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Pickelhaube and is
This is possibly because of the extensive use of the Pickelhaube in British propaganda during World War I, although the helmet was a well known icon of Imperial Germany even prior to 1914.
He has a number of war trophies that can be seen in various episodes, including a Prussian Pickelhaube which he sometimes used to cut Hank's hair in an even bowl cut during Hank's youth, and a Nazi canoe which he claimed was " Hitler's canoe ", though given his propensity to exaggerate his war stories, the actual origin of the canoe is uncertain.
Germany is represented by the " Sow-A-Krauts " ( a play on the pork garnish sauerkraut ) who wear grey and Pickelhaube helmets.
* the Goths speak in a Gothic script typeface and the pictures representing Gothic swear words have a Teutonic twist, e. g. when the Gaulish curse represented by a skull and crossbones is translated into Gothic, the skull is shown wearing a Pickelhaube ;
* Pickelhaube is a type of helmet

Pickelhaube and still
The Pickelhaube also influenced the design of the British army Home Service helmet, as well as the custodian helmet still worn by police in England and Wales.

Pickelhaube and part
With the collapse of the German Empire in 1918, the Pickelhaube ceased to be part of the military uniform, and even the police adopted shakos of a Jäger style.
The modern Romania Gendarmerie ( Jandarmeria Romana ) maintain a mounted detachment who wear a white plumed Pickelhaube of a model dating from the late 19th century, as part of their ceremonial uniform.

Pickelhaube and ceremonial
After the adoption of the Stahlhelm the Pickelhaube was reduced to limited ceremonial wear by senior officers away from the war zones ; plus the Leibgendarmerie S. M.

Pickelhaube and Life
Ceremonial nickel-plated Pickelhaube of the modern Swedish Life Guards ( Swedish Army ) | Royal Life Guard Regiments.
Ceremonial nickel-plated Pickelhaube of the modern Swedish Royal Life Guard Regiments

Pickelhaube and Army
The Imperial German Army began to replace the traditional boiled-leather Pickelhaube ( spiked combat helmet ) with the Stahlhelm during World War I in 1916.
* the Pickelhaube and cuirass of the Imperial German and Prussian Army were at one time made of tombak

Pickelhaube and ;
The Pickelhaube ( plural Pickelhauben ; from the old German Pickel

Pickelhaube and Military
Bavarian Military Pickelhaube

Pickelhaube and Chile
During the second half of the 19th century, the armies of a number of nations besides Russia ( including Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Portugal, Norway, and Sweden ) adopted the Pickelhaube or something very similar.

Pickelhaube and .
The comparison was helped by the Pickelhaube or spiked helmet worn by German forces until 1916, which would be reminiscent of images depicting ancient Hun helmets, some British found.
The Pickelhaube was originally designed in 1842 by King Frederick William IV of Prussia, perhaps as a copy of similar helmets that were adopted at the same time by the Russian military.
Frederick William IV introduced the Pickelhaube for use by the majority of Prussian infantry on October 23, 1842 by a royal cabinet order.
The use of the Pickelhaube spread rapidly to other German principalities.
The basic Pickelhaube was made of hardened ( boiled ) leather, given a glossy-black finish, and reinforced with metal trim ( usually plated with gold or silver for officers ) that included a metal spike at the crown.
Some versions of the Pickelhaube worn by German artillery units employed a ball-shaped finial rather than the pointed spike.
Aside from the spike finial, perhaps the most recognizable feature of the Pickelhaube was the ornamental front plate which denoted the regiment's province or state.
Otto von Bismarck wearing a cuirassier officers ' metal Pickelhaube.
The Überzug was intended to protect the helmet from dirt and reduce its combat visibility, as the brass and silver fittings on the Pickelhaube proved to be highly reflective.
During the early months of World War I, it was soon discovered that the Pickelhaube did not measure up to the demanding conditions of trench warfare.
Beginning in 1916, the Pickelhaube was slowly replaced by a new German steel helmet ( the Stahlhelm ) intended to offer greater head protection from shell fragments.
Traffic police in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan also use a form of the Pickelhaube.
In the lead-up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, a moulded plastic version of the Pickelhaube was available as a fanware article.
The Waldeckers however, were permitted the distinction of carrying the Cockade of Waldeck on the Pickelhaube.
A cockade found on the swivel of a Pickelhaube.

is and still
Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.
Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.
Truman Capote is still reveling in Southern Gothicism, exaggerating the old Southern legends into something beautiful and grotesque, but as unreal as -- or even more unreal than -- yesterday.
He is still concerned, however, with a personal event.
nearby, another sits motionless, while still another is twirling an umbrella.
We are desperately in the need of such invention, for man is still very much at the mercy of man.
There is still the remote possibility of planetoid collision.
Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.
Each is still glorified as a national hero.
This favorable image of America in the minds of Russian men and women is still there despite years of energetic anti-American propaganda ''
Incest is still a durable theme, but if it wants to get written about it will have to find ways to surprise the emotions, and there is no better way to do this than that of concealment and symbolic representation.
If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.
Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.
There is another side of love, more nearly symbolized by the croak of the mating capercailzie, or better still perhaps by the mute antics of the slug.
But still, the proposition is worth examination.
The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.
In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.
Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;
On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.
The image of man which enters into force with Aeschylus is still vital in Phedre and Athalie.

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