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The axe and log logo was conceived by the first Camp Chief, Francis Gidney, in the early 1920s to distinguish Gilwell Park from the Scout Headquarters.
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In the 19th century, the broadaxe was commonly used in manufacture of square timber, for shaping logs used in log cabin construction and in the manufacture of axe ties.
The hewer marks a line along the length of a log, usually with a chalk line, then chops notches to a short distance ( 10 mm for example ) from this line into the log every foot or two using a chopping or scoring axe.
The competition pitted both amateur and professional loggers against one another in logging events that included log toss, log rolling, axe throw, bow saw, speed cutting, stock saw, standing block chop, two man bucking saw, power saw and the Jack and Jill Crosscut competition.
In the sentence ‘ The man used the axe to chop the log with ,’ the axe is the instrument and is indicated in Salish through an applicative affix on the verb.
Scouters present at the original Wood Badge courses regularly saw axe blades masked for safety by being buried in a log.
Seeing this, Gidney chose the axe and log as the totem of Gilwell Park.
The symbol of the axe in the log is associated with feudalism after the invasion and conquest of England by William the Conqueror.
The competitor swings the axe between their feet at a 45 degree angle on two opposing faces, opening up a face that extends half way through the diameter of the log.
A competitor must angle their axe swings to open a face at 45 degrees skyward, and at 45 degrees below the horizontal in order to create the same two faces that are needed to chop one side of the log.
This event is a variation on the horizontal chop which scores a competitor not on time, but on the number of axe swings needed to sever the log.
Campbell had alleged that on the morning of July 15, 1871, in Thorndale, Middlesex County, Ontario, two black-faced men broke into George and Phoebe's log cabin home and brutally hacked George to death with an axe because he refused to hand over some money.
The burning log and the sapie ( axe like tool to trail logs ) on the forest green ground are symbols for the clearing of the forest to create pasture and farm land in 11th and 12 century.
( Their slogan, " Keep choppin ' wood ", was tainted when punter Chris Hanson injured his leg on an axe brought in to accompany a large log.
Handcrafted log houses have been built for centuries in Scandinavia, Russia and Eastern Europe, and were typically built using only an axe and knife.
In his eighties, he still rode horses, hiked and walked, outpaced reporters while on morning jogs, built a log cabin and chopped logs with an axe.
These include most notably a stump or felled tree ( inscribed into a more generic monument in some cases, rather than the more noticeable instances of the entire monument being in the shape of the log or tree-stump ); the maul and wedge ; an axe ; and often a Dove of Peace with an olive branch.
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Regardless, the name and logo were roundly criticized by advocates for the rights of the mentally ill, believing that they were derived from a derisive term for a person suffering from mental illness, " maniac ", and / or a depiction of a deranged axe-wielding murderer, despite that there was no picture of an axe in the logo.
The group shows a logo depicting two crossed axes on red background that some people find related to ETA's symbol, made up of a snake winding up an axe.
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It should have been nearly as easy for her to remember that as it was for Big Hans to remember going after the axe while he was still spattered with Pa's yellow sick insides.
The anchor cable would have been lost overboard, but Philip Staffe was on hand to sever it with his axe.
Some sources record that the final blow, with the back of an axe, was delivered as an act of kindness by a Christian convert known as " Thrum.
In Serbia a copper axe was found at Prokuplje, which indicates that humans were using metals in Europe by 7, 500 years ago (~ 5, 500 BC ), many years earlier than previously believed.
Ötzi the Iceman, who was found in the Ötztal Alps in 1991 and whose remains were dated to about 3300 BC, was found with a Mondsee copper axe.
Since copper metallurgy was already known to have existed in Europe since 7000 BC, with heavy axes of natural bronze produced in bulk since 5500 BC, and since true bronze, made by deliberately alloying copper with tin had already been used in parts of east-central Europe since 3700 BC, Ötzi's axe came as no surprise to archaeologists.
This trick was worked by stopping the camera and replacing the actor with a dummy, then restarting the camera before the axe falls.
The fasces, which consisted of a bundle of rods that were tied around an axe, was an ancient Roman symbol of the authority of the civic magistrate.
However, in the account of Attic vase-painters, Hephaestus was present at the birth of Athena and wields the axe with which he split Zeus ' head to free her.
