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Diver Discovers 900-Year-Old Sword Dating to the Crusades
The New York Times ^
| 18 Oct 2021
| Eduardo Medina
Posted on 10/19/2021 5:08:41 AM PDT by Theoria
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To: ccmay
Yep. Christians trying to visit the “Holy Lands” did not fare well.
There are a lot of “legends” and their is a lot of poorly recorded history of that period. It had it’s own corruption.
Pope Clement the 5th and Philip the “fair” of France were both Evil.
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posted on
10/19/2021 6:17:53 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
To: one guy in new jersey
My grandchildren would say...Who the hell is kemosabe? LOL
To: JerseyDvl
It’s 4 feet long and covered with encrustations. No way it’s only 4 pounds.
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posted on
10/19/2021 6:24:05 AM PDT
by
al_c
(Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
To: Theoria
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
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posted on
10/19/2021 6:25:20 AM PDT
by
Natty Bumppo@frontier.net
(We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
To: Theoria
When I think of the 3rd crusade I think of the battle to retake Jaffa from Saladin. Richard the Lionhearted took a small force there by sea hoping to reinforce the fort but when he arrived Saladin's banners were already flying over the city. Richard and his men dispaired until one guy ran out on the battlements and leaped into the sea. The knights fished him out and it turned out he was a priest that was desperate to tell Richard that a small force of Christian knights was still holding out in the hear of the fortress.
Supposedly Richard stood up, said a few stirring words, and leaped off the ship to storm the shore alone and without armor. His stunned men all quickly grabbed a sword and jumped in after him and somehow they defeated a far larger muslim force and retook the city. Crazy.
I don't know if Richard was a good king (actually I do, he wasn't) but he was one hell of a battle commander. Ridiculous reading what this dude could do on a battlefield.
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posted on
10/19/2021 6:31:13 AM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: Openurmind
“From the length of the handle I would think that it was not a two-handed weapon. There is such a thing as a "bastard" sword, or hand and a half sword.
https://www.coldsteel.com/hand-and-a-half-sword/
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posted on
10/19/2021 6:34:48 AM PDT
by
MikeSteelBe
(The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
To: pepsi_junkie
Thanks for the history. Crazy what people will do in certain situations. Esprit de corps is a powerful thing.
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posted on
10/19/2021 6:36:14 AM PDT
by
Theoria
To: rlmorel
“Well, I know it for a fact-I saw it in a movie once! “
Try reading history books, it is better for your mind.
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posted on
10/19/2021 6:37:44 AM PDT
by
DEPcom
(Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules)
To: ByteMercenary; DEPcom
Forensic anthropologists examined the bones in recently uncovered mass graves of the battle of Towton 1461 War of the Roses. Close examination of the recovered skeltons indicates that limbs were severed as well as battle axe wounds that must have penetrated steel helmets. One whole skeleton, Number 16, indicted a brawny broad shouldered man with heavy bones and muscles capable of inflicting such damage.
Watch this fascinating documentary of the discovery and findings.
https://youtu.be/OKg0eE3JjME
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posted on
10/19/2021 6:38:24 AM PDT
by
Covenantor
(We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
To: Covenantor
“Watch this fascinating documentary of the discovery and findings.”
Thanks
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posted on
10/19/2021 6:41:37 AM PDT
by
DEPcom
(Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules)
To: Theoria
The third crusade never reached Palestine. It sacked Constantinople.
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posted on
10/19/2021 6:42:38 AM PDT
by
Fai Mao
(I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
To: DEPcom
You do know that was a joke, right?
(Except for the part about the moose biting my sister)
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posted on
10/19/2021 6:52:05 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
To: MikeSteelBe
That quote was not mine, I quoted another user. And I agree that there are indeed two handed Swords. A lot of Asian Swords were designed to be used two handed.
But I also agree with who I quoted with that, the handle of this one is too short to be used with both hands on the handle. But that doesn’t keep one from adding a second hand around the base of the blade at the hilt for extra power. :)
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posted on
10/19/2021 6:55:01 AM PDT
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: GeorgiaDawg32
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posted on
10/19/2021 6:56:09 AM PDT
by
joe fonebone
(bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
To: Openurmind
Thanks. I’ll have to try that.
I’m a writer and research is important, sometimes even from the legacy media (if for nothing else than citation of their bias).
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posted on
10/19/2021 7:13:37 AM PDT
by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
To: JerseyDvl
Exactly. I’m sure an African Swallow could carry it.
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posted on
10/19/2021 7:23:32 AM PDT
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children.)
To: Theoria
When they found the remains of some of the victims from Pompey after the mt.vesuvius eruption they said you could tell one of the bodies was a roman soldier because the arm bones in his right arm were bigger. It came from continuous use of a sword.
I’m sure men throughout history who were trained to fight
with swords and other handheld weapons had bigger , stronger sword arms.
To: one guy in new jersey
“See post #5.”
“Missed it by that much.”
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posted on
10/19/2021 8:11:39 AM PDT
by
moovova
(I'm dismayed that most of the world hates me for being non-vaxxed. Honest. No, really.)
To: ByteMercenary
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posted on
10/19/2021 8:34:05 AM PDT
by
100American
(Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
To: moovova
Could you imagine swinging that thing...even without the crustiness? I’d throw my shoulder out. If it weighs four pounds with the encrustation it shouldn't have been too hard to swing.
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posted on
10/19/2021 9:12:17 AM PDT
by
JimRed
(TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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