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  2. New World (video game) - Wikipedia

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    New World is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Amazon Games Orange County and published by Amazon Games released on September 28, 2021. [2] [3] [4] The game was previously scheduled to release in May 2020 and subsequently August 2021, but was delayed until its worldwide release on September 28, 2021.

  3. Cable-backed bow - Wikipedia

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    The cable backed bow, showing the bow (a) bearing the tensioned cable (b) along the face of it, attached by bindings (c). Finally, the bow strung with the main string (d). Several Inuit cable-backed bows. The shapes of the top four are an interesting mix of deflex, reflex, and decurve. A cable-backed bow is a bow reinforced with a cable on the ...

  4. List of mythological objects - Wikipedia

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    Houyi's bow, the God of Archery used his bow to shoot down nine out of ten sun-birds from the sky. (Chinese mythology) Conquest's bow, the first of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse rides on a White Horse is Conquest, and he who sat on it had a bow. (Christian mythology) Ofas, bows and arrows used by the divine odés (hunters). (Yoruba mythology)

  5. Composite bow - Wikipedia

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    This is the Ottoman development of the composite bow, presumably brought from the steppes. Turkish bows evolved, after the decline of military archery, into probably the best traditional flight bows. Their decoration often included delicate and beautiful multicoloured designs with gold. [1] [32]

  6. Bow and arrow - Wikipedia

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    Drawing a bow, from a 1908 archery manual. A bow consists of a semi-rigid but elastic arc with a high-tensile bowstring joining the ends of the two limbs of the bow.An arrow is a projectile with a pointed tip and a long shaft with stabilizer fins towards the back, with a narrow notch at the very end to contact the bowstring.

  7. Bow shape - Wikipedia

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    A decurve bow is a bow that has arms curved or curled at the ends to turn towards the archer. This bow form reduces the strain on the bow when it is used, and the bow may be under no tension at all when strung, so that it can be kept ready for immediate use at all times. It also reduces the energy stored in the bow, and the speed of the arrow.

  8. Glossary of archery terms - Wikipedia

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    bow press (equipment) – A mechanical press which flexes the limbs of a compound bow, taking tension off the string and cable(s) to allow bow maintenance. bow square (equipment) – A specialized T-square with measuring marks that clips onto the bow string, used to set nocking points for all bows and setting the brace height of recurve bows.

  9. Yumi - Wikipedia

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    A yumi bow was used by Murakami Gennosuke, a rhino bounty hunter in the 2003 episode "The Real World, Part 1". Power Rangers Samurai features the Blue Ranger Kevin Douglas using the Hydro Bow, which is based on a yumi bow. Yumi bows were used by samurai in Deadliest Warrior and The Last Samurai.