Spear-like weapons being used ineffectively here(while whaling)
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Pike (weapon) - Wikipedia  A pike is a pole weapon, a very long thrusting spear formerly used extensively by infantry. ... Generally, a spear becomes a pike when it is too long to be wielded with one .... He consistently refers to the spears used by the Germans as being "massive" .... The percentage of men who were armed with firearms in Tercio-like...
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A dragon killing game with no spears or harpoons. - The Elder ...  Well now, Mr. 'I post here on GameFaqs when I'm not designing games at the ... to make sure it fits in without being more or less powerful than other weapons, so you gotta be ... Whaling and harpoons are used as good real-life examples. ... I understand the reasons the spear was dropped, like you correctly pointed out, how...
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SparkNotes: Beowulf: Important Quotations Explained  From the outset, then, the poem whips us into its world while maintaining an inviting, ... Finally, the compound word whale-road, used here to refer to the sea, is one ... a fatherless individual can make a name for himself if he behaves like a hero. ... inappropriate and ineffective way of responding to the death of a comrade.
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Harpoon - Wikipedia  A harpoon is a long spear-like instrument used in fishing, whaling, sealing, and other marine ... The two flue harpoon was the primary weapon used in whaling around the world, but it cut through the blubber when ... Although the weaponry was successful in killing the whales, most of the catch sank before being retrieved.
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Spear - Wikipedia  A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head. The head ... Spears were one of the most common personal weapons used in the Stone Age, .... among the infantry during the 14th century, being replaced by pole weapons ..... Like many weapons, a spear may also be a symbol of power.
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Pirate Swords - Pirate Life - The Way of the Pirates  This is perhaps the favorite and most used pirate's close-ranged weapon, ... The weapon's blade is a slightly curved, single edged and sharpened on the ... curved but most short swords had straight blade with only one cutting edge ... They did not cause much damage and could be easily broken by any heavier weapon.
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Makah Whaling & Whale Hunt - Makah Tribe (Neah Bay, Washington)  Makah whaling the subject and inspiration of Tribal songs, dances, designs, and basketry. For the Makah Tribe, whale hunting provides a purpose and a discipline ... at Ozette revealed the pitch to be still pungent after 500 years within the earth. ... The Makah Tribe resumed whale hunting under international and domestic...
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World Book Student | Print - World Book Online  Scientists divide the various kinds of whales into two major groups: baleen ... The whale uses these plates to strain food from the water. ... Rorquals RAWR kwuhls and some other whales do have separated neck vertebrae. ... In contrast, right whales may have a layer of blubber up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) thick.
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Aristotle: History of Animals IX  If the means of subsistence run short, creatures of like kind will fight together. .... It is at war with certain creatures that do it injury: with the eagle for robbing it, with ...... Again, the hake, the ray, the flat-fish, and the angelfish burrow in the sand, and .... until some creature gets into the web and begins to struggle, when out the...
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Guns, Germs, and Steel - AHS History  It is impossible to understand even just western Eurasian societies them- selves, if one .... Yet Yali's apparently simple question is a difficult one to answer. I didn't ...... all the large wild animals that might otherwise have been candidates for ... sites are called Clovis sites, named after the type site near the town of. Clovis, New...
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Seafaring Superstitions & Marine Myth Rituals Explored | Dive ...  Aug 6, 2006 ... The captain is the absolute dictator; the ship is his kingdom. ... The last time anybody ever saw it or the crew was when it disappeared over the horizon. ... He had a .22-caliber rifle and tried to shoot blue sharks on the surface before they get me. ... Killing a dolphin, a gull, or an albatross brings bad luck.
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harpoon lines - Memidex dictionary/thesaurus  a barbed, spearlike missile attached to a rope, and thrown by hand or shot from a gun, used for killing and capturing whales and large fish. | ... (26 of 75 words,...
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A Shepherd Looks At Psalm 23 _"THY ROD AND THY STAFF THEY ...  "THY ROD AND THY STAFF THEY COMFORT ME" ... These are the common and universal equipment of the primitive sheepman. ... ...an interesting sidelight on the word "rod" ... the slang term "rod" has been applied to hand-guns ... In the terminology of the Old Testament this was referred to as passing "under the rod":.
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Hunting in Qubec - Fdration qubcoise des chasseurs et ...  How to fire at Big Game .... will have to demonstrate sufficient knowledge of the firearm and its operation, .... their techniques and their way of life to this ENVIRONMENT* with its many ...... hunt, hunters will never be able to plead ignorance of the laws before the ...... caps in terms of time taken to reload and bad weather.
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The fishermen forced to hunt dolphins and sharks with spears as ...  Nov 8, 2012 ... The sperm whale is still the favoured prey of the people of Lamalera, Indonesia. ... to hunt dolphins and sharks - and whales if they can get them - with spears ... factory boats and grenade harpoons wreak slaughter on an industrial scale. ... Going in for the kill: The harpooner leaps from the boat, piercing the...
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Baleen whales - National Marine Mammal Laboratory  There are 12 baleen whale species divided into 4 families: right; pygmy right; gray; rorqual whales. ... Right whales do not have dorsal fins or throat grooves. ... They have 2-3 short throat grooves and instead of a dorsal fin they have a low dorsal ... Information within the education website should not be cited in scientific...
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Ye Olde English Sayings  The losing nobility would be forced to buy back their armor and this after market ... BEAT AROUND THE BUSH, Game birds were scared out of their hiding places ... The expression was intended for people to mind how many Pints and Quarts they ..... that this saying applied to the act of using one's thumb as a judge of scale.
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Scrimshaw and other nautical carvings - Real Or Repro  But scrimshaw also includes engravings on skeletal whale bonesuch as the jaw bone, ... whaling industry, vintage scrimshaw was also produced as tribal art in many cultures. ... plastic scrimshaw fakes, not individually crafted forgeries on old bone or ivory. ... 5 Steam Whaler William Lewis, plastic walrus tusk section, 3.
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Toggle Iron - Whalecraft  The grommet iron was the first form of iron toggle head whaling harpoon. ... In 1848 Lewis Temple, an African American blacksmith in New Bedford, made ... One of the earliest variations to the toggle head was invented, but never ... The Doyle iron, patented by George Doyle of Provincetown, MA (U.S. Patent #21,949, Nov.
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Kanab - Wikipedia  The kanab () was a spiked/knobbed club or truncheon used in feudal Japan as a weapon by samurai and their retainers. Other related weapons of this type are the nyoibo, konsaibo, tetsub (), ... of these club-like weapons were constructed out of heavy wood, or made ... Comprehensive Asian fighting arts. p. 83.
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Guns of the Rapanui OR The Polynesian Colonization of the Americas  Apr 21, 2012 ... I'll have the next update up tonight or tomorrow; I'm trying my hand at making it ... Maybe this time Zheng He will actually make it to the New World, ... May 7, 2012 ... If you'd be willing to help me make a map, I would really appreciate it. ... Upon their great wooden dais, whose sides were carved with faded...