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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the SCA we tend to chop off everything
"medieval" or "Renaissance" at 1600 AD. It's the accepted "drop
dead date" for our activities. However, technologies don't
change at the whim of a date and those that had accumulated "in period" did
continue in daily application right on up to the 20th century.
Waterwheels, clocks, carpentry methods, weaving, farming, and, well, essentially
the whole gambit of medieval "know how" stayed intact (in the US) up
until just about a 75-100 years ago. In fact, I remember my
grandpa pushing a mule and plow as recent as the 1970's and that's about as
medieval a technology as you can get.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>At any rate, today's script is sort of a slant on
medieval technology that you may not have considered.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>take a listen,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>dsd</FONT></DIV>
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