A shield is a type of personal armor, meant to intercept attacks, either by stopping projectiles such as arrows or redirecting a hit from a sword, mace or battle axe to the side of the shield-bearer.
Shields vary greatly in size, ranging from large panels that protect the user's entire body to small models (such as the buckler) that were intended for hand-to-hand-combat use. Shields also vary a great deal in thickness; whereas some shields were made of relatively deep, absorbent, wooden planking to protect soldiers from the impact of spears and crossbow bolts, others were thinner and lighter and designed mainly for deflecting blade strikes.
In prehistory and during the era of the earliest civilizations, shields were made of wood, animal hide, woven reeds or wicker. In classical antiquity, the Migration Period and the Middle Ages, they were normally constructed of poplar, lime or another split-resistant timber—covered in some instances with leather and/or reinforced with a metal boss, rim or banding—and carried by foot soldiers, knights and cavalry.
Matt Cardona (born May 14, 1985), better known by his ring name Zack Ryder, is an American professional wrestler signed to WWE and appearing on its Raw brand.
Cardona wrestled mostly with his tag team partner Brian Myers/Curt Hawkins on the independent circuit and initially in WWE, where they won the WWE Tag Team Championship. After the team split in 2009, Cardona was featured sparingly on WWE television. In 2011, Cardona used YouTube and Twitter to establish a niche fan following, which translated to a rise in status in WWE.
Cardona debuted with New York Wrestling Connection (NYWC) in 2004, using the name Brett Matthews. By 2005 he began regularly teaming with Bryan Myers and the duo of Myers and Matthews went on to defeat the NYWC Tag Team Champions Dickie Rodz and Mason Raige by disqualification, for which titles do not change hands. At the next event on June 4 they won a rematch decisively to become Tag Team Champions. Later that month they were attacked by The Dead Presidents (Lo Lincoln and Boog Washington) to set up a feud where they eventually lost their titles against them in July. on August 27. On September 23 they were entered into a three way match with the champions but Team Tremendous (Dan Barry and Ken Scampi) ended up with the belts. After continuing to win matches they re-earned a match against Team Tremendous and won the titles for the second time on January 25, 2006. They held the titles until they faced the B.S. Xpress (Tony Burma & Mike Spinelli), who defeated them for the gold on March 26.
Paul Lloyd, Jr. (born March 3, 1981) is a second-generation South African professional wrestler. He is signed with WWE, and performs on the SmackDown brand under the name Justin Gabriel. He was a contestant in the first season of WWE NXT, where he finished third, before joining The Nexus stable on Raw. He has held the WWE Tag Team Championship alongside Heath Slater on three occasions. He is also a former FCW Florida Heavyweight Champion.
Lloyd made his professional wrestling debut at the age of 16 and was originally trained by his father Paul Lloyd, Sr., a promoter and wrestler in South Africa who also went by the ring name "The Pink Panther". His grandfather was a professional boxer and amateur wrestler. Lloyd grew up watching his father wrestle and in the early part of his training he used to practice in the backyard of his home, in which two rings were positioned. Lloyd went by the ring name PJ Black. He formed a regular tag team with Ray Leppan (who went by the name Presley Jackson, now known as Dameon Duke) called Pure Juice. During Lloyd's final year in high school, his father died, and a year later, he moved to the United Kingdom for five years.
Dalip Singh Rana (born 27 August 1972), better known by his ring name The Great Khali, is an Indian professional wrestler, actor, and powerlifter. He is currently working for WWE as a member of the SmackDown roster.
He debuted alongside Daivari and had alliances with Ranjin Singh and Jinder Mahal. However he spent most of his career as a singles superstar and in 2007 he became the World Heavyweight Champion.
Before embarking on his professional wrestling career, he was a police officer in the Punjab state police. He has appeared in four Hollywood films as well as two Bollywood films.
Singh was born in Himachal Pradesh, India to Jwala Ram (father) and Tandi Devi (mother); he is one of seven siblings. He is a Hindu Rajput. Although his parents are of normal stature, his grandfather was well over 6 ft 6 inches.
Under the ring name Giant Singh, Dalip Singh first became a professional wrestler for All Pro Wrestling (APW) in the United States, making his first appearance in October 2000, when teaming with Tony Jones against the West Side Playaz.
Mama plays a queen on the hill built on a dream
While her children play in the field
Papa smokes the pipe of a sweet and better life
But how strong is the shield?
Can peace be found
On the carpet above ground?
