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...learn the cause of Shanidar 3's wound, Churchill and his team used a specially designed crossbow to fire stone-age projectiles at precise velocities at pig carcasses (a pig's skin and ribs are believed to be roughly as tough as a Neanderthal's). When he stabbed a pig carcass with the force of a thrust spear, Churchill found that the pig's ribs "were busted to hell. The high kinetic energy had caused a lot of damage in the area." But Shanidar 3 had a solitary rib puncture with no such damage. (See pictures: Happy 200th Darwin...
...round, flat shields of bronze, reinforced with layers of hide and wax. In medieval Europe, knights and lords rode to battle in chain mail, a heavy, fantastically expensive armor forged from thousands of tiny links of steel. By the mid-14th century, advances in technology - namely, the high-velocity crossbow and longbow - necessitated steel-plate armor that covered from head...
...parking-lot show--at the High Elevations Bar & Restaurant in the busy northeastern Pennsylvania village of White Haven starred Teddy, a bigger-than-average black bear that Dumpster-dived, chased his butt in circles and all but rode a tiny bicycle. That is, until some crackpot with a crossbow shot the 600-lb. (about 270 kg) creature dead early on the morning of Sept. 12. "Just a shame," says Tim Conway, a wildlife-conservation officer with the Pennsylvania game commission. "You always wonder who could do something like that...
...later, the bad guys are “Satan’s minions” and the player must “banish them back to their evil realm” using “spiritual weapons” such as the Sword of the Spirit and the Holy Crossbow (no mention was made of Monty Python’s infamous Holy Hand Grenade). In doing so, they show Satan that “nothing can overcome the power of the Holy Spirit.”Other nominally spiritual elements are present. “The Shield of Faith increases...
...portraits show), Kangxi worked skillfully to identify himself with both his native tribal culture and the scholarly traditions of the Chinese. Two likenesses, commissioned when he was about 30, demonstrate his Manchu soldier?Chinese scholar balancing act. A vibrant silk hanging scroll shows him in Manchu military armor, with crossbow and arrows at the ready. Like most of his tribe, he was an expert archer - and, as ruler of a still restive empire, he relished his role as commander in chief. In the other portrait Kangxi sits at his desk in a simple Chinese robe, holding a large brush...