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A Māori performer giving a Haka at a folk festival in Poland NZDF soldiers performing a battle cry All Blacks performing a Haka, 1:39 min. A battle cry or war cry is a yell or chant taken up in battle, usually by members of the same combatant group. Battle cries are not necessarily articulate (e.g. "Eulaliaaaa!", "Alala"..), although they ...
Alala / ˈ æ l ə l ə / (Ancient Greek: Ἀλαλά (alalá); "battle-cry" or "war-cry") was the personification of the war cry in Greek mythology.Her name derives from the onomatopoeic Greek word ἀλαλή (alalḗ), [1] hence the verb ἀλαλάζω (alalázō), "to raise the war-cry".
Barritus (barrītūs) is a battle cry documented in writing since the 1st century among Germanic tribes. The technique of Barritus later became popular among Germanic auxiliary troops in the Roman Army. In the 4th century, Ammianus Marcellinus describes Barritus as typical for Germanic auxiliary troops.
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The first known description of Mordake is found in an 1895 article in The Boston Post authored by fiction writer Charles Lotin Hildreth. [7] The article describes a number of cases of what Hildreth refers to as "human freaks", including a woman who had the tail of a fish, a man with the body of a spider, a man who was half-crab, and Edward Mordake.
[1] [2] The festival is considered to have origins in the folk belief that the loud cry of an innocent baby has the power to ward off demons or evil spirits. [3] The Japanese proverb naku ko wa sodatsu, meaning "crying babies grow fastest", is an additional source of inspiration for the festival. [4] [5]
War Cry Translation Indian Army "Sewa Paramo Dharma" Sanskrit Service is our prime duty "Bharat Mata ki jai" "Victory to Mother India" Indian Air Force "Nabha sprsham deeptam" Sanskrit "Touch the sky with glory" "Bharat Mata ki jai" "Victory to Mother India" Indian Navy "Sham-no Varuna" Sanskrit "May the Lord of the oceans be auspicious unto us"
The Statute of Winchester of 1285 (13 Edw. 1.St. 2; Latin: Statutum Wynton̄), also known as the Statute of Winton, was a statute enacted by King Edward I of England that reformed the system of Watch and Ward of the Assize of Arms of 1252, and revived the jurisdiction of the local courts.