The Wildly Eclectic Me

I was looking for something today and found this outline for a speech I did on jousting when I got my Bachelor's. And since I may someday need to remember the rules of the joust and I'm lazy and don't like hunting through my files, I'm going to share it on here. Jousting: The Razorback Football of Its Day I. Who here enjoys watching the Razorbacks win on the football field? A. Jousting was the football of its day. 1. In the student section we are all crammed together like sardines. We are like the peasants of the medieval days. 2. Hog Heaven, with its chair backs and indoor food court, is full of alumni and the like. They are like the aristocracy. 3. The indoor/outdoor sky box where our esteemed teacher, Coupe, sits is like the plush box of the royal family. B. Jousting evolved from an exercise to keep troops in shape, to a form of entertainment that was widely adored in Medieval Europe and is still practiced today in some places. C. I will be talking about seve...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7096405.stm Dude! That is just cool! And not only because it's been frozen for the past 400 years.

Ooooh This should be interesting! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7029513.stm Not that I'm going to take any information the church got from the knights under torture at face value mind you... It should still be interesting!

I've been fascinated by legends and how they got their starts for as long as I can remember. So when it came time to pick out research topics, King Arthur was at the top of my list. Now, mind you, I wrote this when I was in high school, and when I made my very first webpage, I put in a "Library" with some of my papers. Not long after that I thought it would be amusing to google myself... Yes, I do that when I'm alone and bored. ;) And I found out that my paper was actually being linked to as a source for the history of Arthurian legend. There was even a college class that listed it on it's syllabus at one point! If you type "king arthur truth" into Google it's the number two hit. I'm not bragging, mind you. It still baffles me to this day! So you can go and see it at the original location . Keep in mind I made that page back in 97! Jeez that was ten years ago! Or you can just read it here. :-D The Truth in the Tale: Legends of King Arthur...