* 1894 – Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.

* In manga, Hiroyuki Takei's Shaman King, Ryu possesses a wooden sword and uses it as his main weapon, and for that reason he is also known as Bokuto no Ryu ( Wooden Sword Ryu ).

* Date Masamune is often portrayed as using a bokken as his main weapon in several media he has appeared in, such as Samurai Deeper Kyo and the original Samurai Warriors.

A popular detachable design consists of a main arm that is attached to the weapon, a plate on one end that secures four or more individual bolts at a point on their shafts and at the other end a cover that secures their heads.

It was also used as a secondary weapon if the main shaft snapped, or for the rear ranks to finish off fallen opponents as the phalanx advanced over them.

In 2007 the Land forces bought the German Heckler & Koch G36 rifle to replace the older Swedish Ak-4 as main weapon.

A pole weapon or pole-arm is a close combat weapon in which the main fighting part of the weapon is placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood, thereby extending the user's effective range.

The Talwar is a type of curved sword that was introduced to India in the 13th century by invading Muslim conquerors and was adopted by communities who favoured the sword as their main weapon, including the Rajputs, Marathas and Sikhs.

The four main issues instrumental in forming the nuclear strategy were technical limitations, nuclear weapon availability, lack of strategic thinking and politics.

Chicago's main offensive weapon was Payton and the running game.

Besides Dawson, the Chiefs main offensive weapon was running back Mike Garrett ( 1965 Heisman Trophy winner ), who rushed for 732 yards and 6 touchdowns.

The Vikings ' main weapon on their rushing game was NFL Rookie of the Year running back Chuck Foreman, who rushed for 801 yards, caught 37 passes for 362 yards, and scored six touchdowns.

The Steelers main offensive weapon however was running the ball.

Stabler's main passing weapon was wide receiver Cliff Branch, who caught 46 passes for 1, 111 yards ( 24. 2 yards per catch average ) and 12 touchdowns.

The team's main offensive weapon was running back Wendell Tyler, who rushed for 1, 109 yards, caught 32 passes for 308 yards, and scored 10 touchdowns.

On defense, the team's main weapon was Pro Bowler McGinest, who recorded 49 tackles, 2 fumble recoveries, an interception which he returned 46 yards for a touchdown, and a team leading 9. 5 sacks.

The spear is the main weapon of the warriors of Homer's Iliad.

Quick to manufacture, and needing less smithing skill than a sword, it remained the main weapon of the common soldier.

Vikings were relatively unusual for the time in their use of axes as a main battle weapon.

Under York, the Lab had four main programs: Project Sherwood ( the Magnetic Fusion Program ), Project Whitney ( the weapons design program ), diagnostic weapon experiments ( both for the Los Alamos and Livermore laboratories ) and a basic physics program.

( The blue ' ionization | pre-ionisation ' curve applies to certain types of Nuclear weapon design | thermonuclear weapon, where gamma ray | gamma and x-ray s from the primary fission stage Ionization | ionise the atmosphere and make it electrically conductive before the main pulse from the thermonuclear stage.

These cannons fire whatever weapon is equipped on the main ship at the time, like in R-Type Leo.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

Fleischman with eight was to patrol the Leyte Gulf area, with his main task to get any kamikaze before they got to the ships.

Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.

He was ghost writer for Babe Ruth, whose main talent for literary composition was the signing of his autograph.

And it was his main present!!

The half-intensity diameter of the antenna beam was about 9', and the angle subtended by the moon included the entire main beam and part of the first side lobes.

The half-intensity diameter of the main lobe of the antenna was about 18'.5, and the brightness temperature was reduced by assuming a Gaussian shape for the antenna beam and a uniformly bright disk for the moon.

The issue was acute because the exiled Polish Government in London, supported in the main by Britain, was still competing with the new Lublin Government formed behind the Red Army.

But to return to the main line of our inquiry, it is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read because More was medieval or even because he was a martyr -- indeed, it is likely that these days many who read Utopia with interest do not even know that its author was a martyr.

