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Medieval Warfare
These two words started an entire week of surfing the internet on my tablet. See, this is what happens when I'm on vacation and have time to fool around on google and research random stuff. I was talking to someone about at trebuchet, no idea how I knew what that was but I did, and then got lost in the rabbit warren of medieval siege machine photos. Try it! I'll check in with you next month when I do this newsletter again.
Not only did I find the aawesome catapult photo of a trebuchet, I found lots of cool and inspiring photos of things such as the mangonel; a traction trebuchet and the onager, a catapult that uses torsional force. Then there was the ballista, which is basically a gigantic crossbow that could fire huge projectiles at fortifications.
Okay...more than once I imagined new and modern uses for these siege engines. Like when the neighbor mows his lawn ridiculously early on a Saturday morning. I could catapult a few dozen donuts at him and surely he'd shut down for some breakfast so I can sleep in. Or you know...use a mangonel to fire a bucket load of broccoli at the ice cream truck as it drives by...just for giggles.
So next time a funny topic comes up in conversation, research it! You'll at least have something off the wall to talk about at your backyard barbecues. And as always, Write On!
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