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Bones of Leper Warrior Found in Medieval Cemetery (Italy, 500-700 AD)
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| April 9, 2011
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Posted on 04/09/2011 2:15:01 PM PDT by decimon
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posted on
04/09/2011 2:15:04 PM PDT
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decimon
To: SunkenCiv; neverdem
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posted on
04/09/2011 2:15:41 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
Beware the leper soldier. He may not have nothing left to lose...but he’s getting there.
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posted on
04/09/2011 2:18:26 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: RichInOC
He’s a foot soldier... not a feet soldier.
To: decimon
Why was the leper hockey game called off?
There was a face off in the corner.
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posted on
04/09/2011 2:22:30 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: decimon; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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posted on
04/09/2011 2:22:55 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: decimon
To: decimon
This thread has brought out quite a few ROTTEN jokesters!
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posted on
04/09/2011 2:37:55 PM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: decimon
leper warrior
To quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "Run away! Run away!"
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posted on
04/09/2011 2:37:55 PM PDT
by
Krankor
(And he's oh, so good, And he's oh, so fine, And he's oh, so healthy, In his body and his mind)
To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
This thread has brought out quite a few ROTTEN jokesters! Thanks for the tip!
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posted on
04/09/2011 2:41:34 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: decimon
Apparently one warrior could not do his job so he got the axe.
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posted on
04/09/2011 2:45:27 PM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: decimon
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
To: Ken H
I won that one by a nose! However, I’ll have to keep my eye on you!
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posted on
04/09/2011 2:46:54 PM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: Rebelbase
You exhibit a really sharp tongue.
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posted on
04/09/2011 2:48:41 PM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
...and if he bathed in a hot spring, his name was Stew.
To: decimon
![](http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/3291/300hunchback1.jpg)
Separated at birth?
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posted on
04/09/2011 2:57:25 PM PDT
by
ResponseAbility
(Prepare for battle and never forsake the Lord...unknown)
To: decimon
This article is a ridiculous perversion of history. A Lombard or an Avar was not likely to be "guarding against an invasion from the Byzantine people." The so-called Byzantine people were the Romans who lived in Italy until they were slaughtered or driven out by the barbaric Avars and Lombards.
They also identify the weapons which injured or killed these people as being a Byzantine mace or battle axe. Neither of these weapons were common to the Romans of the time who more often used the sword, javelin, bow, or throwing darts. A battle-axe injury immediately suggests the Franks to me.
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:04:30 PM PDT
by
Antoninus
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To: SunkenCiv
Apparently the Lombards and Avars took a more tolerant approach, Rubini said, because this man, who died around age 50, was buried in the cemetery along with the other dead.
Tolerant Lombards. Sure, that makes perfect sense.
"The Avar society was very inflexible militarily, and in particular situations all are called to contribute to the cause of survival, healthy and sick," Rubini said. "Probably this individual was really a leper warrior who died in combat to defend his people against the Byzantinian soldiers."
Absolute hooey. More likely, the leper was killed by the Avars themselves.
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:07:22 PM PDT
by
Antoninus
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To: Antoninus
To: Antoninus
This find dates from the period following the Byzantine re-conquest of Italy under the generals Belisarius and Narses, whose armies were made up of levies from a number of different ethnic groups ranging from Anatolians to Huns.
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posted on
04/09/2011 3:14:52 PM PDT
by
Argus
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