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Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In early medieval England there was a strong appetite for word ...

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some ...

The critical point was, again the Middle Ages, and there you had an adversarial position between the church and the state ...