The use of mail as battlefield armour was common during the Iron Age and the Middle Ages, becoming less common over the course of the 16th and 17th centuries.

They wore clothes reminiscent of Roman armour, " against the space debris that kept falling onto the planet lost from other places, like television sets and bits of an Iron Chicken ", and they spoke in whistles.

Iron helmet and armour with gilt bronze decoration, Kofun period, 5th century.

Iron helmet and armour with gilt bronze decoration, Kofun era, 5th century.

The only example of this was the huge Crossbone Vanguard mobile armour Rafflesia, in which the pilot, " Iron Mask " Carozzo, had numerous fiber optic neural receptors connected from his helmet to the mobile armour control.

Iron Man stabbed him with a blade in his armour normally used to interface with outside systems.

Iron Man ( secretly Tony Stark ) designed the Mandroids and overloads their armour with an electrical discharge.

The cavalry ( Iron Sides ), however, wore buff leather coats and armour long after the infantry had abandoned them.

His body is little more than bones covered with occasional mummified flesh, he carries the great sword Mortis, and wears armour fashioned by himself out of Meteoric Iron, called the Black Armour of Nagash.

He calls upon Iron John who gives him a horse, armour, and a legion of iron warriors to fight alongside him.

The costumes and props used in the film include Dark Age or Early Medieval Celtic and Roman-style weapons ( e. g. Iron Age swords ) and armor ( e. g. mail, scale and leather ), while other Arthurian films like Excalibur, Knights of the Round Table and First Knight use High Medieval or Late Medieval-style weapons ( e. g. longswords ) and armour ( e. g. full suits of plate ).

Image: KofunCuirass. jpg | Iron helmet and armour with gilt bronze decoration, Kofun period, 5th century.

He wears a suit of armour powered by electricity, and he is this world's Iron Man.

He assumed that workers could be paid as low as was necessary for their survival, which was later transformed by Ricardo and Malthus into the " Iron Law of Wages ".

According to his Iron Law of Wages, wages could never rise beyond subsistence levels.

In his 1341 poem, The Iron Cannon Affair, one of the first accounts of the use of gunpowder artillery in China, Xian Zhang wrote that a cannonball fired from an eruptor could " pierce the heart or belly when it strikes a man or horse, and can even transfix several persons at once.

The earliest radiocarbon determinations obtained from key sites such as Oakbank in Loch Tay or Redcastle, Beauly Firth approach the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age transition at their widest interpretation at 2 sigma or 95. 4 % probability, falling after c. 800BC and therefore could only be considered Late Bronze Age by the narrowest of margins.

King Ottokar's Sceptre could be read against the background of Hitler's Anschluss or in the context of the struggle between the Romanian Iron Guard and the King of Romania, Carol II, whereas later albums-for example, The Calculus Affair-depict the Cold War.

In June 2012, two metal detectorists announced that they had uncovered what could be Europe's largest hoard of Iron Age Celtic coins, and which may be worth up to £ 10 M, after a search spanning 30 years.

* Hearts of Iron III-( Paradox Interactive, 2009 )-a complex and realistic grand strategy wargame that allows the player to take control of almost any nation that existed or even plausibly could have existed during the period of 1936 – 1948, guiding it through World War II.

The German commander, Gottfried ( Sandor Elès ), is now a prominent scientist on the other side of the Iron Curtain, and Traynor is concerned that if the research work done at the base had fallen into his hands, it could be used against the West.

For example the presence of an anomalous medieval pottery sherd in what was thought to be an Iron Age ditch feature could radically alter onsite thinking on the correct strategy for digging a site and save a lot of information being lost due to incorrect assumptions about the nature of the deposits which will be destroyed by the excavation process and in turn, limit the sites potential for revealing information for post-excavation specialists.

The results of the excavations indicate that the Early Iron Age inhabitants of Lemnos could be a remnant of a Mycenaean population and, in addition, the earliest attested refer to Lemnos is the Mycenaean Greek ra-mi-ni-ja, " Lemnian woman ", written in Linear B syllabic script.

In 1909, Henry Clay Frick, a steel magnate, bought the present-day Iron Rail property so that his daughter Helen could create a vacation home for the mill girls throughout New England.

The court found that the city could only use eminent domain powers for public purposes and not to specifically benefit the La Grange Iron and Steel Company.

Herman was the home of the annual Herman Iron Pour, where individuals could learn how to mold and cast iron art.

The worsening climate at the beginning of the Iron Age meant that the local elites no longer could obtain bronze to the same extent as before.

With the emergence of oppida in the Late Iron Age, settlements could reach as large as 10, 000 inhabitants.

