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HistoryPhotos is for photographs (or, if it can be found, film) of the past, recent or distant! Give us a little snapshot of history!

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Photos MUST be at LEAST 10 years old, and ideally over 20. We appreciate that we are living through events which will become history, but this is ultimately not a comm for news or current affairs, but events which have occurred some time in the past.

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Aboriginal woman with a 'sword-club' or 'rainforest sword', Australia, ~1880 (media.piefed.social)

submitted 7 months ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyphotos@piefed.social

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[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

I wonder how heavy that thing is.

Then again, I imagine it can’t possibly be heavier than claymores and zweihanders, and those were allegedly used despite being longer than I am tall..

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social [S] 4 points 7 months ago

With zweihanders, it's all about leverage. People can strike pretty fast with them - but because of the long handle (and sometimes holding the unsharpened part of the blade) giving them more leverage.

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