The local Kodava people, believed to be descendants of Alexander the Great's Indo-Greek soldiers who mingled with the natives, have a distinct warrior-like upbringing: instead of praying with the fires and chants common among Hindus, Kodava rituals have strong war-like elements, including the symbolic use of a sword to chop banana stems during weddings.
Clergy who are knighted are not dubbed, as the use of a sword is not considered appropriate to their calling.
According to a chronicle account, the use of a blunt sword was ordered, and the executioner needed 22 strokes to sever the earl's head from his body.
This striking delay in tumor progression can be attributed to our use of a "double-edged sword" to target tumor cells (doxorubicin) and endothelial cells (GU81).
Some of the site's readers have taken its missives in deadly earnest, including Dylann Roof, who fatally shot nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; James Harris Jackson, who is accused of using a sword to murder a black man in New York City, last spring; and William Atchison, who killed two high-school students in New Mexico, a month ago.
It was originally used as a sword of justice (gladius iustitiae), or insignia of the sovereign's judicial power, by one of the many local dukes during Poland's Age of Fragmentation.
In response, in 1700, it was said, the Mughal emperor sent the Mysore Raja a signet ring "bearing the title Jug Deo Raj (literally, "lord and king of the world") and permission to sit on an ivory throne" and a " Firangi " Sword from his Palace Regalia, with Gold Etching on the Hilt, to be used as a Sword of State by the Mysore Raja, while sitting on the throne.
Yet for all the lore, romance, etiquette and dexterity surrounding the use of the sword, violence is what it is really about.
The Lutheran princes then formed the Schmalkaldic League to resist arms with arms, but Luther was loath to condone any use of the sword in defense of the Gospel and absolutely forbade any recourse to violence on the part of a private citizen against the magistrates.
Dally is inclined to the view that Libyan infantry would have copied the Iberian use of the sword during their fighting there and so were armed similarly to the Romans.
In an attempt to stop them, one of Jesus' disciples uses a sword to cut off the ear of a man in the crowd.
