Search results for "Archery" - New World Encyclopedia
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- was the god of light, dance, reason, music, archery and medicine, while also exemplifying the difficulties of human relationships through the stories ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- as horse and camel riding, rodeo competitions, archery, and traditional singing and dancing. == Notes == == References == * DeFrancis, John. In ...33 KB (4,665 words) - 19:29, 5 March 2024
- are numerous at Stanford. Sports include archery, badminton, cricket, cycling, equestrian, ice hockey, judo, kayaking, men's lacrosse, ...29 KB (4,059 words) - 19:49, 9 February 2023
- A rifle is a firearm with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls. This pattern ...37 KB (6,097 words) - 19:01, 11 August 2022
- collecting, aquatics, woodcarving, archery, and rifle and shotgun shooting. For many Scouts, the highlight of the year is spending at least a ...39 KB (5,942 words) - 22:31, 20 November 2023
- Saint George (ca. 275/281 – April 23, 303 C.E.), also known as George of Lydda, is one of the most venerated saints in the Anglican Church ...36 KB (5,477 words) - 19:38, 22 December 2022
- Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminum, with the chemical formula CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8•4H2O ...35 KB (5,240 words) - 00:26, 3 May 2023
- the judges with his swordsmanship and archery, but failed to pass the test for several years when he broke a leg during the cavalry examination ...34 KB (5,442 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- consists of three Mongolian traditional sports: Archery, horse-racing (over long stretches of open country, not the short racing around a track practiced ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 13:11, 10 March 2023
- Swedish royal lines, who is gifted in swimming, archery, fighting, and music. He first encounters Balder when they begin to compete for the hand of Nanna ...36 KB (5,860 words) - 11:08, 10 March 2023
- target," which was also used in Old English archery. H. G. Liddell and R. Scott, Greek-English Lexicon, 9th ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press ...36 KB (5,730 words) - 22:21, 29 January 2023
- between the two shrines, horse races, and archery. Kamigamo Shrine, the “higher” or “upper” Kamo Shrine, dating most likely to the seventh ...36 KB (5,274 words) - 06:18, 10 June 2024
- by D. T. Suzuki). Zen in the Art of Archery. New York: Vintage Books, 1999. ISBN 0375705090 * McRae, John R. Seeing through Zen: Encounter, Transformation ...37 KB (5,736 words) - 05:46, 13 June 2023
- the male populace from practicing archery, which was necessary for war. King Henry IV, in 1409, issued a proclamation forbidding the levying ...41 KB (6,352 words) - 10:33, 10 November 2023
- in their finest dress participate in horse races, archery and horsemanship contests. A Harvest Festival (Ongkor in Tibetan) is celebrated in farming villages ...35 KB (5,227 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- terms of bow arm and drawing arm still used in archery. Due to the effects of firing the ordnance (barrel) at the time, the gunner had to be located ...44 KB (7,015 words) - 19:53, 26 March 2024
- (fourteenth to twentieth centuries), an archery tower stood in front of each city gate of Beijing as a fortification. Two of them still stand ...41 KB (6,198 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- Sumer (or Šumer) was one of the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East, located in the southern part of Mesopotamia (southeastern Iraq ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- medicine, veterinary science, phonetics, yoga, and archery. Under his rule Malwa became an intellectual centre of India. Bhoj also founded the city of ...38 KB (5,752 words) - 11:00, 9 March 2023
- performed at a championship level in archery, shooting, badminton, table tennis, fencing, weightlifting, boxing, judo, short track speed skating ...42 KB (5,837 words) - 16:22, 6 March 2024
