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- A machine gun is a fully-automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire rifle cartridges in quick succession from an ammunition ...29 KB (4,662 words) - 04:50, 5 November 2022
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- pattern. This features a main artillery gun, mounted in a fully rotating ... a protective encasement with at least one gun position, it is essentially ...10 KB (1,555 words) - 03:51, 15 August 2023
- during much of the later nineteenth century. Daewon-gun, the father of the penultimate Joseon monarch, Gojong, decisively wielded royal power for ten ...9 KB (1,510 words) - 07:43, 12 January 2024
- A machine gun is a fully-automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire rifle cartridges in quick succession from an ammunition ...29 KB (4,662 words) - 04:50, 5 November 2022
- discuss how to best to control the flooding. Gun was elected to take charge ... Yu, Gun's son, would now carry out his father's mission ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 18:50, 26 November 2022
- * Chain gun: It is a type of machine gun that utilizes a chain, driven by an external power source, to actuate the mechanism rather than using recoil. ...6 KB (898 words) - 01:13, 4 December 2023
- ====Gun emplacements==== The 7th Coast Artillery Regiment made up the ... in the emplacement. The 6-inch quick-firing gun represented cutting-edge artillery ...15 KB (2,283 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- command, the newly constructed Ranger (18 gun frigate), on June 14, 1777 ... to be saluted by the French, with a nine gun salvo fired from Admiral Piquet’s ...18 KB (2,826 words) - 07:03, 3 August 2022
- that when struck by the firing pin of the gun ignites the powder, and the ... of bullets in flight while using a machine gun. Some ammunition for police ...18 KB (2,918 words) - 17:14, 26 July 2023
- [[File:Stanley-Hot-Glue-Gun-GR35K.jpg|right|thumb|250px|A glue gun ... materials to which they can adhere. A glue gun is one method of applying ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 05:51, 15 June 2023
- quot; with Ray Middleton in Annie Get Your Gun and "You're Just ... would not select her for Annie Get Your Gun or Gypsy. Some critics state ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 04:31, 22 March 2024
- recently introduced a new lightweight 37 mm gun, whose users quickly nicknamed ... late as 1943. The "typical" towed gun by late 1942 was 50 mm or ...26 KB (4,166 words) - 06:22, 31 July 2023
- that Dillinger had escaped using a wooden gun blackened with shoe polish. ... spoke. As a result, the findings about the gun in the escape were never made ...13 KB (2,104 words) - 18:51, 5 April 2024
- rr=Goguryeo gobun(-)gun| mr=Koguryŏ kobun'gun| }} context=north|hangul=안악3호분|hanja ...8 KB (1,121 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- A tool may be defined as a device or piece of equipment that is used to facilitate or accomplish a mechanical task. A broader definition of a ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 17:21, 18 April 2023
- This included the European breech–loading gun and culverin, the wheellock ... time, which includes various compositions of gun powder, hollow cast iron grenade ...17 KB (2,391 words) - 20:43, 3 April 2024
- and a rifle was called a "rifled gun." Rifles are used in ... Around 1725, in Eastern Pennsylvania, gun makers began making a long ...37 KB (6,097 words) - 19:01, 11 August 2022
- Capone's gang member Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn to eliminate ... was never arrested for the crime and the gun men were never captured. Al ...8 KB (1,287 words) - 00:55, 23 December 2022
- navy in 1799, as a midshipman aboard the 74 gun HMS Venerable, and transferred ... appointed first lieutenant in charge of 12 gun HMS Porpoise. He then sailed ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:02, 3 August 2022
- only one shell can be loaded in the gun and it has to be reloaded ... at least two shells can be loaded in the gun at a time, and thus at least ...33 KB (5,325 words) - 14:26, 27 January 2023
- world. The particular interests of antique gun collectors vary, but guns ... are best monitored by comparing prices at gun shows, and by checking references ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 06:37, 31 July 2023
- |#583 Jisan-ri, Habuk-myeon, Yangsan-gun, South Gyeongsan Province ... |#10 Chiin-ri, Gaya-myeon, Hapcheon-gun, South Gyeongsang Province ...16 KB (2,359 words) - 06:43, 5 April 2024
- , symbolising Dangun scaling a mountain (Dan-Gun Hyung). ... cfm Life in Korea: The Legend of Tan-Gun]. Category:Korea ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- usually of the fifth rate, though small 28-gun frigates were classed as sixth ... and carried all their main guns on a single gun deck, which had previously ...18 KB (2,809 words) - 06:46, 15 April 2024
- of other related or similar objects, such as the gun barrel and barrel organ. It appears that the "gun barrel" got its name because early cannon ...10 KB (1,477 words) - 10:53, 20 September 2023
- too late: by the time they heard the machine-gun fire, there was no chance ... were systematically shot dead by machine-gun fire at Babi Yar on September ...9 KB (1,415 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- A bullet is a solid projectile propelled by a firearm or air gun, normally made from metal—usually lead. A bullet (in contrast to a shell) ...22 KB (3,492 words) - 18:43, 22 November 2023
