The Armour Archive

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Hey, the Syrian Orthodox Church, and the Antiochian Orthodox, use Arabic. Doesn't surprise me.

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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu......

Nice, NICE helmet.

Jeepers.

And I'm joining the "love the grill" bandwagon.

Dayum.

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Well, Kufic itself was the most generally prevalent at the time; the specialized Geometric version was less so. I am willing to admit that I have never been able to read some of the inscriptions at all: But in a plain, block-printing style it would have been easy enough. I'm one who loves some of t...

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@ Alric: he's bloviating and playing the troll by insisting that everybody have his discussion, rather than letting people get on with answering the question at hand. Historical philosophy as he's expressing it does NOT explain why this decline occurs in the 13th or 14th century (as opposed to the ...

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Galfrid atte grene wrote:Plenty in the Dalimil Chronicle

The interesting thing (to me) is that many of these seem to display horizontal wrinkling across the front just above the waist -- it looks like the front may not be so much "shortened" in some cases as rolled up over the belt.

Opinions?

Effingham

I have split off the stuff which (in my omniscient view) goes outside of HR and into PC. Obviously there's some room for overlap (politics occasional has some impact on history), but that's the way it is. Please keep this thread historical, and use the other thread (there's a link to the moved thre...

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I'm watching a series of documentaries called "Civilization: Is the West History?" that addresses the question of what made "the West" dominant in the world, and whether that dominance is on the wane. One episode spent a lot of time talking about Turkey, and pointed out that in t...

Effingham

Huzzah!

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If this isn't inspirational, what is? http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq182/Exitnight/1233315054_SdqYL-M.jpg Don't know who it is, just found the pic, on Anglesey Photo Gallery http://www.bogpages.com/SCA-photographs/2011/Gulf-Wars-XX-Wednesday/16397556_pAcex#1233315054_SdqYL I'm sorry. I have t...

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Good point. Dang it.

I wonder if the original guys would even understand "our version" of their songs.

"Dude-- you really have a bad Babylonian accent."

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Chris, you suck.

And I mean that with the greatest respect and admiration.

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I love this kaka.

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They won't wonder if all they can find is "death metal."

I'm fascinated by the concept of musical forensics. It's just so COOL -- like opening a tiny crack into a window allowing us to experience the lives of our distant ancestors.

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Now you can hear for yourself the world's oldest recorded song. A tablet found at Ugarit, and dating to the 13th century B.C. , contains in the upper portion the text of Hurrian hymn. In the lower portion (highlighted in red) it contains a series of numbers and technical terms that have been interpr...

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Those arms are really impressive.

But tell me more about your friend.

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Hee hee hee.

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YAY!!!

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Never mind. Spam post is gone. :)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-2EDraQ9fk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxA6zxBMzp8

I love the comedy stylings of Armstrong and Miller.

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Cian of Storvik wrote:
Effingham wrote:Cian, I love you, man.

Smooth move! Now they all know how I acquired the VD!
-Cian

D'oh!

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Earthquakes and disasters in diverse places, wars, rumors of wars, and The Sealed Book....

Anyone wanna meet me at church tomorrow, just in case?

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Cian of Storvik wrote:I can list the venerial diseases I have contracted chronologically, alphabetically, or by severity.
I also know the venerial diseases my persona would have had. (ba dump bump!)

Cian, I love you, man.

Effingham

Wanting of bigger and better pix. Looks COOL.

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Damn.... That be PURTY.

I think I want. Hm. New house. Need furniture....

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Cool. This is the sort of thing I'd really like to get provenance on.

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You know, it occurs to me that this isn't a proper venue for me to go all onomastic-geek...

Good Sir Marc, I apologize for diverting a celebratory "COWABUNGA!" thread for your achievement for my own twitchiness.

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaad boy.

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MarkH wrote:Yeah, it's amazing, my name gets misspelled ALL THE TIME...

Even by you?

"d'Arundel" is the correct Frenchification....

No charge.

Oh, and my heartiest congratulations on your victory! Well bloody done, sir!!!

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"du Arundel"?

Dear God, get that man someone who speaks French.

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No.

Not only is that a "shouldn't" from a stylistic perspective, it's also from a structural one.

Modern kendo dÃ´ are made with fiberglass facings -- which one good shot from a rattan sword will up-fuck in a spectacular way.

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Bob, that's not gold, that's a muddy orange red. OP had to get that heraldry is a GRAPHIC art, and the colors are clear, clean, and sharply distinct. Blue is BLUE. Red is RED. There is no "muddy orange-red."

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Oh, it's a general "Yeah, I've got really good observational skills" comment. As a rule, Japanese mail is butted (it's those tiny rings). I can't recall having seen any that was riveted -- and here I'd seen one dozens of times; I just missed it. I do think it's probably an import piece of ...

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Dammit, do you know how many times I've looked at that armour?

Crap.

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Halberds wrote:Some day I would like to make her a pair of high heel sabatons like my hero Ugo.

Ugo wears HEELS?

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