I've just learned from the remarkable new teaching tool, tele-vision, that, when armies overran castles, they often dug under the walls, causing them to cave in and tumble down. This was called"slighting", or sometimes more prosaically, "under mining". One of England best preserved castle built by Edward the first was, in fact never finished and so no one ever bothered to destroy it. He was a great castle innovator and builder, having just returned from the crusades, on which trip he saw many new designs for these edifices. And that will suffice for today's lesson.
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Great lesson to pass on. Thanks.
Excellent!, loved that post. I like interesting tidbits very much. Thanks. :D
Great history of the origin of the phrases. It's good to see television used for good.
undermining, so that's where the term originated.
cool castle, which i've visited, below:
http://les-andelys.com/chateau-gaillard/
I love stuff like this
Returned to tell you of my coincidence of the day. Have been sitting studying and it turns out that some of the stones at Stonehenge collapsed in 1780 due to *undermining by rabbits*.
That's what it said.
My parents took me there when I was a child. I recognised the views on the internet site.
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