FORKNI-L
Digest - 28 Aug 2012 to 29 Aug 2012 (#2012-159)
Wed, 29 Aug 2012
There are 7 messages totalling 225 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. updates to ftp site (2)
2. Egyptian sickle blades (2)
3. Query about Ashes to Ashes (2)
4. Any more little subfactions?
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:02:57 -0400
From: Stephanie Kellerman <stephke@i.......>
Subject: Re: updates to ftp site
I guess that would help. <gr> Just info for the newer users. The
stories were actually on an FTP site but it was lost and I started
another FTP site a long time ago. I moved it to the web and we kept the
name just so people would know what site it originally was.
http://www.foreverknight.org/FTP
Steph
On 8/28/2012 4:40 PM, wirickml@v....... wrote:
> How about a link to the site?
>
> M. L. Wirick
>
>
> On 08/28/12, Stephanie Kellerman<stephke@i.......> wrote:
>
> If anyone wants to know, I have gone back to the beginning of 2006 and
> uploaded stories I haven't gotten around to upload.
> Steph
>
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:01:55 -0400
From: Ramona Jackson <lexyladyjax@g.......>
Subject: Egyptian sickle blades
Here's the question: in this shot, the sickle has a distinctly reddish hue.
> .....So...is it supposed to be made of copper, or a copper
> alloy?
>
Early Egyptian sickle blades were made of flint which could account for
some of the blue tones. However, by the Roman era they were nearly always
made of iron, which would explain the rusty copper colours. So far I
haven't found any reference to copper sickle blades.
Mona
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:29:45 -0700
From: cloud7dancer <cloud7dancer@h.......>
Subject: Re: Query about Ashes to Ashes
I saw the sickle at a MPICA auction in Toronto eons ago. I dont recall it
being red. I'll look for the pictures from the event tonight.
Cloud
"Phillips, Tim" <Tim.Phillips@s.......> wrote:
>Here's the question: in this shot, the sickle has a distinctly reddish hue.
>There's a later shot in which it gleams very blue; but that's clearly because
>of bright blue lighting. In this picture, the sickle does not seem to be
>strongly lit. So...is it supposed to be made of copper, or a copper alloy?
I think the reddish hue is rust on an iron blade.
Iron is a harder metal than copper and will hold a cutting edge better.
I'm guessing that the props-department thought a 2000 year + old iron tool
that doesn't have rust on it would look "odd". If the blade looked
brand-new...you might not realize that it was the sickle that LaCroix had
used on Divia.
Tim
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:21:09 -0700
From: Andrew Caruthers <slinter@j.......>
Subject: Re: Egyptian sickle blades
During the Old, Middle, and New Kingdom Periods, which includes the
Intermediate Periods as well, virtually all Egyptian tools and weapons
were made of copper or bronze. Flint dates back to pre-Unification times,
Hawaran or Thinnite times. Aside from some small deposits in the Eastern
Desert and the odd meteorite, the Egyptians did not possess any
significant deposits of iron known to their miners, one reason they could
only fight the Hittites to a standstill, given the Hittite's iron
technology. In fact, this metal was so precious, an iron dagger was
buried with Tutankhamun, as jewelry. While Lvcivs et Divia did their
thing almost A.D. 100, there might have been old tools, originally
deposited as burial goods, in the tomb they were in. If memory serves,
Ra-Atum was seen as the supreme diety of the Egyptian pantheon during the
Middle Kingdom Period, so the sickle would most likely have been copper
or, given the wealth of the tomb, bronze. Copper was cheap, bronze was
not.
Hope this helps.
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:01:55 -0400 Ramona Jackson <lexyladyjax@g.......>
writes:
> Here's the question: in this shot, the sickle has a distinctly
> reddish hue.
> > .....So...is it supposed to be made of copper, or a copper
> > alloy?
> >
>
> Early Egyptian sickle blades were made of flint which could account for
> some of the blue tones. However, by the Roman era they were nearly always
> made of iron, which would explain the rusty copper colours. So far I
> haven't found any reference to copper sickle blades.
>
> Mona
>
>
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:22:59 -0400
From: Karen Gunther <kaag@a.......>
Subject: Re: updates to ftp site
Thank you for updating it. Since so few are still writing (and yes, I'm just
as guilty of that, as I look at unfinished stories that I need to get off
the discs), it is like finding old friends to see them again. I think I gave
consent with mine, but if you don't see it, you have permission to archive
anything I wrote.
Karen
-----Original Message-----
If anyone wants to know, I have gone back to the beginning of 2006 and
uploaded stories I haven't gotten around to upload. ...
Steph
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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:20:27 -0400
From: Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......>
Subject: Re: Query about Ashes to Ashes
Cloud has very hunted out some pictures from Lights, Camera, Auction 3,
where the prop sickle from "Ashes to Ashes" was one of the items being
auctioned for charity. As a result, I now know *exactly* what it looked
like. Indeed, in one of the pictures, Kathryn Long was holding it up for
people to see, and the view was so clear that I was able to crop it out for
the icon.
Thanks, Cloud!
Greer
gwatson2@r.......
http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/
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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:04:45 -0400
From: Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......>
Subject: Any more little subfactions?
I just learned about a little subfaction of Knighties that I'd never heard
about before. A very small group, they get together sometimes to chat.
They'd been wondering privately if they should ask me to make them an icon.
(Well, they now have one, of course. You'll all see it soon, for I'll post
it with the next group I put up on my LJ page.)
However, my mind turned to Cousins, and Vaqueras, and Dark Perks, and
Ravenettes, and.... Any of *you* have little subfactions like this?
Icons R Us. Open for business. So to speak. But you do *need* to speak!
If I don't know you exist, I can't do you an icon, can I?
Greer
gwatson2@r.......
http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/
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