BelDion's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=BelDion2001-07-12T19:33:50ZAmera (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/BelDion/writeups/AmeraBelDionhttp://m.everything2.com/user/BelDion2001-07-12T19:33:50Z2001-07-12T19:33:50ZA kind of <a href="/title/spear">spear</a> <a href="/title/thrower">thrower</a> used by the <a href="/title/Arunia">Arunia</a>, <a href="/title/Luritja">Luritja</a>, <a href="/title/Urmatjera">Urmatjera</a> and <a href="/title/Kaitish">Kaitish</a> tribes of <a href="/title/Australia">Australia</a>. It consists of a broad <a href="/title/lanceolate">lanceolate</a> blade of <a href="/title/mulga">mulga</a> <a href="/title/wood">wood</a> (<a href="/title/Acacia+Aneura">Acacia Aneura</a>), <a href="/title/taper">taper</a>ing off at both ends. It is almost always decidedly <a href="/title/concave">concave</a>, but sometimes nearly <a href="/title/flat">flat</a>.
<br><br> At one <a href="/title/end">end</a> it has a small wooden <a href="/title/point">point</a> attached by means of a <a href="/title/lump">lump</a> of <a href="/title/resin">resin</a> firmly bound by <a href="/title/sinew">sinew</a>. At the opposite end there is a still larger <a href="/title/mass">mass</a> of the same material which not only makes a <a href="/title/handle">handle</a>, but holds a flake of flint which forms the most useful <a href="/title/cutting">cutting</a> implement of the tribes that use this form of <a href="/title/thrower">thrower</a>. <br><br>The broad <a href="/title/surface">surface</a> makes it <a href="/title/inefficient">inefficient</a> as a <a href="/title/thrower">thrower</a>, but, on the other hand it serves a <a href="/title/treble">treble</a> purpose. First as a thrower, second as a cutting <a href="/title/implement">implement</a>, and third as a <a href="/title/receptacle">receptacle</a> for certain things, such as <a href="/title/decorative">decorative</a> materials and <a href="/title/blood">blood</a>, and is often used during <a href="/title/ceremonies">ceremonies</a>.alamani (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/BelDion/writeups/alamaniBelDionhttp://m.everything2.com/user/BelDion2001-07-12T15:56:18Z2001-07-12T15:56:18ZAn <a href="/title/Indian">Indian</a> <a href="/title/sabre">sabre</a> like the old <a href="/title/German">German</a> <a href="/title/hussar">hussar</a> <a href="/title/sword">sword</a>. <br><br>This type of sword was probably used by <a href="/title/Hyder">Hyder</a>'s <a href="/title/German">German</a> <a href="/title/cavalry">cavalry</a> in the 17th <a href="/title/century">century</a>.Akagane-Gasa (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/BelDion/writeups/Akagane-GasaBelDionhttp://m.everything2.com/user/BelDion2001-07-12T15:14:01Z2001-07-12T15:14:01ZA <a href="/title/hat">hat</a>-shaped <a href="/title/copper">copper</a> <a href="/title/helmet">helmet</a> worn by the lower classes of <a href="/title/Japanese">Japanese</a> <a href="/title/retainer">retainer</a>s. Like the "tin hat" of the late war it was often used as a <a href="/title/cooking+pot">cooking pot</a>.
<br><br>There is said to have been a <a href="/title/special">special</a> kind worn in the <a href="/title/eastern">eastern</a> <a href="/title/province">province</a>s which had a <a href="/title/loose">loose</a> piece on the <a href="/title/crown">crown</a> that revolved when <a href="/title/struck">struck</a> by a <a href="/title/weapon">weapon</a> or <a href="/title/missile">missile</a>.
