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Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.
Gorget in a full suit of armour In the High Middle Ages, when mail was the primary form of metal body armour used in Western Europe, the mail coif protected the neck and lower face. In this period, the term gorget seemingly referred to textile (padded) protection for the neck, often worn over mail.
I think RuneScape is a game that would be adopted in the English-speaking Indian world and the local-speaking Indian world. We're looking at all those markets individually." [78] RuneScape later launched in India through the gaming portal Zapak on 8 October 2009, [79] and in France and Germany through Bigpoint Games on 27 May 2010. [80]
Betrayal at Falador is the first book released by Jagex, with Paul Gower noting "It's such great fun to see familiar details of the RuneScape world being used to concoct this exciting novel." [ 11 ] The back cover of the book also had review comments from Paul Gower and "Zezima", the long-time number one ranked RuneScape player.
The ZZ Top song "Pearl Necklace" drew attention for its lyrics which were alleged to objectify women. [6] The term appears in season 5 episode 3, "Luck Be an Old Lady", of the HBO sex comedy Sex and the City, first broadcast in 2002. [7] [8] [9] The term "Pearl necklace" is mentioned in the 2014 musical Heathers in the song "I Love My Dead Gay ...
A livery collar or chain of office is a collar or heavy chain, usually of gold, worn as insignia of office or a mark of fealty or other association in Europe from the Middle Ages onwards. One of the oldest and best-known livery collars is the Collar of Esses , which has been in continuous use in England since the 14th century.
Necklacing is a method of extrajudicial summary execution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tire drenched with petrol around a victim's chest and arms, and setting it on fire. The term "necklace" originated in the 1980s in black townships of apartheid South Africa where suspected apartheid collaborators were publicly executed in this ...
Map of the battlefield. The Battle of Salamanca (in French and Spanish known as the Battle of the Arapiles) took place on 22 July 1812. An Anglo-Portuguese army under the Earl of Wellington (future Duke of Wellington) defeated Marshal Auguste Marmont's French forces at Arapiles, south of Salamanca, Spain, during the Peninsular War.