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Full Metal Jousting: Rod Walker

This online biography of Rod Walker appears on the History.com website for the television show Full Metal Jousting. Rod, a founding member of the International Jousting Association, is one of the coaches on the show. The show is a televised jousting…

Tags: Armour, Bathurst, combat, Full Metal Jousting, helmet, History.com, International Jousting Association, jousting, knight, lance, New South Wales, NSW, Rod Walker, shield, television

Full Tilt jousting

Full Tilt is a jousting entertainment company run by Rod Walker based in the New South Wales city of Bathurst. They can be hired for events wherein performers dressed as medieval knights perform feats of swordplay before they put on a jousting…

Tags: Armour, Bathurst, costume, Full Tilt, Full Tilt Knight Riders, jousting, knight, lance, motorcycle, New South Wales, NSW, re-enactment, Rod Walker, sport, sword, tournament, video, website.

Geelong Trades Hall Front View â€˜Labor Omnia Vincitâ€™

â€˜Labor Omnia Vincitâ€™ (work conquers everything) is a historically significant slogan associated with the American and English labour movements. It was also the motto of the Knights of Labour, a group started in the 1860s in America. The…

Tags: Geelong Trades Hall Building, knight, knights, Knights of Labor, Labor, Labor Omnia vincit, labour, labourer, Latin mottoes, trade, Trade Union, trade unionism, union, unionism, unions, work, working class

General Sir John Monash - Gold Signet Ring

Signet ring made from 18 carat gold. The face of the ring is impressed with a lion rampant holding a compass. In a scroll below is the latin motto 'MARTE ET ARTE' [By war and arts]. These words are impressed in the reverse to enable the ring to be…

Getting Ready for Battle - 2010 SCA College Challenge

Members of the Society for Creative Anachronism preparing to fight in a battle for the 2010 College Challenge between the factions of St Lazarus and St Basil. The tournament was held at the University of Western Australia. About the Society for…

Great Helms at the Perth Medieval Fayre

Image of a recreationist knight wearing a â€˜Great Helmâ€™ style helmet at the Perth Medieval Fayre. The Great Helm is a cylindrical helmet that encloses the entire head, with a flat top and eye slits for vision. It was adopted as the…

Great Helms at the Perth Medieval Fayre

Images of recreationist knights wearing â€˜Great Helmâ€™ style helmets at the Perth Medieval Fayre. The Great Helm is a cylindrical helmet that encloses the entire head, with a flat top and eye slits for vision. It was adopted as the…

Guide to the Lohac Guilds

A list of the Guilds which the members of the Lochac Region (within the Society for Creative Anachronism) can join. Some of the Guilds include: Brewers, Vintners and Imbibers Guild Broiderers Guild Lohac Cooks' Guild Royal Guild of…

Tags: "Society for Creative Anachronism", chivalry, guild, knight, knighthood, re-enactment, recreation, SCA, society

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