the Hungarian looks like a typical museum reps unrehearsed junk.  The schimitar  pommel looks a little large to me so I would want to make it smaller , all...
Czolem, The Mariposa Museum has asked us to help them again with Polish Heritage Day in Peterbrough, NH. on March 15, 2008. Please let me know if you think you...
do you mean Orta of the Segmen "Houndsmen" division? Something like Jagers, but not exactly. There were 34 such orta in the mid 17th C. and they would have...
I mention this only because I know that several people on this list are planning a trip to Warsaw this year. For years I have thought that Warsaw's palace of...
I like that,Stalin offered that building or a metro, and he gave them what they didn't want. I agree, they should leave it up, if nothing else as an insult to...
It already has a use though. he Worlds largest avery and nesting complex! a million tons of bird crap can't be wrong. Besides, that will solve the stray cat ...
I kind of like the look. When watching a Polish movie and you see this one in the background, you know you are seeing Warsaw. It is prominent in films like...
(your opinion and why) 1) What is the most beautiful or impressive public building in 15-17th C. Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth? 2) What is the best example of...
I don't know if anyone here besides me owns a playstation 2, but there is a game for it called "Mercenaries." Anyway at the end of one series of missions you...
I agree. They think of people as meat-based robots and efficiency is everything. Ever see a happy communist? I like the joke that goes: In America you come to...
How about the old space race between the USA and them when they said "We're afraid to pass them and get ahead for fear they'll see our unclad behinds." Iwona ...
Hi Rick, This is helpful. Thanks. The bugger of it is that they are Crimean Segbans, 20 companies in total I've read, which 'might' make a difference. But my...
Yes, these might be not kapiculi (central Sultan's army) but instead Janissaries raised on local resources. The examples I have seen from Egypt and north...
... 17th ... ***Hmmmm, Sobieski's Palace at Wilanow comes to mind, also the zamek on Wawel Hill. Also kinda partial to the zamek of Kamieniec Podolski near ...
-Thanks there. It's too bad that museum replicas buried the Polish karabela in recent years, (as well as the Polish/Hungarian saber), but I keep prodding them...
-Maks, I'll go ahead and presume that the 'singing' you experienced in that saber is what's sometimes referred to as the 'kerrang' of the steel when it...
Wow, the tang broke? that is totally not acceptable for anything even in hardest use - that the sort of thing that can be really scary, especially with...
LOL! Thats another form of "singing" in the hand but a very, very good point! The version I was talking about is the feeling you get of almost serious pleasure...
The singing was indeed the song of death, as the Vikings called it. A sword, sabre, that just lifts the heart and does all that you ask of it and more. Once in...
Pretty grime description! My vik sword is spring steel and doesn't ring as much as it shivers on a strong hit, but my battle axe certainly rings like a bell! ...
Also, since we were discussing swords of our period, does anyone who's already seen '1612' care to comment about those forward- sweeping cross-guards on what I...
I too love the wooden churches of that area. Generally speaking the wooden building have a really distinctive look that I really like. I have a book in...
Uh guy's the higher the ring the harder the temper and the more likely it will break. John In a message dated 2/7/2008 10:57:48 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, ...
The song I was talking about is a metaphor, as the the viking saga, for the way a sword (sabre) feels in the hand, the balance, etc. "the song of death" is a...
Poland by Mail now sels Wielkie Luki. This is the Polish-English historical 'comic book' of our era. (there is also another new addition 'Otton's Spear'....
Hey, thanks! That makes sense! Lot sof ways to temper an edge like that while allowing a slower temper on he body, but I've only done them on knives, never a ...
... who ... German emperor, Otton III came to Poland to visit Saint Adalbert's grave and to share Universal Europe idea. Otton wanted to create great Europe...
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