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- Wed September 28th, 2011, 5:58 pm
- Forum: Questions and Research
- Topic: Your Green Man Stories
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1179
- Tue August 30th, 2011, 6:41 pm
- Forum: Movies, Television, Radio, and Music
- Topic: What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
- Replies: 3275
- Views: 225260
I must be the last Rosemary Sutcliff fan in the country to watch The Eagle, partly because I was nervous about what it would do to a much loved book. Last night I finally got round to it - and found that the story had been pared right down to the bone. The whole emphasis is on the relationship betwe...
- Sun July 24th, 2011, 5:30 pm
- Forum: Historical Fantasy
- Topic: Game of Thrones: Books
- Replies: 364
- Views: 36356
There was quite a funny film - of course I don't remember the title or the star!- but it was all about an undercover American agent in World War II, in Rome, sending information back to base by carrier pigeon. The local Italians were having a wedding, needed something for the wedding feast, and ate ...
- Sun July 24th, 2011, 5:26 pm
- Forum: Early Medieval (until about 1000 A.D.)
- Topic: Characters
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2985
- Thu May 26th, 2011, 6:31 pm
- Forum: By Author
- Topic: Dorothy Dunnett & Rosemary Sutcliff
- Replies: 3
- Views: 961
I remember tuning in to listen to Rosemary Sutcliff's Desert Island Discs. At the time, I was trying to discover more about classical music, and my reasoning went that, if I liked any of the clips on Desert Island Discs, I could then go out and get the record. One of Rosemary Sutcliff's choices was ...
- Thu May 26th, 2011, 6:28 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Steampunk Novels
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2731
- Tue January 4th, 2011, 7:00 pm
- Forum: Questions and Research
- Topic: Bishops during battle
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1672
One of the Saxon Bishops of Hereford certainly went into battle against the Welsh (I forget his name, sorry). And Bishop Odo of Bayeux is portrayed on the Bayeux tapestry riding into battle carrying a mace. Bishops were apparently allowed maces because bashing people over the head was okay, but draw...
- Tue November 16th, 2010, 6:45 pm
- Forum: Movies, Television, Radio, and Music
- Topic: war films
- Replies: 38
- Views: 3420
Two of my favourites star David Niven (who was also brilliant in The Guns of Navarone). They are Dawn Patrol, starring Errol Flynn (proving that he really was a good actor) and Basil Rathbone and set in the First World War, and A Matter of Life and Death, another Pressburger and Powell film like the...
- Mon November 1st, 2010, 8:43 pm
- Forum: Questions and Research
- Topic: Reenacting wars - why some and not others?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2695
As a re-enactor in the UK, I've come across a wide variety of different periods that are re-enacted. I think the earliest period (unless you count the very cold Ancient Egyptians I met one year) has been Ancient Greeks. A Roman group called The Ermine Street Guard used to be known for liking to para...
- Mon November 1st, 2010, 8:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: New or Used?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 2088
Here are a couple of interesting websites on the subject:
CE Journal at http://www.cejournal.net
Skeptical Science at http://www.skepticalscience.com
CE Journal at http://www.cejournal.net
Skeptical Science at http://www.skepticalscience.com