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Yes, there are some of the dogs that I love on this page: Roxie, Trixie and Charlotte. Roxie spends a lot of time in my studio. The falcons and horses aren’t anyone I know.

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Egad, more sword-fighting!

For anyone interested, here’s commentary regarding the evolution from mediaeval broadsword to the rapier. Also, some remarks about fencing with two swords—’dual-wielding’.

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Five centuries before Marvel decided to replace Tony Stark with a teenaged girl as Iron Man, here is Lady Elizabeth Tudor swashbuckling with the big boys.

Back in 16th-century England, there existed a martial-arts guild known as the “The Corporation of Masters of the Noble Science of Defence”, or the “Company of Masters”. Who is to say whether they admitted girls into their school?