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Particularly their acid attack.

The son of a lowly estate owner who used his friendship with Cnut to Earl of Wessex, and consolidate his position as England's leading nobleman?

"Haut comme trois pommes". The equivalent in German is "drei Käse hoch" (three cheeses tall), and in Dutch "drie turven hoog" (three peat bricks tall). European legislation seems to have put an end to all these units of measurement.

The BBEG in the Dragonlance novel Weasel's Luck was an illusionist. I always assumed it was based on instructions from higher up to include some of the less common classes.

Didn't AD&D 2E already make the distinction, though? Clerics were generic worshippers, and specialty priests were devoted to a particular deity.

So do we think SpaceX is using the CAH land for storage because they ran out of space...?

I remember picking up the Conan Chronicles after the first few WoT books came out (when they were still readable), and being very excited about one of my favourite authors doing one of my favourite characters. I was disappointed, to say the least. Interestingly, I was at a Q&A with RJ once...

And at the end of the epic adventure, the movie returns to the players, who by now are in their forties and wondering what happened to the time...

I was in Athens a couple of years ago, and was really disappointed with the Acropolis, compared with the first time I visited. The whole top of the hill has been paved in concrete now. It looks like a carpark.

Worse than NIMBYs are "not in someone else's backyard if it inconveniences me". I remember reading a hiking guide a while ago where the author complained about powerlines spoiling the view. As if his occasional enjoyment of the landscape was more important than the local residents' right to...

The past few years I've been listening to audiobooks about all those areas of history that were ignored at school. The Persian Empire, the Vikings, power dynamics in the Middle Ages, Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire, Ancient Egypt, the turn of the first millennium. Fascinating stuff. And at...

A while ago I had a discussion with a trained historian, when I mentioned something I'd learned from a history audiobook and which she disputed. "I've never heard of that before," she said. I replied that the book's author was a fairly successful writer in the "history for the masses" category...

I knew this, because of "Whispers Underground" by Ben Aaronovitch. My TIL: power companies use the residual heat in wastewater (from showering and washing up) for district heating.

In the interests of female empowerment, I think there should be an adventure path to go back in time and prevent Bargle from killing Aleena, so she can kill him.

Footfall, perhaps?

Some of us are fond of our old dice. I have several that I've had longer than I've known anyone in my life besides my parents and sister.

I remember spending quite a few teenage years wondering how the "ninety-six" position was supposed to work.

While carpentry is obviously important to most economies, I'd probably expect more chairs than tables.

There's probably a warranty component in the warhorse. If it breaks down during battle, a new one will be brought up to you. A few minutes' paperwork, check it for existing damage, and you're on your way.

If I'm not mistaken, Babylonian rulers also conducted archeological digs at earlier Mesopotamian sites.