nothing! Secondly‚ I’d suggest you to visit and see a few of amazing places: a picturesque lake placed in the city centre‚ the Ternopil castle‚ the museum of local and regional history and the Catholic and Orthodox churches. Then you can go to one of the leisure centres or to the night club. In other days we can go to the Carpathian Mountains and see castles’ ruins in Ternopil region; they are not less amazing than those in England. You were asking about what kind of clothes to take with you
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increased‚ the effectiveness of a massive‚ stone wall began to steadily decline. However‚ during the middle ages‚ people all over the world utilized walls as a highly effective way of keeping your enemy right where you wanted him‚ on the outside of one’s castle‚ city‚ or empire. If asked to give an example of the longest and biggest wall ever built‚ none could argue against The Great Wall of China being the champion of walls. But is size really the only indicator of a wall’s effectiveness‚ or is it possible
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and the sling down to keep the counterweight in the air‚ then let go‚ resulting in the counterweight falling due to gravity and propelling the projectile forward as it leaves the sling. Due to the projectile flying in a high arc‚ it can bypass most castle walls and attack the defenders or destroy the walls with its power‚ making it an effective and often used siege weapon in various wars during the Middle Ages. The trebuchet is rather effective at its purpose of compromising a besieged area’s defense
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is filled with the only people I’ve known my entire life. The superannuated streets are enclosed by the very building which the emperors lived. The walls are rich as the white pearl of gold. It has been carved a masterpiece and the only beautiful castle in all the lands. “I will live like that someday” I tell myself. I am now bordered by the thick green forest which endangered animals inhabit and many forbidden herbs. This is where I do my work of witch crafting. The lovely black striped orange
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and His Baroness Before he left for a visit to his outlying districts‚ the jealous Baron warned his pretty wife‚ “Don’t leave the castle while I am gone‚ or I will punish you severely when I return!” But as the hours passed‚ the young Baroness grew lonely‚ and despite her husband’s warning decided to visit her lover who lived in the countryside nearby. The castle was located on an island in a wide‚ fast-flowing river‚ with a drawbridge linking the island to land at the narrowest point in the
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engine that was employed in the middle ages. It is a modified version of the catapult that uses a counterweight to throw a large stone or blunt object. This means the only power it uses‚ is gravity. This invention brought about the end of knights‚ and castles. It’s usually made out of wood and some other materials‚ so it’s fairly simple to create; which means‚ most if not all societies in the middle ages had one. The trebuchet is often confused with the earlier torsion siege engines. But the difference
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their families lived quite comfortably on their Manor. Lords lived in a manor house‚ which was built apart from the village where the peasants lived. There were many rooms in a manor home. Some had a moat‚ but they were still not as big as medieval castles. A lord’s day started with breakfast‚ then prayers. Business matters were attended to in relation to the land. Noble lords would go hunting or hawking in the afternoons as well as inspecting the estate. Daily chores were done around the manor house
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Ages was violent and blood thirsty. In barbarous times the cruel and pitiless feeling which induced legislators to increase the horrors of tortures‚ also contributed to the aggravation of the fate of prisoners. Torture chambers were included in many castles. Law or custom did not prescribe any fixed rules for the treatment of hapless prisoners who faced torture. Different types of torture were used depending on the victim’s crime and social status. Torture was seen as a totally legitimate means
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A catapult is a device in which accumulated tension is suddenly released to launch an object in a specified direction and distance. Catapults have been used for a long time. They were used as a deadly war weapon. Catapults were first used by the Greeks‚ Romans‚ and the Chinese. They were one of the most effective weapons in war. The first attempts at catapults were to increase the range and power of the crossbow. A Greek historian named Diodorus Siculus was the first to document the use of a
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speak for everyone but I know most of us‚ when we hear or think about the word "chivalry‚" automatically we picture images of such figures as the legendary King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table‚ Prince Charming‚ Gawain and The Green Knight‚ castles‚ and images of heavily armor knights saving princess or the cliché-ic “damsels in distress”. Though myths and fairytales illustrate this picture of chivalry‚ this in fact is a result of what the world has come to mean. Originally‚ the word “chivalry”
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