"Knights" rob medieval festival in France

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJWm0RcKF6jqBuNoaO-_3HS688RYbSBlIvhljnG1AsLUGXgBjgIwOSTaKV_UViHcQYGpb-bFtvZjjCcF2-paScazoyT1M5pyYHATTxPxuCOaYra-DLnbGeIO3h9it4UXKdbcy-lczND5E/s1600/knight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJWm0RcKF6jqBuNoaO-_3HS688RYbSBlIvhljnG1AsLUGXgBjgIwOSTaKV_UViHcQYGpb-bFtvZjjCcF2-paScazoyT1M5pyYHATTxPxuCOaYra-DLnbGeIO3h9it4UXKdbcy-lczND5E/s320/knight.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>A gang of thieves dressed as knights and armed with a sword and an axe robbed the organisers of a medieval festival in northeast France Monday and made off with 20,000 euros ($25,000), police said.<br /><br />The theft took place in the early hours of Monday as organisers were counting revenues from the festival in Bitche, near France's border with Germany, a spokesman for regional police in Lorraine said.<br /><br />"According to witnesses, there were three or four individuals, masked and wearing medieval attire," the spokesman said.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://africa.afpmobile.com/pl/svt/si/afp/po/opafrica/sc/afp_en_ofbeat/dk/afpmobile.07-30-2012.8093/ms/C6WPY2Et1w/pa/176047/uid/" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from AFP</a></b><br /><br />See also the French article: <b><a href="http://www.republicain-lorrain.fr/actualite/2012/07/31/hold-up-d-un-autre-temps-a-la-fete-medievale" target="_blank">Bitche : hold-up d’un autre temps à la fête médiévale</a></b><br />

"Knights" rob medieval festival in France

A gang of thieves dressed as knights and armed with a sword and an axe robbed the organisers of a medieval festival in northeast France Mond...

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Indigenous martial arts evolved in the west as well as the east

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3yYDoEHR3nerrmqJ3RPgEkNul1nijn_eVSXxVkJetX91toEGx1DsAmZ6g3ENWBv9t4m7mYX4PekssJuQNIeWg9vhhSTqNbTeX9D9Ya1D2gc4ZlkPTIRuUjvqTbb-KKHijJSyqDgsC520/s1600/martialarts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3yYDoEHR3nerrmqJ3RPgEkNul1nijn_eVSXxVkJetX91toEGx1DsAmZ6g3ENWBv9t4m7mYX4PekssJuQNIeWg9vhhSTqNbTeX9D9Ya1D2gc4ZlkPTIRuUjvqTbb-KKHijJSyqDgsC520/s320/martialarts.jpg" width="210" /></a></div>For most people, martial arts are inexplicably tied to the Far East. However, as special guest author John Clement of the Association For Renaissance Martial Arts details below, a sophisticated science of self-defense was prevalent in the west during Medieval and Renaissance times:<br /><br />With the evolution of the armored knight as the consummate professional lone warrior, an indigenous art of personal combat developed to an exceptional degree in Western Europe. Once guarded as secret skills, from the early-1300s to mid-1600s these long forgotten chivalric fighting traditions were practiced as a highly effective and systematic “science of defence.”<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.ablogabouthistory.com/2012/06/06/indigenous-martial-arts-evolved-in-the-west-as-well-as-the-east/" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from A Blog about History</a></b><br />

Indigenous martial arts evolved in the west as well as the east

For most people, martial arts are inexplicably tied to the Far East. However, as special guest author John Clement of the Association For Re...

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