A well-known proponent of the axe kick was the late Andy Hug, the Swiss Kyokushinkai Karateka who won the 1996 K-1 Grand Prix.
Most of the smoothing was done with a side axe.
Labyrinth is a word of pre-Greek ( Minoan ) origin absorbed by Classical Greek and is perhaps related to the Lydian labrys (" double-edged axe ", a symbol of royal power, which fits with the theory that the labyrinth was originally the royal Minoan palace on Crete and meant " palace of the double-axe "), with-inthos meaning " place " ( as in Corinth ).
A single ground stone axe was discovered in a burial, and several more were obtained from the surface.
Back when the early community was the pioneering computer society, the common habit seen with many articles was a notice at the end disclosed if the author was free of, or had a conflict of interest, or had any financial motive, or axe to grind, in posting about any product or issue.
When an executioner was sent to strangle him at Yedikule, Constantinople, Osman II refused to give in and started fighting the man and was only subdued when he was hit on his back with the rear end of an axe by one of his imprisoners.
In Ireland, this axe was known as a Sparr Axe.
The blade was around 18 inches ( 55 cm ) long, on the end of a pole 6 or 7 feet ( 180 – 210 cm ) long However, instead of having a tang like a sword or naginata, the blade is affixed in a socket-shaft configuration similar to an axe head, both the blade and shaft varying in length.
James's alleged obsession with Barbara Windsor was such that it was said he returned to his home one day to find that all of the furniture had been rearranged, and on another occasion that her husband of the time, Ronnie Knight, had put an axe in his floor.
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Traditional execution by decapitation by sword or axe were notably gruesome, and the aforementioned design was probably conceived in an attempt to improve the accuracy and effectiveness ; however, no reference to its actual use has been found.
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No one thing in the world is ever abruptly separated, as by the blow of an axe, from the rest of things.
For example, a shot of a zombie getting its head cut off may, for instance, start with a view of an axe being swung through the air, followed by a close-up of the actor swinging it, then followed by a cut back to the now severed head.
Fire is represented in the Aztec religion by a flint ; to the Native Americans, a mouse ; to the Hindu and Islamic faiths, a lightning bolt ; to the Scythians, an axe, to the Greeks, an apple-bough ; and in Christian iconography, a lion.
This image has no display of an axe or a strong central state ; rather, it symbolizes the power of the liberated people by placing the Liberty Cap on top of the classical symbol of power.
He sought death by the axe and begged mercy from the King for his young family.
In other words to " hack " at an original creation, as if with an axe, is to force-fit it into being usable for a task not intended by the original creator, and a " hacker " would be someone who does this habitually.
An axe kick, also known as a hammer kick or stretch kick, is characterized by a straightened leg descending onto an opponent like the blade of an axe.
Oak is a heavy, durable timber that can be easily worked by adze and axe when green ( wet / unseasoned ).
The stone axe heads, imported in great quantities from the north and used in opening the forest for agricultural development, were venerated by the Yoruba descendants of neolithic pioneers as " thunderbolts " hurled to earth by the gods.
At one end of the spectrum, there are extreme academic views such as those of Jacques Halbronn, suggesting at great length and with great complexity that Nostradamus's Prophecies are antedated forgeries written by later hands with a political axe to grind.
The command to " cut the cards ", following by someone literally chopping the deck in half with an axe, is a none-too-subtle gag that has been used many times in popular media, going back to at least the vaudeville days.
Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone cultivated the public image as a man of the people by circulating pictures like this of himself cutting down oak trees with an axe.
Gladstone, who saw little value in the Empire, proposed an anti-Imperialist policy ( later called " Little England "), and cultivated the image of himself ( and the Liberal Party ) as " man of the people " by circulating pictures of himself cutting down great oak trees with an axe as a hobby.
A curved blade attached to a pole by binding the lower 2 / 3 of the blade to the side of the pole, to form a sort of axe.
Of those three books, the Ragyndrudis Codex shows incisions that could have been made by sword or axe ; its story appears confirmed in the Utrecht hagiography, the Vita altera, which reports that an eye-witness saw that the saint at the moment of death held up a gospel as spiritual protection.
Spears began to lose fashion among the infantry during the 14th century, being replaced by pole weapons that combined the thrusting properties of the spear with the cutting properties of the axe, such as the halberd.
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