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I posted this here because it's a general re-enactment question and not just a pirate question. Feel free to move this thread if I put it in the wrong place. I've been curious about something for a while, and This Publishing Fiasco had me thinking about it again. Have any of you ever encountered a re-enactor who was also into pseudohistory. Not just some guy who took his history cues from Disney; I'm talking real, agenda-driven, eff-those-hidebound-fools revisionism. Like someone doing the pirate-freemason-templar in all seriousness. Or perhaps a WW2 re-enactor who denies the Holocaust - out of character. How do you handle it? Do most re-enactment groups have rules that …
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So I recently started to pick up straight razor shaving and was wondering if anyone else here might be taking the ol' knife to the face instead of cartridge razors.
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Saw this over on io9 and thought it might garner some intrest here despite being OOP. http://m.io9.com/5902375/incredible-video-shows-100-years-of-shipping-routes-1750+1850
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Saw this pop up on my Facebook feed and thought it might find a few intrested parties here. http://www.history.com/news/2012/03/06/faces-of-drowned-civil-war-sailors-from-uss-monitor-reconstructed/?cmpid=Social_Facebook_Hith_03062012_1
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Southern California -- this just in March 6, 2012 | 10:35 am Authorities said the cannonball that struck and killed a 33-year-old woman in San Diego County was homemade and that alcohol was involved in the incident. The woman's husband and another man were working on a cannon shortly after midnight outside the couple's mobile home when it exploded, according to a Cal-Fire spokesman. One of the two men was sent to the hospital with minor injuries. The incident is being investigated by the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. Few details were immediately available, and it's unclear exactly what killed the woman. The incident occurred in a mobile home park in Potrero…
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So if the Neanderthals beat us to seafaring would they not have been the first to go a pyrating? All laughs and giggles sure but...... http://m.io9.com/5889484/neanderthals-were-sailing-the-mediterranean-100000-years-ago
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DUBLIN, Calif. (AP) — A stunt for the TV show "MythBusters" sent an errant cannonball through a California family's house and into a parked minivan a few hundred feet away. Producers for the Discovery Channel show fired the cannonball Tuesday at the Alameda County Sheriff's Department bomb range behind the Santa Rita Jail when it misfired. Sheriff's spokesman J.D. Nelson told the Contra Costa Times (http://bit.ly/umCZnD ) that no one was injured and the home's residents didn't even wake up until the dust was settled — literally on top of them. Nelson, who is also a consultant for the show, said producers have used the cannon that they built at the range more than 50 ti…
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Hey guys, I wanted to share this unique Pirate tee here: http://TshirtContest.com
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Considering picking up a Roku box. Anyone feel strongly about them care to share his or her experience?
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With stuff from 1665 onwards The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive has been made free to access. Around 60,000 historical scientific papers are accessible via a fully searchable online archive, with papers published more than 70 years ago now becoming freely available. http://royalsociety....-to-access/?f=1 We may not see Mission for a bit
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I know there are a few pyrates here wot like Halloween..... so I figured we need a place ter post pictures of the cool pumpkins we've carved.... . . This is the first tyme I've tried carving a 3D pumpkin.... but I think it came out really cool.....
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I couldn't think of a catchy thread title to get your attention, but I got a legitimate question concerning some "other" hobby related forum site. While my ability to participate in Piratey kinds of things in person has lessened my participation on this forum... I still like this forum a lot, its got great people people, and its a nice open and welcoming format. I turn 44 at the end of this month, which will mark 32 years of involvement in SOME kind of Historical/Re-enacting..... I've done everything from a 15th sentry peasant/soldier, right up through the Second World War. While every hobby group has "its elements" and quirks, on the whole, most folks are very friend…
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I found this on anonther forum and immediately thought of you William: http://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/product/productId/20791 For all your End of Days/Mayan Calender/Armegeddon preparation needs! Gotta be as good or better than Bacon SPAM! (SPAM= Stuff Posing As Meat). George Carlin Bo
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... that Bill Withers has never even been CONSIDERED for the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame. It's... it's SAD, is what it is.
