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Don't they use replicas?

Then maybe Andre should send a reasonable facsimile of himself to see them. [:D]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

Don't they use replicas?

They had a few replicas, but most were the real deal.

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Then maybe Andre should send a reasonable facsimile of himself to see them. [:D]

I'm not aware of any version of me that most people would call 'reasonable'. Just ask Steve! [:D]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Going to go and see Chinese terra cotta warriors today. Travelling exhibit here in Minneapolis. [8D]

Very nice!

How many of them were transported to exhibit BTW?


Leo "Apollo11"

Half a dozen horses, various soldiers, a general and some officer pieces. Probably 30-40 in all. Also, stone body armor (!) and helmets for the troops. Pretty impressive worksmanship for being 2700 years old!

Oh, and in quintessential pharoah/emperor/king style, they killed all the thousands of workers and artisans that worked on the project to preserve secrecy. "Thanks for the nice digs, guys. Unfortunately, we have to kill all of you now." It's a helluva artisan pension system, isn't it?

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Then maybe Andre should send a reasonable facsimile of himself to see them. [:D]

I'm not aware of any version of me that most people would call 'reasonable'. Just ask Steve! [:D]

Are you implying that Steve is the equivalent of "most people"? [:-]

Speaking of Steve, I finally got my entire library back together (the stuff I had in NY and the stuff I had left at my parents' house when I first moved to NY). Threw out many of my paperbacks, mostly TNG-related stuff that I dont think I'll ever read because it wasnt that well written to begin with, all of the W.E.B. Griffin stuff (which I used to find fascinating), most of the Tom Clancy stuff (which was really getting pretty bad towards the end there...Bear and the Dragon, etc.), and my Squad Leader (I hated to have done it but its been at least 15 years since I played and I highly doubt that I'll find anyone here to play with anyway).

I hadnt the slightest recollection what I had here for the most part. Turns out I had a bunch of very good stuff squirreled away; von Luck, Mellenthin, bunch of Samuel Mitcham books, turns out I was quite a fan of Stephen Ambrose in those days judging by the number of his books I had (I was young and impressionable), Corum's Luftwaffe book, Caldwell's book on JG26, bunch of memoirs.....

But my final thought on looking at my library is I have a looooooooong way to go before I get up to Steve's level of epic home library-dom/ness. [&o]

Once we get our finances back on track and I dont feel guilty spending money on books, I'll look into that Flashman thing I saw at Martin's place. They looked hilarious.

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

Going to go and see Chinese terra cotta warriors today. Travelling exhibit here in Minneapolis. [8D]

Very nice!

How many of them were transported to exhibit BTW?


Leo "Apollo11"

Half a dozen horses, various soldiers, a general and some officer pieces. Probably 30-40 in all. Also, stone body armor (!) and helmets for the troops. Pretty impressive worksmanship for being 2700 years old!

Oh, and in quintessential pharoah/emperor/king style, they killed all the thousands of workers and artisans that worked on the project to preserve secrecy. "Thanks for the nice digs, guys. Unfortunately, we have to kill all of you now." It's a helluva artisan pension system, isn't it?

You can do stuff like that when youre the first emperor of China.

Is it true that each of the figures was modeled on an actual person?

URRRG, you threw away squad leader, ack, pthpppt. The pain, the burning, the injustice.

The Walking Dead...

Are here!

uaaargh!

Good morning friends.

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Historiker

Don't they use replicas?

They had a few replicas, but most were the real deal.

Saw a couple at an exhibition in Memphis many years ago. Very cool!

Good Monday morning - Tithe. [&o][&o][&o]

Had a great time at my half marathon yesterday. My goal time was 2:15, with a stretch goal of 2:11. My buddy pushed me for the entire race and I finished in 2:05:45. [8D]

Tired legs today! [:D]

Hi all,

HDD with Data partition and ISO/Install partition started to behave strangely in my workstation at work today... I have last week's BackUp and I am now copying the disk 81 TB) to spare one...


Leo "Apollo11"

Go Cats!

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

BTW, what is with our banned brothers?

I, sadly, predicted that Kristian would not come buck but I didn't see John as well... [:(]


Leo "Apollo11"

I dont know John that well, but from what I have seen, I think he will be back eventually. I would guess that he's just taking some time to detach and decompress. Hope so, anyway. He's very much fun to have around without even mentioning his deep knowledge of both the game and history in general.

I think we need "Terminus come home" and "JWE come home" threads. Everyone sign on. Probably meaninless if they truly don't want to come back, but it's always nice to see people doing things together".[:D]

+1 I would like to see them come back.

Good Morning Bros