This time the focus is on defense rather than offense: examples of horse and body armor, dating from the 15th through the 20th centuries, outnumber swords, ...
In his book The Natural Contract, Serres describes a clash of two giants, their swords flashing in combat, spectators all around, everyone urging on their ...
Not only are we not remotely being offered that clean-up, but those who do go – falling on their swords to retire, or turfed-out by outraged constituents' ...
Zinn starts his book with a scathing indictment of the Spanish sailor thus: “When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, ...
"Rather than you and me fighting each other with swords," Butterfield explained, "it could be you and me having rival religious factions battling each other ...
"We skate with 17, 18-inch samurai swords on our feet," Ohno says. "Anything can happen." Consider short track's JR Celski, a 19-year-old from Federal Way, ...
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