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To: epicure who wrote (56955)	12/12/2000 1:01:27 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Other movies don't show you Rome in its glory. And they don't have trebuchets hurling flaming oil on a vast howling army of mud-caked barbarians.

To: epicure who wrote (56955)	12/12/2000 1:07:36 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Respond to of 71178

'Course, a movie of this might be fun: >>There was a front-page feature story in the July 30 Wall Street Journal that might be of interest to you and other SCA types: "A Scud It's Not, But the Trebuchet Hurls a Mean Piano" "Giant Medieval War Machine Is Wowing British Farmers And Scaring the Sheep" It seems some guy in England's managed to build a full-size (some 4 stories tall) working trebuchet and uses it to hurl grand pianos, small cars, and animal carcasses across the British countryside. Some British parachutists want to try it, but the acceleration is 0 to 90 mph in 1.5 seconds and produces centrifugal force of 20 Gs, which may be enough to burst human blood vessels. One of his incentives to build the thing was a "nutter cousin" in Northumberland who made a small trebuchet he used to hurl porcelain toilets that'd been soaked in gasoline and set afire. The article said that a local paper had headlined the story "Those Magnificent Men and Their Flaming Latrines." :-)