... . The tower keep was generally, though not always, rectangular in shape. It had thick walls (10-12ft and thicker at the corners) built of rubble and mortar faced with squared stones. Usually, the walls rose from a splayed or battered plinth which protected the base of the building. Each wall was strengthened with shallow, flat buttresses in the center and the corner ... latter were, in modern jargon, anti-personnel weapons. The petrariae can be further subdivided into two groups; the mangonel for throwing smaller stones using the principle of torsion for its energy and the trebuchet whic...

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... blood pressure and hardening of the arteries can occur. Heavy use can also lead to severe liver damage, with such results as cancer, jaundice, and hepatitis. Kidney disease and kidney stones may also develop. On top of all this the user may become sterile and experience sexual dysfunction. 2 Yet another source adds acne and even baldness of the scalp to the ... minimal side-effects. According to this passage, using steroids may make the members of Christ big and strong but they may also be giving His members an enlarged heart, kidney stones, and even liver damage. I imagine that Christ ...

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... pieces whose undercurrents of eroticism and death were a world away from the floral motifs of earlier generations. Art Nouveau jewellers [sic] like Ren Lalique also distanced themselves from conventional precious stones and put greater emphasis on the subtle effects of materials such as glass, horn and enamel. Thus, most jewelry of the nineteenth century was made with death as its inspiration ... ...

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... soap maker. Around this time, Ben, being interested in the sea but prohibited from becoming a sailor by his parents, once convinced his young friends to build a wharf from some stolen stones from a quarry. He was caught and punished so as to be taught that dishonesty is never useful. Ben writes that he admired his father, who he deems was of "sound ... ...

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... Aztecs and Mayans labret piercing was reserved for male members of the higher castes, they wore beautiful labrets fashioned from pure gold in the shape of serpents, golden labrets with stones inset and ones of jade or obsidion (labret in Aztec "Tentetl"). The Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest, and the Inuit peoples of northern Canada and Alaska wore labrets fahioned ... ...

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... this reason cannons were brought into position before the fighting actually began. Arms fired from the cannon usually consisted of balls made out of iron, but when they ran short stones were used. Aiming was difficult, just as with the mortar. Because of this cannons were usually used to inflict fear into the enemy. A musket had a firing range of up to ... ...

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