Turkish archery the last bowyer and famous calligrapher, Neçmeddin Okyay; it has since been revived. For many years the excellence of Turkish bows could be seen from historical records. In 1910 an archery contest was held on the beach at Le Touquet, France, where Ingo Simon was able to shoot an arrow 434 m using an old Turkish composite bow requiring a force of 440N or 99 lb. The Turkish bow is a recurved composite bow used in the Ottoman Empire. The construction is similar to that of other classic Asiatic composite bows, with a wooden core (maple was most desirable), animal
What Makes a Man Start Fires? as "Pavarotti, take one". "Split Red" is remade from the band's previous release, the 1982 EP "Bean-Spill", with some different lyrics. "What Makes A Man Start Fires?" also appears on the "My First Bells" cassette and the "Post-Mersh Vol. 1" CD. It would be released as its own separate CD by SST in 1991. What Makes a Man Start Fires? What Makes a Man Start Fires? is the second full-length album and fifth release overall by influential American punk rock band Minutemen. At almost twice the length of their previous album, "The Punch Line", the Minutemen's songs began surpassing the