St. Mary's College president to step down by 2010 - Baltimore Sun

St. Mary's College of Maryland President Jane Margaret "Maggie" O'Brien, who is widely credited with developing and promoting the highly regarded public honors college, announced yesterday that she would step down by 2010. In her nearly 13 years as ...

Medieval combat dazzles children - Union-News & Sunday Republican

SPRINGFIELD - The Middle Ages clanked to life in a most spectacular way recently at the Michele and Donald D'Amour Fine Arts Museum. The action, downstairs and on stage, came courtesy of the Springfield Museums' Medieval Days, part of its offerings ...

King Arthur returns to the 23rd Annual Hoggetowne Medieval Faire - Suwannee Democrat

As you enter the gates of Hoggetowne the sound of trumpets will transport you to a time where brave knights joust for the honor of their ladies and King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table must battle the forces of evil. It is here at ...

Medieval church paintings saved - East Anglian Daily Times

RARE medieval paintings in a Suffolk church are to be preserved after a campaign to save them was awarded more than £32,000. The project at St Mary's Church, Lakenheath, was boosted by the massive grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund which means the ...

Take a hammer to your hard drive, shrieks Which? - The Register

Which? Computing has lost faith in wiping technology and advised punters to take a hammer to hard discs they intend to get rid of. Both Reg readers and experts has slammed the advice as misguided and irresponsible. The possibility that dodgy sorts ...

Apprentices learn medieval skills - BBC News

Here, BBC Scotland's Elizabeth Quigley reports on Historic Scotland's scheme to train apprentices to upkeep castles and stately homes. Palaces, castles and stately homes all need stone-masons, plumbers and joiners - not just trained in today's skills ...

Bordeaux blends in Bergamo - Prague Post

Lake Iseo, near Bergamo, lies in the heart of the Valcalepio wine region. Centered around Lombardy's Lake Iseo, in the northwest of Italy, is the small and often disregarded wine region of Valcalepio. Here, in the shadow of the Alps, the provincial ...