The online comic xkcd offers advice for "dropping pounds" in a recent cartoon.

At Highland River Melees, in the Barony of Highland Foorde, in the Kingdom of Atlantia, on June 1, 2012, AS XLVII, Atlantian Monarchs King Bryan and Queen Brianna elevated Siegfried Sebastian Faust and Jonathas Reinisch to the noble Order of the Pelican.

Come and join in the pageantry for the celebration of Krae Glas becoming a Barony. This auspicious event will include the final of the Winter Rapier series, A Heavy Tournament, entertainment and delights to satisfy all your senses. 

Join the Shire of Pavlok Gorod as we celebrate summer at See the Sea!

On Saturday June 9, 2012, the Upper Canada Village Medieval Festival will host a Trebuchet Building Contest. Entry forms must be submitted in advance NO LATER THAN Friday, June 1, 2012.

Start the new year in Scotland and Ireland! This year Caerthe’s premiere event will highlight both the Scottish and Irish people, but you will also be able to come and enjoy all the aspects of Caerthe’s 12th Night that you have come to love over the years including merchants, friends, entertainment, and good tidings on the new year.

Word has been carried in the wind. Atlantia will once again lay siege to the Shire of Sylvan Glen on September 23th – 25th, 2011 for the Silver Apple.

Michael Woods of Mountain View, California, has a vision: School children learn science by constructing and using desktop trebuchets. To that end, he has created a trebuchet project open to public support. (video & photos)

Shire of Orlova Dolina presents Midsumar, July 22-24, 2011.

Instructables website offers parents the chance to be heroes to their kids by building a small, functional catapult in three hours from materials at the hardware store.

The recent political protests in Egypt have brought together strange bedfellows, some of whom must have included engineers, according to photographer David Degner, who caught a group of protesters using a siege engine.

Due to an electrical power outage at the event location combined with excessive rain, Spring Training in
Rivenvale for this weekend has been CANCELED. We hope to see you all in the fall at Saxon Summer!

It is time for war so pack your armour! Ready your horns for drinking and your bellies for eating! Great Northern War XIII promises to be everything you expect and a whole lot more!

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents and Mexican authorities have joined forces to intercept a catapult used by drug smugglers to hurl pot from Mexico into Arizona.

Inner Sea will be holding their annual fighter practice and moot. Come and enjoy a day in the park with us on the St Louis River.

Greetings unto the populace of our great Kingdom of Artemisia!  The Shire of Silver Keep would like to welcome you to Castle Siege 2010!

Come enjoy the hospitality of the Canton of Cluain. A weekend of much fun, merriment and entertainment of all kinds to delight, amuse and challenge.

Set in the green Waikato countryside at the Pirongia Forest Park Lodge.

For first time attendees, GPS co-ordinates S37º 58.119' E175º 8.961'.

It's westermark Madness!- it's time for fun!

A day of adventure at the Dangerous Sports Club near Bridgewater in Somerset, England, turned into near-tragedy when Stella Young was launched from a medieval-style catapult made by her boyfriend.

On the Instructables website, visitors can learn how to build a trebuchet capable of throwing a softball 50-60 feet from cardboard. (video)

Brace your selves for a combat extravaganza of heavy combat and fencing that will blow your mind. Bring your sword and armor for a day of teaching and learning. Classes will be hands on and catered to the students in attendance. Those without armor, fear not: there will be a place for hands-on help building armor, hopefully with enough time to finish before Sunday's regional fight practice. There will also be an armor garage sale, so bring the extra armor you have just lying around, slap a price tag on it and see if you can get someone else to take it home!

Author Gabriele Campbell has created The Lost Fort, a blog designed to discuss historical fiction, especially of the medieval era. One page is devoted to the discussion of using trebuchets in historical fiction.

Shattered Oak Shire's Fifth Siege the Day Event is coming soon! Saturday will be an open demonstration open to the public. Help us replicate a Medieval Siege. You'll see Siege Weapons demonstrations & contests, engage in Heavy Combat, Rapier Combat, Archery & Thrown Weapon competitions, Artisans Row,

The CORN MAZE at Cearfoss presents a day long Pumpkin Festival - Sat, Oct 10, 2009

Oye! Oye! Oye! Come and join the populace of Bestwode Shire for our Spring Feast. There will be merriment a plenty as contests of skill, Archery, Weapon Throwing and Heavy Fighting commence throughout the day. There will also be entertainment, an auction, and a table top siege engine competition.

Does your morning repast need a little more excitement? Perhaps you should consider Ivo Vos's Trebuchet Toaster which will launch "the finished product to your plate."

Forrester reports that five valiant SCAdians took first place in the Trebuchet Division at the Aurora, Colorado Jack-o-launch. The competition was documented by Channel 4, the CBS affiliate, which provides a video of the event.

Just in time for Christmas, but no buyers! eBay had listed a full-size Roman ballista created in 2002 for the BBC program Building the Impossible. No buyer met the reserve starting bid of UK£25,000.00!

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Come one, come all to our castle! Hang your banner high in the great hall at the Hael's castle! Our event is to be held at Tonawanda Castle, 69 Delaware Ave., Tonawanda, New York, 14150. Yes this is a new site, a must see.

The site is open at 9am and closes at 9pm.

The autocrat is Mistress Gillian Llywellyn of Ravenspur gillianhartner@hotmail.com). Our new and upcoming feastocrat is Lord Constantine Blackhart. If you have dietary questions please email him at sginter@roadrunner.com Location:
Barony of the Rhydderich Hael (Tonawanda, New York)

Members of the Trebuchet Transport Cooperative of Albany (TTCA) in Albany, New York, feel they have an answer to rising fuel costs using medieval technology: Trebuchet Transport!