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- Fri November 23rd, 2012, 5:26 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Boats
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1055
http://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/index.php?id=1246&L=1 The link above goes to the Viking Ship Museum in Denmark. There have been a number of reproductions of Scandinavian boats and ships from various eras, built under their guidance. The beamier trading version of the Viking Long Ship is called a K...
- Sun November 18th, 2012, 5:50 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What Are You Reading? November 2012
- Replies: 106
- Views: 7999
[quote=""MLE""]It's definitely a fun read, Treebeard, but you should do some fact-checking on some of Menzie's points. He likes his hypothesis so much that he's willing to bend every phenomenon to its service.[/quote] To be sure... When I first picked it up, I wasn't quite sure if it was fiction or ...
- Sun November 18th, 2012, 3:06 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What Are You Reading? November 2012
- Replies: 106
- Views: 7999
- Sun November 18th, 2012, 1:42 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: What are your favorite 19C books?
- Replies: 87
- Views: 28401
Newbie.... In no particular order: Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain Last of the Mohicans - JF Cooper Deerslayer - JF Cooper Treasure Island - RL Stevenson Kidnapped - RL Stevenson Three Musketeers - Dumas Pickwick Papers - Dickens Tale of Two Cities - Dickens King Solomon...
- Sun November 18th, 2012, 1:12 am
- Forum: By Era
- Topic: 30 years war
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12189
Thirty Years War
A couple of older-than-dirt G. A. Henty "Boys stories" Lion of the North (Scottish mercenary's serving with the Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus) Won by the Sword (A Scot serving under Turenne in France and Italy) I read them long, long ago, back-when-I-was-a-lad... I've still got the 1913 copy of Lio...
- Fri November 16th, 2012, 12:59 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Hello from the Driftless Area
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1620
- Fri November 16th, 2012, 6:32 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: last of the mohicans
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6513
I've enjoyed several of the Leatherstocking tales over time, with the Last of the Mohicans being my favorite, followed by the Deerslayer. The Daniel Day-Lewis, Russell Means, Wes Studi, Madeline Stowe movie version was pretty darn good, even if it veered from the book. I think they captured the esse...
- Fri November 16th, 2012, 6:07 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Hello from the Driftless Area
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1620
Hello from the Driftless Area
I'm a complete newbie to this site. I'm from Southwestern Wisconsin - the Driftless Area, which is a geologic/geographic name for this corner of the Midwest. The last continental glaciers by-passed this region, leaving no glacial drift. However, we are surrounded by gorgeous, rugged limestone bluffs...