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(...) Unfortuanately dark grey backpacks are getting pricy on eBay (a lot just closed last night at $1.50 each). I've done a trade for some (and am buying speeder bike sets to boot). As Lance said, a white pack comes in the Snow Speeder set. (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) the snowspeeder minifig has a white pack Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A Pirates Life for Me! (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Since people have been bidding more for brown backpacks than I pay for the entire soldier figure, I have been getting the gray backpacks that appear in the Star Wars speeder bike sets. The question I have, though, is where do the white backpacks (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) There's a book by David Drake called Surface Action. It's sci-fi about a mostly water world and the conflicts that arise on it. During the climactic naval battle the "good" guys took one of their monitors and disguised it as a floating wreck. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Richard Parsons (<FpLDEK.60t@lugnet.com>) wrote at 03:23:08 (...) Oohhh! You wanted a *real* king. Well, I quite like the sound of Edwin Who Didn't Turn Up, so he may well turn up in a castle in Great Brickain somewhere. (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Mr L F Braun (<389FD5D2.E6A0A53D@....msu.edu>) wrote at 08:37:38 <snip lots historically accurate stuff> (...) My thoughts. (...) But not in a small Australian outpost, I wouldn't think, unless there was an expert in English (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Hi, (...) During the 12th century, an English king would likely be going to France to oversee his kingdom/squabble with the other vassals of France or to engage in a Crusade. The Angevin Empire really flourishes in the 12th-14th centuries, and at (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Thank you gentlemen, helpful as always. Special thanks to Jeff Johnston for dropping in. At this stage I'm thinking Richard II (1367 - 1400) (URL) seems to be in the zone, rather bloody, and have disappeared (hey hey) under mysterious (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I (...) weren't (...) like (...) That would sound about right. I can ask the PNLTC members who live in Portland for pictures of one if you guys are really interested (Ben Fleskes should be able to get pics fairly easy). From memory, ya, most (...) (25 years ago, 8-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I've often gone directly for screw propulsion. But if I'm not mistaken, weren't most small paddlewheelers (<800 dwt) run by a single boiler, oriented front to back like a train given the orientation of the wheels' axle? I saw a boat like (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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