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Lashing our interests to the indiscriminate promotion of democracy is a tempting but unwarranted strategy, more a leap of faith than a sober calculation.

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# Castillo's ' Burra, Me ', ' La Burra Mistakes Friendship with a Lashing ', and ' The Friend Comes Back to Teach the Burra ' By: Ruiz-Velasco, Chris ; Explicator, 2007 Winter ; 65 ( 2 ): 121-24.

During his tenure in WCW, he drew a series of single-panel comics for WCW Magazine called Lashing Out.

Analysis of timber samples from Viking long boats shows that a variety of timbers were used, but there was strong preference for oak which was associated with Odin ( Wodin ) in Viking mythology.

* Viking ships and traditional Norse wooden boats

It's possible to take Silja and Viking Line boats from Stockholm to Helsinki ( Finland ), Rostock ( Germany ) or Mariehamn island.

Scandinavian tradition of shipbuilding during the Viking Age was characterized by slender and flexible boats, with symmetrical ends with true keel.

Some smaller fishing boats continue-at least if the tides and weather are favourable-to use the shelving bay at Haun ( from the Viking for ' harbour ' - but scarcely with sufficient shelter to constitute a harbour in practice ).

In 1979 Odin's Raven, the replica of a Viking longship, sailed from Norway to Peel to commemorate Manx millennium at the 1000th annual sitting of the Isle of Man's Parliament, Tynwald. In 2005, a new floodgate was installed at Peel to retain the waters of the River Neb and thus enable the moored boats to float at low tide.

The settlement was a key target for Viking raiders who took their boats 2 miles overland to Tarbet to attack the unprotected inland settlements at Loch Lomond before their defeat in 1263 at the battle of Largs.

Funeral pyres were also used in Viking culture, typically on floating boats, as well as by the Romans.

Currently the ship, the reconstructed burial chamber, two of the small boats and two tent boards from the burial chamber are displayed in the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo.

The Danish fleet is thought to have arrived at Plymouth Sound in 838 and this is still commemorated in the annual Viking parade in Calstock, where locals dressed as Vikings row up the river to Danescombe, thought to be one of the sites of the landing of the Danish boats.

Sewn boats are important in the study of Viking Age longships, which use the basic architecture of sewn boats, although they make use of metal fasteners.

Examples of clinker-built boats, and which are directly descended from those of the Viking shipbuilders, are the traditional round-bottomed Thames skiffs, built of mahogany, which can still be seen on the River Thames in England, and the larger, ( originally ) cargo-carrying Norfolk wherries.

The mysterious runic symbols inscribed on the bows of Viking boats, door posts, drinking vessels, and amulets as well as the Finnish composer Sibelius are the source of Edea ’ s music.

People believe they were from old Viking long boats.

Visitors ride boats that are patterned after Viking ships and pass through various scenes with audio-animatronic figures.

Bishop Asser claimed that the ' pagans ' agreed to vacate the realm and made good their promise ; and, indeed, the Viking army did withdraw from Reading in the autumn of 871 to take up winter quarters in Mercian London.

Alfred's burh system posed such a formidable challenge against Viking attack that when the Vikings returned in 892 and successfully stormed a half-made, poorly garrisoned fortress up the Lympne estuary in Kent, the Anglo-Saxons were able to limit their penetration to the outer frontiers of Wessex and Mercia.

The archaeological sites of Birka and Hovgården, on the neighbouring island of Adelsö, make up an archaeological complex which illustrates the elaborate trading networks of Viking Scandinavia and their influence on the subsequent history of Europe.

Hermann Ehrhardt, founder and leader of Marinebrigade Ehrhardt, and his deputy Commander Eberhard Kautter, leaders of the Viking League, refused to help Hitler and Erich Ludendorff in their Beer Hall Putsch and conspired against them.

By 1300, the Inuit and their language had reached western Greenland, and finally east Greenland roughly at the same time the Viking colony in southern Greenland disappeared.

This was because governing power, and defence against Viking, Magyar and Saracen attack, became an essentially local affair which revolved around these new hereditary local lords and their demesnes.

Viking navigational techniques are not well understood, but historians postulate that the Vikings probably had some sort of primitive astrolabe and used the stars to plot their course.

* A. W. Brøgger, The Viking ships, their ancestry and evolution.

During the Viking age their expeditions, frequently combined raiding and trading, penetrated most of the old Frankish empire, the British Isles, The Baltic, Russia and both Muslim and Christian Iberia.

The longship was the enabler of the Viking style of warfare that was fast and mobile, relying heavily on the element of surprise, and they tended to capture horses for mobility rather than carry them on their ships.

Viking raiders always had the option to fallback in the face of a superior force or stubborn defence and then reappear to attack other locations or retreat to their bases in what is now Sweden, Denmark, Norway and their Atlantic colonies.

Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300.

The expanding population of Scandinavia led to a shortage of available resources and arable land there and led to a period of Viking expansion, the Norse gradually shifting their attention from plundering to invasion.

Viking quarterback Joe Kapp's two incompletions and a delay of game penalty forced Minnesota to punt from their own 5-yard line.

Whenever these Viking ships ran aground in shallow waters, the Vikings would reportedly turn them on their sides and drag them across the shallows into deeper waters.

Several generations later, the Norman descendants of these Viking settlers not only identified themselves as French but carried the French language, and their variant of the French culture, into England in 1066.

Viking expeditions ( blue line ): depicting the immense breadth of their voyages through most of Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Northern Africa, Asia Minor, the Arctic and North America

Although another cause could well have been pressure caused by the Frankish expansion to the south of Scandinavia and their subsequent attacks upon the Viking peoples.

The Viking presence dwindled until 1066, when the invading Norsemen lost their final battle with the English at Stamford Bridge.

As an adjective, the word is used to refer to ideas, phenomena or artefacts connected with Scandinavians and their cultural life in these centuries, producing expressions like " Viking age ", " Viking culture ", " Viking art ", " Viking religion ", " Viking ship ", and so on.

In fact, the formal close-quarters style of Viking combat ( either in shield walls or aboard " ship islands ") would have made horned helmets cumbersome and hazardous to the warrior's own side.

The primary objectives of the two Viking orbiters were to transport the landers to Mars, perform reconnaissance to locate and certify landing sites, act as communications relays for the landers, and to perform their own scientific investigations.

The Viking settlers established their own parliament called ting.

" Inspired by Bathory, Enslaved set out to " create Viking metal devoted to retelling Norway's legends and traditions of old -- not attacking Christianity by means of its own creation: Satan.

The Battle of Clontarf () took place on 23 April 1014 between the forces of Brian Boru and the forces led by the King of Leinster, Máel Mórda mac Murchada: composed mainly of his own men, Viking mercenaries from Dublin and the Orkney Islands led by his cousin Sigtrygg, as well as the one rebellious king from the province of Ulster.

This left the now leaderless Viking force facing Murchad's forces, who considered themselves the " king's own " ( containing many of Brian's more distant relatives ) and by the afternoon Brodir's forces were fleeing to their ships.

Early in his reign, Ramiro received word that Viking pirates were attacking along the Atlantic coast of France, and were headed in the direction of the Cantabrian coast of his own kingdom.

Graf ( male ) or Gräfin ( female ) is a historical German noble title equal in rank to a count ( derived from the Latin Comes, with a history of its own ) or a British earl ( an Anglo-Saxon title akin to the Viking title Jarl ).

* On October 25, 1964, in a game against the San Francisco 49ers, Minnesota Viking Jim Marshall recovered a fumble and ran 66 yards with it the wrong way into his own end zone.

These tribes would have had their own lid, their own troop of warriors, under the command of the magnates, as was the case long after the Viking Age.

On one occasion, a hero's persona overwhelmed the heroic Chris ' own personality ; as " Ragnarok, the Cosmic Viking ", he possessed no awareness of Chris King's memories and acted with disregard for others ' property and safety, going so far as to threaten police officers and swat away Vicki ( as the miniature heroine " Pixie ") when she attempted to talk him down, failing to recognize her as an ally.

Viking craftsmen often added their own elaborately decorated hilts, and many swords were given names, such as Leg-biter and Gold-hilt.

Based on these experiments the U. S. decided in 1946 to develop its own large liquid-fueled rocket design, to be called Neptune but changed to Viking.

:" Whatever you might intend a form to suggest, people will find its significance from within their own culture, so that something that is read as a reference to Viking longboats in Dublin, is seen as evoking the art of calligraphy when viewed in Japan "

The painting, by the Polish artist Pius Wleonski, depicts the Viking king's victory over his own pagan past which is represented by a dragon.

The purpose of the Viking Whaling Company Ltd was not only to operate its own whale factory ships but to buy shares in Norwegian companies.

In the last game of the 2006 season Ijeh scored 4 goals and pressured an opposition defender to concede an own goal as Viking surprisingly demolished local rivals and second-placed S. K.

Around 1013 the Jomsvikings were campaigning in England on behalf of Sveyn Forkbeard, yet switched sides, maybe in a ruse to get their own Danegeld from the English, while the main Viking invasion force drove Ethelred the Unready to Normandy.

Brian, building on his own resources and those of the Viking towns of the south such as Limerick and Cork, first took control of Munster, overthrowing the domination of the Eóganachta, a kindred which had dominated the kingship of Munster as effectively as the Uí Néill had dominated the High Kingship, and for just as long.

He first had some regional hits with " Do The Del Viking " by Patrice Holloway and " Moment to Remember " by Jenell Hawkins on his own label.