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| | | (...) You're looking at building a cog, developed on the Hansard coast in the 13th-14th centuries, or a nef, which wasn't a double-ended ship and had a modern rudder. Other purely European ships had some provision for oars. It's worth noting that (...) (23 years ago, 14-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: medieval warships —Magnus Lauglo
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| | | | LFB, thanks once again! Man, this guy really knows "everything" :) Magnus (23 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: medieval warships —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | (...) Not quite. He can't answer the one burning question in everyone's mind: "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" ;D Jeff (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: medieval warships —James Stacey
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| | | | A wood chuck could chuck two to eleven pounds of wood, if a woodchuck could chuck its own weight. According to a Wall Street Journal article, Richard Thomas, a wildlife expert from New York, estimated that a woodchuck moves about 700 pounds of dirt (...) (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: medieval warships —John Grubber
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| | | | But.... A woodchuck doesn't have opposable thumbs, so it can't chuck anything. Also, the bulkiness of wood, given that it doesn't come in small pieces like dirt, could prevent it being actively chucked. Rolled maybe, presuming woodchucks have the (...) (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: medieval warships —James Stacey
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| | | | Aren't medieval warships great :) -- James Stacey ---...--- www.minifig.co.uk #925 "John Grubber" <jgrubber2000@yahoo.ca> wrote in message news:GMwD2F.IEJ@lugnet.com... (...) Also, (...) dirt, (...) woodchucks (...) could (...) (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.castle)
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