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Pickaxe. A pickaxe, pick-axe, or pick is a generally T-shaped hand tool used for prying. Its head is typically metal, attached perpendicularly to a longer handle, traditionally made of wood, occasionally metal, and increasingly fiberglass. A standard pickaxe, similar to a "pick mattock", has a pointed end on one side of its head and a broad ...
Early Roman Dolabra. The dolabra[ 1] is a versatile axe used by the people of Italy since ancient times. The dolabra could serve as a pickaxe used by miners and excavators, a priest's implement for ritual religious slaughtering of animals and as an entrenching tool ( mattock) used in Roman infantry tactics. In the 1st century CE, at the Siege ...
The labrys, or pelekys, is the double axe Zeus uses to invoke storm and, the relatively modern Greek word for lightning is "star-axe" (ἀστροπελέκι astropeleki) [17] The worship of the double axe was kept up in the Greek island of Tenedos and in several cities in the south-west of Asia Minor, and it appears in later historical times ...
Cities are bouncing back and offices are reopening, but workers would rather commute for hours on end on a train (or plane) than give up their newfound life on the outskirts.
The NBA's new media rights deal means a big shift in where people will be watching games starting in 2025, adding NBC and Amazon and moving away from TNT. ABC and ESPN will still broadcast games ...
Pickaxe Pete is a video game released in 1982 as cartridge number 43 for the Philips Videopac console. It was published in North America for the Magnavox Odyssey² as Pick Axe Pete!. In Brazil, it was re-branded as Didi na Mina Encantada ( Didi in the Enchanted Mine) for the Odyssey. [2] Pickaxe Pete is a platform game that followed in the wake ...
August 9, 2024 at 6:28 PM. WASHINGTON (AP) — An Osprey crash in Australia that killed three Marines last August was caused by multiple pilot errors during a near mid-air collision, a military ...
APPEND. Sets the path to be searched for data files or displays the current search path. The APPEND command is similar to the PATH command that tells DOS where to search for program files (files with a .COM, . EXE, or .BAT file name extension). The command is available in MS-DOS versions 3.2 and later.