Unlike the terms Swiss degen ( Schweizerdegen ) and Swiss dagger ( Schweizerdolch ) which are attested in the 16th century, Schweizersäbel is a modern term, coined by antiquarian and curator of the Swiss National Museum Eduard Achilles Gessler ( 1800-1947 ) in his 1914 publication on the topic.

Unlike the manuals of the previous century, those written for in the 17th century were generally restricted to covering only the rapier being used alone or with a companion arm ( such as the dagger, cloak or rotella ).

Unlike his sources, Shakespeare gives Banquo no role in the King's murder, making it a deed committed solely by Macbeth and his wife.

Unlike later writers, no near contemporary source remarks on Macbeth as a tyrant.

Unlike the " King Duncan " of Shakespeare's Macbeth, the historical Duncan appears to have been a young man.

Unlike Alfar, some critics claim that Lady Macbeth is, in fact, the source of violence in the play.

Unlike other Commonwealth countries, the sword is a traditional naval cutlass.

Unlike many science-fiction interpretations, Moorcock's Eternal Champion stories go far beyond alternate history to include mythic and sword and sorcery settings as well as some worlds more similar to our own.

Unlike most Zelda titles, a sword and shield is not always equipped when the player possesses them ; they can be assigned like any other item into either of two available slots.

" Unlike He-Man's sword, however, She-Ra's possesses the ability to transform into different weapons and accessories, such as a lasso, a shield or a flaming blade, when commanded by She-Ra.

Unlike other guardians, the wulf is completely unaffected by Sabreman's sword and so must be avoided.

Unlike stories of sword and sorcery, heroic fantasy narratives tend to be intricate in plot, often involving many peoples, nations and lands.

Unlike in Musō Jikiden Eishin-ryū, the sword does not fall off behind the back but always stays over shoulder height.

Unlike Starscream, Thundercracker comes with two Mech Tech weapons: half of Starscream's sword and a blue redeco of Roadbuster's chainsaw blaster.

Unlike spike bayonets, which can be used only for thrusting, sword bayonets can also be used for slashing, except for the épée bayonets.

Unlike those two, it is an evil sword that thrives on suffering and completely controls its wielder.

Unlike many role-playing games which rely on traditional " sword and shield " combat, the Baten Kaitos series uses an unusual mechanism based on card-battling in order to resolve combat.

Unlike HTTP ( and similar protocols ), either end of the connection can send a frame at any time, and ' questions ' and ' replies ' can be interleaved easily.

Unlike primary radar systems that measure only the range and bearing of targets by detecting reflected radio signals, SSR relies on targets equipped with a radar transponder, that replies to each interrogation signal by transmitting a response containing encoded data.

Unlike many other dot-com companies, it survived the bursting of the dot-com bubble.

Unlike a Quaker gun, a Wooden cannon is a functional weapon, albeit notoriously weak and only able to fire a few shots, sometimes even just one shot, before bursting.

Unlike the plum pudding model, the positive charge in Nagaoka's " Saturnian Model " was concentrated into a central core, pulling the electrons into circular orbits reminiscent of Saturn's rings.

Unlike the Hamza, the 153 km-long underground river in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and the 8. 2 km-long Cabayugan River in the Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park in the Philippines have come into being thanks to the karst topography.

Unlike other sympathetic ganglia, however, the adrenal medulla lacks distinct synapses and releases its secretions directly into the blood.

Unlike her predecessor Mary Cassatt, who had arrived near the beginning of the Impressionist movement 15 years earlier and who had absorbed it, Beaux's artistic temperament, precise and true to observation, would not align with Impressionism and she remained a realist painter for the rest of her career, even as Cézanne, Matisse, Gauguin, and Picasso were beginning to take art into new directions.

Unlike most ( private ) corporate bodies, creatures of statute cannot expand their business interests into other diverse areas.

Unlike honors programs at individual CUNY colleges, Macaulay Honors College students must be accepted into and begin the program as freshmen.

Unlike most other DOS systems, it was integrated into the disk drives, not loaded into the computer's own memory.

Unlike all previous forays by the military into Ecuadorian politics, the coup of 1925 was made in the name of a collective grouping rather than a particular caudillo.

Unlike most other external DOS commands, it has not been transformed into a native Win32 program.

Unlike many object-oriented languages, but like Smalltalk, Eiffel does not permit any assignment into fields of objects, except within the features of an object, which is the practical application of the principle of information hiding or data abstraction, requiring formal interfaces for data mutation.

Unlike Common Lisp, Scheme existed at the time Stallman was rewriting Gosling Emacs into GNU Emacs, but he chose not to use it because of its comparatively poor performance on workstations, and he wanted to develop a dialect which he thought would be more easily optimized.

Unlike the previous generation of British film makers who had broken into directing and production after careers in the theatre or on television, the Art Cinema Directors were mostly the products of Art Schools.

Unlike his older brother Bonomo he did not step into the company, but decided to become an author.

Unlike governmental classification systems, the first level of market-based classification systems divides the economy into functionally related markets or industries.

Unlike earlier anti-colonial movements, Islamic Jihad directed its attacks against what it believed were " apostate " leaders of Muslim states, leaders who held secular leanings or who had introduced or promoted Western / foreign ideas and practices into Islamic societies.

Unlike many other leading Nazis at this juncture, Goebbels proved to have strong convictions, moving himself and his family into the Vorbunker, that was connected to the lower Führerbunker under the Reich Chancellery gardens in central Berlin.

Unlike most citrus species, the oval kumquat has a shorter growth period, and goes into dormancy fairly earlier in autumn.

Unlike the Greek libraries, readers had direct access to the scrolls, which were kept on shelves built into the walls of a large room.

Unlike Cyrenaica, Tripolitania does not extend southward into the desert.

Unlike processes to screen out male homosexuals, which had been in place since the creation of the American military, there were no methods to identify or screen for lesbians ; they were put into place gradually during World War II.

Unlike the positivists, he did not claim that metaphysical statements must be meaningless ; he also claimed that a statement which was " metaphysical " and unfalsifiable in one century ( like the ancient Greek philosophy about atoms ) could, in another century, be developed into falsifiable theories that have the metaphysical views as a consequence, and thus become scientific.

Unlike with invocation, which involves a calling in, evocation involves a calling forth, most commonly into what is called the " triangle of art.

Unlike more traditional views of the Last Supper, he depicts Heaven opening up into the room, and the angels looking on in awe, per the old Catholic maxim that " If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy the Eucharist.