why dose cupid have a bow and arrow instead of a meachine gun?
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becaz he is from stoneage
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The male platypus has poisonous spurs on its hind legs...not fangs. And apparently they're only used to fight off rival males during mating season. \n\nI'm Australian. So I'd know, right? ;-)
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crossbows just killed the knights, but in this war, it was the long bow and the bodkin arrow.  the bodkin arrow was a sharp pointy arrow that punctured armor and dug in and usually killed soldiers and knights.  crossbows killed the knights i think.  a common peasant with a little bit of training could easily kill a knight who has spent his entire life training with a crossbow.  the crossbow was more economical and this is when you start getting gunpowder weapons.
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The Romans used the eagle, too, not just the United States.  It is big, nests in high places, has keen vision, sharp talons, is swift in flight.  All wonderful things, powerful things.  But MAINLY it is a bird of prey, it kills its prey, striking suddenly and without warning, like a missile falling from the sky.  Did I say missile?  I meant lightning bolt.  Of course I did.
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Snakes, lizards and amphisbaena (which most of you won't have heard of, but they're neat!) have "hemipenes", basically dual penises.  It has no real advantage, it's just how they evolved.  They only use one at a time.  It's just a different way to evolve a penis structure on a bilaterally symmetrical animal.
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They both Sexy as hell but it depends on your type. bow-5'6 hazel eyes muscles tattooed up thugish and ruff weet on inside chris- 6'2 deep brown eyes sweet and caring by nature up front with it and not afraid to woo or serenade a lady but with  a hint of shyness. both have beautiful smiles that could bright up your day
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Never used one but check here for a better price:\n\nhttp://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&satitle=Oneida+Eagle+bow
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In a battle between England and France (don't remember which one, there have been so many - but around 1100 sometime), the French threatened to cut off the middle finger of all of the captured English archers.  (the middle finger is very important to pulling the bowstring.  without it, one can not get a good hold on the string and can not exert the force needed to pull 150 lbs to fire the arrow)\n\nWhen the battle began, the English archers showed them their middle finger as a response.\n\nI saw something about it on the History Channel a few months ago.
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U mean the bow? If you go online to google and then go to froogle you can buy pretty much anything I was a little scared when you didn't know what a bow was!
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a railgun uses two rails that are charged with opposite charges to accelerate a projectile while a coilgun uses a series of coiled electromagnets that are turned on and off to accelerate the projectile down a line of these magnets.\n\nHope this helps you answer your question!
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Combat evolved along w/the weapons used at the time. ie/jousting was first used to settle arguments. time went on and it became a spectator sport. as far as weapons are conserned: armor piercing arrows did away w/heavy armor tictical assults made the knight too slow and out dated. then gun powder was westernized and pistol deuling took its place.
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I'm not sure what you're angling for, but it did get\nme thinking.\n\nSomeone else offered a gun/bullet combination, which could\npossibly qualify since the *bullet* is non-mechanical\nand engine-less.  The bullet is "man made" in that the\nlead was shaped by man.  Seems to me like its worst\noffense is that the the gun is mechanical and has moving\nparts.\n\nAnyway, consider a cyclotron.  To the best of my knowledge,\nit has no moving parts except for the magnetically\npropelled projectiles.  Once the charged particles\nare smashed together, they produce new particles -- in\na sense, these new particles are man made (ie. because\nthey didn't exist before men made them from other\nparticles).\n\nThe interesting thing about this example, though, is that\nthese objects can leave the point of impact at pretty\nclose to the speed of light.  This may not fulfill your\nrequirements, but I doubt you'll find anything faster :-)
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in some mythes its Ares (hence the bow and arrow) and in some myths he was born of the sea just like Ahrodite (Venus) was.
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If she was a transexual, what would that make Bow Bow?\n\nBut seriously, No
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Bowfishing is restricted by dates and species and fishing bow, not cross bow.\nMost other uses are for regular bow seasons and game but for use by those handicapped in a manner that they may still use it safely but can not use regular bow.
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I know she was married to Hepaesthus the Greek god who was good at smithing and was lame, but her lover was Ares the god of war. One of Aphrodites sons was the ever famous CUPID.
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Catapults are siege engines using an arm to hurl a projectile a great distance. Any machine that hurls an object can be considered a catapult, but the term is generally understood to mean medieval siege weapons.\n\nCatapults can be classified according to the physical concept used to store and release the energy required to propel the projectile.\n\nThe first catapult distinct from hand-held launchers (bows, crossbows, slings etc.) was the Greek gastrophetes, a crossbow so large it was braced against the abdomen rather than being held in the hand, hence the nickname belly-bow. The next step from this was a larger form a crossbow mounted on a stand, including early versions of the oxybeles (Greek for bolt shooter) and the ballista (the Roman version of the oxybeles). The arbalette à tour is a medieval version of the stand-mounted crossbow. These catapults are tensional, in that the energy is stored as tension and compression of the bow. Although similar to a crossbow, a sling on the end of the rope meant these weapons could be used for firing all sorts of projectiles, from rocks to pots of Greek fire.\n\nSubsequently, torsional catapults were developed: those with two torsion powered arms, the later versions of the ballista and oxybeles, and those with one torsion powered arm, the onager, known in medieval times as the mangonel. The bottom end of the throwing arm of the onager and the inner ends of both ballista arms are inserted into rope or fibers that are twisted, providing a torsional store of energy. Torsional ballistas were operationally equivalent to their tensional cousins, except the torsional energy store gave greater power. Onagers have an arm with a bucket, cup, or most often a sling to hold the projectile at one end.\n\nFinally, the last type of catapult is a trebuchet, which uses gravity or traction rather than tension or torsion to propel the throwing arm. A falling counterweight or the effort of the operator(s) pulls down the bottom end of the arm and the projectile is thrown from a sling attached to a rope hanging from the top end of the arm, essentially like a sling attached to a giant see-saw. The counterweight is much heavier than the projectile.