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	<title>Mile Wide... Inch Deep... &#187; History</title>
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		<title>Staffordshire Hoard is coming to America &#8211; Medievalists.net</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Staffordshire Hoard is coming to America &#8211; Medievalists.net. Wonderful news! Can&#8217;t wait to see the exhibition. Given the current collaborators, I&#8217;m sure it will be top notch. It has been a long time since I&#8217;ve seen a world-class medieval exhibition, the last one being &#8220;The Making of England&#8221; at the British Museum/Library some twenty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arthurian scholars meet in Bristol &#8211; Medievalists.net</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/24/arthurian-scholars-meet-in-bristol-medievalists-net/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/24/arthurian-scholars-meet-in-bristol-medievalists-net/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As announced on Medievalists.net, the 23rd Triennial Congress of the International Arthurian Society is meeting next week at the University of Bristol: Arthurian scholars meet in Bristol &#8211; Medievalists.net. I&#8217;m sure the public lecture will spend a lot of time reviewing portrayals of Arthur in the movies and current culture. Made me think of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treadmill shows medieval armour influenced battles &#8212; BBC News</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/20/treadmill-shows-medieval-armour-influenced-battles-bbc-news/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/20/treadmill-shows-medieval-armour-influenced-battles-bbc-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, now that we have treadmills, scientists realize that bulky armor would have influenced medieval warfare? Really? Genius! BBC News &#8211; Treadmill shows medieval armour influenced battles. My favorite quotation from the article has to be: &#8220;Researchers always suspected the armour would have been tough to wear.&#8221; Brilliant!]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto&#8217;s Dictionary of Old English Channel‬‏ on YouTube</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/13/torontos-dictionary-of-old-english-channel%e2%80%ac%e2%80%8f-on-youtube/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/07/13/torontos-dictionary-of-old-english-channel%e2%80%ac%e2%80%8f-on-youtube/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Old English]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the University of Toronto&#8217;s Dictionary of Old English (DOE) project recently posted a new video advertising the need for a comprehensive dictionary of the earliest English language: YouTube &#8211; ‪DictionaryOldEnglish&#8217;s Channel‬‏. Slick and concise, the video does a good job appealing to a more visual audience. Let&#8217;s hope that some of them pick up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Oldest Valentine?</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/02/14/the-oldest-valentine-medieval-and-earlier-manuscripts-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2011/02/14/the-oldest-valentine-medieval-and-earlier-manuscripts-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is this letter from Margery Brews to John Paston (dated February 1477) the earliest example of a Valentine? Read the story on the British Library &#8220;Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Blog&#8221;: The Oldest Valentine? &#8211; Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts.]]></description>
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		<title>Porsche Building &#124; Fubiz™</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/08/14/porsche-building-fubiz%e2%84%a2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/08/14/porsche-building-fubiz%e2%84%a2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Auto racing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graphic Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Porsche Building &#124; Fubiz™.]]></description>
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		<title>The origins of abc &#124; I love typography, the typography and fonts blog</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/08/13/the-origins-of-abc-i-love-typography-the-typography-and-fonts-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/08/13/the-origins-of-abc-i-love-typography-the-typography-and-fonts-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The origins of abc &#124; I love typography, the typography and fonts blog.]]></description>
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		<title>A Presidential History of the US</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/08/02/a-presidential-history-of-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/08/02/a-presidential-history-of-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Visualization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rachel Mercer&#8216;s graphic &#8220;Presidential Costs&#8221; shows, in a circular timeline, the history of the US through a history of the presidents, from Washington through Obama. Four layers of rings plus a ring of bubbles visualizes the time periods, key legislative acts, foreign conflicts and wars, and national debt. Very nice graphic.]]></description>
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		<title>The Cawood Sword: History of York (and early password generation!)</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/07/30/the-cawood-sword-history-of-york-and-early-password-generation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/07/30/the-cawood-sword-history-of-york-and-early-password-generation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the finest Viking swords ever discovered was found in the River Ouse near the village of Cawood, a few miles South of York.The Cawood Sword can be dated to 1100 by comparing it to a very similar sword found in Norway which was probably made by the same craftsman.  