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The Aérospatiale Gazelle (company designations SA 340, SA 341 and SA 342) is a five-seat helicopter developed and initially produced by the French aircraft company Sud Aviation, and later by Aérospatiale.
The spike was designed to withstand sword blows, an extremely outdated threat, with the introduction of modern weaponry. with the Stahlhelm's distinctive coal scuttle shape, it was instantly recognizable and became a common element of propaganda on both sides, like the Pickelhaube before it.
From the early 17th century onward, dragoons were increasingly also employed as conventional cavalry and trained for combat with swords and firearms from horseback. [1] While their use goes back to the late 16th century, dragoon regiments were established in most European armies during the 17th and early 18th centuries; they provided greater ...
It was commonly known as the French 75, simply the 75 and Soixante-Quinze (French for "seventy-five"). The French 75 was designed as an anti-personnel weapon system for delivering large volumes of time-fused shrapnel shells on enemy troops advancing in the open.
Little Boy was a type of atomic bomb created by the United States as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II.The name is also often used to describe the specific bomb (L-11) used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay on 6 August 1945, making it the first nuclear weapon used in warfare, and the second nuclear explosion in history ...
A Storm of Swords was 1,521 pages in manuscript (without appendices), [36] causing problems for many of Martin's publishers around the world. Bantam Books published A Storm of Swords in a single volume in the United States in November 2000, [16] whereas some other-language editions were divided into two, three, or even four volumes. [36]
The Shard, [a] also referred to as the Shard London Bridge [12] and formerly London Bridge Tower, [13] is a pyramid-shaped 72-storey mixed-use development supertall skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Southwark, London, that forms part of The Shard Quarter development.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 December 2024. Japanese light novel series and its adaptations Sword Art Online First light novel volume cover, featuring Kirito (left) and Asuna (right) ソードアート・オンライン (Sōdo Āto Onrain) Genre Adventure Science fiction Novel series Written by Reki Kawahara Published by Self ...