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Remarkable Medieval Sword Pulled from Dutch River
Archaeology Magazine ^
| June 17, 2025
| editors / unattributed
Posted on 06/30/2025 11:47:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/30/2025 11:47:17 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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06/30/2025 11:47:44 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
To: SunkenCiv
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06/30/2025 11:52:03 PM PDT
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Salamander
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To: SunkenCiv
Ah, yes. The “forever knot” from the Kingdom of Purina. Good folk. Loved dogs.
Strange the way they selected kings, though. A bloke would come along and some watery tart would toss a sword at her choice. Strange women, lying in ponds, distributing swords is no basis for a system of government, in my opinion.
Anyway, wonder if the worker who pulled this out is now king.
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06/30/2025 11:57:52 PM PDT
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TheThirdRuffian
(Orange is the new brown)
To: SunkenCiv
Really cool...
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07/01/2025 12:07:46 AM PDT
by
rxsid
(HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
To: TheThirdRuffian
did blood of the past preserve it?
To: SunkenCiv
“listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government.”
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07/01/2025 12:25:48 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(First, I was a clinger, then deplorable, now I'm garbage. Feel the love? )
To: TheThirdRuffian; Salamander
:^)
“A newt?”
“I got better.”
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posted on
07/01/2025 12:51:00 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
To: NonValueAdded
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07/01/2025 12:52:12 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
('Civ, why are you crying?)
To: SunkenCiv
The wide hilt and tapered tip suggest it was made closer to the 12th century date, far too late for a pagan offering, although it’s quite possible certain pagan rituals like throwing swords into rivers persisted dressed up as a saint’s celebration, etc., for a long time.
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posted on
07/01/2025 1:22:29 AM PDT
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pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
To: pierrem15
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posted on
07/01/2025 1:27:39 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: TheThirdRuffian; SunkenCiv
Thanks for posting, SunkenCiv, and thanks for the history lesson TheThirdRuffian.
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07/01/2025 2:05:52 AM PDT
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Tell It Right
(1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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07/01/2025 3:13:58 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
To: NonValueAdded
in before the python refer,er nevermind
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07/01/2025 3:18:44 AM PDT
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teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
To: SunkenCiv
Speaking of long running rituals: look at the fancy harnesses on the horses they use at Oktoberfest in Munich. The designs closely match those from the bronze age, like the solar discs.
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07/01/2025 5:07:50 AM PDT
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pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
To: TheThirdRuffian; SunkenCiv
The Movie Excaliber, when Perceval throws the sword across the water and the Lady of the Lake catches it and draws it under the water- that scene gives me chills every time I see it.
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07/01/2025 5:43:42 AM PDT
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telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: Tell It Right
Learned everything I know from Philomena Cunk.
(Best faux “history” documentaries on Earth. Netflix. “Cunk on [Topic]”
To: TheThirdRuffian
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07/01/2025 5:59:37 AM PDT
by
castlebrew
(Gun Control means hitting here you're aiming!))
To: rxsid; SunkenCiv
A little Ospho and it’ll be good as new!..............
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posted on
07/01/2025 6:06:50 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: SunkenCiv
So... losing your weapons in a boat accident has precedent...
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posted on
07/01/2025 6:34:10 AM PDT
by
Hoosier-Daddy
("Washington, DC. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious")
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