- the other hand, hence the name "hand gun" became synonymous with ... some notable exceptions, the stock of a long gun can be used as a club. It ...44 KB (7,015 words) - 19:53, 26 March 2024
- French photographer Jean Roy) by Egyptian machine gun fire, while covering the armistice of the 1956 Suez War. ==Work== Chim's career in ...11 KB (1,618 words) - 08:09, 28 January 2024
- Tippmann, a paintball company, has made a paintball gun called the "C3." This gun's propellent is propane as opposed to the usual carbon ...13 KB (1,941 words) - 00:08, 2 December 2022
- was absorbed by Silla and renamed Geochilsan-gun. The word Geochilsan means ... In 757, Geochilsan-gun was again renamed Dongnae, which it is still ...19 KB (2,764 words) - 03:33, 7 December 2022
- of gas, which produces a pressure wave inside the gun barrel, sufficient to propel a shot charge, bullet or projectile from a shotgun, rifle, or artillery ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 17:15, 12 July 2023
- Dampier was appointed commander of the 26-gun government ship St George, with a crew of 120 men. They were joined by the 16-gun galleon Cinque ...11 KB (1,611 words) - 15:57, 7 May 2023
- glass envelope containing an electron gun (a source of electrons) and a fluorescent screen, usually with internal or external means to accelerate ...37 KB (6,021 words) - 16:18, 3 December 2023
- violently ended a 1970 protest with machine gun fire (killing dozens and injuring ... bloodily ended a 1970 protest with machine gun fire (killing dozens and injuring ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 00:48, 4 February 2023
- |image= [[Image:Pasir Panjang Machine-Gun Pillbox 8, Nov 06.JPG|300px]] ... and the Anti-Aircraft Platoon, with the Bren Gun Carrier Platoon under Captain ...11 KB (1,690 words) - 10:18, 22 September 2023
- Live Twice (1964), The Man with the Golden Gun (1965), and Octopussy and ... the eponymous villain of The Man with the Golden Gun. Neither Saltzman ...25 KB (3,815 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- Revised Romanization: Dae-han-min-guk Guk-gun), consisting of the following ... K1 and K1A1, hosting a 120 mm smoothbore gun. The future replacement ...22 KB (3,202 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- had helped with the impeachment of Daewon-gun, sided with the isolationists ... government uncovered a plot by the Daewon-gun to overthrow Min’s faction ...29 KB (4,382 words) - 23:06, 30 November 2022
- Image:Mount Gyeryong from Jang-gun peak.jpg|Mount Gyeryong near Daejeon in South Korea taken from Jang-gun peak. Image:Seoraksan1.jpg|Seoraksan ...14 KB (1,925 words) - 04:16, 11 March 2023
- could carry around thirty cannons. Eleven gun ports on each side and two gun ports on the front and back bestowed enormous firepower upon the ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 00:27, 3 May 2023
- stairs, but suddenly swung around and pointed a gun at Frederick's head. After the gun misfired, Powell repeatedly swung the pistol over his head ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- *The fake gun that John Dillinger used to bluff his way out of an Indiana jail ==Legacy== Artifacts and their related documents, photographs, ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 17:39, 16 August 2023
- silence is marked by the firing of a field gun on Horse Guards Parade to ... before 11:00A.M., at which time the gun salute fires and the bells ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- The Smoking Gun, [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0326074report14 ... The Smoking Gun, [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0326071anna1 ...12 KB (1,697 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- , in Yeoju-gun (여주군 驪州郡), in the province of Kyeonggi ... political struggle between Min and Daewon-gun became public when the son ...20 KB (2,984 words) - 18:31, 13 February 2024
- a hot temper and an attitude that death by gun or knife was better than by ... from another angle to cover the group with a gun, either shot or threatened ...32 KB (5,281 words) - 16:31, 29 January 2024
- Bakelite is a material based on a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin developed in 1907–1909, by the Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland ...6 KB (839 words) - 05:49, 26 August 2023
- * HMS Hermione was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the British Royal ... In times and cultures where power "comes from the barrel of a ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- of the United States. A salute of one gun for each state in the United ... for the Continental Congress, toasts, 13-gun salutes, speeches, prayers ...20 KB (2,843 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- Taekwondo Federation's Joong-Gun formation, named after him. The Joong-Gun form is constructed to remind practitioners how to persevere ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- off and on, until early 1905 when her gun turrets were completed. ... guns mounted in twin gun turrets fore and aft of the superstructure ...35 KB (5,047 words) - 18:20, 22 December 2022
- members testified that she never fired a gun, although she was Barrow& ... prove her loyalty to him by sneaking in a gun which he used to break out ...42 KB (6,735 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2023
- for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, taking 32 machine guns ... France along with 250 German machine gun casings, and other artifacts ...23 KB (3,581 words) - 02:36, 24 July 2023
- to link any fatal bullet with Sacco's gun, changed his mind after the ... Equal doubt surrounded Vanzetti's gun. The prosecution claimed ...47 KB (7,315 words) - 18:33, 22 December 2022
