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Pennsic and War
* The Pennsic War, a massive gathering of the Society for Creative Anachronism, takes place about the first week of August every year.
The novel Murder at the War ( Knightfall in paperback edition ) is a detective story concerning a murder that takes place at the SCA's largest annual event, Pennsic War.
* Pennsic War
The Pennsic War occurs each summer north of Portersville.
Field Battle at Pennsic War XXXII
The name Pennsic War is a combination of Pennsylvania and Punic War.
The Pennsic War uses numbers to identify each war rather than the year it was held, so the 2011 event was known as " Pennsic War 40 "— there having been 39 previous events.
The Pennsic War takes place in late July / early August.
This is celebrated in song by performer, Duke Moonwulf Starkadderson in " Pennsic War IV ".
* Pennsic has inspired a mystery novel, Murder at the War ( Knightfall in paperback ), by Mary Monica Pulver.
* There have been video documentaries made of Pennsic and the battles thereof, the most well known of which is Duckball Home Video's The Pennsic War: A Video Documentary, produced in 1991 at the 20th Pennsic War
* The Official Pennsic War web site
* A site with collected images, videos, and stories of the Pennsic War
* The Pennsic War: A Video Documentary

Pennsic and is
Pennsic is held in late summer and lasts for 17 days ( begins on a Friday, ends two Sundays later ).
Pennsic is, however, an SCA event ; members of other groups are welcome, but are generally expected to follow SCA rules especially in regards to armor, weapons and behavior on the battlefield for the various fighting scenarios.

Pennsic and event
At some large events, such as Pennsic and Estrella Wars, EMS personnel stand by on site for the duration of the event.
Since Pennsic XXV in 1996 the event has gathered over 10, 000 participants each year.

Pennsic and held
Prior to 2007, Pennsic took place during the first two weeks of August, and some of the earliest Pennsics were held during September.
* The first Pennsic was held in 1972, at Newton's Campground ( now Shorehaven Campground ) in Waterford, Pennsylvania.
* The fourth, often called " Pennsic Pour " or " Pennsic Puddle ", was held at Spencer Farm on Aquilla Road near Chardon, Ohio and was marred by massive flooding and mudslides.
The first Starwood was held July 24 – 26, 1981 at Coopers Lake Campground, the same site as the Society for Creative Anachronism's Pennsic War, in Slippery Rock, PA. From 1982 through 1985 it was held at Devil's Den Park in New Philadelphia, OH, a former state park run by Whispering Winds Nudist Camp.

Pennsic and by
Contrary to popular myth, the Pennsic wars were not caused by Cariadoc challenging himself to a war and losing.
The challenge for the Pennsic war was initially issued by King Irial and Queen Morna of the Middle, with the stated causes being both the ownership of the new group forming in Pittsburgh, the Debatable Lands, and an earnest desire to have fun and “ engage in chivalric combat of the highest ”.

Pennsic and for
Thus, the Debatable Lands were assigned to the East Kingdom prior to Pennsic being fought, which rendered moot the initial reason for the war.
According to the Pennsic Independent, a privately-published newspaper published on-site, the final count for 2009 was 10, 947.

Pennsic and war
The winners of the battles and other activities receive war points, and the Kingdom with the most war points wins that Pennsic.
Since the stated purpose of the war was to determine which kingdom got Pittsburgh and the Midrealm decisively won Pennsic I, it became popular mythology that " the loser got Pittsburgh.

Pennsic and .
The story takes place entirely at Pennsic.
The board of directors ruled a few weeks before Pennsic I that since Pittsburgh was in the same state as an existing group, in Philadelphia, that it had to belong to the same kingdom.
* Pennsic University: a framework of classes where attendees learn period skills, trades, and performing arts.
* Pennsic Choir.

War and is
My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.
It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.
Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.
It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.
According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.
One of the inescapable realities of the Cold War is that it has thrust upon the West a wholly new and historically unique set of moral dilemmas.
Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.
As this year marks the centennial of the beginning of the Civil War, this fact is being commemorated with several exhibits throughout the State, but most of all paying tribute to the first Rhode Island Volunteers who rushed to the defense of the City of Washington, putting at the disposal of President Lincoln the only fully equipped and best trained regiment at this time.
It is important, however, that the Peace Corps be advanced not as an arm of the Cold War but as a contribution to the world community.
Here is the best short explanation of the origins of the Cold War that has been written.
In a more pessimistic vein about the economic outlook, I suspect that the reservoir of demand for consumer goods and housing which was dammed-up during the Thirties and World War 2, is finally in the process of running dry.
While there may be several such industries to which the model of this paper is applicable, the authors make particular claim of relevance to the explanation of the course of wages and prices in the steel industry of the United States since World War 2.
There is no doubt that higher education since World War 2, has moved away from `` pure '' liberal education toward greater emphasis on technology and specialization.
A little parable illustrative of this truth is afforded by an incident related by Professor Bela Vasady at the end of the Second World War.
They seem to feel that because they fought on the right side during the Civil War, and won, they have earned the right merely to deplore what is going on in the South, without taking any responsibility for it ; ;
Historically, the flaming sword laid across this Eden is the Civil War.
Along this avenue which saw marching soldiers from the War Between the States returning in 1865 is the National Archives building where hundreds of thousands of this country's most valuable records are kept.
No less than twenty-two nations have already achieved independence since World War 2,, and the number is growing by the year.

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