birth to many well made and useful weapons. The most important and manageable of these weapons are the sword‚ bows and crossbows‚ and axes. These weapons each have differ- ent uses and styles making them convenient for many tasks. Swords are normally depicted as only a knightly weapon‚ but were also used by commoners for many a duel. Of course they were mostly a knights weapons as they used them in battle for "hewing‚ slicing‚ and stabbing" (Renaissance Weapons). Some of the later types of the sword
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Tavaski Gordon December 12‚ 2013 HS 251 Unit 9 Paper Biological Weapons Production Biological weapons are deadly materials manufactured from pathogenic organisms (viruses and bacteria) or synthetic deadly substances that are used to deliberately affect the organic procedures of a host i.e. human or animal body. These substances primary function is to kill or injure the host. Biological weapons can be used to harm vulnerable organisms such as humans‚ animals or vegetation (Biological Threats
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structure‚ leading to painful bleeding from every orifice in their bodies (Hoffman). The use of nuclear weapons has been described by many as sheer madness‚ and something that if used is the equivalent of global suicide. The use of nuclear weapons violates international treaties‚ humanitarian laws‚ and is above all immoral. The only option to solve for this atrocity would be to ban all nuclear weapons now and forever. In the early 1930’s key discoveries regarding the fission of atoms are made by Enrico
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have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act. Good morning respected judges teachers and my dear friends I here today to speak on the topic dangers of nuclear weapons We all know that the effect of the nuclear explosion in hiroshima and Nagasaki can be felt even today the survivors tell us that no one should ever undergo what they have been through a nuclear explosion creates a living hell where the living envy the dead. A nuclear weapon is an explosive device
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Military is part of our society today‚ but its roots are in ancient history. Weapons are needed for the military because they need fire power. In addition‚ soldiers are needed in order to have an army to use those weapons. Military soldiers and weapons have been used to make enemies of a society go away. Enemies are always the targets because they want to hurt the society forcing the society to fight back. In the military‚ the soldiers must always respect their leaders in order to succeed. The military
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In the movie series Pirates of the Caribbean‚ the information given on weaponry is mostly historically accurate. The weapons used in the movie are cannons‚ blunder bus‚ grenades‚ cutlas‚ swards‚ and cutlery. In the movie‚ typically cannons were not very accurate at long distances. But they could travel farther then other types of shot‚ making them a popular round at medium to long ranges anyway‚ especially in a defensive role‚which made them popular. Many people filled their cannon with cutlery
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facing a danger of being hurt or killed? Would you fight back to save your own life‚ or stay still for nothing as an innocent victim? Of late years‚ self-defence has been a topical issue‚ especially about the right of owning weapons. Undoubtedly‚ every human being has the right to protect oneself; however‚ would it be a sound reason to carry a weapon? This is arguable. It is believed that people should have the right to carry a weapon for self-defence whenever there is a life-threatening danger. Some
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etween 1939 and 1945‚ WWII brought many innovations and inventions to the world. New countries‚ organizations‚ weapons‚ and technological advances were produced. The three that had the maximum impact on the war were the invention of the radar‚ aircraft‚ and the atomic bomb because of their effective uses. T he radar was used to determine where a distant object was‚ how big it was‚ what shape it had‚ how fast it was moving and in which direction it was going. When Germany sent 2‚000 planes every
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Mesopotamia‚ whose territory was roughly equivalent to that of modern Iraq‚ fell to the Ottoman Turks in the 16th century and remained part of the Ottoman Empire until a British invasion during World War One. As a method for ensuring the success of the uprising against the Ottoman Turks‚ the British supported the national independence movement within Iraq. However‚ in 1920 the Treaty of Sèvres established Iraq as a mandate of the League of Nations under British administration. The delay in attaining
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Ancient siege weapons Onager (siege weapon) 1. A round stone (often clay balls with combustible substance in them‚ which explode on impact and burst into flames) is put in the pouch and the arm is winched down. 2. The onager’s framework is made out of two beams from oak‚ which curve into humps. In the middle they have quite large holes in them‚ in which strong sinew ropes are stretched and twisted. A long arm is then inserted between the bundles of rope; at its end it has a pin and a pouch
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