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I remember Uhuru, an Afro-American beauty, who had beaucoup allure.
a few points:
1) As I recall, Lt. Uhuru was notable for having beaucoup allures.
2) Bill, granted that the Lt. was of the feminine ilk, but why would you consider that said fact renders inapt TEd's reference to her wishing a sojourn on the planet Allure?
3)I believe the name "Uhuru" was chosen as being the swahili word for something-or-other. Can anyone help?
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Dear Keiva: In early Star-Trek episodes, there was feminine Uhura. You have changed spelling.
In some of the sites I found, there was Uhuru apparently male in later episodes. Maybe the lady got nice and went up on her price, and a bargain basement male got her job.
"Uhuru" is Swahili for "freedom".
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Well, Keiva, I'll be an ayleurette if I can twirl fire, an obsession of mine from high school days...
Oh, that was majorette... Forget it.
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Wordwind: What about the portable towers that attackers moved into place against the castle walls to bridge the allure? They must have a name. Those towers turned the tables on the allure ... making them a whole lot less 'alluring', wouldn't you say?
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>They must have a name.
were they called anything other than 'siege towers'?
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I read somewhere that HumptyDumpty represented such a siege tower being overthrown by defenders.
I had it a bit garbled
t is believed that Humpty Dumpty was the name given to a narrow-barreled squat cannon mounted on top of
Saint Mary's Church, near the Balkerne Gate and Jumbo water tower, as part of the town's defences. Humpty
Dumpty received a direct hit by a cannon ball fired from Parliamentarian forces, lead by Sir Thomas Fairfax.
He was attempting to breach the town's defences in pursuit of its Royalist captors, lead by Sir Charles Lucas
and Sir George Lisle.
Falling to the ground, along with a large section of the church's tower, Humpty Dumpty lay in pieces
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actually, my favorite room of a castle is the oubliette --sometimes i think every house should have one.. a little room for forgetting.. some excavation of 'castles' in england found evidence that one oubliette was in use right up to 1830! Now days they would be perfect for door to door vendors! too bad we can't confine telemarketers to them too!
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With no sanitary facilities the oubliettes had to have an unforgettable aroma. And dear Helen, be sure you have the key. Indefinite droit du seigneur might become tiresome.
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