I found this article that talks about Norse metal working tools found in Canada. http://m.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-30384038

I watched this conference recording on the Renaissance of Archaeology in Iraq and its Kurdistan Region. I found it interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om-tgF4rAE8

So this is old news but I just heard about it so it's news to me: Apparently, if your library subscribes to Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO), or the other Gale Cengage primary source products, they will release the back-end data to you for textmining and datamining projects. Pretty neat!

While digging for Civil War era information on Fremont County Iowa I came across a story of a tribe of giants that had lived in the area by Hamburg Iowa.http://tnephilim.blogspot.com/2013/10/sioux-indians-tell-of-former-giant-race.html

This is new to me, but I gather it's quite old. Not everyone may be familiar with it though.

Apparently, LBJ had a habit of recording all of his phone calls while President. They were then collected and sorted by date on this website.

An example on Youtube.

Has anyone been greatly enjoying the BBC's new series on the medieval castle. I've only caught glimpses and it seems fascinating. Are the episodes worth chasing up?