It’s National Coconut Day, and according to a 2017 research paper in a journal called The Medieval Globe, that running gag in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” where the [...]
Legend has it that today in 1529, two armies in Switzerland decided that instead of having a war, they would have some soup.
Today in 1520 the beginning of what may have been the biggest, most expensive party of all time, involving two kings, 18 days and $19 million.
Protest through pigs!
There was a really interesting piece on J-STOR recently that washes away the widespread idea that the Middle Ages in Europe was just unbelievably filthy. Why is it that we think the Middle Ages WAS so dirty?