Where sky is forever blue
So let it pass baby now
The slow inviting cloud
Which may take me from you
Many things a man can lose, his self, his rights, his views
But never his heart or his love
So take this hand of mine and climb baby climb
To the hill up above
Now you can play a queen on the hill built on a dream
While our children play in the field
I can smoke the pipe of a sweet and better life
And trust in the strength of the shield
So trust in your love and you'll see up above
And let light pass like a wheel
Don't take the chance of life's hectic dance
Kiss the strength of the shield
The seeker will be found
By the looker underground
And to his wish he will yield
Fate will have its word of course
But time will change its course
I am a dreadful monster; creeping, crawling, laughing,
taunting. Concealed in the sweetest love I'll rape your
soul time and again. My eyes are lit by that flame, I am
a maniac in pleasure. Insanity so great it has no
measure. Do you dare to whisper my name? Engulfed by
appetizing desire, dancing extatic so close around the
fire. Oh, I want their admiration and I want them to
watch my show with exaltation. When tonight I go,
hovering 'round I am taking with you down to use you in
my fantasies. Please, release me. My limitations keeps me
behind those bars of cold, cold so cold frustration.
my greatest pain is the lack of you
so clear shining bright as my heart is deep dark
so soft and warm as my heart is hard and cold
i suffer in this shape
always winter in my heart
please turn your face to me
you, so fabously whole as my heart is completely broken
so wonderfully happy as my heart is terribly sad
i'm the snowman you're the sunshine
i'm the snowman you're the sunshine please,
clear up the darkness
make spring & summer in my heart
i'm the snowman you're the sunshine please,
build me up
melt me down
please turn your lovely face to me
i am the snowman
is love the cross, where i'm crucified?
and then is sex the spikes, you run through my body?
to nail me to this cross. i just don't know
if life's a constant temptation,
or am i just a fanatic?
running away in this seek & hide-game
pull up my cover,
but i can not hide, from my inside
i can not hide, from my inside
crawling in creepy corners, to hide from my inside
i'm all in confusion
constantly asking questionmarks, tearing in my thoughts
love? love?!?!?
running away in this seek & hide-game
pull up my cover,
but i can not hide, from my inside
i can not hide, from my inside
i smile...smile...smile...smile
but the tears still burns inside
i smile, inside i cry
the tears...they carved a hole...right through my heart
i'm tearing apart
the tears i've cried inside myself has carved a hole
through my heart, each little tear carves a hole right
through my heart, and i...i feel myself tear apart
if only i could fill up those holes with something else
something else but sadness
Like she's screaming in pain we're smiling proud when we
gain the convenience of the
resource waste. Spoiled,boiled,in profusions oil, on a
trip from the luxury joint
we've lost the reverence that we once had for her.
Suck,suck,suck the blood,we're
all vampires stealing from our mother.Exploting her body
the next day we ignore.
Mother Earth is forced to be our whore.With our tasteful
tortureways we'll plague
her until the very end of days.So is it true that noone
expectations keeps trailing your broken "me"
to another "sensation", building up a curtain
around emptiness, founded on lie after lie
not protection from their looks & laughs,
only to glorify yourself
but somewhere inside there you forgot yourself
somewhere inside this hollow figure i forgot myself
dejected i walk...empty
wrapped up in my...disguise
are you brave enough to let go of your disguise?
do i dare to rip down the curtain i've wrapped around me?
a tear falling from the bring of your (my) heart,
rips theough this elaborate, disfigured creation
stripped by every thread of your (my) "security"
they laugh at you (me)
dejected i walk...empty
wrapped up in my...disguise
i am a fool...believing i...was someone else...than
myself
maybe i was...
am i brave enough to let go of my disguise?
Turn me into stone, then i could just let it go
greed, violence, fear & lust - a relentless flow
and just like the little child i am, i'm scared
scared of this veiled brutality, stealing inside me
i never expected this from your side, neither from mine
i was infiltrated, or did i infiltrate myself?
veiled brutality, stealing inside me
a relentless flow
no, no, no don't let it in control... relentless flow... flow... flow
i am a little child, just so scared
am i being controlled?
i woke up feeling like shit
your presence by my side didn't make the situation
better
i feel so divided, i don't know what to do
i think i need you
you're the scapegoat for my insecurities
i never wanted to hurt you
but the asshole in me always wanted to know
if the grass is greener on the other side
we were so clued
separation hurts...my fault...