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The subject is a scene of decapitation that takes place in an architectural setting based on the Alhambra, suffused throughout with a sunset glow.An executioner stands on a flight of marble stairs, calmly wiping the blood off his scimitar after striking his victim down.
The Commercial Appeal (also known as the Memphis Commercial Appeal) is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area.It is owned by the Gannett Company; its former owner, the E. W. Scripps Company, also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar, which it folded in 1983.
In John Grisham's novel The Client, the Memphis Press is fictionally presented as still existing and flourishing as a major Memphis paper into the 1990s.. In the 2004 movie The Ladykillers, during the basement scene where Tom Hanks's character Professor Goldthwaite Higginson Dorr describes forming the crew for the heist, he references having posted an ad in the Memphis Scimitar, which the ...
BP p.l.c. (NYSE:BP) inked a deal under which Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE:APO) managed funds will acquire a non-controlling stake in BP Pipelines TAP Limited for around $1 billion. The bp ...
BP owns a 19.75% stake in the Russian oil company, while the Russian government owns around 40% of the business. The stake was worth around 14 billion dollars on BP’s books at the end of 2021.
Depiction of a Hafsid sultan of Tunis holding a nimcha. Blades on Nimcha came in a variety of forms, and were often imported from Europe. Always of a single edge variety the two main forms were either a short generally more deeply curved 'cutlass style', or a longer more slender form that sometimes bore a clipped point.
The Scimitar was used by the three formation reconnaissance regiments of the British Army. After the Strategic Defence and Security Review in 2010, some regiments' Challenger 2 tanks were replaced with CVR(T) Scimitars. [22] The Scimitar was retired from active service in April 2023. [2] Belgium – 153 units, [23] withdrawn from active service ...
Two styles of scimitars: an Egyptian shamshir (left) and an Ottoman kilij (right). A scimitar (/ ˈ s ɪ m ɪ t ər / or / ˈ s ɪ m ɪ t ɑːr /) [1] is a single-edged sword with a convex curved blade [2] [3] [4] of about 76.2 to 91.44cm (30 to 36 inches) associated with Middle Eastern, South Asian, or North African cultures.