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An early rapier or "side-sword" on exhibit in the Castle of Chillon. The spada da lato (Italian) or side-sword is a type of sword popular in Italy during the Renaissance. It is a continuation of the medieval knightly sword, and the immediate predecessor, or early form, of the rapier of the early modern period. Side-swords were used concurrently ...
Blast TV is a Philippine over-the-top streaming media and free ad-supported streaming television service owned by TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation.The service offers in-house linear streaming channels, as well as video on demand content from NBCUniversal, Paramount Global, Sony Pictures Entertainment, MGM Television, Lionsgate, FilmRise, Voltage Pictures, millennium Media and CJ ENM.
Frenchmen adopted the Italian duelling sword and mastered it, and it is believed that between 1600 AD and 1700 AD well over 70,000 Frenchmen died in duels, many of them mortally wounded by a Rapier. From the late 16th century, Italian rapier fencing attained considerable popularity all over Europe, notably with the treatise by Salvator Fabris ...
The central figure of late medieval martial arts, at least in Germany, is Johannes Liechtenauer.Though no manuscript written by him is known to have survived, his teachings were first recorded in the late 14th-century Nürnberger Handschrift GNM 3227a.
A rapier (/ ˈ r eɪ p i ər /) is a type of sword originally used in Spain (known as espada ropera-' dress sword ') and Italy (known as spada da lato a striscia). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The name designates a sword with a straight, slender and sharply pointed two-edged long blade wielded in one hand. [ 4 ]
In Italy, the National Academy (Accademia Nazionale) certifies masters in both historical fencing and modern fencing based on careful adherence to the principles of Italian swordsmanship. Abroad, the Italian style is cultivated by professional institutions such as the San Jose State fencing program (California, United States), where Maestro ...
An Italian carrier strike group on its first deployment to the Indo-Pacific region will sail through the South China Sea to the Philippines after participating in war games with U.S. allies in ...
On August 1, 2020, the network officially launched the Kapamilya Online Live service, which live-streams some of the content from Kapamilya Channel and Jeepney TV on Facebook and YouTube. [8] Although the network itself is available only in the Philippines , most of the local programs are available on ABS-CBN's international subscription ...