Links for 2009-10-26

“Agincourt’s status as perhaps the greatest victory against overwhelming odds in military history — and a keystone of the English self-image — has been called into doubt by a group of historians in Britain and France who have painstakingly combed an array of military and tax records from that time and now take a skeptical view of the figures handed down by medieval chroniclers. “

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“Apples or Raisins: “I’m on a diet, okay? I haven’t so much as seen refined sugar in twenty-three days and nine hours. Now you and your childhood metabolism can get the hell off my porch.””