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Plate armour worn upon the torso was standard in European combat from about 1400 until the middle of the 17th century.

* Plate armour, body armor made of metal plates

plate armour | Armoured longsword combatants wearing roundel daggers as backup weapons ( Plate 214, Codex Wallerstein, 15th century ).

Plate armour is a historical type of personal armour made from iron or steel plates.

Plate armour for Henry II of France, made around 1555, with elaborate ornamental embossing.

Plate armour was virtually invulnerable to sword slashes.

Plate armour was widely used by most armies until the end of the 17th century for both foot and mounted troops such as the cuirassiers, dragoons, demi-lancers and Polish hussars.

Plate armour was used in Japan during the Nara period ( 646-793 ), both plate and lamellar armours have been found in burial mounds and haniwa ( ancient clay figures ) have been found depicting warriors wearing full armour.

Plate armour was successfully implemented by Australian outlaw Ned Kelly and his gang, giving them a large advantage in their gunfights against police.

Plate armour was expected to deflect edged weapons and to stop an arquebus or pistol ball fired from a distance, and it usually did.

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Plate armour ( 14th, late )

The Loyd Carrier was built upon the mechanicals ( engine, gearbox and transmission ) of a 15 cwt 4x2 Fordson 7V truck with mild steel bodywork to which armour plate ( referred to as ' BP Plate ' in Loyd manuals ) was bolted ( to the front and upper sides ) depending on application.

In 2006, Josie Carroll became the first woman trainer to ever win the Queen's Plate.

Ford City is home to the plate-glass industry, as John Ford created the company which later became Pittsburgh Plate Glass.

This company later became part of Pittsburgh Plate Glass, or PPG.

In 1895 the factory, town and all its holdings were acquired by Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, which later became PPG Industries.

In 1946 the Cox Plate was run in two divisions with the great mare Flight winning the stronger division, and became a dual winner following her victory a year earlier.

The company became an important player in international glass manufacturing when it acquired the Plate Glass Group in 1992.

Parker Appliance Company became bankrupt, and its founder returned to an engineering post at a Nickel Plate Road plant, but vowed to start again.

The so-called " Drake's Plate " was revealed to be a practical joke among local historians that got out of control and became a full-blown public hoax.

On 6 November 1820 he raised the flag of the United Provinces of the River Plate at Port Louis and claimed possession of the entire archipelago in the name of the United Provinces of the South ( which later became the United Provinces of The River Plate and ultimately Argentina ).

After his playing days were over, he became the coach of River Plate, where he won several national titles.

As a youngster Sívori became heavily interested in the game of football and by the time he reached his teens he was signed up to a side from his home province ; River Plate.

The mens 1st team are the last ever BUSA National Plate champions, having won the competition in 2008, after which BUSA became BUCS and changed the national competition set-up.

In 1879, he became president of the Lake Erie and Western Railroad and built the Nickel Plate Road in 1882.

In return Nicholas offered a new trophy for the race — the " Emperor's Plate " — and this became the title of the event for a short period.

The amended version was called the Queen's Stand Plate, and it subsequently became the most important sprint at the Royal meeting.

San Lorenzo soon became one of the top clubs in Buenos Aires ; ever since the start of professionalism in 1931, it was counted in the top five ( cinco grandes ) together with Boca Juniors, Independiente, River Plate and Racing.

Plate engraving, the process the term originally referred to, became obsolete around 1990.

" The New York, Chicago and St. Louis adopted the nickname and it became better known as the Nickel Plate Road.

During these inter-city rivalries was born the nickname for the New York, Chicago and St. Louis-The Nickel Plate Road-which rapidly became the name most commonly used.

He moved to Wyandotte, Michigan, in 1895 and became associated with the Michigan Alkali Company through his marriage to Mary Ford, the granddaughter of founder Jean-Baptiste Ford ( and the daughter of Edward Ford, founder of Edward Ford Plate Glass Company, subsequently part of Libbey-Owens Ford Glass and the Pilkington ).

With this title, Estudiantes became the first club outside of the " big five " ( Boca Juniors, River Plate, Racing Club, Independiente and San Lorenzo ) to obtain a professional title.

The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railway ( Nickel Plate ) acquired control in 1882, and the part parallel to Euclid Avenue became part of its main line.

The Deringer vs Plate ruling, in which the California Supreme Court ruled in the company's favor, became a landmark in trademark law.

Plate armor became cheaper than mail by the 15th century as it required much less labor and labor had become much more expensive after the Black Death, though it did require larger furnaces to produce larger blooms.

The strait is expected to close again as the African Plate moves northward relative to the Eurasian Plate, but on geological rather than human timescales.

