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A quarterstaff (plural quarterstaffs or quarterstaves), also short staff or simply staff is a traditional European polearm, which was especially prominent in England during the Early Modern period. The term is generally accepted to refer to a shaft of hardwood from 6 to 9 feet (1.8 to 2.7 m) long, sometimes with a metal tip, ferrule , or spike ...
For some speakers of African American Vernacular English, the consonant cluster /str/ is pronounced as /skr/. For example, the word street may be pronounced as /skrit/. [52] The form has been found to occur in Gullah and in the speech of some young African Americans born in the Southern United States. It is reported to be a highly stigmatized ...
The hanbō (半棒, "half-staff") is a staff used in martial arts. [1] Traditionally, the hanbō was approximately three shaku or about 90 centimetres (35 in) long, [1] half the length of the usual staff, the rokushakubō ("six shaku staff").
The Factors That Impact VO2 Max. Your cardio fitness level isn't the only thing that plays a role. There are actually a number of internal and external factors that can have a major impact on your ...
Empty-Calorie Foods and Drinks: The Bottom Line. Unfortunately, empty calories are everywhere in the food system, and consuming a lot of them can work against your health goals.
This is a list of all full international footballers to play for Reading. Players who were capped while a Reading player are marked in bold. International representatives
Move over, Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity ...
Joachim Meyer (ca. 1537–1571) was a self-described Freifechter (literally, Free Fencer) living in the then Free Imperial City of Strasbourg in the 16th century and the author of a fechtbuch Gründtliche Beschreibung der Kunst des Fechtens (in English, Thorough Descriptions of the Art of Fencing) first published in 1570.