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Close, but no cigar. Hanwei are the Chinese manufacturers of repro swords, here's one of their Norman versions: You see the pattern down the centre, that's not for elaborate decoration, it's to allow the blood to escape from the victim who is skewered on the end of it.
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Lost city? I bet they have uncovered the secret base that the Nazis built, and where they continued to research, improve and build their technology, from which they would succeed in world domination.
No Sir, I can't say I have. It seems odd that everyone who claims to have seen it at one time or another never made it back to confirm their sightings. But then...well, in my observations most of the people who live in the desert areas of southern California are rather...unique. Different energy, something in the air, hallucinogens, brains baked by the hot sun, who knows why? All I know is, them folks just ain't right.
Scotland doesn't want it solved, myth or fact, Nessie is a monster, a money-making monster for the Highlands, £41M a year. A study, carried out by Chartered Accountant Gary Campbell, who also keeps the official register of sightings of the creature, uses the most up-to-date visitor figures for the Loch Ness area.
Many years ago someone explained the purpose of that depression in the blade to me as you described it, and it made perfect sense--the faster the victim bleeds out and succumbs to his/her wounds, the sooner the combat is finished. Years later in a different conversation on the same subject someone else said that it was to "vent" the victim's body because the flesh, once the body is punctured, tends to "grab on" to the metal and create suction, making it difficult to remove the blade and continue the fight. Then years later I read that both explanations, however plausible, were incorrect and that the purpose of that so-called "blood groove" (actually called a "fuller") had nothing to do with blood, but was simply a way to remove material and a) lighten the blade without weakening it, and/or b) balance the weapon. I've never stabbed anyone so I don't really know which explanation is true (or most true), but the last one is the one most historians recite.
