They were called maces and could be made by driving nails into a club, and the cheap weapon became popular among peasants as well as knights in Europe. ... Horses played an important role in warfare during the medieval period. Horses were primary tamed for farming uses such as plow pulling or hauling cargo. ... It was usually pulled by at leas two horses. ... The cavalry was a group of horse mounted soldiers who would lead a charge of more than one hundred at a time. ...

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Word about this "secret" spread quickly throughout the large student population of NYU, where I was a senior at the time, and to my surprise, every performance had a line around the block of people my own age wanting to get in to see the show", i.e. get into the club for cheap with the small sacrifice of having to sit through a play beforehand. ... Ironically, I was able to manufacture the presumable reaction from Shakespeare's audience to the original text, which was risque in its time, through radically altering it to meet with the expectations of contemporary young adults, for whom the...

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