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    Wood has contributed to both movie and TV projects. Working in conjunction with Konami and Japanese producer/director Hideo Kojima to produce Metal Gear...
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  • Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and United States...
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  • Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played...
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    A metal (from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon) 'mine, quarry, metal') is a material that, when freshly prepared, polished, or fractured, shows a lustrous...
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    dulls Metal Metal de-energizes Fire (conducting heat away) Fire evaporates Water Water muddies (or destabilizes) Earth Earth rots Wood (buried wood rots)...
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    device to drill wood or other materials, consisting of a rotating metal shaft with a blade at the end that scrapes or cuts the wood. The classical design...
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  • Socialist black metal scene. National Socialist black metal (usually shortened to NSBM, and also known as neo-Nazi black metal or Aryan black metal) is a political...
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    the woods, the heads of which were traditionally made of persimmon wood in the early days of the game of golf, but are now generally made of metal or (especially...
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  • Metal Gear (Japanese: メタルギア, Hepburn: Metaru Gia) is a franchise of stealth games created by Hideo Kojima. Developed and published by Konami, the first...
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    Knocking on wood (also phrased touching wood or touch wood) is an apotropaic tradition of literally touching, tapping, or knocking on wood, or merely stating...
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  • A number of heavy metal genres have developed since the emergence of heavy metal (often shortened to metal) during the late 1960s and early 1970s. At times...
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    Fireplace (section Wood)
    vertical cracks on the exterior. Metal-lined flue: Double- or triple-walled metal pipe running up inside a new or existing wood-framed or masonry chase. Newly...
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  • Doom metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than...
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    printing posters, because it was lighter and cheaper than large sizes of metal type. Wood has been used since the earliest days of European printing for woodcut...
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  • De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas is the first studio album by Norwegian black metal band Mayhem. Songwriting began in 1987, but due to the suicide of vocalist...
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    Woodie (car body style) (category Wood products)
    of materials and methods evoking wood construction — including infill metal panels, metal framework, or simulated wood-grain sheet vinyl bordered with...
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  • Manson - Holy Wood". Metal Hammer. TeamRock.com. Archived from the original on October 8, 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2017. "The Top 20 best metal albums of 2000"...
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  • The early Norwegian black metal scene of the 1990s is credited with creating the modern black metal genre and produced some of the most acclaimed and...
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  • 1 also includes Metal Gear 1 and 2". Eurogamer.net. May 26, 2023. Retrieved May 27, 2023. Wood, Austin (May 24, 2023). "A new Metal Gear Solid collection...
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    1901. Soon thereafter, Wood began as an apprentice in a local metal shop. After graduating from Washington High School, Wood enrolled in The Handicraft...
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  • consisting of hand-drawn artwork by artist Ashley Wood. This style was previously utilized in Metal Gear Solid: Digital Graphic Novel. The game also features...
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    cold-rolled steel. Metal spinning does not involve removal of material, as in conventional wood or metal turning, but forming (moulding) of sheet metal over an existing...
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  • (Japanese: ソリッド・スネーク, Hepburn: Soriddo Sunēku) is a fictional character from the Metal Gear series created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami...
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    The alkali metals consist of the chemical elements lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), caesium (Cs), and francium (Fr). Together with...
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    chromatographic separation of trace metals. Wood can also be petrified by calcite, as occurs in concretions in coal beds. Wood petrified by calcite tends to...
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  • Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is a 2001 action-adventure stealth video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Japan and published by Konami...
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    Boules (redirect from Jeu de boules)
    material of the ball: games where the balls are solid and made out of wood, or a wood-like plastic, composite, or epoxy resin similar to billiard balls (for...
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  • Viking metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by a lyrical and thematic focus on Norse mythology, Norse paganism, and the Viking Age. Viking...
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    Corrosion (redirect from Metal corrosion)
    that converts a refined metal into a more chemically stable oxide. It is the gradual deterioration of materials (usually a metal) by chemical or electrochemical...
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    Sign of the horns (redirect from Metal sign)
    became famous in metal concerts very soon after Black Sabbath's first tour with Dio. The sign would later be appropriated by heavy metal fans. Geezer Butler...
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