This degenerated into a miniature civil war in the days following.

During the monarchy there were separate badges for civil and military knights: civil knights wore a badge similar to the modern version, but with the Sacred Heart of Christ above it ; military knights had a completely different insignia, this being a gilt, white enamelled Maltese Cross with enamelled oval shields ( each bearing a design similar to the Coat of arms of Portugal minus the red border ) between the arms of the cross, the whole surrounded by a wreath of palm ; the central disc was in white enamel, with a miniature of the modern badge in it ; the badge was topped by a gilt crown.

His interest in games, combined with an appreciation of history, eventually led Gygax to begin playing miniature war games in 1953 with his best friend Don Kaye.

In a widely-publicided prank by the students of the Helsinki University of Technology, a miniature copy of the statue was discovered from the 300-year-old wreck of the Swedish war ship Vasa when it was lifted from the bottom of the sea in 1961.

Players can assemble and paint individual, 28 millimeter ( approximately 1 inch ) scale miniature figures that represent futuristic soldiers, creatures and vehicles of war.

There was great respect for the engineering innovation that came out of Dresden — before the war the world's first 35 mm single-lens reflex camera, the Kine Exakta, and the first miniature camera with good picture quality were developed there.

Campaign Cartographer is a Windows program created by ProFantasy Software originally in 1993, designed to draw maps for role playing and miniature war games.

With his songs – in effect, miniature theatrical dramatizations ( usually with a protagonist and full of dialogues ), Vysotsky instantly achieved such level of credibility that real life former prisoners, war veterans, boxers, footballers etc.

Eventually the two factions of Shrimpkins wipe one another out in a miniature nuclear war.

During the Second World War, like most British manufacturing companies, S & D's entire output was devoted to the war effort, producing aircraft parts, equipment for landing craft and tanks, and even a miniature submarine ( the Welfreighter ) at their Letchworth plant.

Missouri was torn by internal conflict that mimicked in miniature the larger war that was convulsing the nation ; Maryland was kept in the Union by jailing many of the opposition faction ; and Kentucky tried to keep the peace by proclaiming its neutrality, whereby it would aid neither the North nor the South if they would agree to leave the state alone.

While Baudrillard infamously argued that the Gulf War did not take place, Virilio argued that it was a ' world war in miniature '.

Additional variations on ASL include Deluxe ASL ( DASL ), which was a short-lived experiment in fusing miniature wargaming with ASL ; Historical ASL ( HASL ), which used historically accurate maps, usually in a campaign setting where the outcome of one scenario affected the setup of following scenarios ; Solitaire ASL ( SASL ) with many rules changes for fog of war and command to enhance solitaire play ; and the ASL Starter Kits ( ASLSK ), a series of stand-alone introductory kits.

Court of the Ladies of Queen Anne of Brittany, Miniature representing this lady weeping on account of the absence of her husband during the Italian war, a 19th century illustration based on a miniature from a 16th century manuscript, " Epistres Envoyées au Roi "

Gavin Lyall was also a wargamer and appeared in " Battleground ", a Tyne Tees television series on miniature war gaming in 1978.

After the war, the Redoubt was home to a model village ( miniature park ) and an aquarium.

The " Magic Mini " brand was also engaged in a miniature bus war on the Black Isle to Inverness route in the Highlands with local operator Scotbus, with Stagecoach in Inverness adopting aggressive tactics such as scheduling buses five minutes before the rival operator and undercutting fares.

The current Lord of the Rings range stems from Games Workshop's rights to produce a skirmish war game based on the films, and also on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit books, in the 25mm miniature scale.

* The miniature war game Hordes ( game )

In modern history, her aspirations as a potential empress of Rome have led to her being described as a ' miniature Cleopatra '.

Another influential work about the Japanese garden, bonseki, bonsai and related arts was Rhymeprose on a Miniature Landscape Garden ( around 1300 ) by the Zen monk Kokan Shiren, which explained how meditation on a miniature garden purified the senses and the mind and led to understanding of the correct relationship between man and nature.

The AKC's description, that the dog " must appear as a Doberman in miniature ", led to the misconception common today that this breed is a " Miniature Doberman Pinscher ".

