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  2. Takagari - Wikipedia

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    Several falconry schools or styles (ryū) were formed in the process. The falconry methods employed in Japan had originally been Sino-Korean ones. [1] [2] Based on Chinese texts and practice, Shinshū Yōkyō was edited in 818 as a falconry textbook. From the 13th century on, nobles left falconry texts as evidence of their authority in falconry.

  3. Falconry - Wikipedia

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    Falconry is also featured and discussed in The Once and Future King. In Virginia Henley's historical romance books, The Falcon and the Flower, The Dragon and the Jewel, The Marriage Prize, The Border Hostage, and Infamous, numerous mentions to the art of falconry are made, as these books are set at dates ranging from the 1150s to the 16th century.

  4. Hack (falconry) - Wikipedia

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    During hack, the falcons receive more stimuli because the site is set up to mentally condition them, especially since there are other falcons to play and interact with. [3] The chicks are secured with safety and food. They are given food even when they are becoming independent. Hack boxes protect the young from predators

  5. Elizabethan era - Wikipedia

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    The diet in England during the Elizabethan era depended largely on social class. Bread was a staple of the Elizabethan diet, and people of different statuses ate bread of different qualities. The upper classes ate fine white bread called manchet, while the poor ate coarse bread made of barley or rye. Diet of the lower class

  6. Sporting lodge - Wikipedia

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    Glas-allt-Shiel, Glen Muick - one of the sporting lodges owned by King Charles III on the Balmoral Estate. In Great Britain and Ireland a sporting lodge – also known as a hunting lodge, hunting box, fishing hut, shooting box, or shooting lodge – is a building designed to provide lodging for those practising the sports of hunting, shooting, fishing, stalking, falconry, coursing and other ...

  7. Weapons and armour in Anglo-Saxon England - Wikipedia

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    The shield was another extremely common piece of war equipment used by the Anglo-Saxons—nearly 25% of male Anglo-Saxon graves contain shields. [86] In Old English, a shield was called a bord, rand, scyld, or lind ("linden-wood"). [87]

  8. Minion (cannon) - Wikipedia

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    The minion constituted the main armament of the fast and maneuverable Elizabethan-era galleons, such as Francis Drake's Golden Hind, along with the smaller falconet.The supply ships that accompanied the Spanish Armada had similar guns, but the larger ships of the Spanish treasure fleet bringing gold back from the New World carried heavier cannon such as the demi-culverin and demi-cannon, [1 ...

  9. Simon Latham - Wikipedia

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    Little is known of his life. At the request of his friends he embodied his experiences in a treatise: Lathams Falconry or the Faulcons Lure and Cure; in two Bookes. "The first, concerning the ordering … of all Hawkes in generall, especially the Haggard Favlcon Gentle. The second, teaching approved medicines for the cure of all Diseases in ...