• Crossed Swords is a hack & slash action RPG arcade game developed by Alpha Denshi and published by SNK. It was released for the Neo Geo arcade system in...
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    [clarification needed] Some tried to swallow longer swords, many swords, hot swords, bayonets or glowing neon tubes. Sword swallowers appeared on the same bill as...
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  • early modern period, western sword design diverged into two forms, the thrusting swords and the sabres. Thrusting swords such as the rapier and eventually...
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    town was reputedly founded c. AD 560. Located on the Ward River, Swords features Swords Castle, a restored medieval castle, a holy well from which it takes...
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  • ceremonial swords were typically reserved for the officer corps as a symbol of authority with which to command the troops. Ceremonial swords are still...
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  • (28–43 in) in length. However, longer swords have been found on occasion. Outside of Ancient China, Chinese swords were also used in Ancient Japan from...
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    Katana (redirect from Samurai sword)
    The production of swords in Japan is divided into specific time periods: Jōkotō (ancient swords, until around 900) Kotō (old swords from around 900–1596)...
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    the cross-piece, have ruby eyes. George paid more than £5,000 for the sword out of his own pocket in a radical change from the austere £2 swords used...
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    Leaves and Swords (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern) and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds...
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    Scimitar (redirect from Near Eastern sword)
    African nimcha, and the Turkish kilij. All such swords are originally derived from earlier curved swords developed in Turkic Central Asia (Turkestan). The...
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  • reporting this to Dattaji, Sabaji Scindia and his men armed with swords and spears only, crossed the river on other side to confront the enemy. They were met...
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    Leaves and Swords (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern) and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds...
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    Policy. Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2 January 2024. Nawaz, Shuja (2008). Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within. Karachi, Sind, Pakistan: Oxford...
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    160 both the Oak Leaves and Swords (including Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (posthumously)); 27 with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds; and one with...
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    Leaves and Swords (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern) and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds...
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  • Persia: Rival Swords for Wii". GameRankings. Archived from the original on October 12, 2014. Retrieved May 3, 2014. "Prince of Persia Rival Swords for PSP"...
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  • (2010). České barokní korunovace. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny. p. 86. ISBN 9788074220111. Media related to St. Wenceslas Sword at Wikimedia Commons...
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    points: the sharply-pointed Sword of Temporal Justice, and the more obtuse Sword of Spiritual Justice. There are several swords answering to this description...
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    Leaves and Swords (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern) and the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds...
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    Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov (category Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword)
    Class, 1870 Gold Sword for Bravery, 4 June 1862 Knight of St. Vladimir, 4th Class with Swords and Bow, 1865; 3rd Class with Swords, 1867; 2nd Class,...
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  • 心 10 S ecstasy エツ etsu 84 越 走 12 S cross over エツ、こ-す、こ-える etsu, ko-su, ko-eru 85 謁 謁  言 15 S audience エツ etsu 86 閲 門 15 S review エツ etsu 87 円 圓 囗 4 1...
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  • type of Asian sword characterized as having a straight single-edged blade. Patags are traditionally produced in Bhutan. Bhutanese swords are straight,...
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    Otto Hofmann (category Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 1st class)
    1919, having earned the Iron Cross, 1st and 2nd class and the Military Merit Order of Bavaria 3rd and 4th class with Swords. Hofmann saw short-term service...
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    Otto Kretschmer (category Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords)
    of 274,333 tons. For this he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, among other awards. He earned the nickname "Silent...
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  • rock–paper–scissors fashion. For weapons, lances have an advantage against swords, swords have an advantage against axes, and axes have an advantage against lances...
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    later, in the "adult era"; Four Swords Adventures, upon its release, was considered to be a direct sequel to Four Swords, set sometime after its events;...
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    Sword, commonly known as Sword Beach, was the code name given to one of the five main landing areas along the Normandy coast during the initial assault...
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    Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal (category Commanders of the Order of the Sword)
     Oldenburg: Grand Cross of the Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig, with Swords, 31 December 1870; with Golden Crown and Swords on Ring Reuss: Cross of Honour...
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