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[Bobthehatchit]

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[rtrapasso]

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Listening to a book on Agincourt... the English longbow (with steel arrowhead) could penetrate a wooden door 4" thick!!! [X(] [X(] [X(]

Awesome weapon, bowmen used to have to train from when they were a child to build enough strength to draw a full longbow. Its used to be compusary to train with one every day or week at one stage of English history.

This book mentions some of that, although the law at this point was that the only sport allowed on Sundays was archery.

i liked this part of the law though - if you killed someone while you were practicing, it was "not a criminal act"... [X(] [:D]...

"OK, i'm practicing... you get a 3 second head start..."

[rtrapasso]

Year 43:

The long Roman conquest of Britain begins. Aulus Plautius lands with four legions and an equal number of auxiliaries and defeats the Britons, led by Caratacus and Togodumnus, in battles on the rivers Medway and Thames. He halts at the Thames and sends for the emperor Claudius, who leads the march on Camulodunum. Meanwhile, the future emperor Vespasian begins to subdue the south-west. The Romans found the cities of London, then known as Londinium, and Peterborough, and begin to construct a road that later becomes Ermine Street.

Consuls are the emperor Claudius (his second consulship) and Lucius Vitellius.

Claudius annexes Lycia in Asia Minor, combining it with Pamphylia as a Roman province.

The Romans now have complete control of the Mediterranean.

Warfare begins between the northern and southern Huns.

The warrior Trung Sisters commit suicide after their resistance is defeated at Nam Viet in Vietnam.*

Vietnam is designated a province of China.

*In AD 39 Trung Trắc and Trung Nhị, after successfully repelling a small Chinese unit from their village, assembled a large army, consisting mostly of women. Within months, they had taken back many (about 65) citadels from the Chinese, and had liberated Nam Việt. They became queens of the country, and managed to resist all Chinese attacks on Nam Việt for over two years.

Their revolution was short lived however, as the Chinese gathered a huge expeditionary army to crush the native fighters. Legend has it that the Chinese army did this by going into battle unclothed. The enemy's brazenness so shamed the Vietnamese female warriors that they fled the battle scene, leaving the weakened forces easily defeated by the Chinese.

[Bobthehatchit]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: Bobthehatchit

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Listening to a book on Agincourt... the English longbow (with steel arrowhead) could penetrate a wooden door 4" thick!!! [X(] [X(] [X(]

Awesome weapon, bowmen used to have to train from when they were a child to build enough strength to draw a full longbow. Its used to be compusary to train with one every day or week at one stage of English history.

This book mentions some of that, although the law at this point was that the only sport allowed on Sundays was archery.

i liked this part of the law though - if you killed someone while you were practicing, it was "not a criminal act"... [X(] [:D]...

"OK, i'm practicing... you get a 3 second head start..."

Think it depended on what was "doing on" at the time!

French were dum to attack a prepared postion across wet ground with stakes deployed with no infantry in support, they desurved to loose. Considering the state the English army was in they should have won.

Also until recently it used to be legal to kill a welshman within sight on Glouchester Catherdral on a sunday with a longbow!

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Bobthehatchit


Also until recently it used to be legal to kill a welshman within sight on Glouchester Catherdral on a sunday with a longbow!

Did you have to be practicing??? [:D] [:'(]

[Dixie]

Back home tithe [&o]

[rtrapasso]

Zoing(tm)!!!

[RUPD3658]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

TODAY'S NIK SIGHTING:

Nik decides to use his knowledge of aeronautics to avoid the tedious commute to work...

I thought the term "Propeller head" meant he was smart[:'(]

[RUPD3658]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Oh look, mommy, its 3 brits having a debate about the weather. [8|]

Is Onime trolling? How dare he mock the national sport? [:@] Anyway, discussing the weather is still more interesting than baseball. [:D] I'd even say that watching people discuss the weather is more interesting than watching baseball [:'(]

Baseball is like cricket only it makes sense.[:D]

Your nation is not one to talk of boring sports. Your Scottish cousins gave us golf which has to be the most boring sport ever to watch[:-]

[rtrapasso]

Geh - it seems this place is so slow without me making the threat of a faber... [8|] [:'(]

[alaviner]

I am just waiting for the vet to come give my horse his annual shots - He hates the vet

[Bobthehatchit]

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Oh look, mommy, its 3 brits having a debate about the weather. [8|]

Is Onime trolling? How dare he mock the national sport? [:@] Anyway, discussing the weather is still more interesting than baseball. [:D] I'd even say that watching people discuss the weather is more interesting than watching baseball [:'(]

Baseball is like cricket only it makes sense.[:D]

Your nation is not one to talk of boring sports. Your Scottish cousins gave us golf which has to be the most boring sport ever to watch[:-]

Cricket's an excellent and highly interesting sport, played by most of the world, unlike base ball.........

[Bobthehatchit]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Geh - it seems this place is so slow without me making the threat of a faber... [8|] [:'(]

We ARE watching you....

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

Baseball is like cricket only it makes sense.[:D]

Your nation is not one to talk of boring sports. Your Scottish cousins gave us golf which has to be the most boring sport ever to watch[:-]

Baseball is not like cricket [:-]. For a start, the cricket world cup actually had teams from more than one nation [:'(] I can also manage to watch a whole cricket match, even a full test match.

As for Great Britain making boring sports, when you've been as creative as we were a few poor decisions are bound to slip through [:D], although you colonials have your fair share of crap sports. The only 'American' sports I can watch are basketball (which I used to enjoy playing) and ice-hockey.

There's only one interesting thing about golf and that is, no actually I'm lying. Golf is terrible [:@]

[RUPD3658]

ORIGINAL: Dixie




Baseball is not like cricket [:-]. For a start, the cricket world cup actually had teams from more than one nation [:'(]

So is baseball. There is still one Canadian team (made up of South American players[;)]). The World series is "Our" world. [:D]

[Dixie]

A bit of new artwork. A Ki-49 'Helen', circa 1945 with search radar.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

Baseball is like cricket only it makes sense.[:D]

Your nation is not one to talk of boring sports. Your Scottish cousins gave us golf which has to be the most boring sport ever to watch[:-]

Baseball is not like cricket [:-]. For a start, the cricket world cup actually had teams from more than one nation [:'(] I can also manage to watch a whole cricket match, even a full test match.

As for Great Britain making boring sports, when you've been as creative as we were a few poor decisions are bound to slip through [:D], although you colonials have your fair share of crap sports. The only 'American' sports I can watch are basketball (which I used to enjoy playing) and ice-hockey.

There's only one interesting thing about golf and that is, no actually I'm lying. Golf is terrible [:@]

Hockey is Canadian...dumbass. [:'(]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

ORIGINAL: Dixie




Baseball is not like cricket [:-]. For a start, the cricket world cup actually had teams from more than one nation [:'(]

So is baseball. There is still one Canadian team (made up of South American players[;)]). The World series is "Our" world. [:D]

They have that international thing where countries like Cuba, Japan and Korea play. Oddly enough, I dont remember the US ever winning it. [:D]

[bobogoboom]

OK slacker what have you been doing all day i only see one page since lunch.[:@]

[bobogoboom]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

ORIGINAL: Dixie




Baseball is not like cricket [:-]. For a start, the cricket world cup actually had teams from more than one nation [:'(]

So is baseball. There is still one Canadian team (made up of South American players[;)]). The World series is "Our" world. [:D]

They have that international thing where countries like Cuba, Japan and Korea play. Oddly enough, I dont remember the US ever winning it. [:D]

They have only done it once