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Midrealm Spring 2012 Crown Combatant List
Master Midair MacCormaic, Kingdom Seneschal for the Middle Kingdom, has announced the list of combatants and their consorts for the kingdom's upcoming Crown Tournament.
Ansteorra Spring 2012 Coronation photos online
Delphina reports that she has created an album of photos from Spring Coronation 2012 which took place in April in the Kingdom of Ansteorra. The photos are available to view on Flickr.
Fighting threatens historic Timbuktu
Fighting following a military junta in northern Mali is threatening the historic architectural and cultural center of Timbuktu, on the edge of the Sahara Desert. The city's 60 private libraries are a repository for over 700,000 ancient Islamic manuscripts.
Championshipship archery on YouTube
Archery enthusiasts may wish to watch a video clip, posted on YouTube, of the 2012 Indoor Archery World Championships in Las Vegas.
A walk through Birka
The PBS NOVA series has posted a website featuring short video clips on various aspects of Viking village life. The site focusses on "Birka, a medieval Viking village that archeologists recently excavated near modern-day Stockholm."
AEthelmearc Spring 2012 Coronation photos online
Alaxandair O'Conchobhair reports that he has created an album of photos from the Spring 2012 Coronation of Andreas and Kallista in the Kingdom of AEthelmearc. The photos are available on his public Facebook page.
Danish ship information to go online
Records from more than 1.8 million ships that sailed through the Danish sound will go online in May 2012. The records date from the mid 15th century to 1857.
King James Bible featured at Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas
The Folger Shakespeare Library and the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford are sponsoring the exibition The King James Bible: Its History and Influence February 28 - July 29, 2012 at the Harry Ransom Center of the university of Texas in Austin.
Met exhibit marks Constantinople's first "Arab Spring"
The recent Arab Spring, in North Africa and the Middle East, was not the first, according to a Deborah Amos report on NPR. The first was the conflict of culture between the Byzantine Empire and the new Islamic religion in the seventh century to the ninth centuries.
Baronial Investiture and Sworded Affaire photos online
THL Evain Macrae, of the Barony of Fontaine dans Sable in the Outlands, reports that she has created two albums of photos from the recent Baronial Investiture and Sworded Affaire. The photos are available on her public Facebook page.

