Their ideas of chivalry were also further influenced by Saladin, who was viewed as a chivalrous knight by medieval Christian writers.

Their eldest son, Ralph, was a famed knight but died in his youth.

Their mascot, known as Mach Altus ( Latin for speed and altitude ), is a statue of a Crusades-era knight.

Their red blossoms, shining like rubies, danced in the green waves.

Their land, called Hyperborea or Hyperboria – " beyond the Boreas " – was perfect, with the sun shining twenty-four hours a day, which to modern ears suggests a possible location within the Arctic Circle.

Their sound has been compared to that of Radiohead, with the band's deep love for jazz music also shining through, particularly in the drumming.

Their armour was meant to protect only against sabres and light lances.

Their armour consisted of a conical helmet, a mail hauberk, and a kite-shaped shield.

Their armour endured many hits with none penetrating, but eventually was of no use as the suits lacked protection for the legs and hands.

Their tough armour means that they do not have to be manoeuvred as carefully as units of other armies ( such as the frail Eldar ).

Their use never altogether ceased and in modern armies mounted cuirassiers, armed as in earlier days with breast and back plates, have in some degree emulated the martial splendour of the body armour of the era of medieval chivalry.

Their armies reflect this, with their vehicles emphasising speed over armour protection.

Their main feature was the limited use of arms and armour and emphasis on horsemanship.

Their battledress varies between media, ranging from equipment comparable to modern-day fatigues ( or just being contemporary, such as the equipment of Colonial Marines in the re-imaged Battlestar Galactica ) to environmentally sealed suits of powered armour.

Their light armour has been criticised for leading to loss of life in Afghanistan, however it is considerably better than the Iltis predecessor.

Their role as shapeshifters also makes high Constitution useful, as animal forms gain no benefit from armour, are limited to melee attacks and retain existing hit points.

Their talons and fangs are so long and sharp they can pierce steel armour and behead a man with a single bite.

Their role in conventional war, as the prime manoeuvre and armoured punch in a brigade, is to destroy enemy armour and, working closely with armoured infantry, to seize and hold ground.

Their beards are arranged in vertical curls, and their armour ( particularly helmets ), weapons and architecture are reminiscent of these cultures.

Their armour class and hit points can be magically raised and they can cast a shield which harms their opponent when they strike the Ranger.

Their armour appears to have varied depending on the type of mission they were conducting.

Their demand against the Calvinist Orthodoxy for intellectual liberty had never meant that they would follow `` free inquiry '' to the extreme of proclaiming Christianity a `` natural '' religion.

Their view is that free speech, in itself, is not in contradiction with any other consideration — the information is not the crime.

Their mission is to attack OZ directly, in order to rid the Alliance of its weapons and free the colonies from its oppressive rule.

Their use of the word " gay " represented a new unapologetic defiance — as an antonym for " straight " (' respectable sexual behaviour '), it encompassed a range of non-normative sexualities and gender expressions, such as transgender street prostitutes, and sought ultimately to free the bisexual potential in everyone, rendering obsolete the categories of homosexual and heterosexual.

Their many male heirs created more and smaller estates, and from a largely free class of officials previously formed, many of these assumed or acquired hereditary rights to administrative and legal offices.

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Their development work ( and subsequent contributions to the free MUMPS application codebase ) was an influence on many medical users worldwide.

Their outer edges ( as shown in the illustration ) are attached to muscle in the larynx while their inner edges, or margins are free ( the hole ).

Their tongues are not free, but held in place by a membrane which limits movement ; as a result, crocodiles are unable to stick out their tongues.

Their route has now been free soloed several times in a few hours time.

Their knowledge is free from fallacies and are widely believed as a source of proof.

In May 1945 he wrote his last major contribution to Jewish refugees, the pamphlet " Nowhere to Lay Their Heads ": The Jewish tragedy in Europe and its solution, a personal appeal for the opening up of Palestine for large scale Jewish immigration from Europe, which he distributed for free and was a great success.

Their collective cultures are known as " Creole ", though many non-Louisianans do not distinguish between the two groups, or do not recognize the distinctions made in the New Orleans area between the original white colonists whose offspring were the original first born in Louisiana and Creoles that were a mixture of people of European ancestry and slave populations ( or free men and women of color ) and whose skin was mulatto for lack of a better descriptor.

Their number increased dramatically in the Upper South in the first two decades after the Revolution ; for instance, by 1810, fully 10 percent of the population in the Upper South were free blacks, as numerous slaveholders manumitted their slaves in this period, inspired by Revolutionary principles of equality.

Their free concerts are held in the Band Shell on Sundays October through April under the direction of Dr. Dennis Hill.

Their aim was to keep their art free from political propaganda.

Their agent, Abby Greshler, negotiated for them one of Hollywood's best deals: although they received only a modest $ 75, 000 between them for their films with Wallis, Martin and Lewis were free to do one outside film a year, which they would co-produce through their own York Productions.

Their son Georges, who was hiding to avoid execution, was sent to the U. S. She, however, travelled with her two teenage daughters Anastasie and Virginie to Dunkirk and embarked for the Danish port of Altona ( later Altona, Hamburg ) and the adjacent free imperial city of Hamburg.

Their version appeared on a CD titled NME Awards 2008 given away free with a special souvenir box set issue of NME magazine, which went on sale 27 February.

Their first performance came on November 27, when they played a free concert at the base of Aspen mountain in Aspen, Colorado.

Their exact status was already disputed in antiquity: according to Critias, they were " especially slaves " whereas to Pollux, they occupied a status " between free men and slaves ".

Their innovative business model is to offer the open textbook free online, and then sell ancillary products that students are likely to buy if prices are reasonable-print copies, study guides, ePub,. Mobi ( Kindle ), PDF download, etc.

Their goal, he alleged, was to spread slavery through the free states that had made it illegal.

Their second single, " Alternative Ulster ", was originally intended to be given away free with the fanzine of the same name.

Their temporary settlements were built along lake and marsh edges, which remained free of trees due to fluctuations in water level.