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Archimedes had the record for the largest stone launched in the ancient world, from a ship-mounted engine, reported at 3 talents (78 kilograms, 172 lb). [2] Other Greco-Roman engineers and recorders of stone-throwers include Zopyrus of Tarentum, Charon of Magnesia, Biton, Ctesibius of Alexandria, Dionysius of Alexandria, and Hero of Alexandria. [2]
[5] [6] Both terms mean stone-throwers in Ancient Greek, as army units. [7] De re militari (Latin "Concerning Military Matters") by the Roman writer Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus details Roman soldiers training to throw stones as weapons. "Recruits are to be taught the art of throwing stones both with the hand and sling."
Palestinian stone-throwers in Bil'in. Palestinian stone-throwing refers to a Palestinian practice of throwing stones at people or property. It is a tactic with both a symbolic and military dimension when used against heavily-armed troops.
Israeli police are now allowed to open fire on Palestinian protesters who throw rocks and firebombs. The practice of hurling stones and firebombs is a popular form of protest among Palestinians,
Jewish Israeli stone-throwing refers to criminal rock-throwing activity by Jewish Israelis in Mandatory Palestine, Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem.It includes material about internecine stone-throwing, in which Haredi Jews throw stones at other Jews as a protest against what they view as violations of religious laws concerning Shabbat, modest clothing for women and similar ...
When the mangonel appeared in Europe from the east (initially in the Byzantine world), it was a traction-propelled stone thrower. Torsion power went out of use for some seven centuries before returning in the guise of the bolt-throwing springald, deployed not as an offensive, wallbreaking siege engine, but to defend those walls against human ...
Philo of Byzantium writes that the stone walls have to be at least 10 cubits (about 3 m (9.8 ft)) thick to be unaffected by stone-shot. According to Schramm, the best arrow-throwing catapults could be trusted to hit a man at 100 yd (91 m), so the accuracy was better than of an early 19th-century musket.
Let’s take a hard look at political stone throwers. ... I was nowhere near decent enough then to follow Jesus’ example in John 8:3-11 as he dealt with Pharisees eager to stone a woman taken in ...