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Re: Trunion

To: jguy@erinet.com
Subject: Re: Trunion
From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 18:45:47 -0700
Jeff Johnson wrote:

> Here's another for you- trebuchet (from the Old Fr.)- a medieval war engine-
> a counterweighted lever that had the ability to hurl large stones. I vividly
> recall reading in the Wall Street journal about 15 years ago  about this
> knighted English fellow who used his trebuchet to hurl LBC's, junk grand
> pianos and sheep carcass' hundreds of yards  down the meadow.

Sounds like an episode of "Northern Exposure"

Joe

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