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unusual facts about Bow and arrow



Primeval Hunt

Though the game uses two light guns styled after pump-action shotguns, the player may choose from three weapons in-game: a Bow, Shotgun or Rifle (However, each player is also given a Rocket Launcher with one rocket in it for every level that is capable of killing any one Dinosaur with a single shot).


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Archer School for Girls

The school derives its name from the Greek goddess Artemis, called Diana in later Roman myth, classically depicted taking aim with her bow and arrow, guided by the moon.

Artemis Chasma

It is named after the Greek virgin goddess of the hunt and the moon, the hills, the forest,birth, virginity, fertility, and known to carry a bow and arrow, Artemis.

Game preservation

Until hand-held guns were invented, sport hunting was largely for the deer or wild boar (by hounds or bow-and-arrow, but Ælfric of Eynsham's Colloquium written in Anglo-Saxon times speaks of the usual way to catch deer being to drive them into a net), or hare (by a fast dog); the Colloquium mentions two stags and a wild boar as a typical day's catch.

Gilbert Whitehand

In the 1840 story by Pierce Egan the Younger (translated into French, divided into two parts and resumed by Alexandre Dumas, published posthumously in 1872) Gilbert and his wife Margaret are Robin's foster parents (his real father according to the Egan/Dumas storyline was the Earl of Huntingdon), and Gilbert taught Robin how to use the bow and arrow.

Omishi Magical Theater: Risky Safety

She can summon a bow and arrow which acts like Cupid's arrow, causing anyone to fall in love with the first person they see.

Slingshot 6 7/8

A shooting contest (carrying a $1,000 prize) in a Western frontier town narrows itself down to two pretty sharp-eyed finalists: Indian Buzz Buzzard and his bow and arrow, and tenderfoot Woody Woodpecker.

Swayamvara

For Drāupadī (द्रौपदी), the daughter of King Drupada of Paanchal in the Mahābhārata (महाभारत), aspirants had to hit a fish's eye with a bow and arrow.