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Medieval News Archive19-Feb-2007
Descriptions of Matsue, Japan by Lafcadio Hearn, the Irish-Greek author and muckraking journalist, put this Medieval city on the map in the 1890s. Hypnotic, meditative, by turns serenely simple and exotically strange ? a collection of chants from Medieval Croatia gets it North American debut performances over the next 10 days as Ensemble Dialogos, a Paris-based vocal group led by singer and scholar Katarina Livljanic, tours the U.S. and Canada with a program titled Tondal's Vision . A screengrab from the video game: Medieval II: Total War, published by Sega and developed by England's Creative Assembly. With a drumroll and the blast of a trumpet, the horses gallop down the course one by one, bearing riders in medieval costumes hellbent on plucking a metal star out of the air with a sword. Residents of the Medieval Italian town of Ivrea prepare for Lent each year with an orange-throwing festival that draws thousands of spectators.Teams of throwers outfitted in ornate uniforms pelt volunteer adversaries with more than 1 million juicy oranges as they ride around in carts trying to avoid the fruit bombs, The New York Times reported.The three-day event known as the Historic Carnival of ...
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