Sep 12, 2025
The Charge That Shattered a Siege
When Sabaton sings "when the winged hussars arrived," they are not exaggerating the drama. The image of armored riders, wings rattling in the wind, thundering downhill to save Vienna, is pure heavy…
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Sep 7, 2025
Thomas Arundell of Wardour, Hero of the Empire
Few English nobles of the early seventeenth century lived lives as perilous or as fascinating as Thomas Arundell (c. 1560–1639). Born into the ancient family of Arundell of Wardour, he endured shifting…
Sep 5, 2025
The Other Nobility
"The Thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me in borrowed robes?" -- Macbeth , Act I, Scene 3 We remember Macbeth for his ambition, his downfall, and his uninvited dinner…
Sep 3, 2025
Hypothesis Testing for Inter-Rater Reliability
Hypothesis testing for inter-rater agreement sounds like something you might find buried in the appendix of a methods textbook, but it shows up in more of our lives than we realize. Any…
Aug 11, 2025
False Quartering in Heraldic Design
Heraldry sits at the crossroads of law, art, and family history. It is a visual language with its own syntax and grammar, a system of signs that records lineage, property and alliances.…
Aug 7, 2025
The Ancient Dignity of Education
In 1595, Emperor Rudolf II of the Holy Roman Empire granted a title of nobility to Thomas Arundell of Wardour. The document, composed in Latin, begins not with a list of military…
Aug 4, 2025
The Gini Mean Difference
Everyone learns the mean. Some make it to the variance. A few even get standard deviation tattooed on their soul. But almost no one meets the Gini mean difference. And that is…
Jul 30, 2025
How Local Zoning Appeals Influence Development
Development doesn't happen in a vacuum. At every step, local planning commissions, zoning boards and courts regulate what can be built, where, and how quickly. These systems are designed to protect public…
Jul 22, 2025
No, the Sun Should Not Have Burned Out
Someone recently wrote, "If it was billions of years old, the sun should have burned out long ago."" It was offered in support of a creationist argument, though without much elaboration. I…
Jun 3, 2025
The Railroad Was There All Along
Harry Lee Williams was born in August 1885 in Honey Creek Township, White County, Indiana. The son of Thornton Robert Williams and Ida May Adams, Harry was raised in a small rural…
May 28, 2025
A New Tartan
There is a special joy in designing something new that still feels old. A coat of arms has this property: rooted in tradition, yet reinterpreted through the choices of its bearer. A…