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Built the sword at BrickFair from the bingo tiles they supplied, I got like 50 of these triangle sign pieces and I though it made a pretty cool sword. little mech guy for scale.
coloured hybrid NZ Flax
commonly known as mountain flax and wharaiki by the Maori people. It is smaller with softer drooping leaves, and the leaves are thinner than tenax. It has also been used for making mats in the early days.
A still from my new short film "Sword and Suburb, the story of a young woman who protects her suburb from evil with a sword and a community theater actor struggling to get his most important scene right.
Check out the film here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jr8WWXId7s
Model: Cole - www.instagram.com/laceworklook
Swords Express Scania K340/Caetano Levante Reg 09-D-124952 is seen in Belfast city centre on a Private hire
A magnificent hummingbird with the longest beak of any hummingbird.
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Tried adding a little texture to this one to try and give it a canvas look.
Btw the texture is from one of the felleskjøpet grain silos in Trondheim :)
Slicey-slice! Beware the sword grass, for it is sharp.
Okay, I'm lying.
It's not sword grass. I don't even know that such a thing exists, and if it does, I want some.
No, this is... uhh, some kind of mounding shrub. Spirea, I think. I don't really know. I fade in and out.
Of course, that's what writers do. We make stuff up, often to accomodate our own lack of knowledge. "Oh, that? That's, uhhh, Horsefriar Bridge. Yeah, yup, uh-huh. Keep going thattaway, and it'll take you to Jimsonsburgsville. Sure. Good luck! Drive safe!"
Anyway. Thanks, all, for making yesterday's premiere of Shadowstories, Chapter 1, a resounding success. Those of you who vistited, you're awesome. Those of you who didn't, a pox on your pets.
Not really. Your pets are lovely.
I'll be bopping around photostreams today; forgive the busyness that has prevented me from doing so frequently!
There are two kinds of warfare: physical and spiritual. Make sure you have weapons for both.
Two more are on the blog, here.
at a local park in taichung city, taiwan.
pentax spotmatic sp II
super takumar 55mm f1.8
ilford delta 3200
Members of the Tri-State Historical Fencing Club crossing swords near their vendor tent at the Founder's Day street fair in Wurtsboro, NY.
From Medieval Times at Cooks Creek this summer. The weather has turned chilly so I thought the bright colors would brighten up our day!
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Indeed , the Tourney is about to start and Sir Fights Alot will be taking on Sir Chops Alot !!
That is really their names as sold by English Heritage .
We saw these two characters whilst visiting Pevensey Castle and with our family history could not resist them .
Tournament, also called tourney, series of military exercises, probably of medieval French origin and confined to western Europe, in which knights fought one another to display their skill and courage. Tournaments had become more pageantry than combat by the end of the 16th century, and the term is still used somewhat in this sense—for instance, in the Royal Tournament, an annual naval and military display held in London, and the New Year’s Day Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena, California.
In the early 20th century, the word tournament also came to be applied to certain methods of conducting sports competitions. In the most common modern tournament, the contestants are matched in pairs, with the losers in each test eliminated and the winners paired anew until only one remains as the champion of the tournament. In some tournaments, called double-elimination tournaments, the contestant is not eliminated until defeated a second time. In a third form, called a round robin, each contestant opposes every other contestant and the one with the highest percentage of victories is declared the champion.
The tournament in its earliest form apparently originated in France about the middle of the 11th century. Several chroniclers credit a French baron, Geoffroi de Preully, with having invented tournaments.
The early tournament was a mock battle between two bodies of armed horsemen and was called the mêlée. (This term is also applied to a predecessor of modern football [soccer]. See mêlée.) Later came the joust, a trial of skill in which two horsemen charged each other with leveled lances from either end of the lists (the palisades enclosing the jousting ground), each attempting to unhorse the other; the mêlée, however, continued side by side with it.
About 1292 a Statutum Armorum (“Statute of Arms”) enacted that swords with points were not to be used (nor were pointed daggers, clubs, or maces). Fallen knights were to be helped up only by their own squires, wearing their heraldic device. The squire who offended was to lose horse and arms and be imprisoned for three years. Disputes were to be settled by a court of honour of princes and earls.
Some tournaments were harmless and some rough. For the Tournament of Peace held at Windsor Park, England, in 1278, the sword blades were of whalebone and parchment, silvered; the helms of boiled leather; and the shields of light wood. At others, however, contestants were often killed or wounded. Blunted, or rebated, lance points came into use early, and by the 14th century a crown-shaped coronal head was often fitted in place of the point.
By the 1400s, jousters usually ran their courses separated by a cloth-covered barrier, or tilt, to prevent the collision of their horses. Armourers began to devise special armour that was heavier and less flexible than armour for the field, being used only for tilting.
In the 16th century, fighting on foot at the barrier with short spears became popular. Poleaxes also were used, and there were mounted combats with swords or maces. Prizes were presented to the victors by ladies.
In continental Europe, lists were jealously closed to all combatants except those of noble birth. In the German lands, questions as to the purity of descent of a candidate for admission to a noble order were often settled by appeal to an ancestor’s having taken part in a tournament.
The tournament eventually degenerated into the carrousel, a kind of equestrian polonaise, and the more harmless sport of tilting at a ring. In modern times there have been occasional romantic revivals, the most famous perhaps being the tournament at Eglinton Castle, in Scotland, in 1839, described in Disraeli’s novel Endymion (1880). Later tournaments were theatrical reenactments.
William Marshal " The Greatest Knight of All Time " excelled at The Tourney and played a part in English history , he played a part in Magna Carta , repelled an invasion from France and ruled as Regent after the death of King John , quite a man . His is buried in Temple Church in London where his tomb can be seen .
It is also called Lake of Returned Sword- The Emperor Le Loi returned the sword to the giant golden turtle.
Hanoi- Vietnam
C238GBH was the Spurs team coach but became the Arsenal team coach at the beginning of the 86-87 season. Sold to Hallmarks in about 92-93.
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Atholl Gathering & Highland Games 2014
The Sword Dance - Gille Calum or Gille Chaluim - Said to have originated in 1054 when King Malcolm Canmore clashed in battle near Dunsinane with one of Macbeth's chiefs. Having slain his opponent, Malcolm crossed his claymore with that of his opponent to make the sign of the cross and danced in exultation over them. After this time, it is said, clansmen would cross their swords prior to battle and if they could complete the war dance without touching the swords, it signified that they would be the victors.