Patrick Anderson, President of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc., has announced that several new appointments have been made by the SCA Board of Directors.

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Adeliza of Bristol reports that Jason Kynslay was the victor of the November 7, 2009 Crown Tourney in the Kingdom of Atlantia. His Highness was inspired by Gerhild the Willful. (photos)

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Danute Dorion has announced that casting for The Making of A King, a "film version of a sonnet cycle, very artsy, very stylized" will take place November 21, 2009 at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

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On the Legio Draconis website, Hrólfr reports on the contenders for the Throne of the Kingdom of Gleann Abhann and their consorts.

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Racaire of the Kingdom of Drachenwald reports that she has created an album of photos from her recent visit to the Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde in Vienna, Austria. The photos are on her Flickr website.

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Due to chronicler Giovanni Villani, Pope Clement V has wrongly been labeled a puppet of the French king, Philip IV.

Jehan, Giles, and Yseult of the he Royal College and Confraternity of Scribes and Illuminators of the Kingdom of Lochac have created a marvelous website to inspired scribes to use symbolic flowers and plants in their artwork. An Introduction to Floral Symbolism in Manuscript Illumination features illuminated flowers and short descriptions of their symbolic meanings.

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Darius reports that he has created a large album of photos taken by himself and others from Raptor War 2009, which took place recently in the Kingdom of Artemisia.

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Lady Charmayne D'aix-la-Chapelle reports that teachers and artisans are needed for the 2010 Gulf Wars.

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An Irish cemetery in County Donegal, discovered in 2003, has yielded some fascinating medical data about the inhabitants of Ireland from more than 1,000 years ago. Findings have revealed evidence of cystic fibrosis, TB, cancer, multiple exostoses (bumpy bone disease) and even brain surgery, which the patient survived.

In case this seems familiar, another cemetery was uncovered just last week in Ireland; but that one was in County Kildare.

Find out more about the County Donegal cemetery in the article by Donal Thornton at Irish Central.

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Medieval Irish cemetery yields intriguing data originally appeared on About.com Medieval History on Thursday, November 12th, 2009 at 00:03:31.

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A Hebrew Bible, published between 1516 and 1517, has been returned to its rightful owners after 71 years. The two-volume, black-leather-clad book, which includes commentaries by key medieval rabbinic figures, vanished from a library in Vienna on the night of November 10-11, 1938: Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass." It surfaced at the New York City auction house Kestenbaum & Company in June; upon learning of its provenance, the auction house terminated the sale and its owner, who had not known its history, agreed to return it to Vienna. The Bible was repatriated to the Jewish community in Vienna at a ceremony at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, attended by representatives of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ), the U.S. Attorney's office, and the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien ( IKG ).

Find out more in the article at Media Newswire.

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Looted Rabbinic Bible returned originally appeared on About.com Medieval History on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 22:44:01.

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Russians are known for their love of vodka, but in the Middle Ages, the Russians displayed great talent at creating other alcoholic beverages including mead. Later, in the early 16th century, monks developed the first recipe for vodka.

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Toshikage reports that the Memorial of the Practice of the Montante by Diogo Gomes de Figueyredo (1651), translated by Eric Myers, is available to download in PDF format on the Oakeshott Institute website.

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Mistress Hanna von Dahl has created an album of photos from the Arts & Sciences display at the recent Three Queens event in the Kingdom of Ansteorra. They have been posted on her Flickr website.

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The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, will present Other Worlds: Rare Astronomical Works through January 3, 2010. The exhibit will showcase "some of the most important astronomical discoveries of the last 500 years."

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Morgana de Mont-St-Michel of the Barony of Black Diamond in the Kingdom of Atlantia reports that Donald B. Wagner, co-author of the weaving book Pattern and Loom, has made the book available to download in PDF format.

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On October 29, 2009, Gaul's most famous denizon, Asterix, celebrated his Lth birthday. (That would be 50 to the Roman-numerically-challenged.) The comic book character was created in 1959 by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo.

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The Society for Creative Anachronism is divided into 19 kingdoms, geographical organized groups that hold events and organize resources for their members.

Nerissa has posted a video of the finals taken at the recent Fall 2009 Crown Tourney in the Kingdom of Drachenwald on YouTube.

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Against commonly accepted truths, Pope Clement V was a pro-English pope with deep ties to the King of England, Edward I (Longshanks).