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To enable the new frigate to meet the American frigates on less unequal terms, Cydnus, and her sister Eurotas received medium 24-pounders and an increased complement of men. Cydnus ' s 24-pounders were of a design by General Sir Thomas Blomefield, 1st Baronet and measured 7 ft. 6 in. in length while weighing about 40 cwt.
The Thirty Years' War is at its height while the peasantry suffers under countless marauders. The protagonist Harm Wulf, a peasant, lost his family in the first years of war; he becomes the defending Wulf (wehrender Wulf) by defending a hill fort and its surrounding carr with peasants hiding from the pillaging hordes.
The wolf must give chase and gain on its fleeing prey, slow it down by biting through thick hair and hide, and then disable it enough to begin feeding. [4] After chasing and then confronting a large prey animal, the wolf makes use of its 6 cm (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) fangs and its powerful masseter muscles to deliver a bite force of 28 kg/cm 2 (400 lbf/in 2), which is capable of breaking open the ...
The Wounded Man (painting) (L'Homme blessé), a 19th-century painting by Gustave Courbet The Wounded Man (film) ( L'Homme blessé ), a 1983 French film directed by Patrice Chéreau Wound Man , an illustration which first appeared in European surgical texts in the Middle Ages
A wolf severely injured a girl near a woodland, attacking for half an hour before she was rescued. [607] August 17, 1810 Judith Geraets†, 3, female: Predatory: Beringen, Helden, The Netherlands: A wolf killed a girl who was collecting cattle feed in the field with her ten-year-old sister at 8:00 pm.
The Sermo Lupi ad Anglos ('The Sermon of the Wolf to the English') is the title given to a homily composed in England between 1010 and 1016 by Wulfstan II, Archbishop of York (died 1023), who commonly styled himself Lupus, or 'wolf' after the first element in his name [wulf-stan = 'wolf-stone'].
"Walking Wounded” is a work of short fiction by Irwin Shaw, originally appearing in The New Yorker on May 13, 1944, and first collected in Act of Faith and Other Stories (1946) by Random House. [1] The story was carried by Stars and Stripes during the war.
The ruins of Elgin Cathedral, which was burned by the Wolf of Badenoch during the Raid of Angus. In 1391, King Robert II's reign was largely entrusted to his sons, Robert Stewart, Earl of Fife, and Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan. [2]