FACTOID # 51: Russia won the first World Air Games, held in Turkey in 1997. Events included hang-gliding, sky-surfing, and ballooning.
 
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Centuries: 16th century BC - 15th century BC - 14th century BC


Decades: 1450s BC 1440s BC 1430s BC 1420s BC 1410s BC - 1400s BC - 1390s BC 1380s BC 1370s BC 1360s BC 1350s BC


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  • Palace of Minos destroyed by fire (1400 BC)
  • Several board games, including Alquerque, carved into the roof of the temple at Kurna, Egypt - see History of board games
  • Linear A reaches its peak of popularity
  • The height of the Canaanite town of Ugarit

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Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene, 2250-2150 BCE, Late Akkadian period, chert, height 1.1 inches (2.8 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
American, [two versions of the] Seal of the United States Department of State, which is based upon the Great Seal of the United States of America.
- An early, pre-Classical, transitional style of mid-fifth century BCE Greek statuary that is formal but not rigid in pose and emphasizes the principle of weight distribution; a liberation from the archaic limitation of frontal rigidity found in Egyptian portrait statues.
Crossbow - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article (1384 words)
Triggers are known to have been used on crossbows from the early 1400s.
In the later 1400s, steel manufacturing advanced significantly, and was more commonly used in spring production.
A crossbow prod was made out of spring steel,steel prods being very common by the early 1500s as their performance was more uniform, except in very cold weather.
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