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military swords Or How to take proper care of your military sword Keywords: Military Swords, Military Sabers Military swords look great on the wall of your home, cabin or office, but they'll look their best when they're well taken care of in order to preserve their beauty as well as their value. Always use caution when cleaning and caring for swords, and make sure that you don’t use them in ways for which they aren’t designed. The following points are a guideline to keeping your sword in pristine condition. 1. Blades & other Metal Components Make sure that you keep all contaminants and salts away from the metal of your military swords as they might ruin the color of the blade. Another important point to remember…

Symbolism is when concrete things are used to represent, substitute, or parallel abstract ideas or themes. Authors can use symbolism to solidify the characters’ lives and background. Symbolism is often open to interpretation, as it is what the reader believes an object represents. Symbols are commonly used to show larger themes that run throughout the story. Objects for symbolism can be people, places, or things. In Terry Brooks’s The Sword of Shannara, the forest is used as a symbol of fear,…

carried a longer sword suitable for mounted soldiers—the spatha. The spatha, a double edged straight sword from 30 to 39 inches long, became the ancestor of the basic medieval blade, the arming sword, carried by medieval knights. Many swords were based on the arming sword, 27 to 32 inches long; other medieval or later swords developed in counterpoise to advances in medieval armor. This article considers the deadly swords of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Arming Sword While many students of…

Historical accounts give swords the status of legendary, mystical, impervious, and empowering. Swords were seen as giving the wieldier power, and the wieldier seen as being of high social standing, according to the quality of the sword. Both the Viking sword and Katana were masterfully designed according to the environment and materials available in both demographics. The Vikings were not one specific organized group of people. They started out as multiple smaller unorganized tribes. The…

Mikatsuki Blade made by Sanjo Kokaji Munechika By the Heian period (794-1185), Japan had become well renowned among the neighboring nations for its swordsmiths. Though for most of history prior, China had been the main producer of swords (and pretty much everything else) Japan had managed to make a name for itself by innovating on Chinese designs. Several swordsmith guilds appeared throughout the Heian period and were very wealthy and influential. One of those guilds was started by a man named…

purchaser of a sword have a claim for actual fraud, when (1) the sword that the seller displayed online turned out to be a replica; (2) the seller was gifted the sword from his brother, and only pulled the sword from the sheathing once prior to placing it in storage; (3) the seller afforded the buyer the opportunity to inspect the sword prior to the sale but the buyer declined due to time constraints; (4) the seller purported himself to be credible as to having knowledge of East Asian weaponry…

ds daggers, and other weapons of farming community. They would slay the knights who came here. That was a certainty. They smiled grimly to themselves as they prepared for battle. They would first use their arrows, spears and stones to stop the knights. Than it would become armed conflict, they knew how to use their weapons of choice. They learned this as they learned to breath. The people were worried – no terrified. Saw the shadows of them by the full moon. The leader rider seemed to be a head…

ONE Kylissa swung her sword and chopped off one of the attacker’s hands. “Well, shit.” She had been aiming for his head. “You chopped off my freaking hand!” the vampire screamed, clutching the bloodless stump to his torso as he backed away from her. The sword stuck in the wall. “Gimme a second. I can do better than that.” She pried her weapon out of the crumbling drywall and swung it again. This time, he was ready for her and ducked away, shoving her to the ground. Kylissa rolled on the…

Wait, Please, I just, I-I---," The hands at Casper's cheeks slowly faded away and Casper's would cam back into focus. The floating feeling dropped, and the color spilled back into the room. His mother's body lay in front of him, and he reeled back. The monster was still on top of his other, but this time, a large, glowing, white sword was stuck in its back, surrounded by bright turquoise liquid. Casper moved forward, and stood in an almost hypnotic state. He inched towards the sword, and he…

Battle Axes and Saws were were heavy bladed weapons that did the job, right. Axes would disable shields, body parts, and even splitting the skull with one fell swoop….literally. Axes are destructive and have the “ability to chop catapults and fully disable them with one chop.” Byam, Michele. Eyewitness : Arms and Armor. United States of America; Dorling Kindersley, 2000. Battle Axes were axes, but they were double sided making it even more dangerous….and heavy as well. It’s major weakness is…