The swords are almost identical except [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historians locate King Arthurs Round Table &#8211; Telegraph</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/07/13/historians-locate-king-arthurs-round-table-telegraph/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/07/13/historians-locate-king-arthurs-round-table-telegraph/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The search is over! According to the UK newspaper The Telegraph, Historians locate King Arthurs Round Table. Very exciting! Now, how long before they make yet another Hollywood movie about Arthur? After Boorman&#8217;s Excalibur (1981) and Fuqua&#8217;s King Arthur (2004), it&#8217;s time for another spin&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolution of The Logo &#8211; Smashing Magazine</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/07/12/the-evolution-of-the-logo-smashing-magazine/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/07/12/the-evolution-of-the-logo-smashing-magazine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smashing Magazine has published a short history of the logo. As a fan of logos (both the plural of logo and the software Logos (which is completely unrelated to the word logo)), from printers&#8217; marks (example shown here) to Rembrandt&#8217;s &#8220;logo&#8221;/signature and more. Take a stroll down logo lane at The Evolution of The Logo &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Woruldhord</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/07/10/welcome-to-woruldhord/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/07/10/welcome-to-woruldhord/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Stuart Lee at the Oxford Computing Services department, has begun a new website, Woruldhord (Old English for World-hoard), to collect together into an online hoard, digital objects related to the teaching, study, or research of Old English and the Anglo-Saxon period of history. What a wonderful way to collect and revel in Old English [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Camelot&#8217; Rolls into Ireland&#8217;s Ardmore Studios &#124; The Irish Film &amp; Television Network</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/07/10/camelot-rolls-into-irelands-ardmore-studios-the-irish-film-television-network/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/07/10/camelot-rolls-into-irelands-ardmore-studios-the-irish-film-television-network/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woohoo! Filming has begun on the new 10-part tv miniseries based on Malory&#8217;s Morte dArthur: &#8216;Camelot&#8217; Rolls into Ireland&#8217;s Ardmore Studios &#124; The Irish Film &#38; Television Network. King and Queen have been cast, along with several other major players. It has the potential to be very cheesy, but hopefully will avoid the most obvious glitzy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timelines: sources from history from the British Library</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/02/05/timelines-sources-from-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The British Library has released a new website, Timelines: sources from history, where users can traverse history &#8220;from Magna Carta to Obama.&#8221; From to the website: The interactive timeline allows you to explore British Library collection items chronologically, from medieval times to the present day. It includes a diverse combination of texts: those that allow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paleontologist discovers 3-D secrets of Middle Age designs of Kells&#8217; &#8216;angels&#8217; [Medieval News]</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/27/medieval-news-paleontologist-discovers-3-d-secrets-of-middle-age-designs-of-kells-angels/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/27/medieval-news-paleontologist-discovers-3-d-secrets-of-middle-age-designs-of-kells-angels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still don&#8217;t quite understand it, but, according to John Cisne, a paleontologist who studied the Book of Kells, the medieval scribes who illustrated this amazing manuscript employed &#8220;free-fusion stereocomparison&#8221; to generate the intricate scrollwork that can be found throughout the pages. With detail to the point of &#8220;submillimeter precision&#8221;, Cisne, in the journal Perception [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Seven Ages Of Britain&#8221;: BBC&#8217;s New Multi-Part History of Britain</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/23/seven-ages-of-britain/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/23/seven-ages-of-britain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC presents a new series called &#8220;Seven Ages Of Britain&#8221; starting on 1/31/2010. Each of the seven episodes represents an era in British history, narrated by David Dimbleby. I&#8217;m particularly interested in the first age: Programme 1: Age Of Conquest (AD 43-1066) &#8211; For a thousand years, from Emperor Claudius to William the Conqueror, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ideological History of the Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) &#8211; TargetPoint</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/21/the-ideological-history-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-u-s-scotus-targetpoint/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/21/the-ideological-history-of-the-supreme-court-of-the-u-s-scotus-targetpoint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Visualization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Martin (Washington University, School of Law) and Kevin Quinn (U.C. Berkeley School of Law) devised the Martin-Quinn scoring system to gauge the ideological flavor of courts. Alex Lundry applied that scoring system to the SCOTUS to create a fascinating visualization showing the conservative/liberal tendencies of each justice since 1937, along with an overall score [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staffordshire Hoard: The Book</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/04/staffordshire-hoard-the-book/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2010/01/04/staffordshire-hoard-the-book/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just received my copy of the British Museum book on the Staffordshire Hoard. Although it&#8217;s a bit shorter than I&#8217;d like (but matches the page count listed on the BM site), it has some lovely pictures, a concise history, and an overall adequate summary of the find itself. Glad to support the work going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the preservation of favoured traces &#124; ben fry</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2009/12/31/the-preservation-of-favoured-traces-ben-fry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always enjoyed a nice graphical diff, like WinDiff, WinMerge, or KDiff3 &#8212; something that shows how a document has changed since some previous incarnation. Ben Fry, father of Processing, has taken this idea to an extreme with Darwin&#8217;s Origin of Species by showing how Darwin&#8217;s book changed with each revision, graphically depicting the variations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How will the Staffordshire Hoard impact our understanding of the Anglo-Saxons?</title>
		<link>http://blog.balinsbooks.com/2009/09/26/how-will-the-staffordshire-hoard-impact-our-understanding-of-the-anglo-saxons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 02:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the buzz about the Staffordshire Hoard (see also the NYT article on the find), it&#8217;s no wonder that people are drooling at the potential for an exponential improvement in our understanding of the Anglo-Saxons. But were the Anglo-Saxons really a bunch of brutes because most people don&#8217;t recognize their artistic achievements? Does that [...]]]></description>
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