enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Minecraft modding - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft_modding

    The first ever version of Minecraft was released in May 2009, [11] but client-side modding of the game did not become popular in earnest until the game reached its alpha stage in June 2010. The only mods that were released during Minecraft 's Indev and Infdev development stages were a few client-side mods that had minor changes to the game.

  3. Man-at-arms - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-at-arms

    Though in English the term man-at-arms is a fairly straightforward rendering of the French homme d'armes, [b] in the Middle Ages, there were numerous terms for this type of soldier, referring to the type of arms he would be expected to provide: In France, he might be known as a lance or glaive, while in Germany, Spieß, Helm or Gleve, and in various places, a bascinet. [2]

  4. Cast bullet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_bullet

    An open single-cavity bullet mold and a closed two-cavity mold. A cast bullet is made by allowing molten metal to solidify in a mold.Most cast bullets are made of lead alloyed with tin and antimony; but zinc alloys have been used when lead is scarce, and may be used again in response to concerns about lead toxicity.

  5. Chivalry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chivalry

    Fewer knights were engaged in active warfare because battlefields during this century were generally the arena of professional infantrymen, with less opportunity for knights to show chivalry. [59] It was the beginning of the demise of the knight.

  6. Knight-service - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight-service

    Under the feudal system, the tenant by knight-service had also the same pecuniary obligations to his lord as had his lord to the king. These consisted of: [1] [3] Aids, which consisted of the duty to ransom the lord if he were taken prison, to make the lord's eldest son a knight, and to marry the lord's eldest daughter

  7. Balian of Ibelin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balian_of_Ibelin

    Balian was recruited to lead the defense of the city, but he found that there were under fourteen, possibly as few as two, other knights there, so he created 60 new knights from the ranks of the burgesses. Queen Sibylla seems to have played little part in the defence, and oaths were taken to Balian as lord. With Eraclius, he prepared for the ...

  8. Knights Templar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar

    Therefore the three main ranks were eventually known as knight brothers, sergeant brothers, and chaplain brothers. Knights and chaplains were referred to as brothers by 1140, but sergeants were not full members of the Order at first, and this did not change until the 1160s. [97] The knights were the most visible division of the order.

  9. Knights Hospitaller - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Hospitaller

    The Order of Knights Templar was founded around 1119-1120 and it is likely that the Hospitallers were inspired by them to have their own knights. A charter made for a gift to the Hospital of St John in a Christian army on 17 January 1126 recorded that a brother from the Order was present as a witness and that he held a military title.