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When I was at boarding school (why did you send me away at age ten, Dad?) we had to polish our shoes every day, and there was an inspection at assembly every morning. Now it wasn't like an army inspection, no-one seemed to expect a high polish, but Sunday was different as we all had to go to church and the inspection was more vigorous. Woe betide any boy who didn't have a well-shined pair of shoes. Because of this, the boys spent exra time Saturday evenings, buffing and spit-shining. The masters

Siege engineer and fencer, 1560-1622. He wrote a treatise on rapier fencing and combat on horseback, published in 1587, which is obscure but interesting. It is unusual, to say the least, for a 27-year-old to write a fencing treatise. Capo Ferro was 51; Giganti tells us that he had been teaching fencing for 28 years before publishing his first book, longer than Ghisliero had even been alive. The 1570s and 1580s were also a strange era for the art of fencing; the Italian rapier

In hip-hop parlance, a woman who lives the life and promotes the culture surrounding breakdancing.

“The most difficult part of being a B-Girl I would say it's showcasing who we are, truly, in a male-dominated scene…”
-- B-Girl Vanessa

The term b-girl was derived somewhere around 1974 in Bronx basements by DJ Kool Herc, of course, from break (or beat) girl. Going

In the North of England flint arrowheads are traditionally known as fairy darts, fairy shot, elf arrows, saighead sidhe, gáe sídhe, or other slight variations on the same theme.

The local fairies are known for shooting darts or arrows to cause sickness in both livestock and in humans. A victim might die instantly, the point flying directly into the victim's heart without leaving an outward injury, or might simply fall ill (arthritis is often blamed on