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Iron Hand (other)
Iron Hand may refer to: * Iron hand (prosthesis), a kind of prosthetic limb popular in Europe in the 15th-19th centuries ** Goetz von Berlichingen Iron Hand (c. 1480–1562), German Imperial Knight and mercenary * "Iron Hand" (song), 1991 Dire Straits song * Iron Hand Society, a Syrian nationalist group organized in 1921 * Iron Palm or Iron Hand, a body of training techniques in various Chinese martial arts * Operation Iron Hand, a US military operation conducted during the Vietnam War * "Iron Hand", a song by Battle Beast from their album ''Steel'' * "Iron Hand", a song by Grand Magus from their album '' The Hunt'' * ''The Iron Hand'', the U.K. edition of '' The Iron Clew'', a 1947 novel by Phoebe Atwood Taylor * A 1970s comic strip drawn by Irish artist Paddy Brennan * The original name of the 1960s U.S. Air Force mission Wild Weasel * An alternative name for the Claw of Archimedes See also * Iron Hands (other) * Iron Fist (other) * ''The Iron Hand of Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iron Hand (prosthesis)
Iron hands are metal prosthesis, prostheses for hands and upper extremities from the middle ages and early modern period. These designs combined cosmetic and functional properties. The most famous example of an iron hand was made around the year 1530, being the second prosthetic hand made for the German knight Götz von Berlichingen.Quasigroch, Günter: ''Die Handprothesen des fränkischen Reichsritters Götz von Berlichingen. 2. Fortsetzung: Die Zweithand.'' In: ''Waffen- und Kostümkunde.'' Vol. 25, 1983, pp. 103–120. Most iron hands are based on the same constructive principles, although there are considerable differences in complexity. Fingers can be Anatomical terms of motion#Flexion and extension, flexed passively (for example using the healthy hand) and are locked in place by a Ratchet (device), ratchet mechanism, similar to those of contemporary Flintlock mechanism, flintlocks. Anatomical terms of motion#Flexion and extension, Extension of the fingers work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iron Hand (song)
"Iron Hand" is a song by the rock band Dire Straits released on their album ''On Every Street'' in 1991. The song also appeared on the compilation album '' Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin''' in the same year of its release. It relates to the Battle of Orgreave during the UK miners' strike, with Mark Knopfler Mark Freuder Knopfler (born 12 August 1949) is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Born in Scotland and raised in England, he was the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits. He pursued a s ... remarking on how the police charge on horseback into the crowd of striking miners had reminded him of the savagery of medieval times. - BBC Radio 1FM, date unknown (pre-release to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iron Hand Society
Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar ( ar, عبد الرحمن الشهبندر; ALA-LC: ''‘Abd al-Raḥman al-Shahbandar''; November 1879 – July 1940) was a prominent Syrian nationalist during the French Mandate of Syria and a leading opponent of compromise with French authority. His devotion to Arab nationalism dated to the days of the Committee of Union and Progress and its "Turkification" policies. He supported the Arab Revolt during World War I and briefly headed the foreign ministry under Emir Faisal. When France occupied Syria in July 1920 he fled the country. Shahbandar returned in 1921 and organized the Iron Hand Society to agitate against French rule. This was the first Syrian nationalist group to emerge in Damascus during the Mandate and Shahbandar organized its spread to Homs and Hama.In Aleppo a similar organization called the Red Hand Society also agitated against French rule. In April 1922, the French arrested him and other Iron Hand leaders for incitement against their r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iron Palm
Iron Palm or Iron Hand (Chinese: wikt:鐵, 鐵wikt:掌, 掌wikt:功, 功) is a body of training techniques in various Chinese martial arts. It is originally one of the 72 arts of the Shaolin temple. These conditioning techniques are typically meant to condition the hands to allow a practitioner to deliver very powerful blows without injury to their hands. Overview Iron Palm is the vernacular for the results of serious training centered mainly on the Hand#Areas, palm of the hand, although other parts of the hand may also be targeted, and covers many different conditioning methods. Most Iron Palm systems are considered Neigong, internal, utilizing qigong exercises to train other aspects of development in addition to the external conditioning which ultimately alters the internal structures of the hand, such as the Bone, bones and sinews. However, martial artists who practice Iron Palm are not unified in their training and techniques. Some teachers treat their Iron Palm methodology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Iron Hand
Operation Iron Hand was a joint United States Air Force (USAF) and United States Navy (USN) operation conducted from 1965 to 1973 during the Vietnam War. It was a type of Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) mission, primarily intended to suppress Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems in North Vietnam, although neutralizing radar-directed anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) was important as well. "Iron Hand" refers both to the development of the tactics and equipment, and the numerous individual "Iron Hand missions" that generally accompanied strike packages of the USAF and USN. The "Iron Hand" is a metaphor to the steady hand and nerves of steel it took for pilots to fly directly at the radar-emitting anti-aircraft missile sites while the radar-seeking missiles flew down to destroy the target. The tactics employed on the Iron Hand missions were primarily designed to diminish the threat of SA-2 missiles to a bombing strike force. History The People's Army of Viet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steel (Battle Beast Album)
