Formalized by then-Brig. Gen. Silas Casey during the American Civil War, the methodology behind the all-American knife hand is simple: The hand “shall be raised smartly to an angle of 45 degrees ...

Knives were often held in the mouth and sutures ... Of the approximately 30,000 amputations performed in the Civil War there was a 26.3-percent mortality rate. In the 1870 Franco-Prussian War ...

On a trip ashore in a Basque port a 'messman' from HMS Brilliant was approached by one of the destitute spanish republican soldiers with a plea for a cigarette for which he he gave this sheath knife.

Knives Out 3 is filling out its cast ... Spaeny, meanwhile, most recently starred in Alex Garland's actioner Civil War and Sofia Coppola's biopic Priscilla and can next be seen in Alien: Romulus ...