The editor's main criticism of the trial was the haste with which it was conducted.

Like a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.

Vermont's main railroad line was prostrate.

Because of this diversionary attack the main group that had been pinned down on the hill was able to surge forward again.

Since then he had worked at this and that, though some said his main interest was gambling.

At present the doctor's main concern was in seeing to it that Japanese salvage firms were not permitted to operate on the hulks of warships sunk too close inshore, because the work involved setting off nerve-shattering blasts at all hours.

He'd have to think, but the main thing, the imperative necessity, was to leave before Sam Bentley was up and about, and before Millie detained him with sympathy.

The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.

It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.

Prints are highly portable and these works made Dürer famous throughout the main artistic centres of Europe within a very few years.

This number climbs to 42. 05 main lines / 1000 in Ouagadougou, but still a very low penetration rate.

The main copper mineral chalcopyrite ( CuFeS < sub > 2 </ sub >) is not leached very efficiently, which is why the dominant copper-producing technology remains flotation, followed by smelting and refining.

According to Love, her main focus in the band from very early on was on lyrics: " For me, I was just about lyrics and performance.

Some of the main squares, Inman, Porter, and to a lesser extent, Harvard, are very close to the city line, as are Somerville's Union and Davis Squares.

Improvisation is very important also, while singing a song the main singer can change the music's lyrics, telling something that's happening in or outside the Roda.

* AM CVn, a very blue star of magnitude 14, is the prototype of a special class of cataclysmic variable stars, in which the companion star is a white dwarf, rather than a main sequence star.

The main purpose of these approaches is to deliver a very high dose of chemotherapy to tumor sites without causing overwhelming systemic damage.

The main purpose of these approaches is to deliver a very high dose of chemotherapy to tumour sites without causing overwhelming systemic damage.

A portrait as diversified as the one already pointed out for the coronal features is emphasized by the analysis of the dynamics of the main structures of the corona, which evolve in times very different among them.

The main disadvantage to the top-down methodology is that it represents a very large project with a very broad scope.

very efficient system based on island-wide microwave radio relay network and fiber optics lines that cover many of the main cities

More than 25 % of all Danish speakers live in the metropolitan area of the capital and most government agencies, institutions and major businesses keep their main offices in Copenhagen, something that has resulted in a very homogeneous national speech norm.

A. M. Tibbetts is one of the main critics of the NCTE, claiming that ' the Committee's very approach to the misuse of language and what it calls " doublespeak " may in the long run limit its usefulness '.

Data structures ( fields, records, files and objects ) optimized to deal with very large amounts of data stored on a permanent data storage device ( which implies relatively slow access compared to volatile main memory ).

MWI's main conclusion is that the universe ( or multiverse in this context ) is composed of a quantum superposition of very many, possibly even non-denumerably infinitely many, increasingly divergent, non-communicating parallel universes or quantum worlds.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.

The main meaning of the Italian verb " pretendere " is " demand ", while in Spanish, " pretender " basically means " try to "-- although both verbs have a ( very ) secondary meaning " pretend ".

As the trigger ( often actually a lever ) was pulled, the match was brought into the open end of a " touch hole " at the base of the gun barrel, which contained a very small quantity of gunpowder, igniting the main charge of gunpowder in the gun barrel.

The port of Bissau was one of the main employers and a very important source of taxes for the province's authorities.

The European Satellite Navigation project was selected as the main motif of a very high value collectors ' coin: the Austrian European Satellite Navigation commemorative coin, minted on 1 March 2006.

The temples of Hera in the two main centers of her cult, the Heraion of Samos and the Heraion of Argos in the Argolid, were the very earliest monumental Greek temples constructed, in the 8th century BC.

Immediately west from Ghana ( in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso ), Hausa is abruptly replaced by Dioula – Bambara as the main lingua-franca of what become predominantly Manding areas, and native Hausa populations plummet to a very small urban minority.