The Armour Archive

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not to mention "aketon over maille", which is also plausibly documentable.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/opin ... amage.html

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I'm happy to have stopped fighting.

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Knee dislocation in any fighter is possible.

it becomes vastly more probable the more you weigh.

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not fighting, but i've been in the zone both skiing and climbing. I've found that my skiing instincts make dancing with traffic on my bicycle easier.

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i see. I suspect they concluded they are geometric kufic characters because they can read them and they mean something which makes sense. in the case of the text embroidery on the garment, it's pretty legibly mirror-writing in a geometric script, which is well-documented in many other places. Playin...

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A ring is just a piece of art. No different than an effigy. I don't reject the possibility out of hand, the Norse were pretty accepting of other gods and tolerant of other peoples' religions. I'm just skeptical of art as proof of things. Especially when it's an artistic representation of another ar...

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$5 says it's a poor translation from swedish of the equivalent of "shown". still, the mirrored photograph in the article is pretty much exactly 'allah' in a geometric kufic script .. http://freeislamiccalligraphy.com/portfolio/allah-square-kufic/ And once upon a time it was shown that banded mail w...

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I still get a kick out of "halfdan was here", too.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41567391 the beeb's picked this up, with some more photographs.

The robustness of trade networks in the migration period shouldn't be too terribly surprising.

hrolf

$5 says it's a poor translation from swedish of the equivalent of "shown".

still, the mirrored photograph in the article is pretty much exactly 'allah' in a geometric kufic script .. http://freeislamiccalligraphy.com/portf ... are-kufic/

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http://www.uu.se/en/research/news/article/?id=9390&typ=artikel What was previously thought to be typical Viking Age patterns in silver have now proven to be geometric Kufic characters. The Uppsala University researchers behind the study also show that both Allah and Ali are invoked in the patterns o...

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I am a researcher. I am firmly of the opinion that data should be made accessible...after i get my publications out and peer review does its job and sanity checks what i've done. Much of what i do is NIH funded, and at least in theory data sets _must_ be made public (eventually). Researchers tend to...

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This is fairly well known. Drunk kraut undergrads have been slashing each other's cheeks for generations in the weird belief that it makes them sexy. I remain unconvinced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing

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that's a lot easier than asking Galileo to wear shiny ones under his tee-shirt for a few days.

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Galileo wrote:memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=8727

He hasn't been on the Archive since March 28 (nearly 4 months now) and as he joined in January - only 3 months for 151 posts.

G--

January 2007, not 2017. 151 posts in a decade.

His turn to auto racing was in 2012.

hrolf

i have gotten contracting jobs this way.

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alma mater, represent!

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Yeah, i'm glad i stopped playing at two-hand touch..

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... l-cte.html

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But today I was contacted by someone who gave me the personal contact information (which I already had) for a person. The friend and I share an interest in a specific type of playing card and he suggested I contact her. So do I? Yes. "hi alice, i was talking to bob about stuff today and he suggeste...

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wrought hasn't been produced on an industrial scale in about a century. Scrap is basically your only option.

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Very soft under the hammer, dents easily after formed too. It will work harden but it takes a lot longer to do so and so for many items it will never show up. Most modern combat forms: it dents too easily and deeply for protection Blacksmiths like it for extreme ornamental work, but not for structu...

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http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/05/harvard-study-challenges-assumptions-on-natural-lead-levels/ When the Black Death swept across Europe in the 14th century, it not only killed millions, it also brought lead smelting, among many other commercial activities, to a halt. That cessation is re...

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I do not make this post lightly. I've spent about 5 years building this kit up to a respectable point, but I spent the five years after that doing nothing with it at all. I haven't fought in at least 4 years. I like the kit, but I don't necessarily have to haul it around forever -- and I'm moving so...

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You can scratch off the cooking and most maintenance tasks. That's what cooks, valets, and wives are for!

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Start memorizing latin Mass. Now you know the words to at least half the extant sung music we have!

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ask and ye shall receive:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0By0-p ... 28xeVlkUWM

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contact information?

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OK. i'll get a pdf out later. PM me a reminder, willya?

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I have Krotchpunt at home.

I'm willing to samizdat it, if you can get Vitus to agree.

hrolf

It's hard to explain, I've been doing it for years, but I've never felt like I was part of the group, always felt like a visitor, despite most people being very caring and welcoming. That's certainly why I stopped fighting. I haven't picked it back up again because, quite frankly, i don't want brai...

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Strengthening the connection is that "pants" is attested from ~1850. Too late for frequent english--german transmission.

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Aaron wrote:So at 5 AM I was trying to make graves using my old flip flops. It seemed like the best option.

I thought wood posts or stone pillars were more appropriate?

hrolf

In some sense, the obvious modernities (the parking lot of cars) are less jarring to me than the "not-obviously-modern" things which are actually not documentable, like the boy-scout style plank chairs ('viking x chair'). Once you go down the research hole, half-assed attempts or institutionalized t...

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Atmospheric Lead levels in 14th c. Europe decline in plague

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