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Knights in shining armor, charging each other in great pitched battles, that is the popular view of warfare in the Middle Ages. In reality, most medieval conflicts involved the attacking of castles, a

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In the year 1304, Edward Longshanks, more formally known as King Edward I of England, mounted the greatest siege of his reign against the Scots and their castle at Stirling. The attack dragged on. Imp

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Trebuchets began in the Far East, in China. But what they were there, were hand-pulled machines, worked by quite large teams of men.

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At the end of the 13th century, what was the effective range of an archer, and what was the effective range of a trebuchet. The historical reports differ.

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With the manuscript as a starting point, Wayne used a combination of engineering theory and trial and error to come up with a working model.

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But the throwing arm will be made from a more light-weight wood - Douglas fir. Wayne calculates that a tree trunk of at least 2 feet in diameter is needed to withstand the stresses of hurling 250-poun

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Renaud was left with no alternative but to hope that a couple of planks will be strong enough to splint the weakened throwing arm. Finally work starts on raising the great trestle s. With each passing

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Even with 12 timber framers pulling, the firing pin won't budge . It is quite normal that I mean the trigger first is stiff, we found that at home. It takes a lot of efforts which is as well as in som

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Turkmen From Amerli Describe Survival of IS Siege KIRKUK, IRAQ Over the past few weeks, hundreds of Shi'ite Turkmen have fled the town of Amerli seeking refuge in the northern city of Kirkuk. Despite recent military gains after U.S. airstrikes that w

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20When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you. 2When you are about to go into battle, the p

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...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

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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

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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

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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

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 15 March 2006 Palestinian demonstrators shout slogans as they hold red flags of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, green Islamic flags and Palestinian flags in the

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 11 October 2006 Suspected militants who raided an oil facility in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta have released several of the 60 oil workers held since Tuesday. The attackers are believed to have issued a ransom demand. Offi

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: A new play in New York centers on Palestinian militants who hid from the Israeli army for over a month in 2002 inside Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports that The Siege, not surprisingly, is controversial

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 07 July 2007 Pakistani security forces are intensifying their operations outside the Red Mosque in Islamabad where radical clerics are refusing to surrender to government forces. Pakistani media report president Pervez Mush

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 14 March 2006 Israeli military authorities say a siege at a prison in the West Bank city of Jericho has ended with the surrender of a leading Palestinian militant. The prison s

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 06 July 2007 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers get down from a truck beside the radical Red Mosque in Islamabad, 06 July 2007 The military siege of a radical mosque in the Pakistani capital intensified, after the group's chie

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accumulation system
alases
aposafranin
arbalist
barochore
Basankusu
below-order leveling
Biphenabid
bisbenzimidazole
box beam
breached fuel element
brutality
camocavate
cecoyinine
cerous hydroxide
chlorine carrier
compass receiver
crochet stitch
croggy
crosswind sensitivity
cystoscopy
Delpech's abscess
deromanticises
dienyne
dill
disposition estate duty
diverging rate
division bulkhead
duke energy
eligible member country
embryo crystal
emulsion power pack
enrooted
face plate illumination
feather-edged
George Boole
girth class
global public sphere
gluteal tuberosity
grand-
Grosskrut
gyroquadrilateral
heliacus infundibuliformis
hogskins
horby
icebreakers
IDOE
image stability
industrial gasoline
kilo-katals
Kronlein's hernia
large-scale national survey
Lathyrus davidii
loophole
loudness control circuit
magnetic blow-out coil
malvas
marginal keratoderma of palms
mavole
Mdelete
Milwaukee River
multitrack audio recorder
NIDL
non-resistances
none shaloyre
nuclear screening constant
nutrients transport in plant
onto something
open recent
Orimycin
oxygen gouging
phrenoton
plastic film for wrapping
position finder
production of shaft kiln for unit volume
profiteering
pushdown stack
RabI-orientation
reactive dyeing
receiving element
rich-kids
screw pre-pla
sexual refractoriness
shaft end ring
signal of communication
so sad
species gap zone
standard binary code
standard of disclosure
stichonematic
submarine oil
tetrachloro aniline
theorem of parallel axes
threeaddress
tool section
turn to a right
unducted
unrebelliously
upward closure
vocal communication
walking dress
wrapping plate