He was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers ' Guild of America, a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords!

She was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers ' Guild of America ( SAGA ), a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords!

He was a member of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers ' Guild of America ( SAGA ), a loose-knit group of Heroic Fantasy authors founded in the 1960s, some of whose works were anthologized in Lin Carter's Flashing Swords!

Shieldbreaker can destroy other Swords as easily as conventional ones, even Swords whose own power would seem to counteract the " Widowmaker ".

The area commonly known as Whitehall Cross, at the intersection of the Swords Road ( N1 ) ( north-south ) and Collins Avenue ( east-west ), is in the townland of Clonturk, and was formerly the site of a public house called The Thatch, whose memory is preserved in the name of a nearby road.

A prime early example of a sword bayonet-fitted rifle would be the British Infantry Rifle of 1800-1840, later known as the " Baker Rifle " ( to this day, no matter what length of bayonet, British Rifle Regiments ' Fix Swords ').

On October 6, 2009, Martin noted on his blog that his manuscript for A Storm of Swords had been 1521 pages in length ; the initial printed hardcover came in at 992 pages.

Interestingly, the length of " The Change " is recorded in scripture to be 49, 949 years, indicating that the period of the Swords universe may in fact be a twilight period ( compare to Götterdämmerung ).

In the Books of the Swords universe, Dragons are non-sentient predatory creatures that can grow to a hundred meters in length or more.

During this time he is said to have founded a number of monasteries, including ones at Kells, Derry, and Swords.

Photek is also influenced by traditional Japanese music and culture, with song titles as " Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu ( 2 Swords Technique )" ( named after the Hyoho Niten Ichi-ryu technique ) and " The Seven Samurai " ( named after the movie of the same name ).

Unlike Link, Zelda, and most other recurring characters, he is actually the same person in every game, with the exception of Four Swords Adventures, where he is a reincarnation of the original.

A Crown of Swords ( abbreviated as aCoS by fans ) is the seventh book of The Wheel of Time fantasy series written by American author Robert Jordan.

The song " Crime & Medicine " is essentially a cover of GZA's 1995 single " Liquid Swords ", though it contains different verses.

* The Splendour of a Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath the Blazon of the Hyperborean Empire-A three part saga wherein one of the Kings of Hyperborea is forced to meet the forces of the Chaos Lord Angsaar at the Shrine of A ' zura-Kai, where they battle for control of the powerful Crystal of Mera.

The song " Knight of the Swords " is about the god Arioch in Michael Moorcock's Elric stories.

At September 2011, the Prebendary of Swords is G. J. O.

Swords, Arrows, spears, pole-arms, chain-knives, traditional weapons including the " Tigers claw " and the Trident are all considered arms and REQUIRE LICENCES irrespective of whether they are blunt or sharp if the government is of that opinion.

* Verres is a major character in the novel Spartacus: Swords and Ashes by Jonathan Clements, which is set on the eve of his governorship of Sicily and concerns an undocumented dispute with a young Cicero in Neapolis.

There were three series, composed of a two-hour opening episode and 24 one hour long episodes, although the pilot is sometimes screened as two one-hour episodes, and the episodes comprising " The Swords of Wayland " were transmitted as one episode in the UK on their original screening on a Bank Holiday weekend in 1985.

Kara-Tur is described in the " Province Book " from the 1986 Swords of the Daimyo module.

The airport is located north of Dublin city in a once-rural area near Swords.

Ireland's fourth airline, CityJet, operates flights from the airport and its HQ is located in the nearby town of Swords.

In the film Barry Lyndon ( 1975 ) Lillibullero is heard near the start as Barry's regiment assembles at Swords Castle to embark for the Seven Years ' War.

Dark Link is a version of Link's Shadow which appears in Ocarina of Time, a similar Link clone called Shadow Link appears in Four Swords Adventures, and yet another appears in Spirit Tracks.

In A Crown of Swords Farstrider is going by the name of Noal Charin when he meets Mat Cauthon in Ebou Dar and stays with him and his men.