''Steel'' is the first full-length album recorded by the heavy metal band Battle Beast. It was released on January 27, 2012 and reached No. 7 on the Finnish Album Chart. It is also the first album and only album to feature Nitte Valo on lead vocals. Influences ''Steel'' borrows concepts and names from the manga '' Berserk'', for example the lyrics of "Band of the Hawk": 'We are a mercenary band, led by Griffith, the white hawk.' "Iron Hand" similarly refers to protagonist Guts's iron arm, referring to him as the 'Black Swordsman'. Track listing Personnel Battle Beast *Nitte Valo - lead vocals *Juuso Soinio - guitars *Anton Kabanen - guitars, backing vocals *Eero Sipilä - bass, narrator and backing vocals *Pyry Vikki - drums *Janne Björkroth - keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hunt (Grand Magus Album)
''The Hunt'' is the sixth full-length album by Swedish heavy metal band Grand Magus. It was released on 25 May 2012 on Nuclear Blast. This is their first album with new drummer Ludwig "Ludde" Witt.30 May 2012GRAND MAGUS: 'The Hunt' Audio Samples, Track-By-Track Description Blabbermouth.net Blabbermouth.net is a website dedicated to heavy metal and hard rock news, as well as album and music DVD reviews. Blabbermouth.net was founded and is run by Borivoj Krgin. The first version of the website was launched in March 2001; in October .... Retrieved 7 March 2021. Track listing #"Starlight Slaughter" – 4:19 #"Sword of the Ocean" – 4:28 #"Valhalla Rising" – 4:52 #"Storm King" – 4:20 #"Silver Moon" – 4:43 #"The Hunt" – 5:27 #"Son of the Last Breath (I. Nattfödd/II. Vedergällning)" – 6:49 #"Iron Hand" – 3:44 #"Draksådd" – 5:48 #"Silver Moon" (demo version) – 4:37 (bonus track) #"Storm King" (demo version) – 3:58 (bonus track) #"Sword of the Ocean" (demo versi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Iron Clew
''The Iron Clew'' is a novel that was published in 1947 by Phoebe Atwood Taylor writing as Alice Tilton. It is the eighth and last of the eight Leonidas Witherall mysteries. Plot summary Leonidas Witherall, "the man who looks like Shakespeare", is writing the latest adventure of Lieutenant Hazeltine when his housekeeper Mrs. Mullet interrupts to offer her "candied opinion". He then prepares to leave for a dinner to which he's been invited in his persona as a bank director, held at the home of banker Fenwick Balderston, when he notices that a brown-paper parcel of bank papers has disappeared. Upon arrival at Balderston's, he finds the banker has been bashed with a bronze bust of Shakespeare. Assisted by plucky housewife Liz Copley and gang of other assistants, Witherall races around the town of Dalton and tracks down a missing dinosaur footprint, a copy of ''Tamerlane'', the bank documents and the murderer. Literary significance and criticism (See Phoebe Atwood Taylor Phoe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddy Brennan
Paddy Brennan (born c. 1930) is an Irish people, Irish comics artist who worked mainly in the UK, drawing adventure strips for D. C. Thomson & Co. titles. He was a freelancer, working six months of the year in Dublin and six months in London.Peter Hansen, , 2004 His first published work was a strip called "Jeff Collins - Crime Reporter" in the ''Magno Comic'', a one-shot published in 1946 by International Publications in Glasgow.Alan Clark, ''Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors'', The British Library, 1998 More work for small publishers followed, including in Cartoon Art's ''Marsman Comics'' (1948) and ''Super-Duper'' (1949) and Martin & Reid's ''The Rancher'' and ''Jolly Western'' (both 1949) before starting his long association with DC Thomson in 1949, drawing an adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's ''The Lady in the Lake'' in the ''People's Journal'', and "Sir Solomon Snoozer" in ''The Dandy''. In the 1950s he drew mainly adventure strips for ''The Dandy'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Weasel
Wild Weasel is a code name given by the United States Air Force (USAF) to an aircraft of any type equipped with anti-radiation missiles and tasked with the suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD): destroying the radar and surface-to-air missile (SAM) installations of enemy air defense systems.Hewitt, W.A''Planting the seeds of SEAD: The Wild Weasel in Vietnam'' School of Advanced Airpower Studies, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, PhD Thesis. May 1992. Accessed 5 October 2009. The task of a Wild Weasel aircraft is to bait enemy anti-aircraft defenses into targeting it with their radars, whereupon the radar waves are traced back to their source, allowing the Weasel or its teammates to precisely target it for destruction. The Wild Weasel concept was developed by the USAF in 1965 during the Vietnam War after the introduction of Soviet SAMs and their downing of American strike aircraft participating in Operation Rolling Thunder in the skies over North Vietnam. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claw Of Archimedes
The Claw of Archimedes ( grc, Ἁρπάγη, translit=harpágē, lit=snatcher; also known as the iron hand) was an ancient weapon devised by Archimedes to defend the seaward portion of Syracuse's city wall against amphibious assault. Although its exact nature is unclear, the accounts of ancient historians seem to describe it as a sort of crane equipped with a grappling hook that was able to drop an attacking ship partly down in to the water, then either cause the ship to capsize or suddenly drop it. It was dropped onto enemy ships, which would then swing on to defensive forces and destroy them. These machines featured prominently during the Second Punic War in 214 BC, when the Roman Republic attacked Syracuse with a fleet of 60 quinqueremes under Marcus Claudius Marcellus. When the Roman fleet approached the city walls under cover of darkness, the machines were deployed, sinking many ships and throwing the attack into confusion. Historians such as Livy attributed heavy Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
