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A lame is a solid piece of sheet metal used as a component of a larger section of plate armor used in Europe during the medieval period. [1] It is used in armors to provide articulations or the joining of the armor elements. [2] [3] The size is usually small with a narrow and rectangular shape. [3] Multiple lames are riveted together or ...
Kulindroplax. Kulindroplax perissokomos is a Silurian mollusk, known from a single fossil from the Coalbrookdale Formation fauna of England. It lived during the Homerian Age (about 425 million years ago ). [1] It is considered a basal aplacophoran. Unlike all modern aplacophorans, which are shell-less, Kulindroplax has a chiton -like shell, and ...
Doron plate is a strong fiberglass-based laminate that was first used by the United States Marines as personal body armor for infantry in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. The plates were approximately 3.2 mm ( 1 ⁄ 8 in) thick and cut into 130 mm (5 in) squares, then inserted into pockets on a nylon vest that covered the front and back portions ...
The Transitional Government of National Unity ( Gouvernement d'Union Nationale de Transition or GUNT) was the coalition government of armed groups that nominally ruled Chad from 1979 to 1982, during the most chaotic phase of the long-running civil war that began in 1965. The GUNT replaced the fragile alliance led by Félix Malloum and Hissène ...
Armour played football at Miami University as a linebacker. He earned three All- MAC selections and was a two-time MAC Defensive Player of the Year. In his career at Miami, he recorded 396 total tackles, 67 tackles for loss for a total of 297 lost yards, and 24.5 sacks. Armour was a third-team All-American selection in his senior year.
Description and history. "Mirror armour" is a type of partial plate armour which was developed initially from round metal mirrors (a kind of rondel) worn over other armour (usually over mail) as reinforcement. Metal mirrors in this armour were considered as protection from not only cold steel and arrows, but also supernatural influence.
The Transitional Program, originally titled The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International and later reprinted under the title, The Transitional Program and the Struggle for Socialism, is a political platform adopted by the 1938 founding congress of the Fourth International, the international Leninist organization founded by Leon Trotsky.
