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Andrew "A.J." Befumo, [3] who is of Italian descent, previously worked as a professional wrestler for independent promotions around New Jersey, under the name "the American Powerchild Eric Justice", starting when he was in college and throughout the 1990s until 2005. [4] His son, Eric, was named after his wrestling persona and born in 2013. [5]
Armor of Achilles, created by Hephaestus and said to be impenetrable. (Greek mythology) Armor of Beowulf, a mail shirt made by Wayland the Smith. (Anglo-Saxon mythology) Armor of Örvar-Oddr, an impenetrable "silken mailcoat". (Norse mythology) Babr-e Bayan, a suit of armor that Rostam wore in wars described in the Persian epic Shahnameh. The ...
Illustration of Leonard in the Infernal Dictionary of Jacques Auguste Simon Collin of Plancy by Louis Le Breton, 6th edition, 1863. Leonard or Master Leonard is a demon or spirit in the Dictionnaire Infernal, grand-master of the nocturnal orgies of demons.
Konrad Seusenhofer (died 30 August 1517, in Innsbruck, Tirol) was a leading 16th-century Austrian armourer who worked for Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. [1] [2]In 1514 Maximilian I presented Henry VIII with a suit of armour which included the most unusual ‘Horned helmet’ or armet, later chosen as the symbol of the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. [3]
Ušumgallu or Ushumgallu [2] (Sumerian: 𒁔 𒃲 ušum.gal, "Great Dragon") [5] was one of the three horned snakes in Akkadian mythology, along with the Bašmu and Mušmaḫḫū. Usually described as a lion - dragon demon , [ 1 ] it has been somewhat speculatively identified with the four-legged, winged dragon of the late 3rd millennium BCE.
Although the number of plates required to make an entire helmet varies – anything from 40 to 140 can be required [3] – it has been estimated that forty to fifty boars would have to be killed to make just one helmet. [4]
The horned helmet of Henry VIII (more properly called the parade armet) is the surviving part of a full suit of armour made by Konrad Seusenhofer between 1511 and 1514. The armour was a gift from the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I to the English king Henry VIII , following their alliance in the War of the League of Cambrai .
Triceratops (/ t r aɪ ˈ s ɛr ə t ɒ p s / try-SERR-ə-tops; [1] lit. ' three-horned face ') is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period, about 68 to 66 million years ago in what is now western North America.