How to make fire using the Neanderthal inside you?I've practised it a few “decades” ago and it's really easy to do. Of course, with practice you can make a fire as easily as by using a lighter.Ingredients– a flint stone- a piece of marcasite- dry tinder fungus- dry grassHow to proceed?– hit the marcasite with the flint stone above the fungus- hit until a spark falls on the fungus- once the spark falls onto the dry fungus, blow softly it until smoke comes out and the fungus   starts burning- when enough fungus is burning, insert it inside a kind of nest made of dry grass and keep blowing  slowly from under until flames start- once it's on fire, keep “fuelling” it until the requested size to start cooking your mammoth steakA short vdo from Maine showing it:  Flint on Marcasite

I'm more an early bird kind; and I prefer this part:

So you were born to feel 'nice'? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don't you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you're not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren't you running to do what your nature demands?

However does it imply that you have to be an night owl? I often go to bed around 8.30 PM  ::)Napoleon and Margaret Thatcher are known as short sleepersSix for a man, seven for a woman, eight for a fool

Part 3About armours, the one of Henry VIII which weighs 42.6 kg (94lb) about twice as much as normal armour for war http://www.armouries.org.uk/visit-us/leeds/leeds-galleries/tournament-gallery/henry-viii/single-object/23In action:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKrAfww79ULast but not least: “How to mount a horse in armor and other chivalric problems” by the MET Museum of Arthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqC_squo6X4

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The topic was on ancient weapons and armor.  One of the things they discussed was the use of armored cavalry (cataphracts) by the Romans.  Not just partially-armored, but armored to look like medieval knights, including helmet with faceshield.  To their credit, they did provide textual and pictorial sources which seemed to support such a conclusion.

It also depends on what kind of medieval knights it looked like; the evolution of armours during the Middle Ages was quite important. (see attachment)However, after few investigations, it seems that indeed the Roman army had units of heavily armoured cavalry, known as the cataphractarii and the clibanarii, covered from neck to foot by a combination of scale and/or lamellar armour for the torso and laminated defences for the limbs (see manica), and their horses were often armoured also. Cataphracts carried a long, heavy lance called a contus, c. 3.65 m (12 ft) long, that was held in both hands, a cavalry sword (spatha), which was much longer than the infantry gladius to provide greater reach and a long dagger. These cavalry units were part of the Ala(e) who were specially trained and were heavily protected, with chain-mail or scale body armour, a cavalry version of the infantry helmet (with more protective features) and oval shield.So, yes, it might be possible that some Roman cavalry units were looking vaguely “similar” as medieval knights (just like any kind of such armour can look similar)You have here a description from Ammianus Marcellinus (4th century AD)http://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/prose/ammianus.htmlAnother link about the Equitatus and Auxiliaryhttp://www.unrv.com/military/roman-cavalry.php