looney Toons as influenced also by He M...

A short retelling of the story of Guthred , whose tale has similarities to that of the famous Cimmerian. Simeon wrote that a local abbot was...

This is the same location as a week ago , but now at the height of autumn.  The afternoon sun is golden at this hour this time of the year, ...

A Scottish form of Norse called "Norn"  long existed, especially in the Islands. The last native speaker died in the 19th century,...

Recently I was explaining to a college man studying history seriously for the first time the facts of the Enlightenment and the rise of what...

This recording is apparently of the Royal Regiment of Wales Band, sung on the 120th anniversary of the Battle of Rorke's Drift, in the c...

A Chi-Rho with Alpha and Omega  has been discovered on preserved flesh from a burial at the Medieval Christian site Ghazali in Africa. It’s ...

 

This was from yesterday. That’s one block from the Mellow Mushroom, so I know where they were headed. 

It's a fine Friday. We'll sing some good songs.  

A Federal judge knows some lyrics . People have heard about the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas. They have heard about Sand...

VDH has a discussion of Oliver Anthony , the artist Douglas introduced us to just before he became a sensation. After Anthony rails against ...

The State Department today issued a worldwide alert for Americans traveling abroad. It's an Orange Alert worldwide; in the Middle East ...

Grim sent me scrambling off to learn what eremetic means, and I ran into this drawing of St. Seraphim of Sarov , which just seemed appropria...

An incredible photo from the mountains above Waynesville shows snow on the autumn color . 

Two shots from the same location today.