A club or cudgel is perhaps the simplest of all mêlée weapons. Essentially, a club is simply a large stick to hit things with. Related mêlée weapons such as maces and flails are variations upon the club. Typically, a club is small enough to be wielded in one hand. Bludgeons that require both hands to wield are called quarterstaffs in English. Club weapon - A simple weapon. The club is perhaps the simplest of all true weapons; a club is typically carved from a single piece of wood; a ...

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• Club weapon - A simple weapon
• Club weapon - Specialized clubs
• Club weapon - Batons truncheons and nightsticks
• Club weapon - Blackjack and similar
• Club weapon - Shillelagh
• Club weapon - Knobkierie
• Club weapon - The Jutte/Jitte - Weapon of the feudal Japanese police
• Club weapon - In sports
• Club weapon - External references

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Club weapon, Club weapon - A simple weapon, Club weapon - Specialized clubs, Club weapon - Batons truncheons and nightsticks, Club weapon - Blackjack and similar, Club weapon - Shillelagh, Club weapon - Knobkierie, Club weapon - The Jutte/Jitte - Weapon of the feudal Japanese police, Club weapon - In sports, Club weapon - External references

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Clubs or club-like implements figure in a number of sports. The tools used in golf to hit the ball with are called golf clubs, although golf clubs are perhaps less traditionally club-like than baseball or cricket bats, both of which are still made of wood; a baseball bat is a round club traditionally made from ash tree wood; a cricket bat resembles a paddle and is traditionally made from willow wood. Few golf clubs are made of wood in current play. A much smaller wooden truncheon-like bat is used to strike the ball in pelota, a game similar to jai-alai. A shillelagh ...

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Club weapon, Club weapon - A simple weapon, Club weapon - Specialized clubs, Club weapon - Batons truncheons and nightsticks, Club weapon - Blackjack and similar, Club weapon - Shillelagh, Club weapon - Knobkierie, Club weapon - The Jutte/Jitte - Weapon of the feudal Japanese police, Club weapon - In sports, Club weapon - External references

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Blackjack, also known as twenty-one and pontoon in British English , is one of the most popular casino card games in the world. Its precursor was "vingt-et-un" which originated in French casinos around 1700, and which did not offer the 3:2 bonus for a two-card 21. When the game was first introduced in the United States, it wasn't very popular so gambling houses tried various bonus payouts to get the players to the tables. One such bonus was a 10-to-1 payout if the player's hand consisted of the Ace of Spades and a black ...

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• Blackjack - Rules
• Blackjack - Insurance
• Blackjack - Basic strategy
• Blackjack - Basic strategy tables
• Blackjack - Card counting
• Blackjack - Shuffle tracking
• Blackjack - Casino counter-measures
• Blackjack - Variants
• Blackjack - Other casino games with opportunities
• Blackjack - Online Blackjack Encyclopedia

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A weapon is a tool which can be used during combat to kill or incapacitate, to destroy property, or to otherwise render resources non-functional or unavailable. It may be used to attack and defend, and consequently also to threaten. The use of weapons has been recorded since the advent of cave painting, and the process has been formulated resulting in both martial arts and strategic doctrines. Metaphorically, anything used to damage (even psychologically) can be referred to as a weapon. A weapon can be as simple as a club or as ...

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• Weapon - History
• Weapon - Ancient Weapons
• Weapon - Combustion-powered weapons
• Weapon - Nuclear Weapons
• Weapon - Information Warfare
• Weapon - Types of weapons
• Weapon - Weapons by era

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In medicine, clubbing (or digital clubbing) is a deformity of the fingers and fingernails that is associated with a number of diseases, mostly of the heart and lungs. Idiopathic clubbing can also occur. Hippocrates was probably the first to document clubbing as a sign of disease, and the phenomenon is therefore occasionally called Hippocratic fingers. Clubbing - Signs and diagnosis. Clubbing develops in five steps:[1]Including:

• Clubbing - Signs and diagnosis
• Clubbing - Disease associations
• Clubbing - Isolated clubbing
• Clubbing - HPOA
• Clubbing - Primary HOA
• Clubbing - Pathophysiology

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A club is generally an association of people united by a common interest or goal, as opposed to any natural ties of kinship. Such clubs occur in all ancient states of which we have detailed knowledge. Once people started living together in larger groups, there was need for men with a common interest to be able to associate despite having no ties of kinship. The term club now has broader implications. The Service club, for example, exists for voluntary or charitable activities; there are clubs devoted to all sorts of hobb ...

