>Actually my SCA persona is an unreconstructed Zoroastrian, whose family
>fled to Georgia after 642. Descended from an Engineer captured when the
>Emperor Julian got offed, and his army taken prisoner. I even go so far
>as to use the Sassanid Lock (note to Lurkers: a method of holding the
>bowstring at full extension, named after the Sassanid dynasty that ruled
>Iran immediately prior to the Islamic conquest) when doing archery...
>I find pre-Islamic Persian history fascinating. And of course, the
>scientific and cultural influence Persia had on the whole of the Islamic
>world, and via osmosis, the relatively barbaric Europe.
Yeah! What is SCA?
Shervin
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