Re: Swords and plate
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Originally Posted by safisher
That's just a subjective determination which masks a confirmation bias. Given your own record of blatant overstatement of facts and misuse of sources, you hardly have any room to criticize others. And yet again, I see how the "acceptable" evidence has drifted even further. We now must rely solely on original language sources from eyewitnesses. This is rich, indeed.
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The very first thing we learn in history is to study primary sources whenever possible. Secondary sources take all the biases of primary sources and add their own biases.
Edit: some lesser known primary sources are in this thread.
http://myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic....er=asc&start=0
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Last edited by DanHoward; 07-16-2016 at 08:10 AM.
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