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  • Thumbnail for Peltast
    depicts a soldier carrying a round pelte, but using a thrusting spear overarm. He wears a pilos helmet with cheekpieces, but no armour. His equipment...
    18 KB (2,057 words) - 10:33, 6 September 2024
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    their joints due to their excess weight can cause arthritis. The repeated blows to the head sumo wrestlers take can also cause long-term cognitive issues...
    72 KB (8,043 words) - 16:59, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for W. G. Grace
    Cricket in the 1860s underwent a revolution with the legalisation of overarm bowling in June 1864 and Grace himself said it was "no exaggeration to...
    107 KB (13,645 words) - 21:25, 19 August 2024
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    famous peltasts. With his troops, Iphicrates dealt the Spartans a heavy blow in 392/390 BC by almost annihilating a mora (a battalion of about 600 men)...
    12 KB (1,301 words) - 16:25, 28 June 2024
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    armed similarly to the Companions. The xyston was used to thrust either overarm or underarm with the elbow flexed. This is usefully illustrated in the...
    73 KB (9,852 words) - 09:45, 4 October 2024
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    great-grandmother, Ellen Stanwell-Brown, was reputedly the first woman to serve overarm at Wimbledon. His maternal grandmother, Susan Billington, appeared regularly...
    87 KB (6,516 words) - 23:11, 25 August 2024
  • pitch is used for bowling and batting switches) and must bowl with an overarm (or roundarm, a style rarely seen today) rotation of the arm during which...
    198 KB (24,358 words) - 05:45, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Productivity-improving technologies
    an industrial economy. The first commercially successful glass bottle blowing machine was introduced in 1905. The machine, operated by a two-man crew...
    117 KB (13,912 words) - 01:00, 2 September 2024