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    The Saracen joust of Arezzo (Giostra del Saracino, Giostra ad burattum) is an ancient game of chivalry. It dates back to the Middle Ages. It was born...
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    competitive character. Saracen Joust attracts tourists from all over the world. The Giostra della Quintana was a historical jousting tournament in Foligno...
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    Photos of Arezzo and the Joust Porta Crucifera's Knights, official site of the Porta Crucifera quartiere; Joust of the Saracen Bill Thayer's site including...
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    A knight with an eagle crest at the Saracen Joust in Arezzo, Tuscany....
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    became Roger I of Sicily, victorious over the Saracens in 1071. The Giostra del Saraceno ("Joust of the Saracen") is the highlight of the three days of the...
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    Some of them include the Palio di Siena horse race, Holy Week rites, Saracen Joust of Arezzo, Saint Ubaldo Day in Gubbio, Festival of Saint Agatha of Catania...
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    festivities include: the Palio di Siena horse race, Holy Week rites, Saracen Joust of Arezzo and the Calcio Fiorentino. In 2013, UNESCO included among...
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  • Tremacoldo, thanks to a ruse. One day Tremacoldo was admitted to a Saracen Joust, but he made it possible to be replaced by Lupo da Limonta dressed up...
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    flourished in the Roman period and then after a series of debilitating Saracen attacks, was finally destroyed by the Normans and then abandoned in the...
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    a joust. When Argalia eventually falls to the Saracen knight Ferraù, Orlando and Rinaldo threaten to destroy each other over her. As the Saracens lay...
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  • Tilt, would be used in the televised series with little modification. Joust was also tested in this series with pugil sticks being used, but the skybikes...
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    and the proper riding techniques (equestrianism), mounted archery, and jousting. Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya adds swordsmanship as a fourth discipline in his...
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    the Middle Ages was closely linked with horsemanship (and especially the joust) from its origins in the 12th century until its final flowering as a fashion...
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  • Palamedes the Saracen takes up the quest, and, according to one version, slays the beast. Pellinore beats King Arthur after three jousts and breaks the...
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  • retire so Jean replaced her. ^2 Chris’ right hand was damaged during his Joust with Shadow, which meant that no men's Eliminator was played and Tim automatically...
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    Swordmaking. Gibb Memorial Trust. ISBN 0906094526. Nicolle, David (1994). Saracen Faris AD 1050-1250. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85532-453-4....
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  • the sea", frequent raids by Saracen corsairs. Brancaleone designs a cartoonish Rube Goldberesque trap to defeat the Saracens, but instead the band ends...
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    Quest when the two, disguised by their armour, randomly meet and decide to joust. It is not until Gawain takes him to a hermitage for his last rites that...
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  • interviews on camera. ^1 Rachel slipped off her sky bike awkwardly during Joust with Scorpio and broke her back when she landed on the crash mat, which...
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    him in a joust outside of Baghdad, and is acknowledged as the finest knight of his time. Later, Feirefiz travels to Europe with a huge Saracen army to...
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    museum, the city's picture gallery, a multimedia museum of Tournaments and Jousts and the Civic Museum. The façade was rebuilt in Neoclassicist style after...
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    quests and tournaments, and famed as a nearly unrivalled swordsman and jouster, Lancelot becomes the lord of the castle Joyous Gard and personal champion...
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  • nor Danger Zone appeared in this series either, for reasons undisclosed. Joust made only its second appearance during any competition during the 1995 season...
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    household to school them in the arts of horsemanship, swordsmanship, the joust, hunting and perhaps aspects of courtly behaviour, including dress, protocol...
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  • April 2007 "Treasure Under Glass" (Rosa / Rosa, Davidson, Palomino) "It's Joust Love" (Börner, Milton / Milton, Babcock, Pratt) "Law and Disorder" (Korhonen...
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    Norman knights. On the first day of the tournament, in a bout of individual jousting, a mysterious knight, identifying himself only as "Desdichado" (described...
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    Robin remaining dressed in his earlier monk's habit. The strip opens with a joust between Robin and Sir Guy, a scene which was in the original screenplay...
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    to France, where it developed into a distinctive form in its own right. Jousting and hunting were popular sports in the European Middle Ages, and the aristocratic...
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  • classed with this."[This quote needs a citation] LV 55 C The Chymical Jousting of Brother Perardua with the seven Lances that he brake. — Crowley: "An...
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    description of the city in his Voyage contains some interesting accounts of a joust and other ceremonies he attended, but very little on the city's architecture...
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