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  2. Weighted-knuckle glove - Wikipedia

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    Weighted-knuckle glove for the left hand, clearly displaying pouches on its back side containing powdered metal covering its knuckles. Weighted-knuckle gloves, also called sap gloves, are a type of handwear-concealed melee weapon used in hand-to-hand combat, consisting of a pair of ordinary-looking impact protection gloves usually made of leather or a synthetic material, with powdered lead or ...

  3. Berserker - Wikipedia

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    A small faction of mercenary fighters within the human cohort that is at the center of the series' action is known as The Berzerkers. [ 57 ] In the 2022 film The Northman, the main character Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård) is raised as part of a group of berserkers. A berserker ritual is also featured in the film.

  4. List of Berserk chapters - Wikipedia

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    001. "Sword Wind" (剣風, Kenpū) 002–005. "Nosferatu Zodd (1–4)" (不死の. 006. "Master of the Sword (1)" (剣の主 (1), Tsurugi no Aruji (1)) When Guts recovers days later, he is forced into joining the Band of the Hawk when Griffith defeats him in a duel and later learns of the Behelit pendant Griffith possesses.

  5. Mechanism (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The mechanical philosophy is a form of natural philosophy which compares the universe to a large-scale mechanism (i.e. a machine). The mechanical philosophy is associated with the scientific revolution of early modern Europe. One of the first expositions of universal mechanism is found in the opening passages of Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes ...

  6. Berserker (novel series) - Wikipedia

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    0-441-05495-1. The Berserker series is a series of space opera science fiction short stories and novels by Fred Saberhagen, in which robotic self-replicating machines strive to destroy all life. These Berserkers, named after the human berserker warriors of Norse legend, are doomsday weapons left over from an interstellar war between two races ...

  7. Berserk (2016 TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Berserk. (2016 TV series) Berserk (Japanese: ベルセルク, Hepburn: Beruseruku) is a 2016 anime television series based on Kentaro Miura 's manga series of the same name and an acting sequel to the Golden Age Arc film trilogy. This is the second television series adaptation of the manga after the 1997 anime of the same name, covering the ...

  8. Artes mechanicae - Wikipedia

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    Artes mechanicae. Artes mechanicae (mechanical arts) are a medieval concept of ordered practices or skills, often juxtaposed to the traditional seven liberal arts (artes liberales). Also called "servile" and "vulgar", [1] from antiquity they had been deemed "unbecoming" for a free man, as they minister to basic needs.

  9. Berserker hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The Berserker hypothesis, also known as the deadly probes scenario, is the idea that humans have not yet detected intelligent alien life in the universe because it has been systematically destroyed by a series of lethal Von Neumann probes. [1][2] The hypothesis is named after the Berserker series of novels (1963–2005) written by Fred Saberhagen.