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2. Executioner's sword - Wikipedia

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   Executioner's sword (16th century) A decapitation scene as shown in Cosmographia universalis of Sebastian Münster (1552). An executioner's sword is a sword designed specifically for decapitation of condemned criminals (as opposed to combat). These swords were intended for two-handed use, but were lacking a point, so that their overall blade ...

3. Executioner - Wikipedia

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   The executioner's sword is designed as a cutting weapon rather than stabbing, forged of brass and iron. 19th-century Japanese executioner with sword and prisoner.

4. Saint Nicholas of Myra saves three innocents from death

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   The sketch features five actors, including three condemned men, Nicholas of Myra and the executioner. Notably absent from the main characters is the town governor. In contrast with the final iteration of the painting, the condemned man with a sword does not kneel, but rather lies with his head resting on the scaffold. [23]

5. List of historical swords - Wikipedia

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   The execution sword of Katte , supposedly an executioner's sword used to behead Hans Hermann von Katte. There are two swords purporting to be the genuine sword: The execution sword of Katte (18th century), kept at the City Museum of Brandenburg until 2014, when the sword was returned to the von Katte family. [37]

6. Ngulu (weapon) - Wikipedia

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   A Ngulu is an execution sword used by the Bantu peoples (including the Ngombe, Doko, Ngala, etc.) of the Congo Basin. Ngulu Execution by Edward James Glave. Uses

7. Getting medieval: This sport is a brutal human demolition ...

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   Welcome to the world of buhurt, a modern medieval combat sport where athletes wearing suits of armor fight with heavy metal swords, axes and maces. Getting medieval: This sport is a brutal human ...

8. Kilij - Wikipedia

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   The upper sword appears to be an exaggerated parade piece or executioner's sword, the second down is typical of a later kilij, the third has the characteristics of an earlier kilij and the lowest one possibly has a later European-style blade. Imperial Armoury, Topkapi, Istanbul

9. Franz Schmidt (executioner) - Wikipedia

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   Franz Schmidt's father, Heinrich, was originally a woodsman in the north-eastern Bavarian town Hof.Once, when the notoriously tyrannical margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Albrecht II (r. 1527–1553), wanted three men hanged, he picked out Heinrich from the crowd and forced him to perform the execution, after which he had no option but to continue in the profession of executioner.