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Machaerodus ('sabre-toothed tiger') was a genus of now extinct mammals allied to the cats, having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength.
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The sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) is a large African antelope with long, sabre-like horns and in the male a black coat.
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The Scarce Hook-tip (Sabre harpagula) is a moth of the family Drepanidae with a wing span of between 25 and 35 mm found in central and northern Europe and across Asia in deciduous forests and forest-steppes. Tow generations fly from May to June and during August.
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Smilodon (Machaerodus neogaeus) also known as the Sabre-Toothed tiger was a prehistoric large cat, about the size of a modern tiger with tusks projecting some eighteen centimeters from its jaw.
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Aram Khachaturian was a Russian composer. He was born in 1903 and died in 1978. He composed Ballets, piano pieces, Sabre Dance.
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The Battle of Junin was an engagement of the Peruvian War of Independence, fought in the highlands near Lima on August the 6th 1824. The preceding February the royalists had regained control of Lima, and, having regrouped in Trujillo, Simon Bolivar in June led his rebel forces south to confront the Spanish. The two armies met on the plains of Junin, north-west of Jauja Valley. The battle was an hour-long, hand-to-hand cavalry clash with lance and sabre; no firearms were used. About 250 Spaniards and 150 patriots were killed. Although little more than a skirmish, the battle greatly enhanced the morale of the victorious patriots, and the chastised Spanish subsequently evacuated Lima.
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The sabre is a sword designed for cutting and thrusting, characterized by a more or less curved single-edged blade which is two-edged in its lower part. They were popular with dragoons.
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Sabre is a British tracked reconnaissance vehicle brought into service in 1995 using an Alvis Scorpion chassis and the 30mm turret from the Fox reconnaissance vehicle. It is almost identical to the Scimitar but has a lower profile turret. It is armed with a 30 mm Rarden canon and a 7.62 mm Hughes chain gun and carries a crew of three.
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A sword is an offensive weapon designed for cutting and, or, thrusting. A sword consists essentially of a long straight or curved blade - which may or may not be sharpened on one or both edges - with a handle or hilt and a cross-guard and often a sharp point.
A sword may be specialised as a thrusting weapon, such as the rapier, specialised as a hacking weapon such as the Indian talwar, or a general purpose weapon suitable both for hacking and thrusting, such as the sabre. Mounted soldiers typically preferred a sword suitable for hacking, while for close combat the duality of a general purpose sword was preferred by foot soldiers until the advent of armour which rendered the thrusting approach ineffective. For duelling the thrusting only rapier sword was preferred and is still used in the sport of fencing.
In mediaeval times swords were extremely expensive and rarely used in battle because of the brittleness of the blade. Rather they were carried as an adornment of status and wealth. Because mediaeval swords were so fragile and so expensive - costing the equivalent of several years salary for many ordinary people - their owners would use a battle axe in times of war rather than the sword. The Hollywood notion of mediaeval knights duelling with broadswords is a romantic myth, the reality would be more likely they were braining each other with maces or short handled axes. A mediaeval sword which did survive its owner would be handed down as a valuable family heirloom.
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The talwar or tulwar is a type of Oriental sword used in India by the Sikhs and Pathans and in Persia. The talwar is essentially a horseman's weapon, being a curved sabre well adapted for a sweeping, cutting stroke.
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