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An assortment of club weapons from the Wujing Zongyao from left to right: flail, metal bat, double flail, truncheon, mace, barbed mace. A club (also known as a cudgel, baton, bludgeon, truncheon, cosh, nightstick, or impact weapon) is a short staff or stick, usually made of wood, wielded as a weapon or tool [1] since prehistory.
The original trilogy published by Sanderson was the first in what he used to call a "trilogy of trilogies." Sanderson planned to publish multiple trilogies all set on the fictional planet Scadrial but in different eras: the second trilogy was to be set in an urban setting, featuring modern technology, and the third trilogy was to be a science fiction series, set in the far future. [3]
Tank top from a 1950s Chinese advertisement. In the United States and Canada, any casual sleeveless shirt can be called tank top [1] or tank shirt, [2] with several specific varieties. It is named after tank suits, one-piece bathing suits of the 1920s worn in tanks or swimming pools. [3] The upper garment is worn commonly by both men and women.
Tank top may refer to: Tank top (shirt), a type of sleeveless shirt (US/Australian/Canadian English) Tank top (sweater), also known as a sweater vest
The Cudgel War (also known as the Club War; Finnish: Nuijasota; Swedish: Klubbekriget) was a 1596–1597 peasant uprising in Finland, which was then part of the Kingdom of Sweden. [2] The name of the uprising derives from the fact that the peasants armed themselves with various blunt weapons, such as cudgels , flails , and maces , since they ...
The word was also spelt dreschaken, meaning "to beat, thrash, cudgel", [6] and may have been derived from dreschen, to thresh, recalling the game of Karnöffel whose name also means "to thrash". [7] In 1871 it was described as a game of chance, popular with peasants "in the provinces" and played with the "large old German cards", which ...
At the end of development in 1961, the Engin Léger de Combat program was recognized as unpromising, so work on the project was discontinued in favor of improving the AMX-13 light tank, and the AMX ELC bis was on display as an exhibit in the Museum of Armored Vehicles in Saumur until the 2nd half of 2017, when it was moved to the museum's ...
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database calls Cugel's Saga "[t]wice as large and less episodic than Eyes of the Overworld", and catalogs it as a novel rather than a fix-up, but also qualifies that label. "This is marketed as a novel, but there is a table of contents, and some of the parts were previously published (although none are ...