James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

One of the earliest animated movies of Walt Disney Pictures, The Sword in the Stone (1963), is based on the novel of the same name by T.H. White. It retells the famous Arthurian legend of the sword of ...

Disney's effort to remake seemingly all of its animated classics into live-action movies continues; unfortunately, they often deliver mixed results. For every Aladdin there's a Pinocchio; and for ...

The French town of Rocamadour was partly known for a centuries-old sword embedded in a cliff wall 100 feet off a riverbank. The 1,250-year-old Durandal sword disappeared recently, believed to be ...