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  2. Hohenwerfen Castle - Wikipedia

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    Hohenwerfen Castle (German: Festung Hohenwerfen, lit. 'Hohenwerfen Fortress') is a medieval rock castle, situated at an altitude of 623 metres (2,044 ft), [1] on a 155-metre (509 ft) [2] rock pillar overlooking the Austrian market town of Werfen in the Salzach valley, approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of Salzburg.

  3. SS Stettin (1933) - Wikipedia

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    This new bow design broke the ice using a novel method. It was not broken by the weight of the ship but by a sharp cutting edge. Future development of icebreakers was influenced by this bow form. Stettin in Rostock harbour. Although diesel-engines were already in wide use by 1933, Stettin was equipped with a steam engine. Unlike diesel engines ...

  4. Jörg Sprave - Wikipedia

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    Sprave is known for the invention of the "Instant Legolas", an add-on magazine device for a bow which converts it into a repeating-style weapon, firing up to five arrows per magazine. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] It was first introduced in his YouTube video entitled " 'Instant Legolas' - Archery Reinvented ", uploaded on 6 August 2017. [ 11 ]

  5. The Dagger of Amon Ra - Wikipedia

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    Roberta Williams' Laura Bow in The Dagger of Amon Ra (also known as Laura Bow II [1]) is a computer game published by Sierra On-Line in 1992. The game is the second and final installment in The Laura Bow Mysteries line of adventure games , the first of which was The Colonel's Bequest .

  6. Zen in the Art of Archery - Wikipedia

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    Zen in the Art of Archery (Zen in der Kunst des Bogenschießens) is a book by German philosophy professor Eugen Herrigel, published in 1948, about his experiences studying Kyūdō, a form of Japanese archery, when he lived in Japan in the 1920s.

  7. Naval ram - Wikipedia

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    With the development of steam propulsion, the speed, power and maneuverability it allowed again enabled the use of the ship's hull, which could be clad in iron, as an offensive weapon. As early as 1840, the French admiral Nicolas Hippolyte Labrousse proposed building a ram steamship, and by 1860, Dupuy de Lôme had designed an ironclad with a ...

  8. Winged Victory of Samothrace - Wikipedia

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    The keel is rounded. At the bottom of the bow, at the waterline, a large triple-pronged spur would have been sculpted, and a little higher up, a smaller two-bladed ram that would have been used to smash the hull of the enemy ship would have been shown. The top of the bow was crowned by a high and curved bow ornament (the acrostolion). These ...

  9. Dir En Grey - Wikipedia

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    In 2000, vocalist Kyo was hospitalized with hearing trouble and several dates of the tour in support of Dir En Grey's then-upcoming album, Macabre, had to be postponed.. Tour 00 >> 01 Macabre eventually took off later the same year and was concluded at Nippon Budokan shortly after the release of the single "Ain't Afraid to Die" in April 2