Others included Georgetown University’s bulldog, Maryland University’s "Testudo" the terrapin, the Washington Capitals’ "Slapshot" and the new Washington Commanders mascot "Major Tuddy," who ...

Keen to build sales in Europe, Chevrolet looked to Bertone to come up with a car to attract attention, and the Italian firm succeeded with the Testudo. Another car based on the Corvair platform ...

MUM: From within the testudo, the soldiers were very well protected from arrows. And if enemy soldiers got too close, gladius swords would stab out, slashing throats and ankles. MUM: I haven’t ...

One famous Roman tactic was the testudo - or ‘tortoise’. A formation of 27 soldiers would hold their shields above their heads and out to the front and sides to protect them - like a tortoise ...

9 th corr. impr. [Stuttgart 2006], ISBN 978-3-438-05135-6 Novum Testamentum Graece, 27 th ed., in: Biblia Sacra utriusque Testamenti. Editio Hebraica et Graeca, 4 th impr., Stuttgart 1997, ISBN ...

This six-volume work, published between 1860 and 1890, contains a selection of documents in Greek which throw light on the history and politics of the Byzantine Empire in the Middle Ages. The editors, ...