And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The list is so long you are going to need many, many swords.
ReplyDeleteFinger inside the cross piece.
ReplyDelete"Arnold, Is that you?"
ReplyDeleteCellini’s Perseus?
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DeleteWhat's with the "wire" along the blade edge?
ReplyDeleteAn ancient anti-pigeon device. Nothing worse than having a pudgy squab throw off your form while mixing it up with cold steel.
DeleteMaybe a guard for when you must dust the statue?
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