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Mile-a-minute afghans are usually made in many separate strips, with a minimum of stitches per strip, and then the strips are joined. [7] Join-as-you-go afghans are made up of many different pieces, one of which begins where the last leaves off. Motif afghans are composed of many small motifs, squares, or blocks, such as a granny square. These ...
Aran knitting patterns are heavily textured knitting patterns which are named after the Aran Islands, which are located off the west coast of Ireland from County Galway and County Clare. The patterns are knitted into socks, hats, vests, scarves, mittens, afghans, pillow covers, [ 1 ] and, most commonly, sweaters.
U.S. Navy SEALs in the Afghan mountains during the War in Afghanistan, January 2002. After the September 11 attacks, under President George W. Bush, the U.S. and NATO launched the global war on terror, which began in earnest with an intervention to depose the Taliban government in the Afghan War, which the U.S. suspected of protecting al-Qaeda.
While working as an international consultant on U.S. Department of State-funded economic development projects in 2009, Timothy Ham met an Afghan artist named Abdul.
Backside view of a violin. Flame maple (tiger maple), also known as flamed maple, curly maple, ripple maple, fiddleback or tiger stripe, is a feature of maple in which the growth of the wood fibers is distorted in an undulating chatoyant pattern, producing wavy lines known as "flames".
1812 portrait of Alexander Ranaldson Macdonell in patterned socks. The argyle pattern derives loosely from the tartan of Clan Campbell of Argyll in western Scotland, [1] used for kilts and plaids, and from the patterned socks worn by Scottish Highlanders since at least the 17th century (these were generally known as "tartan hose").
The M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (M270 MLRS) is an American armored self-propelled multiple launch rocket system.. The U.S. Army variant of the M270 is based on the chassis of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
Battle of Raszyn re-enactment, 2006. Volley fire, as a military tactic, is (in its simplest form) the concept of having soldiers shoot in the same direction en masse. [1] In practice, it often consists of having a line of soldiers all discharge their weapons simultaneously at the enemy forces on command, known as "firing a volley", followed by more lines of soldiers repeating the same ...