ETYM French javeline; akin to Spanish jabalina, Italian giavelina, and French javelot, Old Fren. gavlot. Related to Gavelock.
1. A spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events.
2. An athletic competition in which a javelin is thrown as far as possible.
Spear used in athletics events. The men's javelin is about 260 cm/8.5 ft long, weighing 800 g/28 oz; the women's 230 cm/7.5 ft long, weighing 600 g/21 oz. It is thrown from a scratch line at the end of a run-up. The center of gravity on the men's javelin was altered 1986 to reduce the vast distances (90 m/100 yd) that were being thrown. + prikaži više

ETYM Old Eng. spere, as. spere; akin to Dutch and German speer, os. and ohs. sper, Icel. spjör, pl., Dan. spaer, Latin sparus.
1. A long pointed rod used as a weapon; SYN. lance, shaft.
2. An implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish; SYN. gig, fizgig, fishgig, lance.

(1905-1981) German architect and minister in the Nazi government during World War II. He was appointed Hitler's architect and, like his counterparts in Fascist Italy, chose an overblown Classicism to glorify the state, for example, his plan for the Berlin and Nuremberg Party Congress Grounds 1934. He built the New Reich Chancellery, Berlin, 1938–39 (now demolished) but his designs for an increasingly megalomaniac series of buildings in a stark Classical style were never realized, notably the Great Assembly Hall for Berlin.
As armaments minister he raised the index of arms production from 100 Jan 1942 to 322 by July 1944. In the latter months of the war he concentrated on frustrating Hitler's orders for the destruction of German industry in the face of the advancing Allies. After the war, he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for his employment of slave labor. + prikaži više