Can't mention Steamed hams without mentioning the piano dub! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUNBpeUHKXQ (View Post)

I can't remember where I read this, but there are speculations that the sack of Baghdad (back in the mid-13th century) was so utterly devastating that the region hasn't recovered from it even today. … (View Post)

The obvious guilt and regret from Yoshimo just feel so much worse when Irenicus casually points out that "it was his suggestion, really". Also, both Brage and Bassilus. Bassilus may be a mu… (View Post)

Falu gruva, the copper mine in Falun, Sweden, was operational for over a thousand years, closing back in the 1990s. For a long time, two thirds of all copper in Europe came from there. By the 17th ce… (View Post)

When the first nuclear bombs were being developed during the Manhattan Project, some of the scientists involved were apparently worried that they could cause a chain-reaction that would ignite the en… (View Post)