The chair legs bit into the wet sand as we set it down. Salt wind pulled at my cloak and the hem of the king’s robe. He had chosen this stretch of shore because the tide ran fast here, the water ...

Canute the Great of Denmark was revered during his life for being a king of kings. He was a conqueror and a Christian, but in reverse order: a Christian first and a king second. There is an old tale ...

Some folks mis-remember the story of old King Canute. We’ve heard the (surely apocryphal) tale told of Canute The Great ordering the ocean’s waves to stop, and they, of course, didn’t obey his ...

Somewhere beneath a farmer’s field near the small town of Rena in eastern Norway, a fortune in silver had been waiting for roughly 950 years. In late 2025, a group of metal detectorists working the ...

A Descriptive Catalogue of Bowen's New Exhibition of Paintings and Wax-Work. At Mrs. M'Euen's No. 75 Broad-Street, New York.

Columbian Museum, Head of the Mall, Boston. Boston: Printed at the Columbian Museum Press, Head of the Mall. siris_aeci_67180 ...