Medieval siege 中世纪攻城战- 12 (end)

In terms of the kind of dialogue that existed between attack and defense, it is very clear now to me that the appearance of trebuchet on the scene shifted that balance radically in favor of attack. It

Medieval siege 中世纪攻城战-10

Come and take a look at the rocks over here. It just pulverize d the stone on the inside. It confirmed what we came here to prove, didn't it? We had a lovely hit smacking in the middle and it smashed

Medieval siege 中世纪攻城战-9

Well it's gonna fit. Some point is gonna found. We're off the ground here. After last night's narrow miss,Wayne's trebuchet is repositioned to be more in line with the target. All we're doing is shift

Medieval siege 中世纪攻城战-11

...one, fire in the hole! Oh, yeah. Renaud’s optimism is justified. The missile falls just a few yards short of the wall and a bit to the right. The team decides to give it one more day. But the nex

Galway, Ireland 戈尔韦城

Galway has been dub bed the Gateway to the West. For hundreds of years, this was a modest fishing village, then in the 13th century, the English wised up to the area's strategic spot on the water. 14

Villa Rothchilds, France 罗杰别墅

The Villa is one of the few places on the Riviera where you can tour a grand Belle Epoque mansion. It was built for the Baroness Ephrussi de Rothschild in the early 1900s. She supervised and directed

Koln and the Rhine River 科隆古城

Goods flowed down this riverway from France and Switzerland on their way to the sea for transshipment all over Europe. Nobles along the way collected tolls, but big profits could still be made by whol

Alistair Cooke 广播传奇库克

Good evening, I don't know if it made the stir outside the United States that it'd made here, but last Monday night, the big headline in the evening papers and on the telly was one that the poor fello

Rothenburg, Germany 罗腾堡,德国

There has been a settlement here since about 500 B.C., but Rothenburg didn't really come into its own until the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf the First, chartered it as a free imperial city in 1274. Rothe

The Fauve Artists 野兽派

In 1976, two local art collectors donated their outstanding collection of modern art to the town of Troyes. The works of the artists known as

Aztecs 远古的回响 -- Aztecs帝国 9

As a purification ceremony, frankincense or copal may have been burnt in these huge brazier s depicting Tlaloc, the rain god. Most telling of all, the scientists found traces of albumen indicating the

Aztecs 远古的回响 -- Aztecs帝国 10

Victims were tether ed to the center and provided only with dummy weapons. Warriors fought them to the death. Both Aztecs and their enemies were sacrificed. For the Aztecs it was an honor. But sacrifi

Aztecs 远古的回响 -- Aztecs帝国 11

Our body is a flower as grass becomes green in the springtime, so our hearts will open and blossom and then they will die. The god of poetry was also the god of flowers, music and joy. But while he’

Aztecs 远古的回响 -- Aztecs帝国 12

Sculpting the landscape, the Aztecs created a beautiful ideal model, intended to bring rain to the real world. Water channel from the mountain through an aqueduct flowed around the hill, filling baths

Aztecs 远古的回响 -- Aztecs帝国 13

By extraordinary coincidence, the 500 conquistadors led by Hernan Cortes arrived during the exact year when an Aztec prophecy foretold the return of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent God. Feathered

The Lost Continent 遗失的大陆-23

Skepticism is normal in science and ice is a very good preserver, and in the location that we are looking at, we are hoping that there is still something there, but who knows, ten thou...twelve thousa

The Lost Continent 遗失的大陆-22

Based in Tobay, England, Jim Allen is a former aerial photography analyst for the British Royal Air Force. And it is by analyzing aerial photography that Jim Allen believes he has discovered one of th

The Lost Continent 遗失的大陆-21

In the summer of 1968, the occupant s of a small plane flying off the coast of Bimini near Florida spotted beneath them mysterious shapes in the clear waters. The site quickly attracted huge interest,

The Lost Continent 遗失的大陆-20

Entomb ed by a 30-foot layer of volcanic pumice for more than 3,500 years, the city was clearly related to the ruins of Minoan Crete. Hundreds if not thousands of years ahead of its time, among the ci

The Lost Continent 遗失的大陆-19

Santorini, once called Thera, is a beautiful collection of small Mediterranean islands encircl ing a central volcanic hub With its breathtaking views and stunning sunsets, Santorini is a magnet for to