Word: armors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among the nominees for the Making Life Difficult for Yourself Award, it's hard to beat the Department of Justice. When probing for flaws in the Collossus of Redmond's armor last year, Joel Klein chose a dangerous gambit. Instead of launching a new and achingly slow suit against Microsoft that might take years to resolve, he decided to move much more speedily. Last October he sued to reopen an existing Windows 95 lawsuit. All went well -- at first. An irate Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in December ruled that Microsoft had violated a 1995 agreement with the government...
Abandoning his studied neutrality, Quart eventually performs a priestly act that saves Our Lady of the Tears, but at the cost of his ecclesiastical career. In doing so, the priest, who imagines himself a kind of modern Knight Templar, finds his true self by breaking through the armor of discipline and obedience that has served him as a surrogate for faith...
While it is just being rediscovered, Thrace's craftsmanship was well known to its neighbors: in Book X of the Iliad, Homer writes of the Thracian King Rhesos: "His chariot is a masterwork in gold and silver, and the armor, huge and golden, brought by him here is marvelous to see, like no war-gear of men but of immortals." But these are more than gorgeous works of art. The elaborate figures depicted by and on these objects, and the stylistic themes they reflect, give historians their first direct window onto Thracian society, commerce, religion and, in at least...
That is where more rural magic comes into play. The newest local healer lumbers into the countryside on 17 tons of armor plate and giant steel wheels. The Frelimo government has invested its scarce cash to bring in a fleet of Casspir demining vehicles, operated by a private subsidiary of the South African army, to get rid of the mines that keep farmers and herders off the country's lush lands...
...SHELL They weigh only half a pound, but when spewed at 7,200 rounds a minute from the six twirling muzzles of a Vulcan cannon, these armor-piercing shells are formidable indeed. Pentagon officials couldn't begin to estimate the number used Cost: around $20 each...