Rachel Nichols

When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.

American Actress

Norman Reedus

I don't have a mullet, but going into season one on 'The Walking Dead,' I asked to have a mullet, and everybody talked me out of it. Because I'd have to wear a mullet when we were not shooting every day. I have that motorcycle, wings on my vest, the crossbow... Maybe a mullet would've thrown me over the edge.

American Actor

David Sheff

It's hard to find someone who did as many drugs for as long and in such dangerous combinations as Nic - spending years going to Oakland and finding abandoned warehouses, getting beaten up, getting threatened by a guy with a crossbow. By all accounts, he shouldn't have made it, but he did.

American Author

Neal Asher

Gemmell's name guarantees a satisfying story and a thumping good read. I recommend all his heroic creations - 'Druss the axeman,' 'the Jerusalem man,' among others - but my favourite has to be 'Waylander': Clint Eastwood with a crossbow and the same 'Make my day, punk' attitude.

English Writer

What woman doesn't want to go out there and kick some butt? I did it with a sword in 'Conan,' I did it with a crossbow in 'G.I. Joe,' and I've got my multi-tool and my super-suit in 'Continuum.' It's really a release, and it's quite cool.

Refers to medieval weaponry and can imply a feeling of old-fashioned or outdated technology.

Historical Weapon

Understanding that the crossbow works through tension-loaded arms helps to visualize its use and mechanism.

Mechanical Operation

Loading a crossbow is notably intricate compared to a traditional bow, often involving winding mechanisms.

Complex Loading

Today, crossbows are often used in target shooting sports and have a modernized, technical design.

Modern Sporting

Modern crossbows are popular for hunting, with features designed for stealth and precision.

Hunting Equipment

Different countries and regions have specific laws regarding the use and ownership of crossbows.

Regulated Use

 and I remember fishermen saying they can tell when a basking shark has been caught in a net, because it leaves a black slime behind. So that must have come from the shark. Now, we had an interest in getting tissue samples for genetics because we knew they were very valuable. We would use conventional methods; I have a crossbow -- you see it in my hand there,

How do you save a shark...

 You know? Just But completely differently. Like, I wanted to be an actor. I was like, I've got to make something that makes people feel. I just want to be a part of that. And he wanted to be in the military. That's all we ever did was play FBI, play army man, play knights, you know, and I'd like, pose with my sword, and he would build a working crossbow

Give yourself permission...

 so I'll have no regrets and saying at least I helped in the work of his dream all right dad the final test and yes I am the favorite I used to be I'm not anymore I grew up and he ever since we were little my dad has put a crossbow in her hand put a gun I think the first time I ever held a gun I was probably

Doomsday Castle Profile:...

 is how consistently you can get that result using the same method. Your precision improves with more finely incremented tools that require less estimation. The story of the stolen crossbow was one of precision without accuracy.

What's the difference...

 Possibly even transmitting crossbow technology to the Western world. Demand for exotic and foreign goods and the profits they brought, kept the strands of the Silk Road in tact, even as the Roman Empire disintegrated

The Silk Road:...

 its fires only produced other artifacts— beautiful in appearance but ill-mannered in nature. An elegant crossbow that thirsted for blood and a gleaming plow that ruined cultivated fields among others.

The myth of the Sampo—...

 of Canterbury ever to have murdered a gamekeeper with a crossbow it was on a Thursday and as a penance every Thursday for the rest of his life he he restricted himself to

Adam Nicolson: The King...

 that humming is our little gyro that we're moving the kentley see how the cameras are moving up we shoot a crossbow but to the top of our tree and

Super Trees: Climbing a...

 protect them we get that by using a small hollow tip Dart so what we'll do is I'll use the crossbow and I'll take a shot at the at

Humpback Whales Return...

 mechanisms and arrows for the crossbows were manufactured in runs of tens of

Crossbow