It has sponsored the Northumberland Plate since 2003, and more than 90 " No Nonsense " race days are held throughout the year at almost 30 jump and flat racecourses across the UK.

Unlike many British war movies of its time, The Battle of the River Plate treats the German sailors as honourable opponents rather than as cardboard cut-out " Huns " and Nazis.

The Plate hypothesis thus attributes all of Earth's volcanism to a single process – plate tectonics – rather than to two independent processes ( plumes and plate tectonics ), but does not address issues of core – mantle heat and / or material transfer.

* Plate ( metal ), rectangular metal stock that is more than 6 mm or 0. 25 in thick

The hotspot appears to move across terrain in the east-northeast direction, but in fact the hotspot is much deeper than terrain and remains stationary while the North American Plate moves west-southwest over it.

Elasmotherium (" Thin Plate Beast ") is an extinct genus of giant rhinoceros endemic to Eurasia during the Late Pliocene through the Pleistocene, documented from 2. 6 Ma to as late as 50, 000 years ago, possibly later, in the Late Pleistocene, an approximate span of slightly less than 2. 6 million years.

The Santa Cruz Islands are less than five million years old, and were pushed upward by the tectonic subduction of the northward-moving Indo-Australian Plate under the Pacific Plate.

For this reason the oldest rocks on Earth are within the cratons or cores of the continents, rather than in repeatedly recycled oceanic crust ; the oldest intact crustal fragment is the Acasta Gneiss at 4. 01 Ga, while the oldest oceanic crust ( located on the Pacific Plate offshore of Kamchatka ) is no older than Jurassic (~ 180 Ma ).

However, the southern edge of the North American tectonic plate lies across the Motagua Fault in Guatemala, so geologically, the division between North America and Central America ( on the Caribbean Plate ) is much farther south than the isthmus of Tehuantepec.

N & W had merged with long-time rival Virginian Railway in the Pocahontas coal region in 1959, and grew through the mergers with other rail carriers including the Nickel Plate and Wabash railroads with operations in adjacent areas of the eastern United States to form a more competitive and successful system serving 14 states and a province of Canada on more than of road.

Mention is made of Rayiran Chathan, the governor of Valluvanad, as a witness in the Jew's Copper Plate (" Joothasasanam ") of 1000 CE given to Joseph Rabban by Bhaskara Ravi Varma I, the Chera ( Kulasekhara ) King of Mahodayapuram. William Logan is of the opinion that Vellaattiri was also not directly under the Chera kings but enjoyed more freedom and rights than other chieftains under them.

In the week leading up to the Cox Plate, the eventual Melbourne Cup winner, Media Puzzle, had burst into calculations by winning the Geelong Cup by more than three lengths, and Northerly would have been conceding 7. 5 kilograms to the imported galloper.

In the mid 20th century, N & W merged with long-time rival Virginian Railway in the Pocahontas coal region and grew even more in size and profitability by mergers with other rail carriers including Nickel Plate Road and Wabash in adjacent areas to form a system serving 14 states and a province of Canada between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mississippi River and Great Lakes with more than of trackage.

The Caribbean Plate drifted into the same area, but as it was less dense ( although thicker ) than the surrounding oceanic crust, it did not subduct, but rather overrode the ocean floor, continuing to move eastward relative to North America and South America.

As the rifting is, in geologic terms, just getting underway, these two parts of the African Plate are generally regarded as protoplates rather than as full-fledged independent plates.

For example, Dorling Kindersley describes the street food of Viet Nam as being " fresh and lighter than many of the cuisines in the area " and " draw heavily on herbs, chile peppers and lime ", while street food of Thailand is " fiery " and " pungent with shrimp paste ... and fish sauce " with New York City's signature street food being the hot dog, although the offerings in New York also range from " spicy Middle Eastern falafel or Jamaican jerk chicken to Belgian waffles " In Hawaii, the local street food tradition of " Plate Lunch " ( rice, macaroni salad and a portion of meat ) was inspired by the bento of the Japanese who had been brought to Hawaii as plantation workers.

Probably one of the most exciting matches in the world is the Superderby ( between Boca Juniors and River Plate ), where the colourful fans seem to become more important than the match itself.

The earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of the Mexican state of Michoacán, a distance of more than 350 km from the city, in the Cocos Plate subduction zone, specifically in a section of the fault line known as the Michoacán seismic gap at coordinates 18. 190 N 102. 533 W. The Cocos Plate pushes against and slides under the North American Plate, primarily along the coasts of the states of Michoacán and Guerrero in Mexico.