Skoda houfnice vz 14 Skoda houfnice vz 14 Skoda houfnice vz 14 ("Howitzer model 1914") and Skoda houfnice vz 14/19 ("Howitzer model 1914/1919") were 100 mm (3.93-inch) field howitzers made in Czechoslovakia by the Skoda works. The "Skoda houfnice vz 14" was created in 1914. It was used by the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I. Large numbers of the howitzers were acquired by Italy after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918. An improved version of the howitzer was created in 1919. The main improvement was a longer barrel offering greater range that which could be mounted in the old howitzer beds.
Witch (word) Old English also had "hægtesse" "witch, fury", whence Modern English "hag", of uncertain origin, but cognate to German "Hexe", from an Old High German "haga-zussa", Common Germanic "*haga-tusjon-" (OED), perhaps from a "*tesvian" "to mar, damage", meaning "field-damager" (the suggestion of Grimm). The element "hag-" originally means "fence, wooden enclosure", and hence also "enclosed fields, cultivated land". Other Old English synonyms of "wicca" and "wicce" include "gealdricge", "scinlæce", "hellrúne". The Old English plural form for both the masculine and feminine nouns was "wiccan" ("witches") and "wiccecræft" was "witchcraft". The earliest recorded use of the word is in the "Laws of