It's particularly entertaining to see people complaining about usage -- 'gotten' is one particularly egregious example -- that _originated_ in Britain, but the usage was preserved in America while falling out of use elsewhere ('gotten' surviving in more common parlance only in 'ill-gotten').
Splitting an arrow with wood shafts is going to be extremely difficult because of the difficulty in getting a shaft with wood grain that is uniformly parallel to the shaft. Modern aluminum or fiberglass tubular shafts would make it much easier, as would bamboo shafts, which are already tubular in nature. Regardless of the shaft construction, though, the nock, which has to be sturdy enough to take the stress of shooting the arrow, would have to split cleanly in order that the second arrow not deflect -- you will note in the video that the arrow in the target has no visible nock; it is not clear whether it was shot without a proper nock so that the hollow center of the shaft remained unobstructed, or whether the nock on the first arrow was removed after it hit the target.
This should be reviewed in the light of Charles Darwin's famous treatise "Oregano on Species", where he put forth the premise that all food evolves from lower forms of food, driven by the spur of 'survival of the tastiest. Dinosaurs did not become extinct due to an asteroidal impact, but because they failed to provide an appetizing meal (you don't see cows, chickens, and pigs going extinct, do you?) -- theropods tasted _terrible_ when cooked in the Colonel's secret herbs-and-spices recipe, and sauropod meat had a persistent slimy texture that resulted in it slipping out of the bun if not held completely level. (But what about armadillos, porcupines, and aardvarks, you say? You must never have eaten French cooking.)
(abridged mercilessly from a short story that appeared in Analog magazine in, IIRC, the 1970s)
I've always been more partial to "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the firepower to make the difference."
The Upper Peninsula, millions of years ago, broke off from Michigan proper. In order to prevent its ecosystem from collapsing, it was hurriedly grafted onto Wisconsin to prevent an ecological disaster. Unfortunately, now, Wisconsin is rejecting the transplant.
The etymology of 'Mark Twain' is incomplete; the sounding line used by leadsmen to measure the depth of water had markers inserted in the lead line at specific distances from the weight -- a two-lobed piece of leather at two fathoms, a three-lobed piece of leather at three fathoms, a white calico strip at 5, a piece of red bunting at 7, a piece of leather with a hole in each end at 10, and so on. When the leadsman threw the sounding line, he would call out a measurement of the depth of the water based on the marker that was in the leadsman's hand (the sounding line had to account for how far above the water the leadsman's position was) -- 'By the mark two', 'by the mark five', 'A quarter less six', etc. Leadsmen for riverboats in the Mississippi would use the archaic 'twain' instead of 'two', calling out 'By the mark twain' to indicate there was two fathoms of water under the boat, more than sufficient depth to keep the shallow-draft vessels from running aground -- a sternwheeler riverboat might have a draft of as little as three feet.
Looks like a pair of coal tongs, used for picking up live coals to restack them in the fireplace, add a lump of coal to a fire, or to transfer live coals to something else, such as putting them into a bedwarmer.
From looking at it, none of it was computer animation, just careful control of the camera against the speed of the printer, using time-lapse techniques to speed up, and later skip the actual _printing_ of the pages -- from the little sheet-to-sheet registration errors, much of the animation was just shooting frames when the page has been completely printed.
Actually, you picked a bad example to use as your illustration of a booth babe; that picture is the NCSoft booth, and the 'booth babes' were costumed as signature characters from their MMORPG 'City of Heroes' -- the women that NCSoft has had as 'booth babes' for 'City of Heroes' play the game themselves, and if I remember correctly most of them are NCSoft staff connected with the development or operation of the game.
(abridged mercilessly from a short story that appeared in Analog magazine in, IIRC, the 1970s)