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Yeah, trying being both. I'm surprised I've made this long. 

Pimp My Tank, Saturdays at 1600. 

Depictions of the human form were not really a big part of Migration Period peoples art forms and what they did create tended to be pretty crude. Sculpture did regress quite a bit from classical antiquity but If you look frescos, the images of people tend to resemble the same flat images the continued on through the middle ages. On the other looking at  jewelry, gold work, and other such "tangible" items, you'll find really stunning works. 

It really wasn't until the very early Renaissance that we start seeing "real" looking people.  


Anyway, 
Picture of Winged Victory I took at the Louvre. 

Disrupter unmanned vehicle equipped with a mini-gun. It was demonstrated at the US Army Network Integration Evaluation 16.1  in October 2015. 

A few images of the Wolin Poland festival I was just at. Me in the brass helmet, you can see in one image I was hit hard enough to break off the top decorative bit. 

A few images of the Wolin Poland festival I was just at. Me in the brass helmet, you can see in one image I was hit hard enough to break off the top decorative bit. 

A few images of the Wolin Poland festival I was just at. Me in the brass helmet, you can see in one image I was hit hard enough to break off the top decorative bit. 

I know the ways. I am being obstinate. It's what happens when you cross breed Irish and Ukrainians. 

Started reading The Walking Dead comic. Holy shit, the TV show is miscast and mis-edited.

Yes, I agree. Beating down old misconceptions is fun, though. I liked Shad's coverage of education during the Middle Ages.

Historians really don't debate the dark ages anymore. That term has been out of favor for a while. Only folks that seem to perpetuate that the myth of a "dark age" is Hollywood.  

The period is already typically divided up into Early, High, and Late Middle Ages. There was a lot going on and in Europe it was an especially tumultuous time. Germanic Migration period was between 500 and 700. Slavic migrations around the same time. Merovingian period probably 480 to 774?  Carolingian period was really only 775 to 900.  The Viking age was 792 to 1066. Byzantine Empire was at it's high point. The rise of Islam.  Rurikid Dynasty sprung up in Kiev and Novgorod around 800. Crusades, end of migrations, consolidations of what would become modern states.  It's a bit difficult to pack all this into 500-1000 was X and 1000-1500 was Y.  

The problem with that choreography to me is that it looks like choreography.

You can, but looks like forum software defeated you.
 

From yesterday walk near St.Petersburg center. This is part of the city just a 200 meters away from Aurora.

10th-11th Century Kievan Rus or early Slavic-Varangian.  Most of my kit is from Chorna mohyla grave site which was part of the Principality of Chernigov or the Gnezdovo grave in the what was the Principality of Smolensk.  There are similarities with Byzantine heavy infantry due to the contacts between the two. 

The other dude is Polish. 

And here is me hitting him over the head because "gib Lviv" (actually a full target fight demo) 

Yeah. I'm pretty much done with paying to watch comic book movies (Marvel or DC).
 
Sure, I'll watch them for free when they get released to cable. But I cannot in good faith contibute to the problem anymore. 

Journalists are retarded, inbred magpies.  They are attracted to things that are shiny, new, controversial, and that are easily misapprehended by their vestigial brains.  If the US Army chromed all the artillery shells used in the Mosul offensive and wrote "DICKS FUCK PUSSIES" on them the journalists wouldn't be able to shut up about it for a week.  It would have no practical significance whatsoever, but the Bloviating class would fellate each other for their chattering and award themselves Pultizers galore for their hard-hitting war coverage and Speaking the Truth to Power.
 
Not that any of this is news.  Everyone worth speaking to has known that journalists are sub-human for several decades.  What is novel and interesting is that the Age of Trump has shown that in addition to being useless idiots, journalists are also very predictable useless idiots.

Aw man, I thought there was a new game out. 

The FBI is extremely good now

 

Girls gone Halal.