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In Book 5 of the Aeneid, Entelus responds to the challenge of the boxer Dares by throwing his caestus (boxing glove, or gauntlet) into the boxing ring. To "throw down the gauntlet" is to issue a challenge. A gauntlet-wearing knight would challenge a fellow knight or enemy to a duel by throwing one of his gauntlets on the ground.
Question: (I couldn't find the answer on the Internet. ) If Knight A throws down a gauntlet, and Knight B picks up the gauntlet, does Knight B hand the gauntlet back to Knight A before the fight? If Knight A threw away his gauntlet, he might be forced to fight without it. Or did knights carry spare ceremonial gauntlets for throwing down?
1.2 Origin of the practice of throwing down the gauntlet? 10 comments. 1.3 Scarpetta novels by Patricia Cornwell. 1 comment. Toggle the table of contents.
June 21, 1954: Less than six weeks after Bannister’s historic feat, Australian John Landy runs 3:58 at a track meet in Finland, throwing down the gauntlet. August 7, 1954: The Empire Games in Vancouver, Canada, pits the two titans against one another in an event billed the “Miracle Mile.”
The Carrouges–le Gris trial of 1386 was the subject of a 2004 book by Eric Jager. This book was adapted into a 2008 BBC Four documentary and dramatized in a 2021 film . Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire is put through two trials by combat, with the second trial forcing him to flee after he's falsely convicted of ...
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The earliest known grammar of a Western language is the second-century BCE Art of Grammar attributed to Dionysius Thrax, a grammar of Greek. Key stages in the history of English grammars include Ælfric of Eynsham 's composition around 995 CE of a grammar in Old English based on a compilation of two Latin grammars, Aelius Donatus 's Ars maior ...
A rifle on display. Chekhov's gun (or Chekhov's rifle; Russian: Чеховское ружьё) is a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary and irrelevant elements should be removed.