Sword
Human beings have presumably always carried weapons, and developed varieties of spears, bows and arrows, axes, daggers and flails very early in our history. Swords, which are essentially daggers...
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The Earliest SwordsIt was around 3000BC that the first metal weapons (such as daggers and axe heads) were created from solid copper. This soft metal was improved upon when humans refined their smel...
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A man says he broke into an apartment with a cavalry sword because he thought he heard a woman being raped, but the sound actually was from a pornographic movie his upstairs neighbor was watching."...
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The hack-and-slash genre brings a certain mindless, yet simply satisfying, element to video games. Call it a quirk of gaming, but sometimes there's just an odd pleasure in pressing the same few but...
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A man convicted of murder after nearly beheading his stepfather with a samurai sword was sentenced Wednesday to the maximum 25 years to life in prison.Zachary Gibian, 20, was convicted last month o...
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After more than 200 years in the family, the gold-encrusted sword Napoleon carried into battle in Italy will be auctioned off Sunday, across the street from one of his imperial castles.The intricat...
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(Reuters) - Relations between Venezuela and Colombia
have soured after Colombia's Alvaro Uribe suspended efforts by
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to negotiate the release of
hostages held by th...
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Events outpace the written word, showing no mercy for the self-assured. Writing on the Web site Counterpunch.com, Greg C. Estabrook recently suggested that the new Pope might emulate his immediate ...
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Madrid (dpa) - A millennium after the death of the legendary
Spanish knight El Cid, a row has erupted over his alleged sword.
The solid, 0.75-metre sword with a blac...
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Japanese and North Korean foreign ministers crossed swords over
contentious bilateral issues Thursday including North Korea's
abductions of Japanese nationals and alleged Japanese discriminat...
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Japanese and North Korean foreign ministers crossed swords
Thursday over contentious bilateral issues, including Pyongyang's
abductions of Japanese nationals and the alleg...
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Sword
A Brief History of the Sword
