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Jules-Louis Breton (1872-1940). The Breton-Prétot machine was a saw designed to cut the barbed wire protecting enemy trenches of World War I.The first version consisted of a small circular saw, driven by a six hp engine, attached to a long lever that was placed on a small cart with four wheels, that had to be pushed towards its objective.
The first edition was released in January 2007 by Forge World, [1] a division of the British gaming company Games Workshop. The second edition, a relaunch via Games Workshop, was released in August 2019 with a different ruleset and new, larger models.
[8] [10] [11] The fourth match saw the debut of Chris Candido, who had recently left the World Wrestling Federation. Candido pinned Spike Dudley in a short squash following the Blonde Bombshell, a superbomb. [8] [10] High Incident featured a controversial angle in which ECW World Heavyweight Champion The Sandman was "crucified".
Harionago (Japanese: 針女子), [citation needed] also known as Harionna (Japanese: 針女), [citation needed] is a "frightening female ghoul" [citation needed] in Japanese mythology.
The barbed wire net is removed and the match continues. Wrestlers leave and win the match by submission, by having their head put in the scorpion tank for ten seconds, or by passing out. "Ancient Way" Death Match - Both fighters wrap their hands in hemp rope, which is then coated in honey and dipped in broken glass to make them deadly weapons.
Meant to trap, maim, and make easy targets of the opponent, they ranged from a single strand of wire arranged to trip men in the dark, to a 150-metre-long construction 30 ft wide (9.1 m) and 5 or 6 ft (1.5 or 1.8 m) tall [3] By spring of 1915, barbed wire entanglements were an unavoidable element in trench warfare, and posed a serious threat to ...
In the Vietnam War film Platoon (1986), the character Rhah (played by Francesco Quinn) carries a crude wooden staff wrapped in barbed wire, which resembles a makeshift trench club. In the film Defendor , the title character uses a trench club on a chain as his primary weapon and states that it had once belonged to his grandfather.
Evidence for the length of insular Anglo-Saxon spears is limited, but based on grave finds it has been estimated that they ranged in length from 1.6 to 2.8 m (5 ft 3 in to 9 ft 2 in), compared to continental examples found at Nydam Mose in Denmark which range from 2.3 to 3 m (7 ft 7 in to 9 ft 10 in) long. [9]