Dr. Beach over at Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog always gives readers a new perspective on the past.
Beachcombing thought that today he would share Leonardo’s attempt to build a tank four hundred years before the Cambrai front was swarming with them. How would these fascinating inventions actually work? Well, like mice churning butter or gerbils running on wheels, men would have turned cranks to provide mobility: while their colleagues loaded the canons that were mounted there.
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secondary burials involves a sort of storage, if you will, of the remnants of the deceased above ground in a longhouse or upon a platform in the cemetery. The family of the dead will store the corpse in a valuable glazed jar or the coffin left over from the first stage. The entire process usually “lasts at least eight months and sometimes for several years if the close kin cannot immediately afford to complete the expensive final stages.”
