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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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学英语单词
arc striking and stabilising voltage
Arnbach
back hoe dredge
balletlike
batch (-like) process
BBM (break-before-make)
beakless ignition
Belloste's solution
Betancourt, Ingrid
blending composition
bruce c.
cannon ball mill
Chlorophyta
clinicopathogenesis
coefficient of magnetic dispersion
coexcitation
concupyssible
Corydalis homopetala
crimp into crime
cross reacting antibody
cyanoformate
danseur noble
daylong
death duties and costs
deconvolution microscopy
deductive-nomological model of explanation
demand interval indicator
Deparkin
depreciation fund
diametre
direct current servomotor
distentions
dry powder
dumb as a rock
echo-pulse
electronic pulsator
elliptic curve
explosive bullet
extraordinary disburse
fall out step
first-level addressing
flash projector
flip dogs
flown off the handle
formyl piperidine
general space plan
geohistory
GHE
great minds think alike.
hoist of flag
horned melons
How are you
Illicium fargesii
imperial unit
IREWS
jobsite
Ketting
Kocherezhky
lampic
leydigarche
luteotrophin
Marêcage
mechanical indicator
NAOC
narcosis Nnssbaum's
no number
normolipidemic
octamethylphyropyosphoramide
omkar
Ophiorrhiza ensiformis
PLADaily
Podocarpus nagi
poikilocytes
porcules
pulse analyser
Renaissance church
repeller wheel sprocket
roll oil
seasonal catch
songline
spay-neuter
storage selection circuit
submarine sea-going boat
tea-leaves
tension test specimen
testicular dysgenesis
thems
totasuture
triangular matrix
tummy bug
two row check row planter
untackling
vasodilate
vegetable waxes
volency
warship
wazzocks
wijekoons
wollman
woodbind
wooden lifeboat
x-cut crystal