As the Sengoku civil wars progressed, the uchigatana evolved into the modern katana, and replaced the tachi as the primary weapon of the samurai, especially when not wearing armor.

Despite wearing fearsome armor in the forms of Anubis and Horus, Ra's guards and servants are human ; a blue-jewelled button on each of their wrist-guards is activated to retract the metallic god-masks over their heads and into their collars.

A back view of a samurai with a tachi in armor wearing a sashimono, holding a spear and a severed head.

* February 28 – North Hollywood shootout: Two robbers wearing kevlar body armor armed with AK-47s containing armor-piercing bullets injure 17 police officers and civilians in a gun battle.

# The army without weapons or armor ( since the procession would take them inside the pomerium ), but clad in togas and wearing wreaths.

Some of these dzong guards, carrying shields and wearing chainmail armor, engaged the well-equipped British forces.

alt = A man in a line drawing wearing armor, with long hair, a mustache, and a goatee

Between the two groups stands a single man wearing some sort of armor.

To people who are close to a blast incident, such as bomb disposal technicians, soldiers wearing body armor, deminers or individuals wearing little to no protection, there are four types of blast effects on the human body: overpressure ( shock ), fragmentation, impact and heat.

Janet Maslin, in a review of an Addams biography for The New York Times, wrote, " Addams's persona sounds cooked up for the benefit of feature writers ... was at least partly a character contrived for the public eye ," noting that one outré publicity photo showed the humorist wearing a suit of armor at home, " but the shelves behind him hold books about painting and antiques, as well as a novel by John Updike.

Al-Amin was wearing body armor at the time of his arrest, and near his arrest location, officers located a 9mm handgun and. 223 rifle.

While slashing attacks were still moderately effective against infantry wearing half-plate armor, cutting and slicing attacks against an opponent wearing plate armour were almost entirely ineffective in providing any sort of slashing wound as the sword simply could not cut through the steel, although a combatant could aim for the chinks in a suit of armour, sometimes to great effect.

In one year Pwyll, wearing the guise of Arawn, goes to battle and succeeds in injuring Hafgan nearly to death, breaking through his shield and armor and knocking him to the ground.

Immediately Kevlar was incorporated into a National Institute of Justice ( NIJ ) evaluation program to provide lightweight, concealable body armor to a test pool of American law enforcement officers to ascertain if everyday concealable wearing was possible.

Further, Bill C-349 in the House of Commons, proposes to create a separate offence for wearing body armor during or attempting the commission of an indictable offence.

In other states, such as Kentucky, possession is not prohibited, but probation or parole is denied to a person convicted of committing certain violent crimes while wearing body armor and carrying a deadly weapon.

Additionally, some states outlaw the wearing of body armor while committing certain, usually violent, crimes.

The picture depicts King Adolf with chest armor, a white coat ; ans wearing an iron crown with an " implied spiked helmet ”; in his right hand he holds a sword and in the left a shield with an eagle.

* Defender-an inventor wearing powered armor

* Defender-an inventor wearing powered armor

* Defender-an inventor wearing powered armor

Three years after those events, Soul Edge uses Siegfried as its host, and now Siegfried is Nightmare, a knight wearing azure armor and sporting a hideously deformed right arm.

However, after the move fell through, Charlton returned to wearing red and white as their home colours.

Various sources have claimed he fell from a chair, fell down steps, or was assaulted because he walked in to the Franklin Street Bar & Grill wearing Harley-Davidson leathers.

As the wearing of swords fell out of fashion, canes took their place in a gentleman's wardrobe.

The practice fell into disuse until the second half of the 18th century when grenadiers in the British, Spanish and French armies began wearing high fur hats with cloth tops and, sometimes, ornamental front plates.

Dravot, wearing his crown, stood on a rope bridge over a gorge while the Kafirs cut the ropes and fell to his death.

In one episode of that series, " Double Date Don ", she fell in love with Donald Duck and aggressively pursued him by puckering her lips in front of him, forcing him to dance with her, wearing dresses and posing provocatively to lure him in.

In modern times, men started wearing belts in the 1920s, as trouser waists fell to a lower line.

As the wearing of swords fell out of fashion and the small sword evolved into the duelling sword ( forerunner of the modern épée ), the older hilts gave way to simpler grips such as the French grip and Italian grip.

During Corpus Christi Mass 1875 in the Frauenkirche in Munich, there was a sensational incident, when Otto – who had not attended the church service – stormed into the church wearing hunting clothes and fell on his knees before the celebrant, Archbishop Gregor von Scherr, to ask forgiveness for his sins.

Still wearing his leg irons as night fell, he then broke through six barred doors into the prison chapel, then to the roof of Newgate, 60 feet ( 20 m ) above the ground.

More than three years later, while searching for the body of an English tourist who fell from Uluru, police discover a small item of clothing that is identified as the jacket Lindy had insisted Azaria was wearing over her jumpsuit, which had been recovered early in the investigation.

Vivienne Westwood, the UK fashion designer, re-introduced the high heeled platform shoe into high-fashion in the early 1990s ; it was while wearing a pair of Super Elevated Gillie with five inch platforms and nine inch heels that the super model, Naomi Campbell, fell on the catwalk at a fashion show.

During the 2005 Tour de France, he went very close to wearing the maillot jaune in the first days in the Alps but fell back to finish in the 11th place.

The practice fell into disuse until the second half of the eighteenth century when grenadiers in the British, Spanish and French armies began wearing high fur hats with cloth tops and, sometimes, ornamental front plates.

The Kharijite leader at Mosul, who fell by treachery into his hands, was paraded about Baghdad clothed in a robe of silk ( the wearing of which Kharijites denounced as sinful ) and then crucified.

The practice of wearing bow ties as an acceptable alternative with formalwear fell away after the late Victorian to early Edwardian era and became relegated to eveningwear, as remains the case in the twenty-first century.

During her appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2004, Dakides attempted to perform a stunt outside the Ed Sullivan Theater but fell 15 feet from a ramp while not wearing a helmet.

Stam fell at the Chloé Fall 2006 show in Paris, while wearing " ridiculously high patent-leather pumps " that got caught on each other as her feet crossed on the runway.

Without swim cap requirements wearing swim caps fell out of fashion during the early 1970s.

At the reception following the service, the friends recall a time when David tried on his sister's wedding dress, accidentally tripped, and fell down the stairs, still wearing the dress.