For years, social media users have claimed that the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" got their names due to capital letters being stored in the upper case of traditional printing presses while ...

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The local chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism encourages members to study the Middle Ages, practice medieval arts ...

The vast majority of female scribes remain anonymous. Many likely worked in convents or lay workshops, their contributions ...

Just a month before his death in 1973, J. R. R. Tolkien made some major changes to the backstory of Galadriel from The Lord ...

If you have a rhotic accent, you pronounce the /r/ sound whenever the letter 'r' appears in a word, like in 'learn', 'better' and 'perfect'. North American accents are usually rhotic, and other ...

We need competition in every single department. Photo by Martin Rickett/PA Images via Getty Images Your response to my letter about playing more defensively does not add up. The games against ...

You just sat back and the pressure finally told. In an earlier letter, one Sunderland supporter stated that the Leeds fans were quiet, but looking back to the first game at your ground ...

The name alone is a catalyst for intrigue. According to a release, Milk of the Poppy originated in medieval times as a “specialty concocted beverage known for both its medicinal properties and ...

In a corner, heavy chains suspend an oversized pink glass tarot card — “The Lovers” — in what looks like a medieval torture device. Other cast glass objects — a snake and a pink apple ...

The fortress was constructed after the medieval invasion of the Tartars to protect trade routes to nearby mining towns. The site later became part of a network of forts that offered protection ...