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I have now been awake for 37 hours. Dizzy, nauseous, head, legs, back, and neck are killing me. Cannot take pain kilers, they only make me puke, cannot take muscle relaxers, they only make me more nauseous, cannot take any more ibuprofen or asprin because my stomach acid is all riled up. DAMN DAMN DAMN!!! Well, in a few more days we'll be off-line again, so if I don't get to chat with any of ya'll, been good to be here. Glad to have gotten to know so many of you even though we never met. I suppose I'll be alright, but this time something tells me I'd better get ready to go. I hope everyone has a great life and enjoys the things we all take for granted. If I don't …
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I've seen (and enjoyed) the Sharpe's, Horatio Hornblower and Brother Cadfael series. What else is there out there like those?
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No, I don't feel that way... But apparently the NPS does (National Park Service). Saw this posted on Frontier folk and though it might be worth sharing here for discussion as well. This policy has always been in place (well at least for longer than I have been re-enacting), but this is the first time that policy has gone from just being there (and inconvenient) to a publicized item of negative propaganda. I've long been wary of the NPS and have generally avoided having anything to do with them, but this video has made the line in the sand a down right battle line for me.
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Link here: http://chicagoist.co...owed_to_sue.php To sum up: in 2006, two Americans were working in Iraq for an FBI investigation of a security company suspected of corruption. They were seized and held by U.S. forces, during which time they say they were kept in freezing cold cells, deprived of sleep for days on end, deliberately slammed into walls, and threatened constantly with additional violence. They are suing the former Secretary of Defense among others. A federal court has ruled that they are allowed to sue, disagreeing with the government's argument that no one working for the U.S. government can be sued for anything that happens in a war zone. This is still…
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I haven't posted much in the Pub lately (well I do check in almost daily, just to see what's going on......)... But that is because I've been getting ready to go to Burning Man again this year..... This will be my fourth burn. I've posted about going to Burning Man before in Airship Pyrates, but this year I won't be going Steampunk, so it dosen't fit there anymore. This year Martie (some of you may remember her at PiP last year) and I are making a Barbaric Splendor Camp.... (kind of a mix of Celtic, Sythain and Mongolain with a bit of Conanish stuff tossed in for color....total fantacy, but it looks cool...) 20 Days.....and I still have a buncha stuff to finish.... h…
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It's not surprising, since I live so close to the water, that the local streets are named accordingly. The neighborhood abounds with nautical-sounding streets, but a couple have been given names that are a wee bit more creative: So, does anyone else have any interesting street names near them?
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Just wonderin' how many folks are observing flag day, and how many didn't even know it is today. Bo
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Found an official site of Panama Viejo, or Old Panama...sadly, it's all in Spanish, but there's lots of pictures and photos, including finds from excavations in the city. These are the goodies that Morgan and the boys would have seen and handled whikle they stayed in town as...guests. http://panamaviejo.org/catalogotags/index.php?q=coleccion And the home page of the site: http://www.panamaviejo.org/ I've often had the idle notion of gathering together a few like minded fellows and recreating Morgan's March, from Ft. San Lorenzo, along the Chagres, to Panama Viejo, Then I decided to take a look to see what impact the Canal might have had on such a route. Let's just …
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A fair warning to the world...beware of Scottish global ambitions! Scottish War of 2032
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I just read about a 4.2 shaker that happemed in the St. Louis area. Everybody OK I hope? Glad it didn't happen while we were all at DeChartres! Bo
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I hope all our southwest Missouri and northwest Oklahoma bretheren and sisters are well tonight. Northwest missouri git it this wfternoon also. Northeast and north central Missouri is getting hammered right now too. We managed to stay between the two systems as they moved across. Just some heay rain and wierd skies for awhile here. We are missing one of my cousins at the hospital in Joplin. She worked as an RN at St. Johns in Joplin, which was totally destroyed this afternoon. We hope for good news but for now we just don't know. I have not heard from my aunt in Joplin yet, but she was able to get a call to my mother in Arizona before the phone tower was overwhelmed …
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