Its cross-shaped hilt signified his belief that his skill and power in the field were a gift from God.

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The most recent haul, which includes a helmet piece, a cross-shaped mount and an eagle-shaped mount, was discovered by a team from Archaeology Warwickshire.

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The 81 pieces, which include a helmet check piece and cross-shaped mount, will be valued by the Treasure Valuation Committee at the British Museum at the end of March.

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Dexter's staging looks barely touched by time and remains a marvel of simplicity, starting with the opening image of 13 nuns lying prostrate with arms outstretched on a raised wooden platform shaped like a cross.

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Practiced by humans since prehistoric times using wooden ski-shaped contraptions, cross-country skiing was popularised as a sport by the Norwegian military in the mid-1700s and was first imported to North America by Scandinavian immigrants in the 1850s.

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The modern piece will be fitted with a hand-sewn alligator strap and fastened with 18-carat gold shaped like the Maltese cross.

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Since small deviations are common and large ones are rare, the result of plotting data in this way is a curve shaped somewhat like the cross-section of a bell.

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It was Arsenal who turned up the pressure - Howard scrambled to clear Aaron Ramsey's cross and then the keeper palmed away Bacary Sagna's corner as Arshavin shaped to shoot.

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It lives on in the Cross of Steel made from the World Trade Center beams, placed on a Pentagon-shaped platform that rests proudly outside the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department. (Applause.) That Cross of Steel is an enduring symbol of the steel and the spine of this region, and the spine of this country.

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