His affinity with all things botanical has made him not only a master gardener, but has also led to such oddities as stealing and later coming to own an ancient, magic-storing, miniature pine tree called a shakkan, tattoos of flowers that live and grow under his skin ( he attempted to tattoo over his prisoner X tattoos with vegetable dyes and one of Sandry's needles ), and the ability to control growth of plants.

“ To Lord Curzon's apprehension that the new Councils could become ' parliamentary bodies in miniature ', Morley vehemently replied that, ' if it could be said that this chapter of reforms led directly or indirectly to the establishment of a parliamentary system in India, I for one would have nothing at all to do with it '.

He is drawn as a miniature satyr with a resemblance to former U. S. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.

He is aided by Benjamin Franklin Walking Eagle, a Native American who is Tom's co-pilot, best friend, and an expert computer technician, and Anita Thorwald, a former rival of Tom's who now works with him as a technician and whose right leg has been rebuilt to contain a miniature computer.

Sometimes the company was seen as catering to the general public rather than to miniature collectors specifically, thus there sometimes has been a feeling that Franklin and Danbury were not always taken seriously by collectors who sought authenticity in miniature models.

He remands his few prized possessions, including a miniature model of his classic car, a stash of jazz recordings, a Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society he received long ago, a Science Journal International diploma, and an old t-shirt he wore on the first day he posited causal solutions to ultrahyperbolic wave equations and, more memorably, when he vanquished Professor Muskrave at the CalSci Texas Hold ' em Tournament, to his closest friend, Charlie.

Horowitz was praised with Daily Mirror commenting " Horowitz is pure class, stylish but action-packed ... being James Bond in miniature is way cooler than being a wizard.

* In Egeskov Castle in Denmark, Titania's Palace is on display, a miniature castle that was hand-built by James Hicks & Sons, Irish Cabinet Makers who were commissioned by Sir Neville Wilkinson from 1907 to 1922.

James I had the disdain a ship in miniature ( she was later recorded as being able to carry about 30 tons ) built for his son Prince Henry.

John Hoskins ( died 1664 ) was followed by a son of the same name, who was known to have been living in 1700, since a miniature signed by him and bearing that date is in the Pierpont Morgan collection, representing James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick.

Only one New Testament miniature survives, that of James the Apostle.

Titania's Palace is a miniature castle that was hand-built in Ireland by James Hicks & Sons, Irish Cabinet Makers, who were commissioned by Sir Neville Wilkinson from 1907 to 1922.

He was the son of the portrait and miniature painter James Petrie, a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, who had settled in Dublin.

It is possible that his use of the word " bourdon " was intended as a pun on St. James ' " staff " ( which Dufay, or the copyist, drew in miniature above the music ).

It was a present for James, who collected miniature whisky bottles.

Both were well-known history painters, his mother coming from a line of painters and engravers, including her father, the engraver and miniature painter George Raphael Ward, and her grandfather, the celebrated animal painter James Ward.

Miyamoto has referred to the creation of the Zelda games as an attempt to bring to life a " miniature garden " for players to play with in each game of the series.

In their own words announced as " a tribute to Blue Öyster Cult " it is an attempt to dissociate from the Lo-Fi aesthetics of the garage scene: " When the rest of the punk oriented world tried hard to be lo-fi and ' real ', Turbonegro as usual went the opposite way, creating a miniature suburban deathpunk opera.

They were often decorated with stained glass or different coloured bricks in an attempt to make them " mansions in miniature " for the aspiring middle-class.

Louisa visits Rio in jail, first to confess that she is going to have his baby, and then to attempt to smuggle a miniature pistol.

Each formation contains three yellow enemies that attempt to dive-bomb the player, a white gun that fires a single laser beam, and a red miniature version of the Gorf robot.

Despite this, Borchgrevink would attempt to emphasise the expedition's British character, flying the personal flag of the Duke of York and taking 500 bamboo poles with miniature Union Jacks for, as he put it, " purpose of survey and extension of the British Empire ".

On the other hand, there is also the miniature in which there is an attempt at illustration, as, for example, the depicting of scenes from the Bible.

It was the first attempt in France in the particular genre which was destined to make Meissonier famous: microscopic painting miniature in oils.

In the Slayers TV series, Gourry and Lina are both the subject of an attempt at cloning, which spawns a number of miniature, super deformed versions of them both.