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Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.
The ointment is known by a wide variety of names, including witches' flying ointment, green ointment, magic salve, or lycanthropic ointment. In German it was Hexensalbe (lit. ' witch salve ') or Flugsalbe (lit. ' flying salve '). Latin names included unguentum sabbati lit. ' sabbath unguent '), unguentum pharelis, unguentum populi (lit.
Tolkien derived the idea of barrow-wights from Norse mythology, where heroes of several Sagas battle undead beings known as draugrs. Scholars have noted a resemblance, too, between the breaking of the barrow-wight's spell and the final battle in Beowulf, where the dragon's barrow is entered and the treasure released from its spell.
The powder is said to have consisted of green vitriol, first dissolved in water and afterward recrystallized or calcined in the sun.The Duke of Buckingham testified that Kenelm Digby had healed his secretary of a gangrenous wound by simply soaking the bloody bandage in a solution of the powder (possibly due to the oligodynamic effect).
MS 5236 (inventory number of the Schøyen Collection) is an ancient Greek amulet of the 6th century BC, which is unique in two respects: it is the only known magic amulet of the time inscribed with a text that was stamped as opposed to incised, and it is the only extant specimen of ephesia grammata made of gold.
A bell barrow, sometimes referred to as a Wessex type barrow, campanulate form barrow, or a bermed barrow, is a type of tumulus identified as such by both John Aubrey and William Stukeley. Section and plan of a bell barrow with a narrow berm A bell barrow from Colt Hoare 's introduction to The Ancient History of Wiltshire
Samuel J. Barrows. Barrows was elected as a Republican to the 55th United States Congress (March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1899). He was an advocate for women's suffrage, African American rights, assimilation of Native Americans and prison reform. On the international stage, he was an activist for ending hunger.
Dio vi salvi Regina (santino) Dio vi salvi Regina (Italian for "God save you Queen") is a Corsican folk song.It is considered the de facto "national anthem" of Corsica.It is customarily sung it at the end of concerts of Corsican folk music.