" Favreau insisted on having Downey as he repeatedly claimed that Downey would be to Iron Man what Johnny Depp is to the Pirates of the Caribbean series, a lead actor that could both elevate the quality of the film and increase the public's interest in it.

Once the Iron Curtain fell, people could once again travel to research or reclaim their identities as Germans.

All but Luwian were spoken only in the Iron Age, after roughly 1000 BC ; thus neither the Lukka of the time of the Sea Peoples nor the Lycians cited among the allies of the Trojans during the Trojan War could have spoken any Lycian.

Jaques contacted the Bethlehem Iron Company with a proposal to serve as an intermediary between it and the Whitworth Company, so that Bethlehem could erect a heavy-forging plant to produce ordnance.

The Tredagar Iron works could produce both solid shot and shell, and since it was believed that Virginia would face only wooden ships, she was given only the shell.

The 14th century building stands on a crescent shaped mound which could be the site of an Iron Age hill fort.

Inspiration for the " Iron Maiden " may come from the Carthaginian execution of Marcus Atilius Regulus, as it was recorded in a passage in Tertullian's " To the Martyrs " ( Chapter 4 ) and Augustine of Hippo's The City of God ( I. 15 ) in which the Carthaginians " packed him into a tight wooden box, spiked with sharp nails on all sides, so that he could not lean in any direction without being pierced ", or by the account of Nabis of Sparta's deadly statue of his wife, the Apega.

) Additionally, the 101st Airborne and 7th Army divisions were advancing so rapidly they were expected to capture the non-existent Alpine Redoubt before " Iron Cross " could be executed.

His son, Arnold Schwarzenegger, stated in the film Pumping Iron that he did not attend his father's funeral, but later retracted this, explaining that it was a story he had appropriated from a boxer to make it appear as though he could prevent his personal life from interfering with his athletic training.

Illinois' Shawnee National Forest, Missouri's Iron County and the maples of Hiawatha, Kan. should be at their best in mid-October.

The museum can be found in the 19th century building The Iron in the Motala ström river in central Norrköping.

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

Bronze was still used during the Iron Age ; for example, officers in the Roman army had bronze swords while foot soldiers had iron ; but, for many purposes, the weaker wrought iron was found to be sufficiently strong.

" The divine call for massacre at Jericho and elsewhere can be explained in terms of cultural norms ( Israel wasn't the only Iron Age state to practice herem ) and theology ( a measure to ensure Israel's purity as well as the fulfillment of God's promise ), but Patrick D. Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy remarks, " there is no real way to make such reports palatable to the hearts and minds of contemporary readers and believers.

Iron is especially common because it represents the minimum energy nuclide that can be made by fusion of helium in supernovae.

Results were unsatisfactory, Wilkinson mail worn by the Khedive of Egypt's regiment of " Iron Men " was manufactured from split rings which proved to be too brittle, the rings would fragment when struck by bullets and further aggravate the damage.

The Copper Age features the use of copper, excluding bronze ; moreover, stone continued to be used in a minor industry throughout both the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.

Iron can be incorporated into glass to absorb infrared energy, for example in heat absorbing filters for movie projectors, while cerium ( IV ) oxide can be used for glass that absorbs UV wavelengths.

In the Iron Maiden album Live After Death, the band mascot, Eddie, is rising from a grave, where can be read " H. P.

" This " Israel " was a cultural and probably political entity of the central highlands, well enough established to be perceived by the Egyptians as a possible challenge to their hegemony, but an ethnic group rather than an organised state ; Archaeologist Paula McNutt says: " It is probably ... during Iron Age I a population began to identify itself as ' Israelite '," differentiating itself from its neighbours via prohibitions on intermarriage, an emphasis on family history and genealogy, and religion.

With the emergence of monarchy at the beginning of Iron Age II the king promoted his own family god, Yahweh, as the god of the kingdom, but beyond the royal court religion continued to be both polytheistic and family-centered, as it was also for other societies in the Ancient Near East.

Their formation can be assumed to coincide with the beginning Iron Age in the Balkans, during the early 1st millennium BC.

Iron oxide mixed with aluminium powder can be ignited to create a thermite reaction, used in welding and purifying ores.

This unnamed drink later went on to be known as Iron Brew because of its connections to the steel ( and iron ) works.

Iron gall inks became prominent in the early 12th century ; they were used for centuries and were widely thought to be the best type of ink.

Iron ore, copper, bauxite, and alumina must be imported, as well as many forest products.

Archaeologists and historians see more continuity than discontinuity between these highland settlements and the preceding Late Bronze Canaanite culture ; certain features such as ceramic repertoire and agrarian settlement plans have been said to be distinctives of highland sites, and collar-rimmed jars and four-roomed houses have been said to be intrinsically " Israelite ," but have also been said to belong to a commonly shared culture throughout Iron I Canaan.