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This is why jousting was more deadly than the battlefield

Think jousting was just for show? One slip of the lance, and a knight could end up with splintered ribs, a crushed skull, or worse — a lance straight through the eye. This wasn’t medieval cosplay; it ...
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A recent study published in PNAS analyzed when German Shepherds accumulated their “mutational load” of bad genes. Was it from ...
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Lords and ladies, from near and far, journeyed in huge numbers back in time to the Space Coast Renaissance Fair last weekend.