Shield

A shield is a type of personal armor, meant to intercept attacks, either by stopping projectiles such as arrows or redirecting a hit from a sword, mace, battle axe or similar weapon to the side of the shield-bearer.

Shields vary greatly in size, ranging from large panels that protect the user's whole body to small models (such as the buckler) that were intended for hand-to-hand-combat use. Shields also vary a great deal in thickness; whereas some shields were made of relatively deep, absorbent, wooden planking to protect soldiers from the impact of spears and crossbow bolts, others were thinner and lighter and designed mainly for deflecting blade strikes.

In prehistory and during the era of the earliest civilizations, shields were made of wood, animal hide, woven reeds or wicker. In classical antiquity, the Migration Period and the Middle Ages, they were normally constructed of poplar tree, lime or another split-resistant timber, covered in some instances with a material such as leather or rawhide and often reinforced with a metal boss, rim or banding. They were carried by foot soldiers, knights and cavalry.

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List of concepts in Artemis Fowl

This is a list of fictional concepts in Artemis Fowl, a novel series by Eoin Colfer.

Fairy concepts

Bio-bomb

A high-tech, fairy-manufactured guided missile, also known as a "bio-bomb" or a "blue-rinse" because of its blue colour. Once detonated, it employs the radioactive energy source Solinium 2 (an element not yet discovered by humans), destroying all living tissue in the area while leaving landscape and buildings untouched. It was used on Fowl Manor in Artemis Fowl, and, later, in Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, Opal Koboi manufactures a larger missile-guided bio-bomb and a compact bio-bomb with a plasma screen that can only be blocked by the rigid polymer of a LEP helmet.

Book of the People

The Book of the People is the Fairy bible, known by the fairies themselves simply as the Book. It is written in Gnommish, the fairy language. As it contains the history of the People and their life teachings, Artemis Fowl manages to secure a copy from an alcoholic fairy in Ho Chi Minh City and use it to kidnap Holly Short, and to decode Gnommish. The first few lines are included in the first book.

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Shield (surname)

Shield is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:

  • George Shield (1876–1935), British Labour Party politician
  • Hugh Shield (1831–1903), English academic, barrister and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1885
  • Ian Shield (1914–2005), English cricketer
  • Jeff Shield (1953–2009), Australian professional rugby league player
  • Joe Shield, former quarterback in the National Football League
  • Leroy Shield (1893–1962), American film score and radio composer
  • Little Shield (died 1879), chieftain of the Northern Cheyenne from 1865–1879
  • Mark Shield (born 1973), former Australian Football referee
  • Pretty Shield (1856–1944), medicine woman of the Crow Nation
  • William Shield (1748–1829), English composer, violinist and violist

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    Like she's screaming in pain we're smiling proud when we
    gain the convenience of the
    resource waste. Spoiled,boiled,in profusions oil, on a
    trip from the luxury joint
    we've lost the reverence that we once had for her.
    Suck,suck,suck the blood,we're
    all vampires stealing from our mother.Exploting her body
    the next day we ignore.
    Mother Earth is forced to be our whore.With our tasteful
    tortureways we'll plague
    her until the very end of days.So is it true that noone
    really cares? Is it true?




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