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As the term ' knight ' became increasingly confined to denoting a social rank the military role of fully armoured cavalryman gained a separate term, ' man-at-arms '.
The Plumulitid machaeridians would have moved across the surface of the sea floor using parapodia, whereas the fully armoured Turrelepids and Lepidocoelids burrowed in a peristaltic fashion reminiscent of their evolutionary cousins, the earthworms.
It was employed by equites contariorum and equites catafractarii, fully armed and armoured cataphracts.
Sassanian bullae showing the four spahbods show that horses were still fully armoured during this period and heavy cavalry tactics were still used by the Sassanian cavalry.
The leading troops of this Parliamentarian wing were a fully armoured regiment of cuirassiers, the London lobsters under Sir Arthur Haselrig.
The fully armoured hull was divided into two compartments: a fighting compartment for the crew, gun, and ammunition in the front of the hull, and the engine and transmission separate in the rear.
The fully armoured hull was divided into two compartments: fighting compartment for the crew, gun and ammunition in the front of the hull, and engine and transmission in the rear.
It is the heaviest fully enclosed armoured fighting vehicle ever built.
The ' Dukes ' returned, as part of 4 ( Armoured ) Brigade, to the South-East of Iraq, in October 2004, to join the British-led Multi-National Division ( South-East ), as a fully equipped armoured infantry battalion with Warrior Armoured Personnel Carriers.
It was using a lightly armoured, fully enclosed and traversable turret on a Centurion hull.
The first cuirassiers did not appear very different from the fully armoured Late Medieval man-at-arms.
The arms and shoulders were fully armoured with pauldrons, rerebraces, elbow couters and vambraces.
By the mid 17th century the fully armoured cuirassier was becoming increasingly anachronistic.
" A Special " Platoons were fully mobile using a Ford car for the officer in charge, two armoured cars and four Crossley Tenders ( one for each of the sections ).
The MT-LB ( многоцелевой тягач легко бронированный, Mnogotselevoy Tyagach Lekhko Bronirovannyi / multi-purpose light-armoured towing vehicle ) is a Soviet multi-purpose fully amphibious auxiliary armoured tracked vehicle which was first introduced in the late 1960s.
Man-at-arms ( also called armsman or coistrel ) was a term used from the High Medieval to Renaissance periods to describe a soldier, almost always a professional warrior in the sense of being well-trained in the use of arms, who served as a fully armoured heavy cavalryman.
As a fully armoured cavalryman could be of a lesser social status than a knight, an alternative term describing this type of soldier came into use which was, in French, homme d ' armes or gent d ' armes, and in English man-at-arms.
The military function that a man-at-arms performed was serving as a fully armoured heavy cavalryman ; though he could, and in the 14th and 15th centuries often did, also fight on foot.
It is in the final stages of fully replacing the Iltis in most units as the armoured reconnaissance vehicle in use LFCA.
) — " armoured fighting vehicle "; usually a reference to a type of tank with a 360 ° fully rotating turret for the main armament.
The caracole was developed as a light cavalry tactic to be used in combination with the fully armoured lancers that made up the heavy cavalry in those times.
Germany also had fully armoured locomotives which were used on such trains.
* a fully armoured version of the Bentley Arnage Series Two RL
Before the complete introduction of the fully enclosed armoured gun turrets, a barbette was a fixed armoured enclosure protecting the gun.

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The Viking Ship Museum houses three spectacular examples of 9th and 10th century Scandinavian sea vessels-including the fully intact Oseberg ship-which were used as high status tombs.
Built on the Unreal Engine, the game allows players to explore a fully realized Viking world.

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Simms admired the raucous tales emanating from the backwoods, but he had himself social affiliations which would not allow him to approve them fully.
Actually it would be more accurate to say that the leader of the alliance now has swung fully behind the British policy of seeking to achieve a neutral Laos via the international bargaining table.
When a word represents a larger construction of which it is the only expressed part, it normally has more stress than it would have in fully expressed construction.
Professor McNeill thinks that at Yalta, Stalin did not fully realize the dilemma which faced him, that he thought the exclusion of the anti-Soviet voters from East European elections would not be greatly resented by his allies, while neither Roosevelt nor Churchill frankly faced `` the fact that, in Poland at least, genuinely free democratic elections would return governments unfriendly to Russia '', by any definition of international friendliness.
Albert B. Lord suggests that the Homeric poems were dictated to a scribe by a minstrel who held in his mind the poems fully matured but did not himself possess the knowledge of writing since it would be useless to his guild, and Magoun argues that the Beowulf poet and Cynewulf may have dictated their verse in the same fashion.
`` I considered that your views would be best carried out '', he explained, `` by taking women whose progeny will of course be free & more fully extend the philantrophy of Emancipation.
While emphasizing that technical details were not fully worked out, Pelham said his resolution would seek to set aside the privilege resolution which the House voted through 87-31.
However, Buddha said that the purity of his heart was so great that, " Should Ananda die without being fully liberated ; he would be king of the gods seven times because of the purity of his heart, or be king of the Indian subcontinent seven times.
If the color were fully green, its RGBA would be ( 0, 1, 0, 0. 5 ).
This was a blow from which the machine never fully recovered, although games sales for it would ultimately outstrip those of the BBC Micro.
" and " Zalaga " As part of the copy protection, illegal copies of the games would cause a fully polyphonic rendition of Trumpet Hornpipe, the Captain Pugwash theme tune, to play endlessly rather than loading the game properly ( Pugwash being a pirate ).
How fully in correspondence with such an environment the work would be, as apologia for the Church against the Synagogue's attempts to influence Roman policy to its harm, must be clear to all familiar with the strength of Judaism in Asia ( cf.
The Aster used 64KB of RAM memory and had the unique feature of supporting two fundamentally different internal architectures: when turned on without a boot floppy or with a TRS-DOS floppy, the Aster would be fully TRS-80 compatible, with 48KB or RAM.
Another way of making the point is that if the Platonic world were to disappear, it would make no difference to the ability of mathematicians to generate proofs, etc., which is already fully accountable in terms of physical processes in their brains.
These guns ( some of which were of the three barrelled kind first seen at Elixheim the previous year ) enjoyed good arcs of fire, able to fully cover the approaches of the plateau of Jandrenouille over which the Allied infantry would have to pass.
The first modern solution of general relativity that would characterize a black hole was found by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916, although its interpretation as a region of space from which nothing can escape was not fully appreciated for another four decades.
Most of the original societies were fully terminating, where they would be dissolved when all members had a house: the last of them, First Salisbury, was wound up in March 1980.
The result was not actually a democracy or a real civic state, but he enabled the development of a fully democratic government, which would emerge in the next generation as the demos realized its power.
Amphibians were the dominant land vertebrates, of which one branch would eventually evolve into reptiles, the first fully terrestrial vertebrates.
In December 2004, the EU leaders announced that accession negotiations with Croatia would start on March 17, 2005 provided that Croatian government cooperates fully with the ICTY.
Neither of these experiments on their own would fully explain how the process of remembering a phone number works.
While the original Sterling semi-auto would be classed a " short barrel rifle " under the U. S. National Firearms Act, fully legal long-barrel versions of the Sterling have been made for the U. S. collector market.
Harvard would eventually go on to fully adopt the McGill version of the game that included more carrying of the ball and also used an oblong ball that was easier to carry and throw.
However, this innovative jurisprudence did not help the victims of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy who were unable to fully prosecute a class action litigation ( as understood in the American sense ) against Union Carbide due to procedural rules that would make such litigation impossible to conclude and unwieldy to carry out.

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