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  Fascine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Churchill VIII AVRE carrying a fascine on its front.
Fascines can be found outside a military context, protecting the banks of streams from erosion, covering marshy ground and so on.
A paper on the use of fascines for draining inclines
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fascine   (208 words)

  
 Fascination Cruise
Fascinating AïDa Fascinating Aïda are a cult British satirical musical comedy cabaret trio founded in 1983 by Dillie Keane.
It originally appeared on the Human League's 1982 album ''Fascination!'' and was released as a single in 1983.
The fascine knife was a sidearm issued to 19th century light infantry and artillery.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/60/fascination-cruise.html   (359 words)

  
 FRANCE ARTILLERIE
This parapet was made of earth and bundles of wood called in French "fascine", the workers took the earth in the front of the battery making there a small ditch and they made alternately a coat of fagots and a coat of earth.
The pioneers laid down the bundles of wood according to their length in the width of the parapet, they fixed them with stakes, likewise they put fagots in cuff, that was to tell laid down according to their length along all sides of the parapet equally fixed with stakes.
Meanwhile the two bombardiers placed at the rear were going to get the shell with a stretcher or a stake with a hook to hang it by its "ears", they put down the shell into the bore of the mortar, placing it straightest that it was possible, the fuse up.
vial.jean.free.fr /new_npi/revues_npi/1_1998/npi_198/1_bart_mort3.htm   (904 words)

  
 fascine - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about fascine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Bundle of wood, used to help tanks cross trenches in World War I. The bundle was tightly wrapped on top of the tank and on arrival at a trench too wide to be crossed unaided, the fascine was released to fall into the trench.
Where trenches were very wide or deep, several tanks would drop fascines and then all would cross at the same spot.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /fascine   (134 words)

  
 Knife - All About All findings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Knife in the Water may refer to: Knife in the Water, the film directed by Roman Polanski Knife in the Water, a band from Austin, Texas This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
Knife throwing is an art, or variously an entertainment technique, involving an artist skilled in the art of throwing knives, the weapon (s) s/he is throwing, and a target.
Ballistic knife is a knife with a detachable blade that can be expelled from the handle/frame as a projectile commonly propelled by a spring-operated mechanism.
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 Baselard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For this reason, there never emerged a definite standard form, and variations in hilt and blade design remain the rule until the weapon's decline in the 17th century.
The Baselard type of secondary weapon evolved into the 19th century fascine knife used issued to artillerists.
In Nazi Germany, the hilt design of some ordnance daggers were modelled on the Swiss dagger (worn by members of SS, SA, and NSKK formations).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baselard   (273 words)

  
 Making Field Fortifications - A Fascine Battery.
Experience taught that about 13 fascines will fit in the rear of a Dodge Caravan, minus rear seats, but even a single fascine strapped to the top of a vehicle with bungee cord is a big assist.
Making fascines is by far easiest in the early spring, while the leaves are off, and spring trimming is in session, allowing others to do the initial tree felling and branch removal.
The fascines were installed by following the natural "angle of repose" (a fancy term for the angle at which the particular sort of dirt on your site stops sliding downhill).
www.nwta.com /couriers/8-97/fieldfort.html   (1629 words)

  
 Avalon Forge-Tools
LAGIOULE KNIFE – This is an inexpensive copy of a traditional knife from the south of France.
Although this specific knife cannot be documented to the 18th century, the blade style can be found in many archeological digs with French provenances.
FASCINE KNIFE - Also known as a bill or bill hook.
mywebpages.comcast.net /avalonforge/MainTools.htm   (974 words)

  
 Huge horn-handled machete - vikingsword.com forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This is nowhere near the pattern of a "fascine knife".
Fascines are small trees and brush woven together to make baskets which are then filled with earth for field entrenchments to protect cannons from counter battery fire.
The fascine knife is simply a version of the good European pattern bill hook or crofter's knife used to trim up hedgerows and fence rows.
www.vikingsword.com /ubb/Forum1/HTML/000652.html   (468 words)

  
 triangular knife belt buckle - 3rd belt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
items worn on the belt were a utility knife and a pouch of soft...
With some soaking in WD40, and gentle scraping with a pallet knife at an angle, most of the freckles...
Conversion Unknown 1992 1 Knife - Commemorative Rossi, Ed 22...
belt.piroggoc.info /dir21/triangular-knife-belt-buckle.html   (421 words)

  
 german knife information resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
German Hunting Knife one step closer linkin park It was clear that if he did not forthwith produce signs of his efficiency as a promoter of the peace that welfare would be imperilled.
German Hunting Knife hard drive cooler It was a herd of buffaloes, which galloped with the noise of wagons heavily laden.
German Hunting Knife stihl cut off saw Then, with the help of one of his pages, James V had escaped from Falkland, and had reached Stirling, whose governor was in his interests.
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 Knife World Index - 1988
Regular readers of KNIFE WORLD know that each monthly issue contains a wide variety of articles on subjects of interest to knife collectors, makers, and users.
Military knife articles from this period may be found in Military Knives: A Reference Book.
KNIFE WORLD® is a registered trademark of Knife World Publications.
www.knifeworld.com /index1988.html   (250 words)