Ailetes (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/BelDion/writeups/AiletesBelDionhttp://m.everything2.com/user/BelDion2001-07-12T14:59:07Z2001-07-12T14:59:07Z<a href="/title/Square">Square</a>, <a href="/title/round">round</a>, <a href="/title/pentagonal">pentagonal</a>, <a href="/title/shield">shield</a> or <a href="/title/cross">cross</a>-shaped <a href="/title/guard">guard</a>s <a href="/title/worn">worn</a> on the <a href="/title/shoulder">shoulder</a>s from the latter part of the 13th to the middle of the l4th <a href="/title/century">century</a>. <br><br>They were held in place by <a href="/title/laces">laces</a> and were usually <a href="/title/decorated">decorated</a>, <a href="/title/frequently">frequently</a> with the <a href="/title/coat+of+arms">coat of arms</a> of the <a href="/title/wearer">wearer</a>. No <a href="/title/example">example</a> of this <a href="/title/defense">defense</a> is known to be in <a href="/title/existence">existence</a>.Aikuchi (thing)http://m.everything2.com/user/BelDion/writeups/AikuchiBelDionhttp://m.everything2.com/user/BelDion2001-07-12T14:32:53Z2001-07-12T14:32:53ZA <a href="/title/dagger">dagger</a> without a <a href="/title/guard">guard</a>, originating in <a href="/title/Japan">Japan</a>. Also called a <a href="/title/kusungou">kusungou</a>, refering to the length of the <a href="/title/blade">blade</a> which was <a href="/title/originaIly">originaIly</a>—<a href="/title/Ku">Ku</a> (nine) <a href="/title/sun">sun</a>, <a href="/title/go">go</a> (five) <a href="/title/bu">bu</a>, 0-95 of a Japanese <a href="/title/foot">foot</a>, equal to about 10.8 <a href="/title/English">English</a> <a href="/title/inches">inches</a>. Apparently this type of <a href="/title/knife">knife</a> was not carried by persons of <a href="/title/rank">rank</a> until the later <a href="/title/Tokugawa">Tokugawa</a>n times; where it then became <a href="/title/popular">popular</a> and was used by <a href="/title/old+men">old men</a>, men living in semi-<a href="/title/religious">religious</a> <a href="/title/retirement">retirement</a>, and by those <a href="/title/rewarded">rewarded</a> with titles.
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In the early pat of the Tokugawan period, the end of the <a href="/title/scabbard">scabbard</a> was usually protected by a <a href="/title/ring">ring</a> of <a href="/title/buffalo+horn">buffalo horn</a> which had a <a href="/title/shoulder">shoulder</a> on it that locked into a similar <a href="/title/ring">ring</a> on the hilt. Later, when this kind of knife became more <a href="/title/popular">popular</a> with the <a href="/title/higher">higher</a> <a href="/title/classes">classes</a>, these pieces were often made of <a href="/title/metal">metal</a> decorated like the other fittings. The <a href="/title/decoration">decoration</a> was <a href="/title/partly">partly</a> on each so that the two appeared as one when the <a href="/title/knife">knife</a> was <a href="/title/sheathed">sheathed</a>. The ring on the <a href="/title/hilt">hilt</a> was sometimes called the <a href="/title/fuchi">fuchi</a>, and the…Sliders (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/BelDion/writeups/SlidersBelDionhttp://m.everything2.com/user/BelDion2001-06-02T00:35:37Z2001-06-02T00:35:37ZThe <a href="/title/premise">premise</a> behind <a href="/title/Sliders">Sliders</a> started off quite well: <a href="/title/four">four</a> people are transported and stranded in a <a href="/title/parallel+dimension">parallel dimension</a>. Led by <a href="/title/Quinn+Mallory">Quinn Mallory</a>, a <a href="/title/grad">grad</a> <a href="/title/student">student</a> who <a href="/title/accidentally">accidentally</a> creates the <a href="/title/gateway">gateway</a> to a <a href="/title/parallel+Earth">parallel Earth</a> while working on an <a href="/title/experiment">experiment</a> in his <a href="/title/basement">basement</a>. The <a href="/title/gateway">gateway</a> opens and sends him along with <a href="/title/Wade+Wells">Wade Wells</a>, his <a href="/title/best+friend">best friend</a> & <a href="/title/computer+techie">computer techie</a>, <a href="/title/Maximillion+Arturo">Maximillian "The Professor" Arturo</a> his <a href="/title/brilliant">brilliant</a> and <a href="/title/arrogant">arrogant</a> <a href="/title/physics">physics</a> <a href="/title/professor">professor</a>, and <a href="/title/Rembrandt+Brown">Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown</a>, an <a href="/title/R%2526B">R&B</a> singer who happened to be driving by, to a parallel dimension.
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Throughout the first two <a href="/title/season">season</a>s and half of the third, we see the four sliders turn into a tightly <a href="/title/knit">knit</a> team of <a href="/title/friend">friend</a>s who's purpose is to return <a href="/title/home">home</a> <a href="/title/safely">safely</a>. Along the way we travel to alternate Earths where history has turned out different; <a href="/title/British">British</a> ruled <a href="/title/America">America</a>, a world where <a href="/title/woman">woman</a> hold the positions <a href="/title/power">power</a>, a world where <a href="/title/gangster">gangster</a>s are in control, and so forth. The…