It was during the 14th century, with the growing use of more advanced armour, that the Hand and a half sword, also known as a " bastard sword ", came into being.

When the tiger Talisman is split in two along with Jackie, his dark half hands over the rest of the Talismans, allowing the Dark Hand to reanimate Shendu.

The second half of The Gripping Hand is a convoluted tale of alliances, diplomacy, trade, and space combat between the Empire, led by Bury and Renner, and the many, many factions of Motie civilization.

For example, Fanthorpe's 1960 novel Hand of Doom was written to suit a cover that had been produced to illustrate John Brunner's Slavers of Space, which formed one half of Ace double D-421.

Ranch Hand pilots were the first to make an accurate 1: 125, 000 scale map of the Ho Chi Minh trail south of Tchpone, Laos by defoliating swaths perpendicular to the trail every half mile or so.

The British searched the woods for a half an hour looking for the Americans, but Hand had already withdrawn to a new position.

Puhvel supported the “ Hand and the Child ” theory through such motifs as “ the more powerful giant mother, the mysterious light in the cave, the melting of the sword in blood, the phenomenon of battle rage, swimming prowess, combat with water monsters, underwater adventures, and the bear-hug style of wrestling .”

* Hand protection: The primary use of the buckler was to protect the sword hand.

Yang Chengfu removed the vigorous Fa-jing ( 發勁 release of power ) from the Hand ( solo ) Form, as well as the energetic jumping, stamping, and other abrupt movements in order to emphasise the Da jia ( 大架 large frame style ), but retained them in the Weapons ( sword, saber, staff and spear ) forms.

Also, General Edward Hand, the General who accepted the sword of surrender from Charles Cornwallis at the Siege of Yorktown, is shown seated and holding his hat within the vessel.

From the Ancien Régime, except for Louis XV's crown, only the medieval Joyeuse, the coronation sword of the French kings, the spurs, the brooch of Saint Louis, the sceptre, called Hand of Justice, and the sceptre of Charles V, as well as the antique cup of the Ptolemies with its paten and the coronation chalice survived.

Strange with a sword given to her by one of the Hand.

The company which owned the factory, Castroper Sicherheitssprengstoff (" Castrop Safety Explosives "), was known colloquially as ' Sprengstoff ' or as Gelbe Hand (" Yellow Hand ") because contact with the chemicals dyed the skin of one's hands yellow.

During the Vietnam War, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military sprayed nearly of chemical herbicides and defoliants in Vietnam, eastern Laos and parts of Cambodia, as part of the aerial defoliation program known as Operation Ranch Hand.

Unification or Death (), unofficially known as the Black Hand ( Црна рука, Crna ruka ), was a secret military society formed by members of the Serbian army in the Kingdom of Serbia, which was founded on 6 September 1901.

The Black Hand was formed when ten men met on 9 May 1911 to form Ujedinjenje ili Smrt ( Unification or Death ), better known as the Black Hand.

The Black Hand was organized at the grassroots level in 3-to 5-member cells, supervised by district committees and by a Central committee in Belgrade whose ten-member Executive Committee was led, more or less, by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević ( also known as Apis ).

Both Skaro and the Imperial Dalek mothership are apparently destroyed ( in the future ) when the Seventh Doctor tricks Davros into using the Time Lord artifact known as the Hand of Omega which makes Skaro's Sun go supernova.

The site of Parsons ' cremation was marked by a small concrete slab and was presided over by a large rock flake known to rock climbers as The Gram Parsons Memorial Hand Traverse.

Princip planned to join the komite, an irregular Serbian guerrilla forces committee of the secret society Unification or Death ( Ujedinjenje ili Smrt ), known as Black Hand.

The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch is a visual satire of a type of royal regalia known as a globus cruciger, specifically the Sovereign's Orb of the United Kingdom.

* Hand with Reflecting Sphere also known as Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror, lithograph ( 1935 )

** M. C. Escher used special shapes of mirrors in order to achieve a much more complete view of his surroundings than by direct observation in Hand with Reflecting Sphere ( also known as Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror ).

The Left Hand of Darkness, along with The Dispossessed and The Telling, are novels within Le Guin's Hainish Cycle, which employs a future galactic civilization loosely connected by an organizational body known as the Ekumen to consider the consequences of contact between different worlds and cultures.

The social and cultural impact of the arrival of Ekumen envoys ( known as " mobiles ") on remote planets, and the culture shock that the envoys experience, constitute major themes of The Left Hand of Darkness.

The most well known Coxsackie A disease is Hand, foot and mouth disease ( unrelated to hoof and mouth disease ), a common childhood illness which affects mostly children aged 5 or under, often produced by Coxsackie A16.

Van Eyck is often thought to be the anonymous artist known as Hand G of the Turin-Milan Hours.

Hand dampening ( also known as finger dampening ) can be used to dampen a white note while striking a nearby black note.

In Tempest, Luke determines that the dark figure from his dreams is Lumiya, a former Emperor's Hand now known as the " Dark Lady of the Sith ".

The Exploits of Elaine tells the story of a young woman named Elaine who, with the help of a detective, tries to find the man, known only as " The Clutching Hand ", who murdered her father.

At the time of the Hand of Thrawn incident, the high-ranking Moff Disra employed a con artist known as Flim to impersonate Grand Admiral Thrawn.

Hand axes found in Kents Cavern date to, and a maxilla fragment known as Kents Cavern 4 may be the oldest example of a modern human in Europe, dating back to 37, 000 – 40, 000 years ago.

The Soviet Union used a fail-deadly system known as Dead Hand ( codenamed " Perimeter "); it is not certain if Russia still uses it.

Named after writers Joseph Conrad and Lafcadio Hearn, he was best known for photographing films such as In Cold Blood, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, American Beauty, and Road to Perdition.

In the 1930s, in Chicago, Thomas A. Dorsey ( best known as author of the song " Precious Lord, Take My Hand "), who had spent the 1920s writing secular music, turned full time to gospel music, establishing a publishing house.

Hand signals are used to assist the " eye in the sky ", a person or video camera located above the table and sometimes concealed behind one-way glass.

Hand cannon being fired from a stand, " Belli Fortis ", manuscript, by Konrad Kyeser, 1400

In the Vietnam War, the Americans " defoliated countless trees in areas where the communist North Vietnamese troops hid supply lines and conducted guerrilla warfare ", ( see Operation Ranch Hand ).

In the Powerpuff Girls episode " Los Dos Mojos ", the counting instructions for the Holy Hand Grenade are referenced.

Janis Joplin charted five singles, and other popular songs from her four-year career include " Down On Me ", " Bye, Bye Baby ", " Coo Coo ", " Summertime ", " Piece of My Heart ", " Turtle Blues ", " Ball ' n ' Chain ", " Try ( Just A Little Bit Harder )", " Maybe ", " To Love Somebody ", " Kozmic Blues ", " Work Me, Lord ", " Move Over ", " Cry Baby ", " A Woman Left Lonely ", " Get It While You Can ", " My Baby ", " Trust Me ", " Mercedes Benz ", " One Night Stand ", " Raise Your Hand " and her only number one hit, " Me and Bobby McGee ".

It described how " Hoodoo Lost his Hand ", as Moses ' mojo was hidden through his staff.

The misunderstanding probably stems from a passage in Robert Abbot's work A Hand of Fellowship to Helpe Keepe out Sinne and Antichrist, in which he thanks the Archbishop for " worldly maintenance ," " best earthly countenance ", and " fatherly incouragements.