A Dangerous Weapon - Fascinating!
Katra is the name of a special dagger found in India. This is an 'Indian punch dagger', that unlike a sword is not swung, and unlike a knife is not slashed, but was meant for stabbing duels.
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Guns are lethal devices, but as a dagger or a sword have beauty, both historic and artful, so do some guns, that we can adore as works of art hanged on the wall, instead of used for harm.
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In the pictures below, you can see the traditional futa, a cloth worn from the waist down, and the jambiya, the traditional ivory dagger. Source Source A dagger shop with a safe.
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King Tut and his iron dagger Daniela Comelli/Polytechnic University of Milan An X-ray scan recently determined that King Tut's famed iron dagger was actually made out of meteoric iron.
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Silver and gold Mycenaean daggers. Found in shaft graves, 1550–1500 B.C. 6. Tiled stairs at the Ali-Qapu Palace in Isfahan, Iran, built around the end of the 16th century (1597) by the Safvaid King Shah Abbas 7. House of Neptun and Amphitrite.
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A dagger from an unknown era 18. A cast lead Mickey Mouse from the 1930s 19. A silver pendant dating back to 227 years ago 20. An antique watch collection 21. A WWI Canadian military canteen that has been sitting in 40 feet of water for over 100 years.
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Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt - second half 16th century, India Portraits of Sultan ‘Ali ‘Adil Shah of Bijapur (1558–80) show him wearing daggers such as this one with zoomorphic hilts. This ruby studded hilt is shaped like a dragon, whose tail wraps around the grip.
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People of the Bell-Beaker culture, also known as the ‘Beaker folk’, were mostly bowmen and also used to carry a copper dagger or spear, along with a curved, rectangular wrist guard.
Will This Be the New Handshake?
The up and down motion was the final proof no one was hiding a knife or a dagger up their sleeve. Historians believe that the handshake as we know it today became popular in the 17th century, originally among Quakers who began using it as a more ‘egalitarian’ way of greeting each other.
Some Places Look As If They've Come Out of a Storybook.
Bamboo Forest, Japan Though located in Kyoto, Japan and unrelated with the movies, the landscape of the Bamboo Forest resembles the scenery of the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or House of Flying Daggers. Is only one example of hundreds of amazing forests covering the region of South-East Asia.
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These bronze daggers from the Mycenaean era, dating back to the 16th century BC, are adorned with intricate inlays of gold and silver Image source: Archeology Aesthetic 13. Sunken Egyptian coastal town of Canopus reveals an amazing find - a head of Serapis (a Graeco-Egyptian deity).
pictures of the Vietnam War
(AP Photo/Malcolm Browne) In this Jan. 9, 1964 file photo, a South Vietnamese soldier uses the end of a dagger to beat a farmer for allegedly supplying government troops with inaccurate information about the movement of Viet Cong guerrillas in a village west of Saigon, Vietnam.
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Sword of Goujian (771 - 403 BC) Believe it or not, this Chinese dagger is 2,500 years old, but it’s still razor-edged. The bronze sword features a beautiful design and is resistant to tarnish.
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By extending their empty right hands, strangers could show that they were not holding any weapons, and the up-and-down motion was supposed to dislodge any knives or daggers that might be hidden up a sleeve.
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After John Wilkes Booth managed to enter the private box and fire a shot at Lincoln, Rathbone tried to take him to the ground, but Booth was able to get free by stabbing Rathbone's arm with a dagger. Rathbone was never able to recover from the trauma of that night.
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In fact, the remaining five ceremonial daggers are so exceptionally similar to The Rudham Dirk, the one found by the farmer, that it is believed that they all come from the same workshop.
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They used 1-2% chrome and 2% phosphorus to increase the strength and hardenability of the steel and likely forged armor, swords, daggers, and other items using the chromium steel.
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Furthermore, these birds have 5-inch claws on each foot and the innermost of their three toes bears a long dagger-like nail that can slash and gravely injure even adult humans. These birds can also sprint incredibly fast – about 50 km (31 miles) per hour.
