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Stairwells in medieval castles curved very narrowly and clockwise. Attackers coming up the stairs had sword hands (right hand) against the interior curve of the wall and made it very difficult to swing their swords. Defenders had their sword hands on the outside wall giving much room to swing. (source)

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Hi Team

Decided to call in some pizza after a hard week.  Look at the confirmation email.

That does seem a little over the top.

Is this one of those Americanism that we just blindly add to our corporate emails, or would it actually have legal standing in a New Zealand court?

These two tweets came out a few minutes apart this morning.

Guess which channel is working hard, and which is phoning it in?