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Late medieval gothic plate armour with list of elements. The slot in the helmet is called an occularium. This list identifies various pieces of body armour worn from the medieval to early modern period in the Western world, mostly plate but some mail armour, arranged by the part of body that is protected and roughly by date.
A Roman tropaeum from the Dacian Wars (Trajan's Column 113 AD), note the tree trunk with arm-like branches and the heaped armor and weapons at its base A Roman tropaeum in process of erection in the presence of male and female captives, detail from the Gemma Augustea, circa 20-30 AD A fully erected Roman tropaeum with shackled and addorsed seated man and woman Sarmatian captives (the woman on ...
The crossing of a black crappie female and white crappie male has better survival and growth rates among offspring than the reciprocal cross does. [22] Hybrid crappie are difficult to distinguish from black crappie by appearance alone. Fingerling yields are variable in culture. [22]
The Dendra panoply or Dendra armour is an example of Mycenaean-era panoply (full-body armor) made of bronze plates uncovered in the village of Dendra in the Argolid, Greece. It is currently on display at the Archaeological Museum of Nafplion .
The VPAM scale as of 2009 runs from 1 to 14, with 1-5 being soft armor, and 6-14 being hard armor. [1] Tested armor must withstand three hits, spaced 120 mm (4.7 inches) apart, of the designated test threat with no more than 25 mm (0.98 inches) of back-face deformation in order to pass.
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A woman in Kentucky surprised her Navy husband with a special military homecoming by gifting him a five-day duck hunting trip in Kansas with his best friends ahead of Christmas.
Experimental 6 inch (150 mm) Krupp armour plate from 1898. Krupp armour was a type of steel naval armour used in the construction of capital ships starting shortly before the end of the nineteenth century.