The trebuchet was the most fearsome weapon of medieval times, a giant catapult that could lay waste to any fortress by battering its walls with boulders. It’s funny to think, then, that in terms of ...

Without leaving school grounds Friday, the 370 students who attend Eileen Johnson Middle School in Lockwood learned how to filtrate water, site power lines, enable submarines to remain undetected ...

Upland Unified students got medieval Friday morning. Trebuchets – medieval siege weapons that used slingshot technology to fling heavy rocks at castles once upon a time – sang out along the school’s ...

RICHLAND, MI --For a farm that prizes pumpkins so much, they sure love to destroy them. "These people must really hate pumpkins," said Mark Brown, 21, lead designer for the Medieval Engineering ...

TEL AVIV — Israeli troops stationed on the Lebanese border fired a medieval-style siege weapon known as a trebuchet amid recent fighting against Hezbollah militants, an Israeli military official ...

“What’s the deal with trebuchet memes?” someone recently asked Reddit’s “out of the loop” forum. If you’re similarly out of the loop about the online resurgence of middle ages siege machines, don’t ...

The block of ice was flung so high in the air that some thought it might melt in Thursday’s hot summer sun. Instead, it plopped and then disintegrated in space No. 540 in North County High School’s ...

WHAT: The eighth annual fair kicks off the six-week Snohomish Valley Festival of Pumpkins. At this event, pumpkins will be thrown more than 1,800 feet by trebuchets, Middle Age war machines built by ...