- and heat transfer. The soldering iron or gun must be clean and pre-tinned ... prevent heat damage. Apply soldering iron or gun to both terminal lead and ...27 KB (4,119 words) - 00:47, 4 February 2023
- used, precisely because of the danger posed by the gun. In the early years of pistol and muskets, firearms were relatively low in velocity. The ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 03:50, 15 August 2023
- eighteenth century, Le Blanc proposed making gun parts from standardized patterns ... Repeating Arms, another notable New Haven gun company, in 1888. He served ...15 KB (2,202 words) - 16:11, 13 February 2024
- has fight left after being subdued, a second gun can be used to provide a kill ... ; Speargun : A speargun is a gun designed to fire a spear, usually ...23 KB (3,586 words) - 15:19, 27 April 2023
- A tank is an armored, tracked vehicle designed to engage enemies in warfare head-on, using direct fire from a large-caliber gun. Heavy armor ...57 KB (9,115 words) - 04:01, 27 February 2023
- battle the Russians lost four 110- or 120-gun 3-decker ships of the line ... Despite the shelling, the sailors of the 120-gun ship Russia, led by Captain ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 06:24, 11 January 2024
- citing the organization’s hesitation to protect gun rights. The ACLU declares itself officially neutral on the issue of gun control, pointing to previous ...25 KB (3,875 words) - 02:54, 24 July 2023
- of 302.4 km², the island makes up most of Ganghwa-gun, a division of Incheon Municipality. Legend states that Dangun, the mythological founder of Korea ...8 KB (1,114 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- a delivery truck and gave chase, exchanging gun fire with the renegade car while weaving in and out of traffic. In all 28 shots were fired, ten ...7 KB (1,127 words) - 04:15, 29 October 2022
- fragments were an additional fouling in the gun barrel and a new tool--a worm ... He developed a 6-inch field howitzer whose gun barrel, carriage assembly ...76 KB (11,884 words) - 17:42, 16 August 2023
- aircraft with his observer's machine gun, but was not credited with ... gunner with the Australian 24th Machine Gun Company, and was using a Vickers ...33 KB (4,981 words) - 17:23, 7 December 2023
- Ericsson featured an innovative rotating gun turret that housed two 11 ... down, with her deck resting on her displaced gun turret. In 1987, the site ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- Two other Regulators were wounded during the gun battle, which took place at ... each day. McCarty then retrieved this gun and after Bell had led him ...32 KB (5,164 words) - 17:41, 31 October 2023
- pieces of artillery mounted on rigid gun carriages. There were also about 50 light and heavy anti-aircraft guns (20 mm Oerlikons, 75 mm Schneiders ...21 KB (3,220 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- watches, compasses, key chains, and gun sights for firearms. It is ... has been used to make self-illuminating gun sights for firearms, especially ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 16:50, 5 November 2022
- 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 (4,116 words) - 07:52, 3 August 2022
- 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) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- 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
- their Citizen's Campaign and Campaign for a Gun Free Northern Irleand." ==After the prize== In 1981, she married Jackie Maguire, who ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 10:55, 9 March 2023
- * Siu, Ralph Gun Hoy. "Panetics and Dukkha: Integrated Study of the Infliction of Suffering and the Reduction of Infliction." Intl ...11 KB (1,613 words) - 18:37, 24 August 2020
- and his henchmen, especially Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn, who is thought to have led the operation, using Thompson submachine guns. By staging ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 04:20, 17 June 2023
- Arnold climbed to the top and noted that gun carriages could probably be ... on July 2, they began clearing and building gun emplacements on top of that ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 21:10, 28 March 2024
- Uprising barricade. He is using the Polish submachine gun Błyskawica.]] [[Image:Uprising Barykady.png|thumb|right|200px|Locations of barricades ...33 KB (5,102 words) - 22:58, 3 May 2023
- law. One example of this is the Larne Gun Running or Provisional IRA arms importation. ===Rum-running=== Bootlegging Rum-running or "bootlegging ...21 KB (3,255 words) - 21:20, 30 January 2023
- by a man named Mahmud Abouhalima to buy the gun. Nosair was acquitted of murder because no witness had actually seen him pull the trigger, but ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 04:16, 9 November 2022
- *Under the Gun (1995) *Rush Hour 2 (2001) *Sunshine State (2002) *Mind the Gap (2004) ===Television=== *Alan King: Inside the Comedy Mind (1990 ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
- walls, plugging breaches, constructing gun platforms and the laying of ... pass; the Afghans replied with a three field-gun battery. Before Roberts could ...22 KB (3,333 words) - 10:03, 22 September 2023
- 039;s acceptance of the principle of rule-by-gun. Yet ironically, Stoddard ... * Gun Law (1919) * The Gun Packer (1919) * Riders of Vengeance (1919) ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- Massacre.” The massacre, which occurred after a gun battle between striking miners and Colorado state militia, left 15 dead including many women and ...11 KB (1,658 words) - 01:07, 8 February 2023
