Come practice for Estrella War in the Shire of Granholme on January 16, 2011. The war practice will be happening at Dave White Regional Park, 2121 North Thornton Road, Casa Grande Arizona 85293, Ramada D (that is the big one). 

Prove your prowess with the deadliest of tools: The bow, the sword and...the  serving spoon!  Join the Barony of Darkwood for our Winter Archery Tourney and participate in the Canton of Hawks Haven's period appetizer cook-off and live-steel bottle-cutting contest! 

It is a heartbreaking day for the populace of Ponte Alto as we gather together to wish a fond farewell to Baron James de Biblesworth and Baroness Katharine Devereaux. Our monumental sorrow is tempered with a great joy, as Their Majesties will invest Lord Drogo Rainulf de Dragonera and Lady Adina von der Heide to oversee Their lands in Ponte Alto!

The Canton of Caldrithig Presents The Barony of Skraeling Althing Twelfth Night Puppets & Pies January 8, 2011

At the recent Kris Kinder event in the Kingdom of Calontir, Their Majesties Ashir and Maerwynn invited three of Their subjects to consider elevation to peerages.

Their Excellencies Girard and Guenievre and the Barony of Windmasters' Hill invite you to join us the weekend of February 18-20, 2011 for Ymir XXXVI at the Betsy Jeff Penn 4H Center in Reidsville, NC. 

Rowany Festival 2011 will commence with Opening Court on Thursday the 21st of April with Closing Court on the evening of Monday the 25th of April, clearing site on Tuesday the 26th. Again to be held at the lush and green Glenworth Valley in Peats Ridge, NSW. This, the biggest event of the Kingdom’s calendar, will bring you the best our kingdom has to offer.

Greetings Good Gentles, Please join us on January 8, 2011 to celebrate Twelfth Night with the Barony of the Steppes

Come celebrate Twelfth Night the old way! games! music! dance! theatre! contests! Stretch your mind at the classes and your purse strings at the merchants and raffle. Revel with Royalty. Lavish gifts on friends and family.

Driven from his home, Morgan of Osprey sought solace in the new Kingdom of Gleann Abhann and rose to become Baron of Seleone. Now his brother Lex; Baron of Osprey, jealous of Morgan's success and wealth, seeks to add the Golden Shores of Seleone to his own holdings.

It is the year 1313. After the destruction of the Knights Templar by Phillip IV, rumors abound about a hidden treasure, waiting to be found. Join the Barony of Small Gray Bear for a day of revelry, adventure, and mystery! Just remember:  X never, EVER marks the spot!

On December 1, 2010, the bones of an 1,100-year-old pagan were interred at the Viking World museum in Reykjanesbaer, Iceland. The remains, first discovered in 1868, are part of an exhibit on ancient pagan burials.

The announcement that the upcoming wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton comes as mana from heaven for officials responsible for the upkeep of Westminter Abbey, the site of the spring nuptials.

In the 12th century, crusaders were known to have stopped at the Byzantine city of Blismos along the old Roman road in modern Bulgaria. Now archaeologists believe they have found the city near the village of Zlatna Livada.

"We’ll come to Xavier if you teach us Latin." said the granddaughters of Justin Kramer, who is teaches the language at one of only two schools in the state of Iowa."

This Christmas, locals and visitors to Aberystwyth, Wales will be treated to a display of 4th century Roman artifacts at the Ceredigion Museum. The pieces were most likely owned by a wealthy landowner.

A "fragment of paper with brown scrawls" discovered recently in a public library in the French city of Nantes was not just trash. It was a coded document written by Leonardo da Vinci. (photo)

Violinist Andre Rieu wows a stadium full of spectators with a beautiful Celtic rendition of the hymn Amazing Grace, complete with a band of pipers and a lone pennywhistle. The video is available on YouTube.

In 1086, William the Conqueror undertook the daunting task of cataloging his estates and possesions in England. The results are known as the Domesday Book. Now author John McDonald is using modern economic analysis to evaluate the productivity of the Wiltshire estates.

Fishermen in Indonesia have found a shipwreck that probably dates to the 14th century. The wooden ship contains green and gray ceramics similar to what Chinese merchants traded at the time.

Two important Tudor tombs will benefit from technology developed for space science research in a new project led by experts from the University of Leicester.

The Medieval Gunpowder Research Group has posted a series of studies relating to use of gunpowder in the Middle Ages. The reports were produced by Middelaldercentret, Nykøbing Falster, Denmark.

Sixty pieces of alabaster sculpture from the Victoria & Albert Museum are going on display at the Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida (USA). The pieces date to the 14th and 15th century, and many still have original paint.

Giles de Roet reports that Their Majesties of the Kingdom of Lochac have chosen to elevate Don Tariq ibn Jelal to the Order of the Laurel for his years of research and application of period fencing.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has returned a 14th century silk and metal embroidery to the Diocesan Museum of Trent, Italy. The stunning embroidery, entitled "The Entombment of Saint Vigilius," was commissioned by George of Liechtenstein in 1390.

Michelanglo's statue of Marcus Aurelius, sculpted in the 1530s, features a horse with "a strong build, a broad chest, thick manes and tails, and robust legs," the same characteristics of modern Maremmano horses, believed to have descended from the emperors' mounts.

Police in Glastonbury, England are looking for vandals who cut the branches from the Holy Thorn, a 2,000-year-old tree said to have been planted by Joseph of Arimathea. (video)