Alternatively: They sustained themselves in sick riffs

"and those proteins require ready access to heavy-metal"

These look like crochet, not knitting. Still awesome though.

It's rather sad that in 2012 there are people still believing in this pseudoscience garbage.

Wait what? Arnis/Escrima is an excellent, fluid system. It combines native martial traditions, Western boxing and various East Asian martial arts.

It's just a particularly rape-y take on the War of the Roses, yeah.

And yet the story is supposed to be taken as so "realistic" to the time period . . .

Every time I see that map from aSoIaF, I'm reminded of how every fantasy author should take a course in geology and plate tectonics.

Sounds cool - the artwork reminds me of the Coheed & Cambria comics.

This is a pretty cool group. Coin making has always fascinated me, I've always wanted to learn how to make them (there are so many things I wish I could learn to do, it seems).

Better grease up the wheels on my shopping cart.

They also believed that setting ordinance off in the air would attract rain.

This book was really terrible.

Any ideas what they could be used for yet?

Can't wait to read this. There was a period where I felt the quality of his work went down, to the point where it was almost like it was ghost written, but his last few pieces of work . . .

I thought this was proven as essentially a made-up illness by now.

Vlad the Impaler was quite horrible too. After inviting Ottoman nobility to his castle, he captured them and forced the royalty to build him a castle. After which he impaled them at the border.

The Mongols were brutal in the area of Mesopotamia. They destroyed thousand year old irrigation systems. The area never really recovered.

I think it says something about just how scared the Romans were of Carthage that after sacking the city, they dragged the large stone bricks away so it could never be rebuilt.

They do look very impressive. Just wish there was a way I could look at them before hand, at sixty dollars a pop, but I do trust the authors hard work in this.