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Club de Futbol América, also known as Club América or simply América, is a Mexican professional football club. América plays in the Primera División de México where it is the current champion. The team is one of the most popular football clubs in Mexico and also one of the most successful. Their main rivals are CD Guadalajara, also a widely supported club, and their meetings signal the national rivalry (similar to Boca Juniors-River Plate, Real Madrid-Barcelona or Celtic-Rangers). América and Chivas share the dist ...

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• Club América - Honours
• Club América - Amateur Era: 1901/02 - 1942/43
• Club América - Professional Era: 1943-44 - present
• Club América - History
• Club América - Foundation
• Club América - Amateur Era
• Club América - Professional Era
• Club América - Current Roster
• Club América - Sources

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A nuclear weapon is a weapon which derives its destructive force from the nuclear reactions of nuclear fission and/or fusion. As a result, even a nuclear weapon with a small yield is significantly more powerful than the largest conventional explosives, and a single weapon can be capable of destroying or seriously disabling an entire city. In the history of warfare, nuclear weapons have been used on two occasions, both during the closing days of World War II. The first event occurred on the morning of 6 August 1945, when the Uni ...

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• Nuclear weapon - Types of nuclear weapons
• Nuclear weapon - Effects of a nuclear explosion
• Nuclear weapon - Nuclear strategy
• Nuclear weapon - Weapons delivery
• Nuclear weapon - History
• Nuclear weapon - Media

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Winx Club is an animated television series produced by Italian animation group Rainbow S.r.l.. and features the fictional characters that use magic. Winx Club - Overview. In the first episode of the first season, Bloom, a red-headed teenager from the Earth city Gardenia, stumbles upon Stella, who is locked in combat with an ogre named Knut and several small ghouls. Knut and the ghouls are about to defeat and capture Stella when, frightened by the monsters, Bloom unwittingly lets off a magical ...

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• Winx Club - Overview
• Winx Club - Places Locations and Characters
• Winx Club - Schools
• Winx Club - Noted Planets
• Winx Club - Other Locations
• Winx Club - Minor characters
• Winx Club - Season Two Overview
• Winx Club - Added Places Locations and Characters
• Winx Club - The differences in the 4Kids and Italian language version
• Winx Club - Episode list
• Winx Club - Season one
• Winx Club - Season two
• Winx Club - Broadcasting
• Winx Club - Merchandising
• Winx Club - Edit and censorship controversy in United States

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The Type Directors Club (TDC) is an international organization for all people who are devoted to excellence in typography of all forms. Formed in 1946, its mission is to raise the standards of typography and related fields of the graphics arts. The organization stimulates research, education and serves as a source to disseminate information relating to the typographics arts. It promotes the tyographics arts by various means including; an annual typographic design competition; educational seminars and events; publications; and cooperation with other organizations having similar ...

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• Type Directors Club - Links

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Vis (Polish designation pistolet wz. 35 Vis, German designation 9 mm Pistole 35(p), sometimes also incorrectly referred to as Radom in English sources) is a 9 mm caliber, single action, semi-automatic pistol. Originally designed by Piotr Wilniewczyc and Jan Skrzypiński in 1930. In 1936 it was adopted as the standard handgun of the Polish Army. Considered by many to be one of the finest handguns ever produced ...

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• Vis weapon - History
• Vis weapon - External link

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White phosphorus is a common allotrope of the chemical element phosphorus which has found extensive military application as an incendiary agent [1], smoke-screening agent, and as an antipersonnel flame compound capable of causing serious burns[2]. It has been called a chemical weapon by many people and organizations, including the U.S. Department o ...

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• White phosphorus weapon - Applications
• White phosphorus weapon - Smoke-screening agent
• White phosphorus weapon - Effects on humans
• White phosphorus weapon - Effects of exposure to WP weapons
• White phosphorus weapon - Exposure and inhalation of smoke
• White phosphorus weapon - Oral ingestion
• White phosphorus weapon - Arms control status
• White phosphorus weapon - Military regulations
• White phosphorus weapon - History
• White phosphorus weapon - Disposal at sea
• White phosphorus weapon - Use in Iraq
• White phosphorus weapon - Notes

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An anti-submarine weapon is any weapon system designed for anti-submarine warfare (ASW), that is to attack and destroy enemy submarines and other underwater devices. Anti-submarine weapon - Development. World War I marked the first earnest conflict involving significant use of submarines and consequently marked the beginning of major efforts to counter that threat. In particular, Britain was desperate to defeat the German U-Boat threat against British merchant shipping. It began equipping its destroy ...

