This too was performing poorly, so Harley granted authority for selling tickets to John Blunt a director of the Hollow Sword Blade Company, which despite its name was an unofficial bank.

Marketing was handled by members of the Sword Blade syndicate, Gibbon distributing £ 200, 000 of tickets and earning £ 4, 500 commission, and Blunt distributing £ 993, 000.

In total, nine of the directors were politicians, five were members of the Sword Blade consortium and seven more financial magnates who had been attracted to the scheme.

The Sword Blade company was retained as their banker and on the strength of its new government connections issued notes in its own right, notwithstanding the Bank of England monopoly.

The Sword Blade Company remained bankers to the South Sea, and indeed had flourished despite the companies doubtful legal position.

Caswall had retired as a South Sea director to concentrate on the Sword Blade business.

Although criticized for poor production quality, it became Metal Blade Records highest selling release, also producing the songs " Die by the Sword ", " The Antichrist " and " Black Magic ", which are played at Slayer's live shows regularly.

The events preceding Heroes IV precipitated the destruction of Enroth due to a clash between Armageddon's Blade and the Sword of Frost.

In the Super Famicom game Tales of Phantasia, the Vorpal is a Blade used to forge the sacred Eternal Sword.

Of note is the Keen X series of exercises, which includes Keen Edge, Keen Sword, and Keen Blade.

Keen Blade exercises no longer exist due to funding limitations, but Keen Edge ( a biannual command post exercise ) and Keen Sword ( a biannual field exercise ) still do take place, albeit at significantly reduced levels from years past.

By the end of the game, Link has collected four elemental crystals, and infuses them in the White Sword, an incarnation of the Picori Blade.

A video game based on the novel, Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword, has been released by video game studio Paradox.

* Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword

* Eien no Aselia: The Spirit of Eternity Sword ( Eternity Sword ' Wisdom '/ Takios the Black Blade )

Using the normal, Over Soul Halo Blade as a base, and powered by Amidamaru's newly acquired seirei-class powers, this high-level technique focuses furyoku and destroys anything with a decisive strike of cutting furyoku waves using Yoh's Over Soul " Spirit of Sword ".

Maximus channelled this energy to Omega Prime in the form of the mighty Matrix Blade ( that looked like the Master Sword ), with which Prime defeated Galvatron.

There are two pieces of equipment made from materia in the game ; the Materia Blade ( which teaches " Ultima Sword " to Gladiators and " Ultima Charge " to Mog Knights ) and Materia Armor ( which has one of the highest defensive stats in the game ).

Later, Jason squares off with Tommy on Earth and ultimately defeats him when he hurls his energized Power Sword at the Green Ranger, disarming him, and then uses his Blade Blaster to destroy the Sword of Darkness that Rita had given to Tommy, due to the sword's ability to maintain her evil spell on him.

Grayswandir is Corwin's sword, also known as the Night Blade ; its twin is Brand's Werewindle, the Day Sword.

He excellently fought against Red Turbo Ranger T. J. Johnson and Red Lost Galaxy Ranger Leo Corbett as they destroy him with their Quasar Saber, Transdagger, Turbo Blade, and Turbo Lightning Sword attack.

In the book, a videogame development company is working on the third installment of the Xanthor series of games-the first two being the Blade of Xanthor, and the Sword of Xanthor.

The company also publishes the high fantasy Exalted RPG, the modern mythic Scion, and d20 system material under their Sword & Sorcery imprint, including such titles as the Dungeons & Dragons gothic horror campaign setting Ravenloft, and Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed series.

The Polish edition, published in 1991 by Sfera company as Magia i Miecz ( Magic and Sword ) was based on 2nd edition rules, and was the only edition with new artwork for all cards ( which many people consider better than the original one ).

The first soundtrack she worked on at the company was for Samurai Sword in 1988.

Sony requested that the company make a new game after the commercial success of Broken Sword on the PlayStation console.

However the game was eventually cancelled so that the company could concentrate on Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon.

The first game in the series, Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars, was released in 1996 by video game company Revolution Software.

The first usage of the term “ flak jacket ” refers to the armour originally developed by the Wilkinson Sword company during World War II to help protect Royal Air Force ( RAF ) air personnel from the flying debris and shrapnel thrown by German anti-aircraft guns ' high-explosive shells ( flak itself is an abbreviation for the German word " Fliegerabwehrkanone " ( anti-aircraft gun )).

In 1965, the British company Wilkinson Sword began to sell blades made of stainless steel, which did not rust and could be used until blunt.

From 2003 – 2010 Vallely rode for Element Skateboards, before quitting to start his own company called By The Sword with fellow skateboarder Jason Filipow.

He later worked on numerous books for DC Comics and Marvel Comics, such as Batman: Sword of Azrael and X-Factor, before forming his own company, Event Comics, where he published his creator-owned character, Ash.

: A very high-quality revolver manufactured by Webley, sold by Wilkinson Sword company

The first usage of the term “ flak jacket ” refers to the armour originally developed by the Wilkinson Sword company during World War II to help protect Royal Air Force ( RAF ) aircrew from the flying debris and shrapnel thrown by German anti-aircraft guns ' high-explosive shells ( flak itself is an abbreviation for the German word " Fliegerabwehrkanone " ( anti-aircraft gun )).

Col. Grow ’ s request to the Wilkinson Sword company was to develop a vest that could stop a. 45 caliber round fired at close range.

In 1973 Wilkinson Sword merged with The British Match Corporation to form a new company Wilkinson Match.

The company produces a four-blade razor that is marketed under the Wilkinson Sword brand in Europe and the Schick brand in North America and Australia.

He then set up his own company Pooley Sword which finishes and engraves swords forged in India.

Broken Sword 1 was a 2D point-and-click game, but by the end of the nineties Cecil took the company to 3D games with direct control, including Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon ( 2003 ).

Timo Rose ( born 22 February 1977 in Rellingen, Germany ) is a German horror and science fiction filmmaker, known as the " german David Fincher ", rapper, and founder of the production company Sword of Independence Filmworks ( later Germaica / Rosecalypse Films and Records ).

Both Sword of Justice and Knight Rider were sponsored by Universal Television, which was then an MCA company.