More at 22 AD who writes 'Attached is a little poster, feel free to share with everyone you've ever meet or even get really enthusiastic and show up to the range yourselves. For those of you who actually live within 100 miles of Palmerston North anyway.
The rest of you can just bask is the joy of having a poster of me and one of my nieces. Or go tell your local museum that they need to host the exhibition. Just a thought.'
Friday 11 September 2009
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... too bad that's a ballista, not a catapult.
Sigvald "catapult" comes from two Greeks words meaning break and shield. The name "shield breaker" was given to THIS type of machine because it was a massive power increase over the bow powered oxybeles.
"Ballista" is a Latin corruption of the Greek ballistra based on the Greek word for thow - essentially "throwing machine" which is clearly a generic term.
Catapult is also employed as a generic term but if you want to be pedantic - as clearly everyone who hasn't done something whats to proove how much cleverer they are than someone who has - and apply it to one specific machine its this one.
Too bad you didn't read my book and went with what you thought you knew rather than the facts.
My four year fight to correct the misecoceptions of a Hollywood and Age of Empires based knowledge moves into year five.
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