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USA Hockey’s Hilary Knight Voted IIHF’s 1st Female Player of the Year

Hilary Knight was the runaway leader in voting for the International Ice Hockey Federation’s first female player of the year award on Thursday, some six weeks after the 33-year-old captained the United States to win gold at the women’s world championship. The IIHF announced Knight received 40.9 percent of the votes submitted by more than…


Real ‘Sword in the Stone’ and Knight Believed Inspired King Arthur Legend—But Plots Quite Contrary

The ruthless knight Galgano Guidotti was done fighting. The son of a noble lord during the time of the Crusades, in his early 30s he experienced a vision of Saint Michael that changed his life. Galgano was called upon to renounce worldly trappings and submit himself to God, so he relinquished station and arms to become…


This 800-Year-Old Castle Built in a Cave on a 400-Foot Cliff Was Totally Untouchable—Until This Happened

Nestled in the mouth of a yawning cave, halfway up a steep, 400-foot cliff in southwest Slovenia, Predjama Castle once stood an impregnable fortress before an invading army of the Hapsburgs. The 800-year-old structure, so local legend goes, was once occupied by a renegade robber knight named Erasmus, who met his unceremonious end while doing…


Origami Artist Creates Mind-Blowing Medieval Knight With Sword and Shield From Single Piece of Paper

The Japanese artform of origami is a craft of elegant simplicity, and any hopeful origami practitioner knows the challenges in creating artwork from folding a single piece of paper. One professional origami artists from Finland, Juho Könkkölä, who’s enjoyed origami from a very young age, started innovating sophisticated origami fantasy figures “out of boredom” in…