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Guys guys I found Gondolin east of the Khyber Pass.
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PittTheElder posted:That seems about right. But I'll bet the blunt force that would still transfer would hurt like a son of a bitch. Undoubtedly, but that's what the leather padding and such below is for, to spread the remaining force over a larger area. Like bulletproof vests.
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You mean linen or cotton padding.
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Jan 20, 2015 18:24
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JaucheCharly posted:You mean linen or cotton padding. It depends on the time period really. Linen or cotton were used throughout history, but leather gambesons and chainmail were regularly used as well. In the early periods it was intended to supplement the armor, while in the latter periods it was intended to provide a light alternative to the armor.
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Jan 20, 2015 19:00
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Ancient Roman stuff: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/science/more-progress-made-toward-learning-contents-of-herculaneum-scrolls.html?_r=0
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Otteration posted:Ancient Roman stuff: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/science/more-progress-made-toward-learning-contents-of-herculaneum-scrolls.html?_r=0 Beat me to it, you bastard!
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Otteration posted:Ancient Roman stuff: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/science/more-progress-made-toward-learning-contents-of-herculaneum-scrolls.html?_r=0 quote:Though the hot gases did not burn the many papyrus rolls in the villa’s library, they turned them into cylinders of carbonized plant material. Many attempts have been made to unroll the carbonized scrolls since they were excavated in 1752. But all were highly destructive, and scholars eventually decided to leave the scrolls alone in the hope that better methods would be invented. More than 300 scrolls survive more or less intact, with many more fragments. I'm curious to know just how many scrolls were destroyed in an effort to read their contents. Oh well, I look forward to the publication of some of these scrolls in the next decade or so, because if we're going to be realistic that's probably the minimum timeframe here. 
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Jan 20, 2015 21:39
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Octy posted:I'm curious to know just how many scrolls were destroyed in an effort to read their contents. Oh well, I look forward to the publication of some of these scrolls in the next decade or so, because if we're going to be realistic that's probably the minimum timeframe here. Minimum timeframe is a scroll per couple of decades. After all, why publish it all at once when you can make your entire career out of dribbling the info out?
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How many of them are just fart jokes?
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Jan 21, 2015 03:09
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I love the "just leave it for a quarter of a millennium until we can read them" attitude. That's an astounding story of preservation.
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Jan 21, 2015 04:02
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tell me more about Three Kingdoms China please because that poo poo is cool and my roommate has been playing a ton of Dynasty Warriors recently so I'm real interested
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Jan 21, 2015 04:47
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Patter Song posted:I love the "just leave it for a quarter of a millennium until we can read them" attitude. That's an astounding story of preservation. "I swear to God, Brother Jebediah, if you gently caress up history's chance to read Lives of Famous Whores I will get you kicked out of heaven.  "
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Jan 21, 2015 08:38
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Tunicate posted:Minimum timeframe is a scroll per couple of decades. I'm an unemployed ancient history graduate. This is my calling. I'll be on the next plane!
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Jan 21, 2015 09:12
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armourchat: a few years back (5 or 10 maybe) there was a documentary in the UK about armour, and one of the guys involved had a pretty period accurate suit of plate that he was prepared to use in an historically accurate joust (with a solid oak lance; not the modern plywood poo poo) he took the hit, went flying off his horse, rolled on the ground and got straight up on his feet again. It was pretty impressive.
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Jan 21, 2015 13:32
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Otteration posted:Ancient Roman stuff: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/21/science/more-progress-made-toward-learning-contents-of-herculaneum-scrolls.html?_r=0 Come ooonnnnnnn Lives of Famous Whores! 
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I'm rooting for whores as much as the next guy, but this was from Herculaneum, which predates Suetonius by a couple of decades.
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lol sullat posted:I'm rooting for whores as much as the next guy, but this was from Herculaneum, which predates Suetonius by a couple of decades. gently caress e: If I die without reading Whores i'm not going to be happy.
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PittTheElder posted:That's why I think this Game of Thrones fight might be the most realistic fight ever shown on screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRYM6B7CTs8 Did you see Ironclad? I thought that was some really well done combat.
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Jan 21, 2015 19:27
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pugnax posted:Did you see Ironclad? I thought that was some really well done combat. I think this review series from someone who was almost the movie's historical advisor is rather relevant.
