* The Pennsic War, a massive gathering of the Society for Creative Anachronism, takes place about the first week of August every year.

The novel Murder at the War ( Knightfall in paperback edition ) is a detective story concerning a murder that takes place at the SCA's largest annual event, Pennsic War.

* Pennsic War

The Pennsic War occurs each summer north of Portersville.

Field Battle at Pennsic War XXXII

The Pennsic War is an annual American medieval camping event held by the Society for Creative Anachronism — a " war " between two large regional SCA groups: the Kingdom of the East and the Middle Kingdom.

The name Pennsic War is a combination of Pennsylvania and Punic War.

The Pennsic War takes place in late July / early August.

This is celebrated in song by performer, Duke Moonwulf Starkadderson in " Pennsic War IV ".

* Pennsic has inspired a mystery novel, Murder at the War ( Knightfall in paperback ), by Mary Monica Pulver.

* There have been video documentaries made of Pennsic and the battles thereof, the most well known of which is Duckball Home Video's The Pennsic War: A Video Documentary, produced in 1991 at the 20th Pennsic War

* The Official Pennsic War web site

* A site with collected images, videos, and stories of the Pennsic War

* The Pennsic War: A Video Documentary

Since Pennsic XXV in 1996 the event has gathered over 10, 000 participants each year.

The winners of the battles and other activities receive war points, and the Kingdom with the most war points wins that Pennsic.

Contrary to popular myth, the Pennsic wars were not caused by Cariadoc challenging himself to a war and losing.

The challenge for the Pennsic war was initially issued by King Irial and Queen Morna of the Middle, with the stated causes being both the ownership of the new group forming in Pittsburgh, the Debatable Lands, and an earnest desire to have fun and “ engage in chivalric combat of the highest ”.

Thus, the Debatable Lands were assigned to the East Kingdom prior to Pennsic being fought, which rendered moot the initial reason for the war.

Since the stated purpose of the war was to determine which kingdom got Pittsburgh and the Midrealm decisively won Pennsic I, it became popular mythology that " the loser got Pittsburgh.

* The first Pennsic was held in 1972, at Newton's Campground ( now Shorehaven Campground ) in Waterford, Pennsylvania.

* The fourth, often called " Pennsic Pour " or " Pennsic Puddle ", was held at Spencer Farm on Aquilla Road near Chardon, Ohio and was marred by massive flooding and mudslides.

The board of directors ruled a few weeks before Pennsic I that since Pittsburgh was in the same state as an existing group, in Philadelphia, that it had to belong to the same kingdom.

According to the Pennsic Independent, a privately-published newspaper published on-site, the final count for 2009 was 10, 947.

The first Starwood was held July 24 – 26, 1981 at Coopers Lake Campground, the same site as the Society for Creative Anachronism's Pennsic War, in Slippery Rock, PA. From 1982 through 1985 it was held at Devil's Den Park in New Philadelphia, OH, a former state park run by Whispering Winds Nudist Camp.

Pennsic is held in late summer and lasts for 17 days ( begins on a Friday, ends two Sundays later ).

Prior to 2007, Pennsic took place during the first two weeks of August, and some of the earliest Pennsics were held during September.

At some large events, such as Pennsic and Estrella Wars, EMS personnel stand by on site for the duration of the event.

Pennsic is, however, an SCA event ; members of other groups are welcome, but are generally expected to follow SCA rules — especially in regards to armor, weapons and behavior on the battlefield for the various fighting scenarios.

The story takes place entirely at Pennsic.

* Pennsic University: a framework of classes where attendees learn period skills, trades, and performing arts.

* Pennsic Choir.

Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, which contains hundreds of private letters written by Thompson over the years, contains a letter in which he uses A Modest Proposals satire technique against the Vietnam War.

After the Second World War, factories were retrofitted to produce Bakelite using a more efficient extrusion process which increased production and enabled the uses of Bakelite to extend into other genres: jewelry boxes, desk sets, clocks, radios, game pieces like chessmen, poker chips, billiard balls and Mah Jong sets.

The World War II-era Department of Agriculture film Hemp for Victory, encouraging the growing of hemp for war uses, has achieved a similar cult status.

Tom Cain uses the expression " founding myths " more broadly, to encompass such stories as those of the War in Heaven and the fall of man ; according to Cain, " the disastrous consequences of disobedience " is a pervasive theme in Christian founding myths.

Brooks ' later work, World War Z, uses false interviews to create a mockumentary account of a worldwide zombie outbreak.

Helium use following World War II was depressed but the reserve was expanded in the 1950s to ensure a supply of liquid helium as a coolant to create oxygen / hydrogen rocket fuel ( among other uses ) during the Space Race and Cold War.

* 1942 – World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island ( the " Akutan Zero ") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.

* 1965 – Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.

Modified to a single cut rather than two, Whale uses the same technique in The Road Back to signal the instability of a returning World War I veteran.

In the 1930s this use for mu-metal declined, but by World War II many other uses were found in the electronics industry ( particularly shielding for transformers and cathode ray tubes ) as well as the fuzes inside magnetic mines.

More recent uses include: by France during the First Indochina War ( 1946 – 1954 ), the Algerian War ( 1954 – 1962 ), the Portuguese Colonial War ( 1961 – 1974 ) and the Western Sahara War ( 1975 – 1991 ), The Six-Day War by Israel ( 1967 ), in Nigeria ( 1969 ), India and Pakistan ( 1965 and 1971 ), Turkey during the invasion of Cyprus ( 1974 ), by Morocco during the Western Sahara War ( 1975 – 1991 ), Iran ( 1980 – 88 ), Brazil ( 1972 ), Egypt ( 1973 ), Iraq ( 1980 – 88, 1991, 2003 – 2011 ), Angola ( 1993 ), Yugoslavia ( 1991-1996 ), and by Argentina ( 1982 ).

In post – World War II usage the word " propaganda " more typically refers to political or nationalist uses of these techniques or to the promotion of a set of ideas, since the term had gained a pejorative meaning.

The War Department and the Navy Department sought to maintain a Federal monopoly of all uses of radio technology.

A recurring plot device is the Temporal Cold War, in which a mysterious entity from the 27th century uses the Cabal, a group of genetically upgraded Suliban, to manipulate the timeline and change past events.

During and after the Second World War there were scattered European uses of Western settings, mostly for comedy or even musical comedy.

As the Cold War and the Space Race took hold, U-M became a major recipient of government grants for strategic research and helped to develop peacetime uses for nuclear energy.

In many films, like Gordon's War ( 1973 ) and Rolling Thunder ( 1977 ), the veteran uses his combat skills developed in Vietnam to wage war on evil-doers in America.

Raiden, the God of Thunder uses the mystical weapon sparingly and it is simply titled War Hammer.

Ares God of War, for instance is an egotistical man who wears studded black leather, and Aphrodite Goddess of Love is a California Valley Girl who uses typical Valley Girl slang and dresses in flowing, translucent pink gowns.