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  • double-edged sword, like the European models derived from the double-edged Iron Age sword. The first weapons that can be described as "swords" date to around...
    80 KB (9,679 words) - 13:45, 19 November 2024
  • machete or similar "sword-like" weapons. Flyssa (19th century Algeria) Kaskara (19th century Sudan) Khopesh (Egyptian) Mameluke sword (18th to 19th century...
    9 KB (825 words) - 13:40, 7 August 2024
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    Damocles (redirect from Damocles Sword)
    appears in a (likely apocryphal) anecdote commonly referred to as "the sword of Damocles", an allusion to the imminent and ever-present peril faced by...
    22 KB (2,168 words) - 15:14, 22 November 2024
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    Rapier (redirect from Riding sword)
    espada ropera ('dress sword') is a type of sword originally used in Spain and Italy.[citation needed] The name designates a sword with a straight, slender...
    26 KB (3,103 words) - 06:48, 19 November 2024
  • sword or wave-bladed sword has a characteristically undulating style of blade. The wave in the blade is often considered to contribute a flame-like quality...
    6 KB (658 words) - 15:02, 27 February 2024
  • sword of the Chinese navy has been patterned after the traditional jian since 2008. Besides specialty weapons like the butterfly dao, Chinese swords are...
    39 KB (4,545 words) - 01:40, 30 August 2024
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    Urumi (redirect from Flexible sword)
    An urumi is an Indian sword with a flexible, whip-like blade. Originating in modern-day Kerala, a state in southwestern India, it is thought to have existed...
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    Longsword (redirect from Long sword)
    A longsword (also spelled as long sword or long-sword) is a type of European sword characterized as having a cruciform hilt with a grip for primarily two-handed...
    33 KB (3,615 words) - 16:22, 21 November 2024
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    of swords; a sword was simply a single-edged or double-edged knife. Historical terms without a universal consensus of definition (i.e. "arming sword",...
    37 KB (4,085 words) - 09:11, 21 October 2024
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    A Japanese sword (Japanese: 日本刀, Hepburn: nihontō) is one of several types of traditionally made swords from Japan. Bronze swords were made as early as...
    134 KB (17,221 words) - 18:37, 20 November 2024
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    The basket-hilted sword is a sword type of the early modern era characterised by a basket-shaped guard that protects the hand. The basket hilt is a development...
    20 KB (2,252 words) - 21:02, 19 November 2024
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    The small sword or smallsword (also court sword, Gaelic: claidheamh beag or claybeg, French: épée de cour, lit. “Sword of the court”) is a light one-handed...
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    legendary Japanese sword and one of three Imperial Regalia of Japan. It was originally called Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi (天叢雲剣, "Heavenly Sword of Gathering...
    16 KB (1,971 words) - 09:46, 12 November 2024
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    (/zɪfoʊˈsjʊərə/; from Ancient Greek ξίφος (xíphos) 'sword' and οὐρά (ourá) 'tail', in reference to its sword-like telson) is an order of arthropods related to...
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  • Reincarnated as a Sword, also known as I Became the Sword by Transmigrating (Japanese: 転生したら剣でした, Hepburn: Tensei Shitara Ken Deshita) or Tenken (転剣)...
    85 KB (4,396 words) - 23:01, 23 November 2024
  • Swords Series is a series of science fiction/fantasy novels written by Fred Saberhagen from 1983 to 1995. The story revolves around the Twelve Swords...
    23 KB (3,481 words) - 01:59, 19 November 2024
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    feet (180 or 210 centimetres) long. However, instead of having a tang like a sword or naginata, the blade is affixed in a socket-shaft configuration similar...
    26 KB (3,582 words) - 23:17, 8 November 2024
  • released the game overseas in 2000. Gameplay has the Maken—a sentient sword-like being—"brainjacking" or taking control of multiple characters across a...
    50 KB (5,008 words) - 19:26, 6 March 2024
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    Sword and sorcery (S&S), or heroic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures...
    39 KB (4,838 words) - 05:38, 9 November 2024
  • projectile sword who rediscovers his royal heritage when he is recruited to help a princess foil the designs of a brutal tyrant, and a powerful, devil-like sorcerer...
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