Though it may share some similarities with its Warhammer 40,000-inspired predecessor, Dawn of War II is a completely different game that offers one of the most action packed and highly replayable RTS experiences in recent memory. Relic has uprooted some of the genre's mainstays in a move that has pr...

Another Mysterious Medal A while back we posted a mysterious baseball medal from 1921 and asked our readers to help us identify it.  We were lucky enough to have one shed some light on the subject, believing it to be a minor league award of some sort.  Pictured above is a different yet similar me...

Part of the genius of “Watchmen” is the detail the book goes into to create the alternate 1986 where Nixon took the United States to victory in Viet Nam and continues his strangle hold over the White House. The book includes intermittent documents and testimony relating the history of th...

THQ have released this new trailer for Relic's upcoming RTS, Dawn of War II. Shows the Tyranids. And how they're going to a royal pain in the Imperium's ass....

While distracted by rumours of a new Archbishop of Westminster, pilgrims may have missed the appointment of the new Archbishop of Valencia. Pope Benedict has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, and transferred Archbishop Carlos Osoro Sierra from Oviedo to Valencia. V...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The election of an ambitious new president in hard times is evoking comparisons with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the 75th anniversary of that president's New Deal is sparking renewed interest in how Americans survived the Great Depression....

I just got the news a coupla hours ago, yardbirds: Yer favorite Uncle Relic’s gonna be leavin’ ya on August 1. Right … they’re discontinuing the site. Now, before ya think I’m about to fade into a soppy eulogy, mebbe The Relic needs to remind ya one mo’ time: ROCK...

BALLARD AND THE VICISSITUDES OF TIME by Mike Holliday ABOVE: Artwork by Jeffrey K. Potter for ‘News from the Sun’ (commissioned for the collection Memories of the Space Age , Arkham House, 1988). The late 70s and early 80s represent a sort of interregnum in Ballard’s career —...

Filed under: Arts and Culture, History, Learning, Business, Stories, News "This button is from the coat of a Confederate soldier--or a Union soldier" is something one might hear at a Civil War relic trade show and sale. Or perhaps you might hear this at county historical society museum. Civil War re...

The Turin Shroud is to go on public display for the first time in a decade, sources at the Vatican have indicated, coinciding with a new set of tests on its age....