I’d Love if this Set of Tennis Facts Matched Your Expectations

The game of tennis originated in the Middle Ages. It was played indoors with the ball being hit with the flat of the hand. Historians agree that the game was as loud as it is today but with a lot less racket… A score of zero in tennis is designated by the word “love”. The […]

Excerpt From Book, One

The Middle Ages were a great time to be alive if you consider what the only other option was. Civilization was taking the great teachings of the Classical era and doing its level best to forget all about them. Certainly, there were advances in agriculture as well as great strides in the fields of running […]

The Middle Ages and What We Can Do About Them

The Middle Ages is often referred to as “The Dark Ages” because the lack of documentation from the period makes what happened to them seem fuzzy and incomplete, much like middle ages for the rest of us… Historians tend to set the beginning of the Dark Ages as coinciding with the fall of the Roman […]

Alboin, King of the Lombards

This one is going into my permanent area but I happen to have a handy link… right… here: Alboin, King of the Lombards