音标:[,midɪ'ivəlaɪz] ;
vt. 使中古化

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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US Restaurant Serves Medieval Art of Fighting European martial arts, unlike popular Asian martial arts, are not widely practiced and are unknown to most people. But, a restaurant near Washington is the center of an effort to make the ancient fighting

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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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Rachel Smalley | London 21 December 2009 One of the exhibits at the Victoria and Albert Museum London's Victoria and Albert Museum claims to be the world's greatest museum of art and design. With artifacts dating back 3000 years, it has a collection

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Police in Sweden say they believe they have identified the man who blew himself up in the country's capital on Saturday. The man is Taimour Abdulwahab, a Swedish citizen who has been living in Britain for the past decade. Sweden's Chief Prosecutor To

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Young Muslims Radicalized Online LONDON Young Muslims are being radicalized in their bedrooms through direct contact with Islamic State fighters via the Internet, according to terror experts. There are growing concerns authorities and Internet provid

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. Over the years, hundreds of people left the U.S. to go fight with ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Only 14 of them came back. Two of them are women with extraordinary and similar stories. Both say their husbands forced them to

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I'd like to sit around and dream you up a perfect miracle 我愿静坐一旁,与你一同设想一个完美的奇迹 I'd part the clouds and have the sun proudly shining on you 我愿驱散层云,让旭日之光芒骄傲地照耀着你 I'd take t

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By Liu Enming New York 03 December 2007 New York City's Manhattan can at times seem all business and flashy pleasure, a burgeoning island of skyscrapers and fast-paced modern life. But there are hidden treasures of history and tranquility awaiting qu

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Centuries ago in the Middle Ages, religious scribes labored over lavishly illustrated books. Most of these illuminated manuscripts were made by anonymous artists. Now scientists say they have a new kind of evidence that could revea

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aerial coupling
allosaurid
ammonia-nitrogen
antislave
apel
ascertainments
aubertite
axiom of pairing
BAYOTENSIN
black ash ball
Black Hd.
blanking gate photocell
braine le comte
Britten, Benjamin
burkeans
butcher birds
by't
carriomycin
character unit
check in the bud
chromatin body
circunglibal
country-blues
Crataegus L.
criminal judgment
Dabromierz
damper box
defeat the purpose
Dellinger phenomena
displacement unit
dovelike
electrolytic tinning line
extend through
external attribution of guilt
feedback potentiometer
fight windmills
forebulge
get the order of the push
Glandulocaudinae
govenors
grind organs
heterogeneous region
hexylalcohol
hougly
Hutton.
indicator maintaining plate distance piece
infrared facility
inhomogeneous media
interitem
lay left
light beam liquid level detector
linear demand function
Linosyris
manhole with vertical hanging cover
martinazzolis
micrococcus urinae albus olearius
mince the matter
mixiest
molineiro
national unity government
navaglobe beacon station
navigation light buoy
Nestorian Church
no charge non-machine-fault time
non-imaging type
notechis scutatuss
oil soluble group
oleographic
pal(a)eoclimatology
paving brick clay
plexus catoticus externus
plural morpheme
protein sensitization
put up productivity
querquedulas
read output
red-breasted snipes
reflector economy
rightleche
saints'day
sambucinin
schaftoside
semaphore lock operation
shear-leg
skates over
specialized capital goods
Spirochaeta recurrentis
standard dust
stub period
student nurses
tanker control system
tervalence
the foreign exchange market
thermodyn process
time en route
totts
tucked
undersea cable
unshrinks
vascular cryptogam
visible space
wave refraction diagram