These crossbows, which were an important weapon in war until rifles were invented, were usually mounted and could fire up to 650 feet. The first pictorial evidence of European hand-held wooden ...

Glen is back combing through his old cocktail books looking for those gems that may have been forgotten, or maybe forgotten for good reason. Today we look at the Aviation Cocktail, often credited as ...

History is filled with wars, that’s just a natural part of the human condition. It is in the annals of history that we find ...

James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic takes a frustratingly basic and sanitised approach to the complicated life of its subject, ...

He was the cleverest of the gods — on the day he was born he stole Apollo’s cattle, then invented the lyre and gave it to him ... and had no rival in archery. Yet he’s best known as the god of light, ...

The 10,000 hour theory suggests that to become an expert in something, you just have to practise for that many hours. I’m a good table tennis player, so maybe I’d only need 5000 to get to Brisbane in ...

The stirrup was a critical innovation for cavalry and mounted archery, significantly enhancing ... Joseph Needham noted that "the stirrup, invented in China, revolutionized medieval European ...

Three of my biggest whitetails, including two gross B&C bucks, have been tagged during the Midwest’s early archery season ... every trick that’s been invented to beat a buck’s nose.

For example, the guy who invented pop-top aluminum soda cans and had a patent ... One thing he did that worked out is making a die for an outfit that made a new kind of aluminum archery bow that ...