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It looks like it's about to kiss you
but it will tear your heart out
(don't worry, i only use it to eat strawberries)
for Macro Mondays # Contraption
Back in 1956 hood ornaments like on this 1956 Mercury were not even thought to be a deadly weapon when striking some poor pedestrian. It was all about beauty back them, however, that all changed in the years that followed. As a 15 year old at the time I have fond memories of the Sunday night television show, The Toast Of The Town, aka The Ed Sullivan Show which was sponsored by Lincoln Mercury, and drooling over all the commercials of "the latest models" from Mercury. The following from Wiki is a little history of the show:
From 1948 until its cancellation in 1971, the show ran on CBS every Sunday night from 8–9 p.m. Eastern Time, and is one of the few entertainment shows to have run in the same weekly time slot on the same network for more than two decades.
Virtually every type of entertainment appeared on the show; classical musicians, opera singers, popular recording artists, songwriters, comedians, ballet dancers, dramatic actors performing monologues from plays, and circus acts were regularly featured. The format was essentially the same as vaudeville and, although vaudeville had undergone a slow demise for a generation, Sullivan presented many ex-vaudevillians on his show.
Originally co-created and produced by Marlo Lewis, the show was first titled Toast of the Town, but was widely referred to as The Ed Sullivan Show for years before September 25, 1955, when that became its official name. In the show's June 20, 1948 debut, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis performed along with singer Monica Lewis and Broadway composers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II previewing the score to their then-new show South Pacific, which opened on Broadway in 1949.
From 1948 through 1962, the program's primary sponsor was the Lincoln-Mercury Division of the Ford Motor Company; Sullivan read many commercials for Mercury vehicles live on the air during this period.
The Ed Sullivan Show was originally broadcast via live television from CBS-TV studio 51, the Maxine Elliott Theatre, at Broadway and 39th St. before moving to its permanent home at CBS-TV Studio 50 in New York City (1697 Broadway, at 53rd Street), which was renamed the Ed Sullivan Theater on the occasion of the program's 20th anniversary in June 1968. The last original Sullivan show telecast (#1068) was on March 28, 1971, with guests Melanie, Joanna Simon, Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass and Sandler and Young.
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
[Camille Paglia]
Hello it's me again. I bring to you today my latest Release in a new event that promises to bring a lot of cool things, since there are several designers of impressive quality !!
I present to you, our new blade, with many differentials from our past weapons. it has many animations in the animated bento version. and also includes its version of hand blades for those who are not in the mood to use magic for this.
I hope u Guys like it !! today in WareHouse Event August 23th 10pm SLT !
Alter Ego: Glitch Glimmer
Name: Unknown
Allegiance: Neutral
Powers:
* Can travel through different points of time via teleportation time travel
Weapons:
* Alien Time Relic that allow its user time jumping abilities
* Futuristic sniper rifle
* Knife
Key Weakness: Unknown
Origin:
Not much is known about this being except she appears to be a futuristic assassin traveling through different time points and is opening up rifts so she can assassinate politicians, heroes and villains in the present (which to her is the past) which may of had a negative impact on the future to create a better one.
A wise man knows cologne is the most powerful
weapon in the fight for female attention.
(Marcello Mastroianni)
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Gatotkaca confronts Karna, the owner of the Kontawijaya weapon. He created a thousand twins of himself, making Karna feel confused. On Batara Surya's instructions, Karna managed to find the real Gatotkaca. He then fired his Konta weapon at Gatotkaca. Gatotkaca tried to avoid it by flying as high as possible. However, Kalabendana's spirit suddenly appeared to catch Kontawijaya while delivering news from heaven that Gatotkaca's death had been determined that night. Gatotkaca, who resigned himself to his fate, advised that his corpse could be used to kill enemies. Kalabendana agreed, then stabbed Gatotkaca's navel using a Konta weapon. The heirloom merged with the scabbard, namely the mastaba wood which was still stored in Gatotkaca's stomach. After Gatotkaca died, Kalabendana's spirit threw his body at Karna. Because he managed to jump and escape death. However, the train was shattered into pieces by Gatotkaca's body. The fragments of the train shot in all directions and killed the Korawa soldiers around it.
A Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina) strikes a pose while grooming her raptorial forelegs. Photographed where found, perched on a white-topped pitcher plant in North Carolina.
Bunker Solo weapons delivery, always delivered with the trucks, with the other vehicles there is no time, keep changing sections until the trucks appear.
You don't need to be in a hurry to make the delivery, take it easy, but if you have an accident, don't worry, there will be time to make the delivery.
“Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union. That would be an instant and enormous deterrent. But such a step would be complicated and have serious implications.”– New York Times
Ecclesiastes 9:18 “Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.”
The gastraphetes (Ancient Greek γαστραφέτης, lit. 'belly-bow') was a handheld crossbow, used by ancient Greeks. It was described in the first century AD by the Greek author Heron of Alexandria in his work Belopoeica (Ancient Greek Βελοποιικά, 'on catapult-making'). It is believed to have been invented around 400 BC.(Landels, 1978, p. 99-100)
The weapon was powered by a composite bow. It was cocked by resting the stomach in a concavity at the rear of the stock and pressing down with all strength. In this way considerably more energy can be summoned up than by using only one arm of the archer as in the hand-bow.
There are no attestations through pictures or archaeological finds, but the description by Heron is detailed enough to have allowed modern reconstructions to be made.
A larger version of the gastraphetes were the oxybeles, which were used in siege warfare. These were later supplanted by the early ballistae that later also developed into smaller versions supplanting also the gastraphetes.
[edit] In modern culture
Gastraphetes appears in the Square Enix tactical RPG Final Fantasy Tactics. It is mistranslated as Gastrafitis and is the strongest crossbow in the game. It appears in Final Fantasy XII for PS2 once again as the strongest crossbow.
In Microsoft's Age of Mythology, Gastraphetes appear as a unit trainable only by Hades. They wield a crossbow and are very powerful, having few weaknesses.
A Gastraphetes also appears in the MMORPG Lineage 2. However, it is not a crossbow in the game. [from wikipedia].
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A cadet fires a weapon during the West Point History Department's annual Historic Weapons Shoot on Sat., May 2. The event gives History majors, as well as undecided cadets, the opportunity to fire weapons used by U.S. forces and enemy fighters throughout history. (Photo by Master Sgt. Dean Welch/DComm).