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Medieval News Archive17-Jan-2007
Later on the same day there will a special event in the Palace Gardens, and the programme will be concluded with a dinner at Medieval Akershus Castle. AVILA, SPAIN - A horse is silhoutted by a bonfire during the Feast of San Anton, the patron saint of animals in Spain, on January 16, 2007 in the village of San Bartolome de Pinares, near Avila, Spain. The fiesta dates back to Medieval times when fire was thought to purify animals. The sword is what Rep. Timothy Bishop remembers about the day Doug Dodson showed up to run his first-ever campaign, in 2002. It was late summer. Dodson drove up to the New York Democrat's headquarters in the Hamptons. He stepped out of his Ford pickup truck wearing a sleeveless T-shirt, carrying a medieval blade. Old and new come together in Andy Ward's world. In Ward's shop near Avoca, the new 10,000 computer-assisted plasma cutter gets more use than the circa 1800s coal-fired forge or the World War II metal lathe, but some jobs require all three. And Ward wouldn't have the skills he needs to make everything from decorative gates to belt buckles if he hadn't spent his youth building armor for medieval ... DAMAGED Medieval wood carvings are to be restored to their former glory as part of a project to look after one of a town's best-known landmarks.
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