The Vikings were some of the best sailors, ship-builders, and explorers the world has known.
The remains of a Viking warship was found in 1962, and has been rebuilt using traditional Viking tools and building methods by a dedicated team.
From the BBC news article, The return of the Viking warship:
More than 7,000 iron rivets, 2,000m of rope and 300 ancient Danish oaks were used in the reconstruction. After four years of painstaking work, the Sea Stallion from Glendalough was launched on 4 September 2004.
Now, the team behind the project wants to know whether the reconstruction is capable of making the kind of journeys the Vikings once undertook. To find out, the ship is being taken over 1,000 miles (1,600km) across the North Sea to Orkney and on to Dublin.
UPDATE: You can follow a diary of the voyage at the BBC site.
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Ever wanted to watch a book being made? Here is a link to a short movie of a paperback book being printed and bound.
And just because this is where you go a lot when in Los Angeles:
