Search results for "Gun" - New World Encyclopedia
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- infantrymen. Eugene Clark mounted a machine gun on a sampan and sank the attack ... Inchon Harbor, where it fired upon enemy gun emplacements. The attacks ...21 KB (3,161 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- This method is currently used in Iran, where tank gun barrels or mobile cranes are used to hoist the condemned into the air. Similar methods involve ...19 KB (2,904 words) - 01:19, 28 January 2022
- Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid-nineteenth through ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- The Boxer Uprising or Boxer Rebellion was a Chinese rebellion against foreign influence in areas such as trade, politics, religion, and technology ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
- (at one point being allowed to man a machine-gun watch position at night at ... And The FBI's Wrath] the smoking gun *[http://www.steinbeckhouse ...27 KB (4,093 words) - 04:08, 3 May 2024
- 20, in June 1779, he was made post; the 28-gun frigate HMS Hinchinbroke, ... he was recalled to service. Given the 64-gun HMS Agamemnon in 1793, he ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- to sail for home in his flagship, the 98-gun Prince of Wales. Calder's ... difficulty firing accurately from a moving gun platform. In the event, the ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- as Al Capone and George "Machine Gun" Kelly. The prison closed ... George "Machine Gun" Kelly arrived on September 4, 1934 ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 05:05, 17 June 2023
- For example, if a person were to threaten someone with an unloaded gun (not a lethal threat), the defending party would not be convicted if defending ...26 KB (4,174 words) - 17:48, 25 January 2023
- The uranium bomb was a gun-type fission weapon. One mass of U-235 ... From 1943-1944, development efforts were directed to a gun-type fission ...52 KB (8,009 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- The House Gun (1998) was Gordimer's second post-apartheid novel ... * The House Gun (1998) * The Pickup (2001) * Get a Life (2005) ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 20:34, 13 February 2023
- entered the room armed with a pistol, but no gun was found on his body. Other ... deputies, Kurt Kearney, was killed in the gun battle that followed. Garrett ...17 KB (2,723 words) - 09:03, 18 November 2022
- Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen. The song has also been covered by The Byrds on their album, Sweetheart of the ...9 KB (1,370 words) - 22:48, 30 November 2022
- in but they were stopped by intense machine gun and rifle fire: Three German ... single-handedly wiped out the German machine gun crew which had just killed ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 18:26, 21 August 2023
- of early grenades and hand cannon, such as the Abus gun. ... was demand for high-quality Turkish gun barrells" in Europe. ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 16:11, 8 February 2023
- and then hit heavily by American machine gun, mortar, and artillery fire ... 01:15. Within five minutes, a Marine machine gun section led by Sergeant John ...46 KB (6,816 words) - 11:29, 20 September 2023
- came in seven volumes: Enough Rope, Sunset Gun, Laments for the Living, Death ... * 1927. Sunset Gun * 1929. Close Harmony (play) * 1930. Laments for ...18 KB (2,914 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- building with his teacher, Riedel, a double-barreled gun. Again, Daimler became restless in his studies, as his main interest still lay in engineering ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 04:50, 24 May 2024
- capture of stores and ammunition, as well as the 44-gun frigate Columbia, which was then being built, the Americans preemptively set fire to this landmark ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 18:46, 22 November 2023
- * Gun Gun Hong Chen (1990) (滚滚红尘, Red Dust) * Hong Meigui Yu Bai Meigui (1994) (红玫瑰与白玫瑰, The Red Rose and the White Rose) ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