  
 Guards weapons - Missiles and Blades
In the First Foot Guards, the axe was carried by the Pioneers, and was used for chopping wood and preparing rough wooden defenses, but it could be pressed into service as a weapon.
In the First Foot Guards, the Fascine Knife was carried by the Light Infantry.
Much larger than what we might consider a knife, it was a long broad single edged blade with a recurved point, and was a general purpose tool and weapon, taking its name from the bundles of small branches, or fascines that were used in temporary defense lines.
footguards.tripod.com /01ABOUT/01_weapons/01_missilesBlades.htm   (1701 words)

  
 Naga Daos
The lower dao is of the later or "modern" Konyak form which persisted in use well into the 20th century.
The general purpose dao of the Naga of northeastern India usually tends to be a broad, moderately thick to thin bladed axe-like implement something like a fascine knife, used not only in war but as the Naga's primary tool.
The "modern" dao usually has a roughly triangular blade, widening along a convex curve toward the end where it reaches its maximum and where the far end is relatively square cut, that is, without a point.
www.vikingsword.com /ethsword/nagadao/nagadao.html   (602 words)

  
 41st Regiment of Foot pioneer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The 41st Pioneer here is wearing a brown leather one, although some regiments wore white buff.
Around his waist he carries a ‘fascine’ knife.
The ‘fascine’ was a long piece of cut wood used for engineering purposes such as the lining of trenches or the forming of palisades.
www.fortyfirst.org /uniformpage/pioneer.htm   (214 words)

  
 Pair of Dug CSA Fortification Tools   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
These are 2 tools that were found just after the fall of Petersburg in the Confederate forts which guarded the city.
One is an axe and one is a fascine knife.
They have old tags on them identifying where they came from.
www.antiques-internet.com /colorado/homesteadantiques/dynapage/IP37.htm   (58 words)

  
 TherionArms - Fascine knife   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Massive fascine knife of the style popular in the mid 1800's in Europe and in the American Civil War.
Heavy laminated steel blade is from an antique English brush hook, re-worked into a fascine knife sidearm by Montana weaponsmith Tom Hyle.
Blade is 1/4" thick at the spine, and has amazing chopping power.
therionarms.com /antiques/com297.html   (53 words)

  
 A Concentration in Blacksmithing - Hampshire College - Amherst, MA
Ben transferred to Hampshire and initially pursued the study of digital imaging and digital special effects.
Later on, Ben decided to combine interests in 3-D imaging and history by making a fascine knife for his Division II project and writing a research paper on its history.
The fascine knife, an 18th century tool designed to cut brush and saplings for the creation of barricades, had long fascinated Ben.
www.hampshire.edu /cms/index.php?id=3625   (1291 words)

  
 Event at Principio
The site lends itself to the construction of wigwams, brush huts and entrenched picket posts and those so inclined are welcome to have at it.
Bring your ax, fascine knife and entrenching tools!
Since we are portraying a picket post only wedge tents are appropriate and we ask that wall tents and marquees be left at home.
www.replications.com /principio/event.htm   (826 words)

  
 Amazon.com: German Armies 1870-71 (1) : Prussia (Men-at-Arms): Books: Michael Solka,Darko Pavlovic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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THE THIRD QUARTER of the 19th century saw the Kingdom of Prussia, under the guidance of the statesman Otto von Bismarck, steadily achieving predominance over the kingdoms and duchies which then made up what is now Germany.
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 Catalog
Fine quality hunting knife w/ sheath marked W.K. Box lot of 8 cotton bale hooks and 2 Fish gaffs
Lot of 2-Early cake knife/ Armor breaking device
Large combat knife by Wells Creek Knife and Gun Co.
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 Live Auctioneers - 157: Revolutionary War Fascine Knife   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Live Auctioneers - 157: Revolutionary War Fascine Knife
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Wood is split down the middle but still firmly attached to metal blade.
www.liveauctioneers.com /s/lot-523300.html   (55 words)

  
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