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Warframe is a free-to-play action role-playing third-person shooter multiplayer online game developed and published by Digital Extremes.First released for Windows personal computers in March 2013, it was later ported to PlayStation 4 in November 2013, Xbox One in September 2014, Nintendo Switch in November 2018, PlayStation 5 in November 2020, Xbox Series X/S in April 2021 and iOS in February ...
Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with the intent to kill, harm or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war. [ 1] Biological weapons (often termed "bio-weapons", "biological threat agents", or "bio-agents") are living ...
The earliest documented incident of the intention to use biological weapons is possibly recorded in Hittite texts of 1500–1200 BC, in which victims of tularemia were driven into enemy lands, causing an epidemic. [ 1] Although the Assyrians knew of ergot, a parasitic fungus of rye which produces ergotism when ingested, there is no evidence ...
Antique Japanese ( samurai) Edo period gunsen war fan, made of iron, bamboo and lacquer depicting the sun (1800–1850) on display at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, California. The Japanese war fan, or tessen ( Japanese: 鉄扇,てっせん, romanized : tessen, lit. '"iron fan"'), is a Japanese hand fan used as a weapon or for signalling.
Bō. A traditional rokushakubō is 1.82m (6 shaku) and wielded with both hands, due to its weight and size. A bō (棒), pong (Korean), pang (Cantonese), bang (Mandarin), [1] [2] or kun (Okinawan) is a staff weapon used in Okinawa. Bō are typically around 1.8 m (71 in) long and used in Okinawan martial arts, while being adopted into Japanese ...
A 19th-century drawing of Sun Wukong featuring his staff. Ruyi Jingu Bang (Chinese: 如意金箍棒; pinyin: Rúyì Jīngū Bàng; Wade–Giles: Ju 2-yi 4 Chin 1-ku 1-pang 4), or simply Ruyi Bang or Jingu Bang, is the poetic name of a magical staff wielded by the immortal monkey Sun Wukong in the 16th-century classic Chinese novel Journey to the West.
Tonfa. A pair of tonfa with a rounded body throughout. The tonfa ( Okinawan: トンファー tonfā, Chinese: 柺; pinyin: guǎi lit. old man's staff / "crutch", also spelled as tongfa or tuifa, also known as T-baton[ 1]) is a melee weapon with its origins in the armed component of Okinawan martial arts where it is known as the tunkua. It ...
A kunai ( 苦無, kunai) is a Japanese tool thought to be originally derived from the masonry trowel. [ 1] The two widely recognized kinds are the short kunai (小苦無 shō- kunai) and the big kunai (大苦無 dai-kunai ). Although a basic tool, the kunai, in the hands of a martial arts expert, could be used as a multi-functional weapon.