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Iron Palm or Iron Hand, a body of training techniques in various Chinese martial arts; Operation Iron Hand, a US military operation conducted during the Vietnam War "Iron Hand", a song by Battle Beast from their album Steel "Iron Hand", a song by Grand Magus from their album The Hunt; The Iron Hand, the U.K. edition of The Iron Clew, a 1947 ...
Iron palm or iron hand (Chinese: 鐵沙掌, 鐵砂掌 or 鐵絲掌; pinyin: tiě shā zhǎng or tiě sī zhǎng; lit. 'hands hard as iron yet soft as silk') is a body of training techniques in various Chinese martial arts. It is one of the original 72 arts of the Shaolin temple. These conditioning techniques are typically meant to condition the ...
Operation Iron Hand was a joint United States Air Force (USAF) and United States Navy (USN) operation conducted from October 17, 1965 to 1973 during the Vietnam War.It was a type of Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) mission, primarily intended to suppress Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems in North Vietnam, although neutralizing radar-directed anti-aircraft artillery ...
Iron hand, 16th century Second iron hand of Götz von Berlichingen, c. 1530. Iron hands are metal prostheses for hands and upper extremities from the Middle Ages and early modern period. These designs combined cosmetic and functional properties. The most famous example of an iron hand was made around the year 1530, being the second prosthetic ...
The Claw of Archimedes (Ancient Greek: Ἁρπάγη, romanized: harpágē, lit. 'snatcher'; also known as the iron hand) was an ancient weapon devised by Archimedes to defend the seaward portion of Syracuse's city wall against amphibious assault.
Berlichingen left an autobiography in manuscript form (Rossacher Handschrift).The text was published in 1731 as Lebens-Beschreibung des Herrn Gözens von Berlichingen ("Biography of Sir Götz von Berlichingen"), and republished in 1843 as Ritterliche Thaten Götz von Berlichingen's mit der eisernen Hand ("Knightly Deeds of Götz von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand") (ed. M. A. Gessert).
Iron Hands may refer to: Iron Hands (Pokémon), a Pokémon species; Iron Hands (Warhammer 40,000), fictional characters in the game Warhammer 40,000; Iron Hands, a 2004 novel by Jonathan Green for Warhammer 40,000
"Iron Hand" is a song by the rock band Dire Straits released on their album On Every Street in 1991. The song also appeared on the compilation album Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin' in the same year of its release.