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The Wild Bunch shoot-out with Mapache :2guns: The final confrontation in Yojimbo - most of Ran and Kagemusha. Cross of Iron . Braveheart and Alexander -but only the battles. Flame throwers as cool? Only in OHMSS . Some of Excalibur ,for the way it looks , rather than any remote attachment to reality.

Cedar as either a block of fragrant wood, shaved from time to time, or the oil sprinkled liberally. Clove would do quite nicely as well. In my wardrobe I have small blocks which I sprinkle with the oil, and next to our bed we have a large wooden dish containing clove, black pepper and cinnamon-the heat from a lamp gives a heady background aroma. Frankincensce as oil or (burnt) gum is a great cleanser -but I suspect AD will have something to say .. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0714127...ce&n=266239 one of his previous works and a favourite of mine.

"And in Genoa, tis the fashion :fish: to stand upon a box, pin a frog to your lapel and say "wibble""

It's synonyms are not as 'PG' Would this be similar to "dipstick" ie: a person of limited intelligence and lacking life skills whose only useful role would be as an inanimate object for the calibration of a oil level in a motor vehicle engine? "ie"?, negative! 'i.e.' 'i.e.' Id Est, get it? "a oil level"?, negative, once again! An oil level. 'an oil level', get it? Tounge!, indeed! brain/hand/ eye co-ordination sadly lacking after a day of ministering to the sick, needy and witless.

I posted this especially for Lost Warrior-its not brilliant , but at least you get an idea of what the Cornicen could do!

It's synonyms are not as 'PG' Would this be similar to "dipstick" ie: a person of limited intelligence and lacking life skills whose only useful role would be as an inanimate object for the calibration of a oil level in a motor vehicle engine?

Beshrew me! I hate you! Truely HATE you! Are you going to have me spend the rest of my miserable, wretched, long suffering, worthless life with my head stuck in a dictionary? Love, Gaius yes.

Now I understand why your onomatopoeic prestidigitations of pulchritudinous aplomb were so episodically :pimp: infrequent!

A tentative one! We only need to wait another millenium to get the gist

The Carrot family provided several very interesting medicinal/culinary/deadly umbelliferous herbs to the Ancient World , and if you are careful to look them out nowadays, they are still so available. The main thing is not to get the culinary gems (Candied Angelica) mixed up with the State Poisons (Hemlock and Waterdropwort) or the top notch wound salve (Yarrow). There are also quite a number of not so useful members of the group and one notable outsider (Valerian) that have a superficially similar appearence .So getting a correct ID is most important. Yarrow (Achillea millefollium) is the Roman wound salve par excellence, also called the Centurions Herb, Soldiers Herb, Knights Millefoil or nosebleed. It is suggested that the Romans brought this plant to Britain and encouraged its cultivation wherever they settled for any time . It is useful as a medicine and as a dressing.Thujones, lactones and flavinoids abound in its complex make up.The Redcoats took it to N America as I think I have mentioned before. The frond/fern like new growths are the key to identification. http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?act=mo...=si&img=853 http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?act=mo...=si&img=827 Hemlock (Conium maculatum) is the Greek state poison. This is the herb that was given to Socrates after he was condemned to death.Its height and the purple blotches on its stem are keys to ID.Proximity to water is common so if in doubt about a plant near a stream-dont chew it! Hemlock was used in Anglo-Saxon medicine, and is mentioned as early as the tenth century in English Herbals. The name Hemlock is derived from the Anglo-Saxon words hem (border, shore) and le

So just why has the weather been so bad for the last 10,000 years? http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22062006/325/25-y...since-1600.html "Natural climate variability is something that we'd like to know about," said Kurt Cuffey, yes indeed but in the absence of global, very long term , collated analysis of evidence what sort of conclusion is possible?

Beats me. Seems that the boss is in the same place on both. I was thinking about delivering the blow , if you have already made a fist and strike upwards, that is the simplest action. If the grip is vertical you will tend to twist the fist to deliver a blow-which takes the shield out of the vertica. At the next re-enacatment I will try a scutum out myself and ask for someone to go through and evolution of the drill to see if the hand position is critical.

I wonder if the key is- which is the best grip to use the scutum boss as an offensive weapon?

Please take a look at this http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?act=mo...=si&img=838 now here we have an "active" mobile formation , see how the scutum position and angle varies per grip.

Yes, the whole of this "vexillation" of LEG VIII( and as did the Deva Victrix unit) had similar grips, the auxilliae had vertical grips. http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?act=mo...=si&img=850 I post this image for your elucidation-note that the "heavies" always have the shield sqaure and level , the auxilliae tend always to hold at a (slight) slant even in formation.

"All the technical information was stolen from reliable sources and I am happy to stand behind it" Edward Abbey.

Yes indeed this is the most likely location. I note that the original grid street plan (laid out circa AD 70) was never actually "grown into " by the town as it developed, the suggestion being that this reflected the impoverishment of the Icenii after the failed revolt, ( and of course not helped by failing to plant crops during that event-possibly hoping that plunder would be had in the way of grain stores) .The first latge scale building episode was Antonine.Some commentaries suggest that Prasutagus might have been "rewarded" with this site as a "new capital" for his people because of his submission to Rome . ref S P Fry 1984 and at this rate Britain is set to become a Roman theme park given the reliance of the tourist industry on the Wall!