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A Churchill VIII AVRE carrying a fascine on its front.
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A Churchill VIII AVRE carrying a fascine on its front.

A fascine (pronounced "fuh-SEEN") is a rough bundle of brushwood used for strengthening an earthen structure, or making a path across uneven or wet terrain. Such bundles were used in military defences for revetting (shoring up) trenches or ramparts, especially around artillery batteries, or filling in ditches. First World War tanks started the practice of carrying fascines on the roof, to be deployed to provide traction and support over rough ground and to fill trenches that would otherwise be an obstacle to the tank. Image File history File linksMetadata Churchill_VII_AVRE_With_Fascine. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Churchill_VII_AVRE_With_Fascine. ... General characteristics Length 24 ft 5 in, 7. ... Historically, artillery refers to any engine used for the discharge of projectiles during war. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Traction is applied mechanical force used to achieve motion. ...

A 1918 picture of British Mark V tanks carrying crib fascines
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A 1918 picture of British Mark V tanks carrying crib fascines

They can also be found outside a military context protecting the banks of streams from erosion, covering marshy ground and so on. Image File history File linksMetadata British_Mark_V_Tanks_With_Crib_Fascines_1918. ... Image File history File linksMetadata British_Mark_V_Tanks_With_Crib_Fascines_1918. ... A Mark I tank (moving left to right). ... Severe soil erosion in a wheat field near Washington State University, USA. Erosion is the displacement of solids (soil, mud, rock, and other particles) by the agents of wind, water, ice, movement in response to gravity, or living organisms (in the case of bioerosion). ...


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A statue of Cincinnatus resigning from dictatorship by returning the Roman fasces Fasces (the plural, almost a plurale tantum, of the Latin word fascis, bundle) symbolise summary power and jurisdiction. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... Species See text Ferula is the Ferula or Giant fennel genus of plants of the Apiaceae family, including: - Asafoetida - Giant fennel - Galbanum - Musk root - Ferula Categories: Apiaceae ...

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  • A paper on the use of fascines for draining inclines

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Fascination (Scatterbrain, Special Executive) (5464 words)
Fascination feeds empathically off strong emotions, and given comments made in Captain Britain#12 (when she was working with the Technet) that she would not join the Special Executive for another three hundred years, it seems likely she is also extremely long lived, if not actually immortal.
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Fascination isn't actually seen in any panel of The Daredevils #10, but since the entire chapter takes place in the space of a few minutes sandwiched between two other chapters of similar brevity in which she is visible, it's reasonable to assume she is somewhere just "off-screen" for the duration of it.
Kinoeye | French horror: Jean Rollin's Fascination (1979) (1796 words)
This feminine appropriation of the grim reaper (as Eva wields her scythe in the slaughter of the thieves who would interrupt the women's cult meeting) is one of the most iconic images from the film.
Thus Fascination enters the regions of soft-porn and exploitation cinema, while remaining imbued with horror conventions—here the men are always eager for sex and the women always willing to use this desire to lure men to their deaths.
So when considering Fascination's position on the boundary where the art of "elite" culture meets "trash" cinema[12], the exact position is rendered all the more problematic by the lack of recourse to the supernatural and the subsequent blurring of genre.
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