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1American Beauty (film) — American Beauty Theatrical release poster Directed by Sam Mendes …
2Military of ancient Egypt — History of Egypt This article is part of a series Prehistory Ancient Egypt Earl …
3weapons and warfare, land — Mesopotamia was not only the site of the world s first cities, but also of humanity s first major land armies and wars. Archaeological evidence shows that small scale fighting among tribes and villages was an inevitable phenomenon across the… …
4Kyūdō — ).It is estimated that there are approximately half a million practitioners of kyūdō today.HistoryThe beginning of archery in Japan is, as elsewhere, pre historical. The first molded metal images with distinct Japanese asymmetrical longbow are… …
5Composite bow — Reconstruction of a Ming dynasty Kaiyuan bow by Chinese bowyer Gao Xiang. This is a horn, bamboo, sinew composite …
6Ruby slippers — The ruby slippers are the magical shoes worn by Dorothy (played by Judy Garland) in the 1939 MGM movie The Wizard of Oz . In the film, Dorothy acquires the slippers after her house falls on and kills the Wicked Witch of the East, freeing the… …
7English longbow — The English longbow, also called the Welsh longbow, was a powerful type of medieval longbow (a tall bow for archery) about 6 ft 6 in (2.0 m) long used by the English, Scots and Welsh, both for hunting and as a weapon in medieval warfare. English… …
8WAR AND WARFARE — TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FIRST TEMPLE The methods of offensive and defensive warfare developed side by side in the Ancient Near East. The development of weapons was dependent upon the supply of raw materials, such as stone, metal, and wood; the… …
9Military history of Ancient Egypt — The Ancient Egyptians were a people who lived in northeastern Africa from about 3150 BC to 31 BC The civilization stretched from the Nile Delta to Jebel Barkal, a mountain in Nubia. Historians divide Egyptian history into to three periods: the… …
10Southeast Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. The classical literatures of Southeast Asia can be divided into three major regions: the Sanskrit region of… …
