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Joyeux 14 Juillet! Bastille Day marks the start of the French Revolution. The French people were already desperate after years of heavy taxation, droughts, and diseases. On July 14th, 1789, a mob stormed the Bastille prison, looking for gunpowder and cannons, but ultimately freeing the prisoners inside. The fall of the Bastille symbolized the end of the French monarchy and the ancien régime. A national holiday in France today, Bastille Day...

How do you make a sequel to a movie in which everyone died? The answer, so obvious that you can almost miss it is: You don't.In the words of the director Noam Murro, 300: Rise of an Empire is an equal, and not a prequel or sequel to its epic predecessor 300. This means it happens at the same time! According to Murro, the first movie cleverly fits into it as the missing piece of a jigsaw puzzle, a different perspective at the same time, prompting...

The finish on Windlass Battlecry line is very special, with a design that has been well thought out. These swords, along with the axe and seax, really needed to be able to stand out in any collection and for that, plain polished steel simply would not do. At first glance, the blade may appear to be blackened, but the longer one looks, the more the design resembles what currently the knife industry refers to as "stonewashed." However, under furthe...