Too Many Trebuchets? Nonsense!

Oh bliss! Oh joy! nHumanities just spent an enraptured hour watching trebuchets smash ersatz castle walls with 250 lb. stones on Secrets of Lost Empires: Medieval Siege. NOVA assembled teams of engineers and craftsmen in Scotland to test two hypothetical trebuchet models, similar--the producers believe--to those used by Edward Longshanks in his siege of Scot castles. Both models worked famously.

You, too, can watch this wonderful program thanks to encore broadcasts this week:

Wyoming Public Television (cable channel 10 KCWC)

• Wednesday, January 25, 1:00 AM
• Saturday, January 28, 4:00 PM
• Sunday, January 29, 12:00 AM
• Sunday, January 29, 3:00 AM
  

Denver Public Television (cable channel 9 KUED)

• Friday, January 27, 12:00 AM
• Sunday, January 29, 2:00 PM
  

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For past nHumanities posts on trebuchets, see

• Punkin Chunkin' Trebuchet (01Dec05)
• More on Trebuchets (22Jun05)
• Trebuchet of the day (26Apr05)