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Rhongomyniad, or Rhongomiant (variously translated as "Slaying Spear," "Cutting Spear" or "Striking Spear"), was the spear of King Arthur in the Welsh Arthurian legends. Unlike Arthur’s two other weapons, his sword Caledfwlch and his dagger Carnwennan , Rhongomyniad has no apparent magical powers.
He and Tom "Entropy" Kimzey emerged from a crowded field to face off in the Quake level E1M2 "Castle of the Damned", where Thresh defeated Entropy 14 to -1. [5] At the peak of his gaming career in the middle to late 1990s, he earned approximately $100,000 (~$176,334 in 2023) a year from prize money and endorsements. [6]
Spear of Fuchai, the spear used by Goujian's arch-rival King Fuchai of Wu. Yueyachan ( Crescent-Moon-Shovel ), a Monk's spade that is the primary weapon of Sha Wujing . A double-headed staff with a crescent-moon blade at one end and a spade at the other, with six xīzhàng rings in the shovel part to denote its religious association.
Asphodeline lutea (king's spear, yellow asphodel) is a perennial plant native to southeastern Europe, northern Africa, the Caucasus and the Levant. [1] It is grown as a landscaping plant. [2] It has been associated with the Asphodel of the Ancient Greek underworld, [3] but so has the closely related Asphodelus ramosus.
[3] [4] The ancient treatise says it was not the king's spear but the just sceptre, known as "Sengol" in Tamil, [5] that bound him to his people—and to the extent that he guarded them, his own good rule would guard him. [6] It was a practice of ancient Indian kingdoms and dynasties, such as the Chola kings, to use a symbolic sceptre during ...
Red Annihilation was a Quake competitive eSport event held in May 1997 that was one of the first nationwide video game competitions held in the United States.In the final match of the tournament, Dennis "Thresh" Fong defeated Tom "Entropy" Kimzey of Impulse 9 on the map Castle of the Damned.
He becomes the Maimed King, and his kingdom suffers similarly, becoming the Wasteland: neither will be healed until the successful completion of the Grail Quest. The stroke is usually described as being to the king's thighs: this has been taken as a euphemism for the genitals , which are explicitly stated to be the location of Anfortas's wound ...
Card 49, titled Hu Xiong Jia, depicts Yue using his armor's breastplate to deflect the spear attack of a Jurchen soldier, while simultaneously snapping the weapon's polearm with a palm strike. Card 50, titled Ba Duan Jin , depicts Yue teaching his soldiers the Eight Section Brocade qigong exercise that is often attributed to the general.