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unusual facts about Dagger


Dagger

Some units of the U.S. Marine Corps Raiders in the Pacific were issued a similar fighting dagger, the Marine Raider Stiletto.


A. innotata

Acronicta innotata, the unmarked dagger moth or birch dagger, a moth species found Northern America

Alejandra Dorado

In LASALASDELUCRECIA (an installation inspired on the legendary figure in the history of the Roman Republic. The title may mean Lucretia's Wings, or Lucrecia's Halls), she portrays the same image of herself in seven different modes of representation (oil painting, stencilling, embroidery, etc.) as Lucretia, holding a dagger against her naked chest.

Alexander Barkashov

While uninterested in his work, he was passionate about reading books about great conquerors of history (especially Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan), learning karate (even setting up his own club), and making weapons (bows and daggers) with his own hands.

Banknotes of Denmark, 2009 series

Features the Old Little Belt Bridge of 1935 and the Hindsgavl Dagger dating from 1900 to 1700 BC.

Besme

Besme, also called Behmef, real name apparently Charles Dianovitz, was a Bohemian in the pay of the Duke of Guise, is recorded as the assassin of Protestant leader Gaspard de Coligny in 1572, using either a dagger or a "big sword".

Bollock dagger

In England the bollock dagger was commonly carried by many Border Reivers, as a backup for the lance and the sword.

Dagger Complex

The Dagger Complex is a base of US intelligence organisations in Darmstadt (Germany), close to Griesheim.

Dagger Eyes

Dagger Eyes (released in Italy and France as Mystère; also known as Murder Near Perfect) is an Italian thriller film starring Carole Bouquet as Mystère.

Dagger Island

Dagger Island is part of Aransas Pass, Texas, but closer to central Ingleside, Texas.

Dark Undercoat

Cam Archer directed the music videos for "Wild Tigers I Have Known" (2006), "Dagger" (2007), and "Dark Undercoat" (2007).

David Hagberg

Like many "cloak-and-dagger" novelists, Hagberg has a professional background in espionage, having spent his stint of military duty as a cryptographer for U.S. Air Force Intelligence.

Gondolin

The dagger Sting was known to have special powers against giant spiders (distant offspring of Ungoliant) and could cut their webs with ease.

John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee

In The Dagger with Wings, one of the Father Brown short stories of G.K. Chesterton, a character tells Father Brown that Dundee sold his soul to the Devil.

Katiyar

Katiyar (Katiyar Hindi:कटियार Urdu: کاتیار ) is a Brij or Awadhi language word.Katiyar surname has origin from the word Katara or Sword.

Liometopum apiculatum

These ants also obtain nectar or pollen from bear grass and substances from the outside of the ovaries of the flowers of century plants (Agave scabra and Agave chisosensis) and Spanish dagger (Yucca spp.).

Lookout Cartridge

The narrator, Cartwright, had made with his friend Dagger a fairly pointless art film/documentary using loaned professional equipment, with scenes set in Stonehenge, Hyde Park, and other locations in England, plus one scene in Ajaccio, Corsica.

Louis Bayard

The book was nominated for an Edgar and a Dagger and was optioned for a film adaptation by writer-director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart).

Michael Robotham

Crime Writers' Association (UK), The CWA Gold Dagger, Best Crime Novel, 2013: shortlisted for Say You're Sorry

Crime Writers' Association (UK), The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, 2007: shortlisted for The Night Ferry

Crime Writers' Association (UK), The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, Best Thriller, 2008: shortlisted for Shatter

Music of Final Fantasy IX

"Melodies of Life" is the theme song of Final Fantasy IX, and consists primarily of two themes that were frequently used in the game itself, the Overworld theme (Crossing Those Hills), and a lullaby that is sung by Dagger.

Napier Dagger

The Dagger also found an application in the experimental Martin-Baker MB 2 fighter.

National Treasures of Japan

Located in the Sendai City Museum, the designated set of items consists of 47 objects: a Roman citizenship document dating from November 1615; a portrait of Pope Paul V; a portrait of Hasekura in prayer following his conversion in Madrid; 19 religious paintings; pictures of saints; ceremonial items such as rosaries; a cross and medals; 25 items of harnesses and clothing such as priests' garments; an Indonesian kris; and a Ceylonese dagger.

Operation Dagger

Operation Dagger took place in the southern Lake Tharthar region, in Al Anbar province and was conducted by the Regimental Combat Team-8, 2nd Marine Division.

Priscilla Bunbury's Virginal Book

#Put up thy dagger Jemmy (unattributed, but also found in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book by Giles Farnaby)

Roger Wolcott Hall

Roger Wolcott Hall (May 20, 1919, Baltimore, Maryland - 20 July 2008, Windsor Hills, DE; congestive heart failure) was an American Army officer and spy in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and the author of a humorous memoir of his experiences in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), entitled You’re Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger (1957).

Ryan David Jahn

He has released three other books, one of which, The Dispatcher, was long-listed for the Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.

Slowdive

"Golden Hair" is played during the opening credits of Mysterious Skin; "Dagger" and "Catch the Breeze" are also played in the film.

Snow knife

Among the Esquimaux in and around King William's Land I found snow-knives made of copper stripped from Sir John Franklin's ships, the imprints of the queen's broad arrow still showing on many, the blades double-edged or dagger-shape, and the handles of musk-ox and reindeer horn rudely attached by sinew lashings.

St Paul's Cross

The first sermon preached here after Catholic Queen Mary's accession (by Bishop Bourne) provoked a riot - a dagger was thrown at Bourne (but missed him, sticking in one of the side posts) and he had to be rushed to safety in St Paul's School.

Stranger in a Strange World

An alternate Joxer gives Iolaus a dagger, saying he is the only one the Sovereign trusts enough to be able to get close enough to kill him.

Suddenly Human

Fortunately, the dagger is deflected by Picard's sternum, and the resulting wounds are relatively minor.

Tenome

Pan's labyrinth (El laberinto del Fauno, "Faun's Labyrinth"): In the Spanish movie directed by Guillermo del Toro, the main character (Ofelia) is given a second task which consists in retrieving an ornate dagger from the dungeon of a character known as "the Pale man", which resembles the Tenome.

Touchardia latifolia

Olonā was used extensively in Hawaiian weaponry: as cordage on the wrist loop of pāhoa (daggers); for fastening shark teeth on the heads of leiomano; and as the cord in "tripping weapons", such as the pīkoi.

Urquía

The first: In a foil cross Gules (red), a band of gold (symbol of knighthood and cross from the right shoulder) pompous in dredger (2 dragons) Vert (green, is a symbol of strength) and accompanied on top of a silver arm with a silver dagger and a gold lining.

Wigstan

On 1st June AD 840, Beorhtfrith went to visit the young King in peace at Wistow (Leics) - or Wistanstow (Salop) - but, when the two greeted each other, he struck Wigstan on the head with the shaft of his dagger and his servant ran him through with his sword.


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