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So...wow. What a day. It's been crazy, but good. Here are some things to know about medieval europe, and how it is still with us today...
Medieval Europe:
They had the Black Plague
They used catapults
They fought over and were generally in awe of relics: i.e.: saints' robes, bones, preserved flesh, etc. In fact, so many slivers of wood from the "holy cross" circulated Europe that the cross would have had to have weighed 3,000 lbs. Or something like that.
Today:
We have the black plage as an endemic in mid-western rodent populations. Aka, you can still catch it if you feed the squirrels and groundhogs out there, and since the beginning stages are flu-like, you won't know in time to save yourself. Probably. Two people caught it recently; one guy caught the septimicic and his wife caught the bubonic; she got over it. He lost both his legs, and was barely kept alive by flushing his body with antibiotics (septimicic, a form of blood poisoning, had a 100% mortality rate in 1348).
A man built a catapult and used it to catapult pigs. Sometimes he tied little parachutes on them. He also did it to a piano.
Relics today: "weeping" plastic garden statues of the virgin mary. Plus one amazing grilled cheese sandwich that bears a striking resemblance to her. The woman who found it is now getting a tattoo of it.
In Conclusion: We are either SO MUCH LAMER today or SO MUCH COOLER, and I can't figure out which.
So it's been a little wild. I'm still a little confused about the whole thing I talked to Emily R. and Steph K. about; it's getting a little freaky. And touchy-feely, if you know what I mean...hem hem...I'm not to crazy about the idea. Now off to write papers...one on Emily Dickinson, one on an amazing medieval love poem from provence! Pretty! Yeeeeee!
Medieval Europe:
They had the Black Plague
They used catapults
They fought over and were generally in awe of relics: i.e.: saints' robes, bones, preserved flesh, etc. In fact, so many slivers of wood from the "holy cross" circulated Europe that the cross would have had to have weighed 3,000 lbs. Or something like that.
Today:
We have the black plage as an endemic in mid-western rodent populations. Aka, you can still catch it if you feed the squirrels and groundhogs out there, and since the beginning stages are flu-like, you won't know in time to save yourself. Probably. Two people caught it recently; one guy caught the septimicic and his wife caught the bubonic; she got over it. He lost both his legs, and was barely kept alive by flushing his body with antibiotics (septimicic, a form of blood poisoning, had a 100% mortality rate in 1348).
A man built a catapult and used it to catapult pigs. Sometimes he tied little parachutes on them. He also did it to a piano.
Relics today: "weeping" plastic garden statues of the virgin mary. Plus one amazing grilled cheese sandwich that bears a striking resemblance to her. The woman who found it is now getting a tattoo of it.
In Conclusion: We are either SO MUCH LAMER today or SO MUCH COOLER, and I can't figure out which.
So it's been a little wild. I'm still a little confused about the whole thing I talked to Emily R. and Steph K. about; it's getting a little freaky. And touchy-feely, if you know what I mean...hem hem...I'm not to crazy about the idea. Now off to write papers...one on Emily Dickinson, one on an amazing medieval love poem from provence! Pretty! Yeeeeee!