[MR] Atlantia Digest, Vol 108, Issue 4

[Tracie Brown]

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> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 00:57:02 -0500
> From: Dexter Guptill <3fgburner at gmail.com>
> To: Merry Rose <Atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
> Subject: [MR] Fwd: Fw: Re: [slash5-BS] Re: one of the signs of the
>    Apocalypse
> Giant carries Heinz 57 brand canned Spotted Dick.

My local Kroger carries canned Spotted Dick *and* Cock Soup mix;

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> Will judges be in one area and easily identifiable, and will we have to stand in a line for judging? Everybody will probably be wearing their entries. Taking them off a
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>> And the story opens with a link to,,,,,, canned haggis!?!?! That,
>> along with 13 other items that will never be found in my shopping
>> cart. Rattlesnake is fine fresh, but have no interest is trying canned.
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>> -?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/02/scotch-in-a-can_n_1175256.html
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> Erich, mka
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> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:03:02 -0500
> From: Garth Groff <ggg9y at virginia.edu>
> To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: Re: [MR] BBC: 600 Year-Old Yew Tree in England
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> M'Lord Stefan,
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> Possibly the French could have tried to stop the trade in yew staves, 
> but this is something I've never seen mentioned. The French sometimes 
> had a navy of sorts, and there were no doubt French pirates and 
> privateers active in the channel, just like the English. It is doubtful 
> if much of this import traffic went by land across France itself though, 
> especially given the frequent wars there. The more likely routes were 
> direct from Italy or Spain (which was an English ally at that time), or 
> through Flanders for staves from central Europe.
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> The French nobles were never comfortable in arming their peasants, 
> fearing (with good reason, even then) that those weapons would be turned 
> against them. French armies were always deficient in archers. Instead, 
> they usually hired Genoese crossbowmen. Some of the French kings during 
> the 100 Years' War tried to introduce the bow to their peasants, using 
> the English model of practice after church. The nobles refused to 
> enforce this law and the plan was eventually dropped. Some of those 
> nobles later died from English arrows.
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> Yours Aye,
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> Lord Mungo Napier, The Archer of Mallard Lodge
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> On 1/3/2012 6:30 PM, Stefan li Rous wrote:
>> Lord Mungo Napier said:
>> <<< Finally, we archers have, or should have, deep
>> respect for the yew, since yew staves were used for the great English
>> longbow. Set aside for a moment the fact that English yew is twisty and
>> doesn't make good bows, and that nearly all yew bows started with
>> continental wood, it reminds us of how valuable this slow-growing and
>> rare tree was.>>>
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>> So does this mean that the French could have saved themselves a whole 
>> lot of trouble if they'd just kept yew imports from reaching England?
>> 
>> Stefan
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>> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>>   Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          
>> StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/marksharris
>> **** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****
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