Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Trinity College) On October 21, 1638, people were congregating at a church at Widecombe-in-the-Moor, in Devon, England, when a severe thunderstorm broke out. Witnesses described an 8-foot ball of fire hurtling through the church, tossing large stones from the walls to the ground, smashing pews and windows, […]
Enlarge / Effigy of Edward of Woodstock, aka the Black Prince, in Canterbury Cathedral. (credit: Josep Renalias/CC BY-SA 2.5) Visitors to Canterbury Cathedral can view the effigy of a 14th-century knight in full armor laid out on top of a marble tomb. It’s the tomb of Edward of Woodstock, colloquially known as the Black Prince, […]
Expand (charge: University of Reading) The Berkshire hilltop in which metal detector hobbyists discovered a warrior’s tomb was presumed to have been an insignificant patch of borderland between neighboring tribes 1,400 decades back. However, the warrior, buried with a view of the Thames River valley and {} trappings of status and power, tells a separate […]