"They did most of the good work with this. I'd like you to see what it does to a side of meat, because in hand-to-hand combat, that's all a man is."
- James Burke, holding a medieval sword of the kind used at the Battle of Hastings (1066), Connections episode 3, "Distant Voices" (1978)

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