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• Anti-submarine weapon - Development
• Anti-submarine weapon - Post-war developments
• Anti-submarine weapon - Types
• Anti-submarine weapon - Depth charge
• Anti-submarine weapon - Anti-submarine mortar
• Anti-submarine weapon - Torpedo
• Anti-submarine weapon - Mine
• Anti-submarine weapon - Anti-submarine Rocket

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Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) generally include nuclear, biological, chemical and, increasingly, radiological weapons. The term first arose in 1937 in reference to the mass destruction of Guernica, Spain, by aerial bombardment. Following the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and progressing through the Cold War, the term came to refer more to non-conventional weapons. The terms ABC, NBC, and CBRN have been used synonymously with WMD, although nuclear weapons have the greatest capacity to cause mass destruction. The phrase entered popular usage in rel ...

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• Weapons of mass destruction - Historic use of the term WMD
• Weapons of mass destruction - Current definitions
• Weapons of mass destruction - Differences among WMD types
• Weapons of mass destruction - WMD use and control
• Weapons of mass destruction - Countries suspected of having Nuclear Weapons
• Weapons of mass destruction - National politics
• Weapons of mass destruction - Media coverage of WMD
• Weapons of mass destruction - Public perceptions of WMD
• Weapons of mass destruction - WMD in film music and humor

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Weapon Brown is the principal fictional character of a comic book by the same name, who was first introduced in the comic book anthology called Deep Fried and was created by Jason Yungbluth in 2002. The characters who appear are spoofs of the Peanuts gang. The Weapon Brown comic miniseries first appeared in Deep Fried, and is a parody of Charles Schulz's classic Peanuts characters. Weapon Brown - Plot summary. This details the basic story and concepts of Weapon Brownn as the titl ...

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• Weapon Brown - Plot summary
• Weapon Brown - Details on characters and the world of Weapon Brown
• Weapon Brown - Response
• Weapon Brown - Quotes

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Crew-served weapons are operated by a crew of soldiers. In most conflicts, they cause the majority of casualties. Crew served weapons fall into three basic classes: munitions delivery, intelligence, and command-and-control. Crew served weapon - Munitions delivery. The clearest example of a crew-served munitions delivery weapon is artillery. Artillery has unique advantages over most personal weapons. It can be resupplied on an industrial scale, sometimes by trains. It can throw huge tonnages of explo ...

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• Crew served weapon - Munitions delivery
• Crew served weapon - Surveillance
• Crew served weapon - Command and Control

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Anti-satellite weapons (ASATs) are weapons designed to be used against artificial satellites. The development and design of anti-satellite weapons has followed a number of paths. The initial efforts by the USA and the USSR were using air-launched missiles from the 1950s, from this beginning there were much more exotic proposals. Air-launched missiles were the first approach because the basic technology was well known. The US began tests of such a system in 1959 but initial results were very discouraging, the first test l ...

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Vehicle weapons are weapons designed to be mounted on a military vehicle. Other related archivesmilitary vehicle, weapons

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Personal weapon - War Hammer. A large hammer on a handle that may be two feet or more in length. See war hammer. Personal weapon - Club. A club is an asymmetrical stick of moderate length, swung from the light end, similar to a bat used in games. Easily formed from a tree branch this was probably one of the first weapons. May be relatively light for primary use as a walking stick. Also known by various ethnic names such as knobkerry or shillelagh. Personal weapon - Mace. See also:

Personal weapon, Personal weapon - Limited lethality weapons, Personal weapon - Edged Weapons, Personal weapon - Knife, Personal weapon - Sword, Personal weapon - Batting Weapons, Personal weapon - War Hammer, Personal weapon - Club, Personal weapon - Mace, Personal weapon - Chopping Weapons, Personal weapon - Hatchet, Personal weapon - Axe, Personal weapon - Halberd, Personal weapon - Penetrating Weapons, Personal weapon - Spear, Personal weapon - Pick, Personal weapon - Pike, Personal weapon - Bayonet, Personal weapon - Bow and Arrow, Personal weapon - Crossbow, Personal weapon - Handgun, Personal weapon - Long Guns, Personal weapon - Musket, Personal weapon - Early Long Rifle, Personal weapon - Breech Loader, Personal weapon - Carbine, Personal weapon - Long Rifle, Personal weapon - Assault rifle, Personal weapon - Submachine Gun, Personal weapon - Light Machine Gun, Personal weapon - Sniper Rifle, Personal weapon - Shotgun, Personal weapon - Grenade Launcher, Personal weapon - Hand Grenade, Personal weapon - Fragmentation type, Personal weapon - Concussion type, Personal weapon - Flash type, Personal weapon - Anti-materiel rifle, Personal weapon - Flame thrower, Personal weapon - Improvised weapons, Personal weapon - Anti-aircraft weapons, Personal weapon - Anti-structure weapons, Personal weapon - Satchel charges, Personal weapon - Antitank weapons, Personal weapon - Present Day, Personal weapon - Anti-tank weapons no longer in use

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