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Artistic depictions show armor that has a top piece which covers the shoulders and is tied down on the chest, a main body piece wrapping around the wearer and covering the chest from the waist up, and a row of pteruges or flaps around the bottom which cover the belly and hips. Vase paintings from Athens often show scales covering part of the ...
50th Armor - In Via (On the Way) [2] 53rd Armor - Strength in Steel [2] 64th Armor - We Pierce [2] 68th Armor - Ventre A Terre (With Great Speed) [2] 69th Armor - Vitesse et Puissance (Speed and Power) [2] 70th Armor - Strike Swiftly [2] 72nd Armor - Crusaders [2] 77th Armor Regiment - Insiste Firmiter (Stand Firmly) 101st Cavalry Regiment - To ...
Arm: Couter or cowter: Plate that guards the elbow. Eventually became articulated. May be covered by guard of vambrace (see below). Spaulder: Bands of plate that cover the shoulder and part of upper arm but not the armpit. Pauldron: 15th: Covers the shoulder (with a dome shaped piece called a shoulder cop), armpit and sometimes the back and ...
A campaign button is a pin used during an election as political advertising for (or against) a candidate or political party, or to proclaim the issues that are part of the political platform. In the United States, political buttons date as far back as President George Washington . [ 1 ]
The back and front of a pin-back button for World Yodel Day. A pin-back button or pinback button, pin button, button badge, or simply pin-back or badge, is a button or badge that can be temporarily fastened to the surface of a garment using a safety pin, or a pin formed from wire, a clutch or other mechanism. This fastening mechanism is ...
Example of badges and tabs worn on the U.S. Army Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP) uniform. Badges of the United States Army are military decorations issued by the United States Department of the Army to soldiers who achieve a variety of qualifications and accomplishments while serving on active and reserve duty in the United States Army.
The pins are a call for action on reforming the institution of policing that has killed thousands of Black people in the 153 years since. “I’m tired of moments of silence.
A separate pin was attached to the head-end of the bow with a small hinge. In the second half of the 1st century AD, hinges were introduced to plate type fibulae. One or two small plaques were cast on the back of the plate, and a pin was attached to them by a small hinge. Previously, plate-type fibulae had bilateral springs attached to the back.