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Plate armour. Full plate armour for man and horse commissioned by Sigismund II Augustus, Livrustkammaren in Stockholm Sweden (1550s). Armour for Gustav I of Sweden by Kunz Lochner, c. 1540 ( Livrustkammaren ). Plate armour is a historical type of personal body armour made from bronze, iron, or steel plates, culminating in the iconic suit of ...
Aventail. Camail with triangle ventail (mail flap) on a bascinet (ca. 1360) at the German Historical Museum. An aventail ( / ˈævənteɪl /) [1] or camail ( / kəˈmeɪl, ˈkæmeɪl /) [2] [3] is a flexible curtain of mail attached to the skull of a helmet that extends to cover at least the neck, but often also the throat and shoulders.
Scale armour is an early form of armour consisting of many individual small armour scales (plates) of various shapes attached to each other and to a backing of cloth or leather in overlapping rows. [1] Scale armour was worn by warriors of many different cultures as well as their horses. The material used to make the scales varied and included ...
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Banded mail has been described as "a form of mail reinforced with bands of leather ", as "overlapping horizontal strips of laminated metal sewn over a backing of normal chain mail [sic] and soft leather backing" and as "many thin sheets of metal are hammered or riveted together". The last description more closely fits splinted armour, which ...
Email storm. An email storm (also called a reply all storm or sometimes reply allpocalypse) is a sudden spike of "reply all" messages on an email distribution list, usually caused by a controversial or misdirected message. Such storms can start when even one member of the distribution list replies to the entire list at the same time in response ...
Chain Letter. (film) Chain Letter is a 2010 American slasher film directed by Deon Taylor. It was written by Diana Erwin, Michael J. Pagan, and Deon Taylor. The film is about six friends who are stalked by a murderer that uses chains to kill them if they do not pass on the chain letter to five other people.
