The Athenians had honed their style of fighting in combat with other phalanxes, wooden shields smashing against wooden shields, iron spear tips clattering against breastplates of bronze ... in those first terrible seconds of collision, there was nothing but a pulverizing crash of metal into flesh and bone ; then the rolling of the Athenian tide over men wearing, at most, quilted jerkins for protection, and armed, perhaps, with nothing more than bows or slings.

The Cossack army were well acquainted with this Polish style of war well, having much experience of fighting against the Poles and alongside them.

Intent on learning the secrets of Wudang fighting style, she poisons Li Mu Bai's master and steals a manual to learn Wudang fighting on her own, which sets in motion the events of the film.

More than a fighting style, it was created as a hope of survival, a tool with which an escaped slave, completely unequipped, could survive in the hostile, unknown land and face the hunt of the capitães-do-mato, colonial agents armed and mounted in charge of finding escapees.

Originally the Maculelê is believed to have been an indigenous armed fighting style, using two sticks or a machete.

* The Tekken game series have two playable characters who use Capoeira fighting style, Christie Monteiro and Eddy Gordo.

* In the manga series Death Note, L uses Capoeira as his fighting style.

The manga and anime series Fist of The North Star has one of its major fighting style, Nanto Seiken, with the Crux as its symbol.

He has blended judo, western boxing, kickboxing, and gymnastics into his own unique fighting style and is a master of multiple martial arts.

At the time, Russell described his character as " a mercenary, and his style of fighting is a combination of Bruce Lee, The Exterminator, and Darth Vader, with Eastwood's vocal-ness.

The cross features various figures depicted in Borre style, including a man with a spear facing a monstrous head, one of whose feet is thrust into the beast's forked tongue and on its lower jaw, while a hand is placed against its upper jaw, a scene interpreted as Víðarr fighting Fenrir.

He also founded an eclectic style named Bartitsu which combined jujutsu, judo, boxing, savate and stick fighting.

The question of " which is the best Martial Art " has led to inter style competitions fought with very few rules allowing a variety of fighting styles to enter with few limitations.

This is certainly the case with traditional stylists in Thailand, but is a less popular form of fighting in the contemporary world fighting circuit where the Thai style of exchanging blow for blow is no longer favorable.

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When the Japanese took control of the country, several American special operations groups stationed in the Philippines were introduced to the Filipino Martial Arts and swordsmanship, leading to this style reaching America despite the fact that natives were reluctant to allow outsiders in on their fighting secrets.

This word stems from the new fighting style of the side-sword and buckler which was filled with much " swashing and making a noise on the buckler ".

From around the 11th century it became a counterbalance to the blade allowing a more fluid style of fighting.

In the south, especially in the port of Marseille, sailors developed a fighting style involving high kicks and open-handed slaps.

* In the X-Men series the mutant Gambit incorporates Savate into his basic fighting style and is shown to be extremely proficient in it.

* Remy from Street Fighter III: Third Strike uses Savate as his fighting style.

* In the manga Medaka Box, one of the main protagonists " Hitoyoshi Zenkichi " uses Savate as his general fighting style after being taught by his mother.

Honor Blackman became a star in Britain with her black leather outfits and boots ( nicknamed " kinky boots ") and her judo-based fighting style.

As the material at the command of the potters grew and the volume of their production increased, the local variations within a common style became more evident.

It became his trademark style.

Upon the death of Louis XIV and the abandonment of Versailles, the Paris high society became the purveyors of style.

Characterized by elegant and refined yet playful subject matters, Boucher's style became the epitome of the court of Louis XV.

Probably the most recognised style of armour in the World became the plate armour associated with the knights of the European Late Middle Ages, but continuing to the early 17th century Age of Enlightenment in all European countries.

The Native American cuisine became part of the cookery style that the early colonists brought with them.

However, Dürer's influence became less dominant after 1515, when Marcantonio perfected his new engraving style, which in turn traveled over the Alps to dominate Northern engraving also.

Between the 11th and 13th centuries, the Romanesque style Bonn Minster was built, and in 1597 Bonn became the seat of the Archdiocese of Cologne.

The Bauhaus style became one of the most influential currents in Modernist architecture and modern design.

The style was used in bronze by Bernini for his spectacular St. Peter's baldachin, actually a ciborium ( which displaced Constantine's columns ), and thereafter became very popular with Baroque and Rococo church architects, above all in Latin America, where they were very often used, especially on a small scale, as they are easy to produce in wood by turning on a lathe ( hence also the style's popularity for spindles on furniture and stairs ).

In America, The American Builder's Companion, written in the early 19th century by the architect Asher Benjamin, influenced many builders in the eastern states, particularly those who developed what became known as the Federal style.

In 1859, while attending the free school, the Académie Suisse, Pissarro became friends with a number of younger artists who likewise chose to paint in the more realistic style.

However, after reverting back to his earlier style, his work became, according to Rewald, “ more subtle, his color scheme more refined, his drawing firmer.

In the 1980s, concept albums also became popular among rock bands like Kiss, with their album, 1981's Music from " The Elder ", which went on to become the group's poorest selling and charting album in their history, primarily because of its radical departure in musical style compared to Kiss's previous offerings.

This became known as the Nashville sound which Atkins said was a label created by the media attached to a style of recording done during that period to keep country ( and their jobs ) viable.

In typically subversive, perverse style, the band became the talking point of the ceremony when after about 15 seconds into the song, Biafra said, " Hold it!

Karl Freund, Arnaz's cameraman, and even Arnaz himself have been credited with the development of the multiple-camera setup production style using adjacent sets that became the standard for all subsequent situation comedies to this day.

With his natural self-effacing style and his relaxed manner, Thomas quickly became a household name.

When Elvis Presley became popular, Sullivan was wary of the singer's bad-boy style and said that he would never invite Presley on his program.

What became known as the popular ' classical Hollywood ' style of editing was developed by early European and American directors, in particular D. W. Griffith in his films such as The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance.

Near the end of his life, he became reclusive and produced frightening and obscure paintings of insanity, madness, and fantasy, while the style of the Black Paintings prefigures the expressionist movement.

Vividly colored yamato-e ( Japanese style ) paintings of court life and stories about temples and shrines became common in the mid and late Heian periods, setting patterns for Japanese art to this day.

During this period, his visual style simplified ( owing in part to the constraints of the Hollywood studio system ) and his worldview became increasingly pessimistic, culminating in the cold, geometric style of his last American films, While the City Sleeps ( 1956 ) and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt ( 1956 ).

Rietveld broke with ' De Stijl ' in 1928 and became associated with a more functionalist style of architecture, known as either Nieuwe Zakelijkheid or Nieuwe Bouwen.