Caption only: Having a fling with physics

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  May 28, 2003 ;     54 words ...Physics students at Riverton High School try launching a one- gallon water balloon with a "trebuchet" -- a medieval engine of war used to hurl stones. They were aiming for their teacher, Kari Maruji. They didn't have much luck with that device...

Caption only: Handy work at U.

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  December 13, 2006 ;     68 words ...At left, Morgan McDaniel, left, and Heather Gurr, eighth-graders from Fairfield Junior High, build a medieval engine of war or trebuchet Thursday at the Olpin Union building during a research day sponsored by the University of Utah mechanical engineering...

HIGH SCHOOLS INVITED TO ENTER TREBUCHET COMPETITION DURING ENGINEERING...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 8, 2007 ;     338 words ......teachers from throughout north Mississippi are invited to participate. Registration deadline is Feb. 2. A trebuchet is a medieval engine of war that uses a counterweight to propel projectiles at enemy targets, such as castle walls. Trebuchets were more accurate...

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The Independent - London;  June 29, 2007 ;     587 words ......corruption". The persistence of such demonisation all the way from Iranian madrassas to US officers' messes means that we have "a medieval engine driving our modern geo-political and military concerns". Rushdie's peculiar fate as a ritual scapegoat for faith-based dogmatists...

MEDIEVAL GROUP WILL BRING LIVING MONTAGE TO FAIR.(VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON)

The Virginian Pilot;  April 15, 2004 ;     554 words ......City County near Williamsburg, the VMAA's trebuchet demonstration attracted visitors who watched in awe as the hand-crafted medieval engine of war tossed a 16-pound bowling ball 80 feet into the air and 90 yards across an open field. Kempsville resident Tom Huff...

MEDIEVAL GROUP WILL BRING LIVING MONTAGE TO FAIR.(NORFOLK COMPASS)

The Virginian Pilot;  April 15, 2004 ;     553 words ......City County near Williamsburg, the VMAA's trebuchet demonstration attracted visitors who watched in awe as the hand-crafted medieval engine of war tossed a 16-pound bowling ball 80 feet into the air and 90 yards across an open field. Kempsville resident Tom Huff...

MEDIEVAL GROUP WILL BRING LIVING MONTAGE TO FAIR.(CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER)

The Virginian Pilot;  April 16, 2004 ;     552 words ......City County near Williamsburg, the VMAA's trebuchet demonstration attracted visitors who watched in awe as the hand-crafted medieval engine of war tossed a 16-pound bowling ball 80 feet into the air and 90 yards across an open field. Kempsville resident Tom Huff...

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The Sunday Telegraph London;  November 18, 2007 ;     349 words ......apocalypse - that movable feast - and expresses why everyone should take religion seriously: apocalyptic thought, especially in the Christian and Islamic traditions, is 'a medieval engine driving our modern moral, geo-political and military concerns'.