battering ram

siege engine originating in ancient times
Product weapon_type Q208129
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battering ram

Summary

battering ram is a weapon type[1]. It draws 197 Wikipedia views per month (weapon_type category, ranking #254 of 694).[2]

Key Facts

  • battering ram's image is recorded as Battering ram.jpg[3].
  • battering ram's instance of is recorded as weapon type[4].
  • ram is named after battering ram[5].
  • battering ram's subclass of is recorded as siege engine[6].
  • battering ram's subclass of is recorded as pile driver[7].
  • battering ram's Commons category is recorded as Battering rams[8].
  • battering ram's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09xtb[9].
  • battering ram's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph493952[10].
  • battering ram's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300036965[11].
  • battering ram's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 874262[12].
  • battering ram's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0080440[13].
  • battering ram's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0160462[14].
  • battering ram's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • battering ram's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • battering ram's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[17].
  • battering ram's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • battering ram's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[19].
  • battering ram's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[20].
  • battering ram's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21].
  • battering ram's described by source is recorded as The American Cyclopædia[22].
  • battering ram's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[23].
  • battering ram's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/battering-ram[24].
  • battering ram's different from is recorded as Taran[25].
  • battering ram's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as battering-rams[26].
  • battering ram's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27].

Why It Matters

battering ram draws 197 Wikipedia views per month (weapon_type category, ranking #254 of 694).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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