Also, the Swords area ( separated from the city limits by the green belt and aviation safety zone around Dublin Airport ) is considered a Northside area because of, perhaps, its establishment as a commuter suburb for Dublin's new middle class and also because a substantial number of residents would be of a traditional working-class / lower middle class Northside background i. e. from areas such as Coolock, Santry or Ballymun.

The area is also to have an underground stop on the planned Metro North ( Dublin city centre to Swords ) line of the Dublin Metro.

The official name of the arches, the Swords of Qādisiyyah, is an allusion to the historical Battle of al-Qādisiyyah.

The next game released in the series was Four Swords Adventures for the GameCube, which was released in early 2004 in Japan and America, and January 2005 in Europe.

The next single, " Berserk Warriors " ( December 1981 ), was a satirical tribute to ABBA, although the concurrent release of the pop hit " Swords of a Thousand Men " by British band Tenpole Tudor prevented Mental As Anything from realising their plan to make a Viking-themed music video to promote it, although they did eventually make the clip as planned and included it on their subsequent video album compilation.

The In Geom ( Tiger Swords ) were usually of the same designs but of different strengths.

Swords have been made of many different materials over the centuries and with a variety of tools and techniques.

Swords of different Ottoman Empire | Ottoman Sultans on display at the Topkapi Palace.

Eight of the stone crosses are engraved with different indications / symbols: Swords, Dolchmesser, hammer, Lillie and a jug or a port up.

Jan Petersen in De Norske Vikingsverd (" The Norwegian Viking Swords ", 1919 ) introduced the most widely-used classification of swords of the Viking Age, discriminating twenty-six types labelled A – Z.

The Blademaster classification consists of five sub-categories: Sword and Shield, Great Swords, Lances, Hammers, and Dual Swords ( Dual Swords are unavailable on Japan version ).

Swords of this type can usually only be resharpened a few times before reaching the softer metal underneath the edge.

Wands are traditionally associated with fire and still are in most tarot decks, however, increasingly decks are being published with Swords associated with Fire.

Swords are traditionally associated with air and still are in most tarot decks, however, increasingly decks are being published with the Wands association.

Swords designed specifically to be tachi are generally kotō rather than shintō, so they are generally better manufactured and more elaborately decorated, however, these are still katana if worn in modern buke-zukuri style.

Swords forged between 987 and 1597 are called ( lit., " old swords "); these are considered the pinnacle of Japanese swordcraft.

Playing cards first entered Europe in the late 14th century, probably from Mamluk Egypt, with suits ( sets of cards with matching designs ) very similar to the tarot suits of Swords, Staves, Cups and Coins ( also known as disks or pentacles ), and which are still used in traditional Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese decks.

Swords are commonly worn as a ceremonial item in many military and naval services throughout the world.

Swords and knives found in Southeast Asia are influenced by Indian, Far Eastern ( Chinese ) as well as Near Eastern ( Muslim ) and European ( Spanish ) forms.

Swords with exceptionally long hilts are found throughout the High Middle Ages, but these remain exceptional specimens, and not representative of an identifiable trend, until the late 13th or early 14th century.

The essentials are that the magician has set up a temporary table outdoors, to display items that represent the suits of the Minor Arcana: Cups, Coins, Swords ( as knives ).

Saberhagen also wrote a series of vampire novels in which the vampires ( including the famous Dracula ) are the protagonists, and a series of post-apocalyptic mytho-magical novels beginning with his popular Empire of the East and continuing through a long series of Swords and Lost Swords novels.

Swords made of Moonsilver are more accurate, bows shoot farther and armor does not impede the wearer's mobility.

Yet neighbouring Malahide ( the two suburbs are now interconnected ), while slightly closer to the city than Swords, might be thought of as more a County Dublin " seaside town ", owing to a substantial upper middle class element in its population.

Four of the six city centre shopping centres are located on the Northside, these are the Jervis Centre, the Ilac Shopping Centre, Irish Life Shopping Mall and the Moore Street Mall, along with the large out-of-town centre at Blanchardstown and others at Swords, Coolock and Donaghmede.