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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 6:13:15 PM

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Double post...

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 6:24:21 PM

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

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"...

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

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 6:27:49 PM

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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.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 6:38:58 PM

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

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"... ...

"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!

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 6:48:25 PM

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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???

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 7:10:53 PM

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Back home tithe

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 7:56:04 PM

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Zoing(tm)!!!

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 7:56:24 PM

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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

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 7:57:59 PM

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Oh look, mommy, its 3 brits having a debate about the weather.

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

Baseball is like cricket only it makes sense.

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

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 8:47:12 PM

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Geh - it seems this place is so slow without me making the threat of a faber...

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 8:52:51 PM

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

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 9:02:08 PM

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Oh look, mommy, its 3 brits having a debate about the weather.

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

Baseball is like cricket only it makes sense.

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.........

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 9:03:03 PM

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Geh - it seems this place is so slow without me making the threat of a faber...

We ARE watching you....

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 9:03:32 PM

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Baseball is like cricket only it makes sense.

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

, 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

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 9:10:28 PM

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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.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/28/2007 11:42:38 PM

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

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/29/2007 12:33:27 AM

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Baseball is like cricket only it makes sense.

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 , 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.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/29/2007 12:34:33 AM

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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.

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

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/29/2007 12:40:51 AM

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

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/29/2007 12:41:21 AM

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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.

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

They have only done it once

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/29/2007 12:46:11 AM

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

I dont have free internet access at work. The Gecko forbids it.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/29/2007 12:46:45 AM

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They have only done it once

Really? It has to be at least a couple of times, I think.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/29/2007 12:50:47 AM

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I think Faber is branching out into pop culture.....

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/29/2007 1:12:15 AM

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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.

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

Same thing happens with World Cup Soccar (every 4 years). A bunch of foriengers beat us at their boring game. This is why we don't invite them to the World Series (our boring game).

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/29/2007 1:14:34 AM

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Same thing happens with World Cup Soccar (every 4 years). A bunch of foriengers beat us at their boring game. This is why we don't invite them to the World Series (our boring game).

Shhh...dont tell anyone....but....US cant put together a soccer team to save their lives.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/29/2007 1:24:32 AM

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More to the point....why would we want to?

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/29/2007 1:52:22 AM

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The rain seems to have finally stopped where I am.

It must have moved over here. I'm going to go for a run in it in a couple of hours. I love to run in the warm rain.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/29/2007 1:54:34 AM

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Hi Dixie

Something similar to Yava's if possible. I have a soft spot for Exeter, the County Class and KGVs. Camouflage would be nice too... This was why I wanted to pay, because then I would not feel too guilty about being an awkward git. It's your fault, you know - what you did for Yava has set the bar very high.

I have a few pics of the Counties on the HD at home. I can't remember where I got Yava's sig pic from, I seem to recall that I found it already colourised in some obscure corner of the 'net. If there is a particular image you wanted then I can colourise it completely for you, but it will take a wee while.

This is another one I was toying with a while back, I quite like the County Class, for a ship

That's obviously not a pic from my PBEM. The Australia (along with 7-8 other cruisers and the Repulse) are rusting along the coast of Guadalcanal where they were ambushed.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/29/2007 2:03:16 AM

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It's not the same as Robert's, but here goes

1937:
The USAAC receives it's first B-17 bomber
The Hidenburg blows up at Lakehurst, New Jersey.� 36 are killed.
The Sino-Japanese war resumes.� Japanese troops clashed in maneuvers with Chinese troops at the Marco Polo Bridge, ten miles west of Peking. Three weeks later, the Japanese invaded in large numbers. In order to circumvent the pledge made in the Kellogg Pact, Japan did not officially declare war, but called the event the "China Incident."
Amelia Earhart was lost over the Pacific in her attempt to make an around-the-world flight along the equator. The flight, which began in Miami, had made it around the world to Lae, in the Pacific. She was flying a Lockheed "Electra." Her last flight words by radio were "we are flying northeast."
The purges in the Soviet Union spread to the Soviet military. Marshal Michael Tukhachevski and seven other top generals were arrested and executed for treason.
On December 12th, Japanese planes bombed a US river gunboat, the Panay, in China. The Panay sank, two were killed and thirty wounded. The State Department demanded an apology, which the Japanese provided. The attack followed Japanese attacks against Chinese civilians.
The maiden flight of the first production Hawker Hurricane took place on the 12th October 1937

Uhh, sorry Dixie but you're only 1900 years off.

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RE: The THREAD!!! - 6/29/2007 2:11:13 AM

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Nah - not just RUPD...

And Mike is just frustrated that he cant keep up.

That's a fact. Between the sucky wireless and you guys with light fingers

I keep losing ground.

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