Egill Skallagrimsson almost certainly had a bone disorder called Paget's Disease, which would account for a number of his bizarre characteristics, physical and temperamental.

Actually, Manhattan was not sold for strings of beads.

A guy with a metal detector just found an Anglo-Saxon gold hoard bigger than the Sutton Hoo burial.

Viking-age Incan skull found in Norwegian cemetery?

...here

renae_rude posted the following history lesson ( Read more... )

More careful examination of the case of some UK schools being wary of teaching the Holocaust

Animated Bayeux Tapestry
Thanks, tugger.

Bad news:

Some British schools are dropping teaching the Holocaust and the Crusades, to avoid offending Muslims.

Kurt Vonnegut is dead...okay, so maybe he wouldn't want this considered bad news, but I'm greedy.

[Edit: fixed first link]

Photographer to the Russian czar was taking color photos in 1910! Beautiful work, as well as technically impressive (there's an explanation of his technique, and how they're being restored).

Thanks to greyaenigma for the link.