The sport has particularly strong followings in the UK, US, New Zealand and Australia ; every four years, these countries play the MacRobertson Shield tournament.

It hosted the FA Cup Final from 1920 to 1922, has held ten FA Cup semi-finals ( most recently in 1978 ), ten FA Charity Shield matches ( the last in 1970 ), and three England international matches, the last in 1932 ; it was also the venue for an unofficial Victory International in 1946.

Shield has a curtain which serves as a protection from arrows.

One scholar has counted 278 un-Homeric words in Works and Days, 151 in Theogony and 95 in Shield of Heracles.

It has been used in the Vietnam War by the United States Army, and in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm by the British Army.

Shield has a curtain which serves as a protection from arrows.

She has been more recently known for her roles in The Shield and her Emmy and Golden Globe winning role as Patty Hewes in the FX TV series Damages.

long has a general westward direction down to the confluence with the Atabapo and Guaviare rivers at San Fernando de Atabapo ; the second flows northward, for about, along the Venezuelan-Colombian border, flanked on both sides by the westernmost granitic upwellings of the Guiana Shield which impede the development of a flood plain, to the Atures rapids near the confluence with the Meta River at Puerto Carreño,

The Red Shield has its origins in Salvation Army work during wartimes.

In Australia, the Red Shield has become one of the country's most identified and trusted brands, leading the Australian Salvation Army to prefer to use this symbol over the crest on its uniform, corps buildings and advertising materials.

Since Vietnam, Fort Dix has sent soldiers to Operation Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

The cricket side, Meltham CC, has won the 1st XI Byrom Shield on 7 occasions and the Sykes Cup 8 times.

It was re-introduced by the military just prior to Operation Desert Shield, with a modification to allow for modern insignia on the front of the jacket, and has been in service ever since.

Speedway returned to Workington and the team has operated with varying degrees of success, but in 2008, they won the Young Shield and the Premier League Four-Team and Pairs Championships.

The hexagram has been in use as a symbol of Judaism since the 17th century, with precedents in the 14th to 16th centuries in Central Europe, where the Shield of David was partly used in conjunction with the Seal of Solomon ( the hexagram ) on Jewish flags.

A Shield of David has been noted on a Jewish tombstone in Taranto, Apulia

The Earthquakes has won two MLS Cup titles, in 2001 and 2003, and one MLS Supporters ' Shield in 2005.

Royston Rugby club's 1st XV play in the Herts / Middlesex 2nd division, its Girl's U15 side has won the Herts Shield for the last two seasons.

While still an honour in the English game, the Community Shield has markedly lower status than the Premier League, FA Cup or even the League Cup.

The Community Shield has been described by some media sources, including Mark Lawrenson, as a " glorified friendly ".

" The label has been so influential in anti-corporate independent music and underground DIY punk culture, particularly in the Olympia music scene, that it was the subject of a documentary directed by Heather Rose Dominic entitled The Shield Around the K, with a tagline of " Do It Yourself ".

Before his name was securely deciphered from extant Maya inscriptions, this ruler has been known by an assortment of nicknames and approximations, common ones including Pakal ( or Pacal ), " Sun Shield ", " 8 Ahau ", and ( familiarly ) as Pacal the Great.

The Shield has a variety of subplots, notably David Aceveda's political aspirations and his suffering of a sexual assault ; Vic Mackey's struggle to cope with a failing marriage ; Shane Vendrell's rocky, new marriage ; Curtis Lemansky's growing fear for the safety of the Strike Team ; and Julien Lowe's internal conflicts between his belief in the teachings of the Bible and his homosexuality.

The FA Cup winners also qualify for the single-match FA Community Shield against the Premier League Champions.

His use of language and meter in Works and Days and Theogony distinguishes him also from the author of the Shield of Heracles.

Riding Mountain, the Pembina Hills, Sandilands Provincial Forest, and the Canadian Shield are also upland regions.

In Operation Desert Shield during the buildup phase of the 1st Gulf War, the U. S. Army were concerned about the lack of mobility, protection and firepower offered by existing rapid deployment ( i. e. airborne ) formations ; and also about the slowness of deploying regular armored units.

Despite the absence of any mountainous terrain in the province, there are large areas of uplands, particularly within the Canadian Shield which traverses the province from northwest to southeast and also above the Niagara Escarpment which crosses the south.

* Christopher Andrews, The Mitrokhin Archive ( also published as The Sword and the Shield )

However, a route across the Canadian Shield was highly unpopular with potential investors not only in the United States, but also in Canada and especially Great Britain which was the only other viable source of financing.

Later, one of their ships is salvaged by S. H. I. E. L. D and used to construct Captain America's Shield ( which also was constructed with adamantium though in the comics in the Ultimate Universe, his shield is only composed of adamantium ) and other items such as vibranium-tipped bullets and knives.

She starred in a series of her own for 2007, Damages ( also on FX ) instead of continuing her character on The Shield.

This series also saw the introduction of the " Eye Shield ", which acted as an ' eye ' for the dungeoneer.

East Valley accepts all public health insurance such as MediCal ( also known as Medicaid ), Medicare, and Healthy Families ( also known as SHIP ), as well as private health insurance such as Blue Cross / Blue Shield, among others.

They were also a recipient of the Sudler Shield Award by the John Phillip Sousa Foundation in 2004.

Park Falls is also home to St. Croix Rod, a world-renowned fishing rod company and a factory for Medford, Wisconsin-based Weather Shield, a window manufacturer.

He also asserted that Blair gave permission to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2001 to initiate what would ultimately become Operation Defensive Shield.

This area is also a distinct physiographic section of the larger Yilgarn Block province, which in turn is part of the larger West Australian Shield division.

Sticky foam was tried by the U. S. Marine Corps in the peacekeeping Operation United Shield in 1995 with some success, but as a result various complications in its field use were also discovered.

They were also holders of the Charity Shield and had just advanced into their second successive European Cup semi-final.

Some operating systems, such as OpenBSD with its W ^ X feature, and Linux with the Exec Shield or PaX patches, may also limit the length of the code segment, as specified by the CS register, to disallow execution of code in modifiable regions of the address space.

Shield also worked as a composer for Covent Garden and, in that capacity, he met Joseph Haydn.

Successful reintroductions have also occurred onto Peron Peninsula in Western Australia as a part of Western Shield.

He also led them to success in the Charity Shield and the UEFA Super Cup during the start of the season in 2001.