Back in medieval times, most of the northern parts of Europe, and big swaths of the British Isles, were covered with dense forest. So close encounters with wolves were quite common. Packs of wolves could—and did—attack grazing livestock, and sometimes… Read More
When I was a kid, I remember being traumatized by an especially violent version of Grimm’s Fairy Tales that we had on our shelf. Deep dark forests, child-eating wolves, ogres, giants, witches, and trolls (most of whom were also child-eating).… Read More
The ancient Roman engineers developed the first form of central heating, using terra cotta tubes that transported hot exhaust from a basement fire. But the technology was lost with the fall of Rome.
Panati’s Extraordinary Origins(131)