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Biter or Biters may refer to: Art, entertainment, and media * Biter, the sword Orcrist from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth * Biters (band) * Biters, a fictional indigenous fauna in the game ''Factorio'' People * Aytaç Biter Aytaç Biter (born 5 November 1965 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish auto racing driver. He competed in 2006 for Team Active in Turkish Formula Three Championship's 14 races achieving two wins and eight podiums, and finished the season in second p ... Turkish racing car driver Vessels * HMS ''Biter'', the name of several ships of the British Royal Navy, including: ** HMS ''Biter'' (D97) ** HMS ''Biter'' (P270) {{disambig ...
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Orcrist
The Weapons and armour of Middle-earth are all those mentioned J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy writings, such as ''The Hobbit'', ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Silmarillion''. Tolkien modelled his fictional warfare on the Ancient and Early Medieval periods of history. His depiction of weapons and armour particularly reflect Northern European culture as seen in ''Beowulf'' and the Norse sagas. Tolkien established this relationship in ''The Fall of Gondolin'', the first story in '' his legendarium'' to be written. In this story, the Elves of Gondolin use the mail armour, swords, shields, spears, axes and bows of Northern European warfare. In Tolkien's writings, these kinds of weapons and armour are used by his fictional races, including Elves, Dwarves, Men, Hobbits, and Orcs. As in his sources, Tolkien's characters often gave names to their weapons, sometimes with runic inscriptions to show they are magical and have their own history and power. Terminology Tol ...
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Biters (band)
Biters were a rock band from Atlanta, Georgia. The band was formed in 2009 developing from the band Poison Arrows. Biters released 4 EPs from 2010 to 2012 before they signed to independent record label Earache Records in 2015 and released their debut LP, ''Electric Blood'' on August 7 of the same year. Their final album ''The Future Ain't What It Used To Be'' came out in 2017. Their main influences included bands such as Cheap Trick, David Bowie, Alice Cooper, New York Dolls, Thin Lizzy, Dead Boys, Slade, Sweet, The Boys, The Scruffs etc. They received significant credit from people such as Nikki Sixx, from Mötley Crüe. Biters were also featured in Classic Rock Magazine several times. and were called a "bite-sized slice of retro rock'n'roll debauchery.". In addition to Classic Rock, they were featured in other notable websites such as Team Rock, Planet Rock, 50Thirdand3rd.com, Gaffa ''Gaffa'' (stylized as ''GAFFA'') is a free Nordic music magazine with local editions ...
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Factorio
''Factorio'' is a construction and management simulation game developed by the Czech studio Wube Software. The game was announced via an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign in 2013 and released for Windows, macOS, and Linux on 14 August 2020 following a four-year long early access phase to positive reviews. The game was released on Nintendo Switch on 28 October 2022. The game follows an engineer who crash-lands on an alien planet and must harvest resources and create industry to build a rocket; however, as a sandbox game, players can continue the game past the end of the storyline. The game features both single-player and multiplayer modes. Gameplay ''Factorio'' is a construction and management simulation game focused on resource-gathering with real-time strategy and survival elements and influences from the ''BuildCraft'' and ''IndustrialCraft'' mods for the video game ''Minecraft''. The player survives by locating and harvesting resources to craft various tools and machines, ...
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Aytaç Biter
Aytaç Biter (born 5 November 1965 in Ankara, Turkey) is a Turkish auto racing driver. He competed in 2006 for Team Active in Turkish Formula Three Championship's 14 races achieving two wins and eight podiums, and finished the season in second position. In 2008, Biter raced in the Turkish Touring Car Championship's Super 2000 category driving a BMW 320si for Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport team. He completed twelve races with five podiums and no wins. The same year, he competed in four rounds of the FIA World Touring Car Championship at Brands Hatch and Oschersleben with no success. He raced in 2010 in four rounds of the FIA European Touring Car Cup The FIA European Touring Car Cup was an annual touring car racing event, which had been held at various locations across Europe from 2005 to 2017. Unlike in previous years where it was a one-off event, in 2010 the series was a three round event. ... and placed 10th with seven points. In the 2012 season of the same championship, he ...
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HMS Biter
Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS ''Biter''. Another was planned: * was a 12-gun gunvessel launched in 1797 and sold in 1802. * was a 12-gun gun-brig launched in 1804 and wrecked in 1805. *HMS ''Biter'' was to have been a class wooden screw gunvessel. She was ordered in 1846 but was cancelled in 1849. * was a wooden screw gunboat launched in 1855. She became a coal hulk in 1865 and was later renamed ''T16''. She was sold in 1904. * was a tender, previously the War Department vessel ''Sir William Reid''. She was transferred in 1905 and sold in 1923. * was an escort carrier launched in 1940. She was transferred to the Royal Navy under lend-lease Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States (), was a policy under which the United States supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and other Allied nations with food, oil, ... in 1942, transferred to the French Navy in 1945 and renamed ''Dixmude ...
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HMS Biter (D97)
HMS ''Biter'' was a Royal Navy escort carrier during the Second World War. She was laid down as a merchant ship at the Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company yard at Chester, Pennsylvania. Laid down on 28 December 1939, she was converted to an escort carrier and commissioned in the Royal Navy on 6 May 1942. She was returned to the United States in 1945 and subsequently lent to France. Design and description ''Biter'' was an . These carriers were converted American type C3 merchant ships. Their design was based on the U.S. Navy′s (AVG); to differentiate between the two classes, the Royal Navy added the prefix "B" (BAVG). HMS ''Biter'' (BAVG3) was built by the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, originally named the ''Rio-Parana''; she was laid down on 28 December 1939, launched on 18 December 1940 and delivered on 4 September 1941.Cocker (2008), p.78. She was converted to an escort carrier in the Atlantic Basin Iron Works at Brooklyn New York and commissioned into the Royal Na ...
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