Ivy stood at the chopping block dicing celery in...  ...kering and bargaining as much as the sharing, the warts and calluses along with the smiles. She wanted to...  ...is months away. That was it. He would call it Nut Wars . He figured he could string it out for six or sev...  ...ceived as a brilliant metaphor...

Yes, the Ghostbusters were there at the Second Battle of Dantooine. Check your history reference books if you're skeptical. Link via Popped Culture | Photo: Columbus Dispatch/Jeff Hinckley...

While houses may look entirely different on the ou...  ...ap gas mask filter in place of cotton. After the war , the company started selling the material as a di...  ...ew fairly steadily, it really took off during the Civil War . At that point, the company was awarded a contrac...

On April 12th, 1861, 150 years ago today, the...  ..., 150 years ago today, the first battle of the US Civil War was fought at Ft. Sumter, in Charleston, South Ca...  ...those actions sent the nation into four years of war

The mood in Shivaree was tense. The Mothers Hall...  ...e was tense. The Mothers Hall had taken its vote. War was declared. No one knew for certain what this m...  ...nions in Shivaree were split on the wisdom of the war declaration. Muglair’s assertion of a natural r...  ...r Hutmen, but few doubted that he w...

*** Muglair Putie had been a fixture in the Hutm...  ...urported to discover that Skava was the cradle of civilization and that humanity spread to Arland only when anti...  ...Skava might emanate from Harmour in the event of war . No one had a clear idea how such an attack might...  ...oment he admired the del...

It was a wonder of nature that trees sloped t...  ...marine breezes from the west were giving way to a warm Skavian breeze blowing over the edge. He loved th...  ...soothing like caresses from many hands. The sweet warm wind from Skava was sometimes called dragon’s b...  ...eir seventeenth year to choose a for...

By now, I'm sure you've all heard that archeol...  ...Southern Spain, but there are plenty more "lost" civilizations out there just begging for discovery. While most...  ...op Tenz has a fantastic article about the top ten civilizations that mysteriously disappeared and the stories are...  ...ns (who may have be...

Buford was formed in 1866 as military outpost "F...  ...o 2000 people and the town was named Buford after Civil War general John Buford following the opening. When...

In Salon, Laura Miller writes about a novel by Yis...  ...In Yeskov's retelling, the wizard Gandalf is a war -monger intent on crushing the scientific and tech...  ...hilosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle-earth to bet on rational knowledge and...