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Jan 21, 2015 19:32
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Oberleutnant posted:Come ooonnnnnnn Lives of Famous Whores! If we ever find Famous Whores it's going to be such a disappointment.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:I think this review series from someone who was almost the movie's historical advisor is rather relevant. The idea of Lindy Beige being a historical advisor on anything is kind of upsetting. His arguments all seem to be based on stuff that makes sense to him based to re-enactions and common sense. Which is fine, but a historical advisor should probably be making recommendations based on period sources and actual historical evidence.
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Jan 21, 2015 20:55
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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sbaldrick posted:If we ever find Famous Whores it's going to be such a disappointment. The only way it couldn't be was if it cooked off a morality scandal when it shows up in bookstores.
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Jan 21, 2015 21:02
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Ken M is a national treasure.
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PittTheElder posted:The idea of Lindy Beige being a historical advisor on anything is kind of upsetting. His arguments all seem to be based on stuff that makes sense to him based to re-enactions and common sense. Which is fine, but a historical advisor should probably be making recommendations based on period sources and actual historical evidence. I believe he is an archaeologist and historian by training. Compared to many other people I'm sure he could handle the job.
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Jan 21, 2015 21:11
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sbaldrick posted:If we ever find Famous Whores it's going to be such a disappointment. It has a single entry, one line long: "Your mom".
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Jan 21, 2015 21:13
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If I really want to read an ancient dude calling someone a slut for pages and pages, there's always the Philippicae.
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Halloween Jack posted:If I really want to read an ancient dude calling someone a slut for pages and pages, there's always the Philippicae. Calling prostitutes "sluts" seems off.
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Jan 21, 2015 21:30
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Ras Het posted:Calling prostitutes "sluts" seems off. To be fair, the book probably has far worse in it.
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Jan 21, 2015 21:46
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Ras Het posted:Calling prostitutes "sluts" seems off.
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PittTheElder posted:The idea of Lindy Beige being a historical advisor on anything is kind of upsetting. His arguments all seem to be based on stuff that makes sense to him based to re-enactions and common sense. Which is fine, but a historical advisor should probably be making recommendations based on period sources and actual historical evidence. He should stick to talking about swords, as evidenced by this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPLGh7TvIJA
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sullat posted:I'm rooting for whores as much as the next guy, but this was from Herculaneum, which predates Suetonius by a couple of decades. Ahhhh man. I want it if only so I can put it on my Christmas list when my family asks me what I want for a present 
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I hope you guys like epicurean philosophy because that is all those scrolls will end up being
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ColtMcAsskick posted:I hope you guys like epicurean philosophy because that is all those scrolls will end up being Eh, that wouldn't be the worst thing. Lucretius was pretty great, a whole bookshelf of unknown Epicureans would be a fine addition. A couple more of Epicurus' actual works would be fantastic. Hell, even being able to fill in the various missing sections of works we have would be nice. If you're thinking it's a philisophical bookshelf, how about filling in the many blank spots in Cicero's On The Nature Of the Gods?
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Jan 22, 2015 06:59
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Even if it's stuff we already have, having the manuscripts as they existed in ancient times might be interesting. Less chance of corruption in the process of copying/transmitting this stuff through hundreds of generations of humans.
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ColtMcAsskick posted:I hope you guys like epicurean philosophy because that is all those scrolls will end up being To be fair, that's what all historical manuscript finds are like. I remember when the Dead Sea Scrolls were supposed to tell when the world ended or something or tell us about robots in the south pole but all it was was Old Testament books
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I'd be happy even if they were things like Caesar's laundry list or "Nero's Great Big List of People Who Smell Worse Than Me".
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Smoking Crow posted:To be fair, that's what all historical manuscript finds are like. I remember when the Dead Sea Scrolls were supposed to tell when the world ended or something or tell us about robots in the south pole but all it was was Old Testament books lmao if you dont believe jesuit ninjas haven't been stealing and suppressing the important stuff about jesus being a black transexual atheist
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Oberleutnant posted:lmao if you dont believe jesuit ninjas haven't been stealing and suppressing the important stuff about jesus being a black transexual atheist Wait, Jesus didn't believe that he himself existed?
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