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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: PucksFool ✧✺🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Trump and Kegsbreath are taking note
Date: 08/15/26 7:23 PM
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science.org - Shattered skeleton scottish castle first confirmed death trebuchet

For one 20-something defender of Scotland’s Stirling Castle, death came from above—and arrived very, very quickly. Known to archaeologists as Skeleton 150, the man was killed more than 700 years ago by a massive blow that shattered his skeleton in dozens of places before pinning him to the ground.

In a presentation at the biannual European meeting of the Paleopathology Association in Berlin last week, University of Bradford bioarchaeologist Jo Buckberry called the skeleton the first confirmed evidence of trebuchet trauma in the archaeological record. “The breaks indicate a very large area of impact and devastation,” she says. “It’s likely the individual was killed by a siege engine.”

“It’s convincing,” says Lukas Waltenberger, a forensic osteologist at Vilnius University who researches blunt force trauma but was not part of the research. “It seems like a high-velocity, high-force, high-speed impact in a short amount of time.”


We have plenty of big rocks that we can throw.
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