Whistling Sling Bullets Were Roman Troops' Secret 'Terror Weapon'

Live Science ^ | June 13, 2016 | Tom Metcalfe

[Texas Fossil]

Some more recent old dead white guys were extremely inventive.

The brain dead leftist of today still hate them, because they are unable to match their building skills. Leftist never build anything, only know how to destroy.

Creativity is a gift. Yes, skills and knowledge can be taught, but wisdom and creativity is not as easily transmitted.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Oops. Up very late last night in your case. Up very early this morning in my case.

[BloodScarletMinnesota]

Thanks for the kind remarks! Augustus’ disbanding of half of the regular army, and adding the equal number (28) of auxiliary legions allowed the Romans to use foreign military specialties in exactly the places they’d do the most good. It also helped to move the armed men of a subject people to an area where they were regarded as the enemy (like the Sarmatian cavalry, which was moved to Britain).

You're more than welcome, you're a great teacher, even if you don't hold those credentials.

The bog butter thread was great, just fascinating stuff.

Thank you.

[SunkenCiv]

When I read about ancient free food buried all over the place, it makes me wish I lived in Europe. ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, this whole work thing is really getting on my nerves. ;’)

[wildbill]

I’ll only buy into the whistling bullet theory if you can tell me what tune they whistled. Do Dah, Do Dah.

[SunkenCiv]

One of these tunes, I’m sure of it.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1001719/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1434606/posts

[wildbill]

Very convincing. I’m all in now

[SunkenCiv]

Illegitimi non Carmen Miranda rights.

[Travis T. OJustice]

ROFL!!

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

The story of David and Goliath has details which led me to believe that the story was written accurately.
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Sounds interesting! Could you share some of those details? That would be great.

[SunkenCiv]

In Photos: 1,800-Year-Old Roman Battle Site
By Tom Metcalfe, Live Science Contributor | June 13, 2016 06:21am ET
https://www.livescience.com/55049-photos-ancient-roman-battle-sling-bullets.html

[SunkenCiv]

Pics search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Burnswark&btnG=Search&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&tbm=isch

once was a leading candidate for the site of the “Dark Age” Battle of Brunanburh (937 AD)

[snip] Burnswark, situated near Lockerbie in southern Scotland: Burnswark is a hill 280 metres (920 ft) tall, and is the site of two Roman military camps and many fortifications from the Iron Age. It was initially suggested as the site of the battle by George Neilson in 1899 and was the leading theory in the early 1900s, having obtained support from historians such as Charles Oman. Kevin Halloran argues that the different forms used by various authors when naming the battle site associate it with a hill and fortifications, since burh (used by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle poem) means “a fortified place”, and dune (used by Æthelweard and Symeon of Durham, in names such as Brunandune and We(o)ndune) means “a hill”. He also states that the name “Burnswark” could be related to Bruneswerce, another alternative name for the battle site used by Symeon of Durham and Geoffrey Gaimar. [/snip]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brunanburh