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- to take out a strategically placed enemy machine gun nest. In the Bible, the judge Samuel—who had been blinded and imprisoned by the Philistines as ...11 KB (1,667 words) - 21:41, 26 February 2023
- The Marines advanced slowly while taking heavy machine gun and artillery ... only repelled by a combination of machine gun defensive positions and artillery ...41 KB (6,399 words) - 09:47, 22 September 2023
- replace spears, and rebel commanders argued that a gun death carried no individual responsibility in a "government war." Therefore, there was ...12 KB (1,821 words) - 00:41, 17 November 2022
- New Jersey also has some of the most stringent gun-control laws in the U.S. These include bans on assault firearms, hollow nose bullets, and ...34 KB (4,973 words) - 09:22, 11 March 2023
- [[Image:Screwgun.jpg|right|thumb|Electric screw gun used to drive ... * Screw gun * Stud finder * Tape Measure * Taping/joint knives ...23 KB (3,511 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2024
- The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address he delivered ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 12:27, 22 May 2021
- [[Image:radar gun.jpg|right|thumb|250 px|Radar gun]] Instrumentation engineering deals with the design of devices to measure physical quantities ...26 KB (3,608 words) - 15:50, 13 February 2024
- piece remains; an 8-inch British–made gun captured by the Japanese in Singapore and relocated to Wake Island. Ruins of the partially completed ...28 KB (4,195 words) - 22:06, 3 May 2023
- family moved to Golbaemasil Mankok-ri, Youngin-gun County (Mirinae) Kyungki Province. Kim’s great-grandfather, Kim Jin-Hu was martyred in 1814. Kim’s ...10 KB (1,631 words) - 17:52, 27 July 2023
- cut in half to only 14 knots, while the aft gun turrets lost all electrical ... hits, the second of which destroyed the aft gun turret. With her remaining ...48 KB (7,546 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- midnight. The clock in the observatory attached to a gun that fired at 8 p.m. daily to announce that "all was well" with IST. Time-keeping support ...13 KB (1,858 words) - 18:36, 4 March 2024
- 1, 1974, and told him that "smoking gun" evidence had been found ... at Ford and pulled the trigger. Though the gun was loaded with five bullets ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 17:06, 28 August 2021
- it with minefields, set up machine-gun positions at the windows, ... including the gigantic 800 mm railroad gun nicknamed Dora. The Germans ...43 KB (6,775 words) - 01:36, 26 September 2023
- era, appear around Seoul, extending to Yeoncheon-gun in a northeasterly direction. Divided into upper and lower parts, biotite-quartz-feldspar-schist ...12 KB (1,829 words) - 11:25, 26 June 2022
- Coyote. He had not heard the order to turn in his gun and assumed he was being charged with theft. Another account reports that the mistaken gestures ...12 KB (1,889 words) - 16:24, 27 December 2023
- as well as mounting a concealed machine gun on her deck. In order to confuse ... soon chased off the vessel with a machine gun. After a chase, the Seneca ...25 KB (3,823 words) - 17:51, 27 April 2020
- a combination of entrenchments, machine gun nests, barbed wire, and artillery ... the interrupter gear, in which the machine gun is synchronized with the propeller ...57 KB (8,515 words) - 17:19, 4 May 2023
- Naramoto, 397; Noel Perrin. Giving up the gun: Japan's reversion ... * Perrin, Noel. Giving up the gun: Japan's reversion to the sword ...25 KB (3,619 words) - 19:58, 21 April 2023
- a number of the American ships were 44-gun frigates and very heavily ... the island on July 17, 1812, and mounted a gun overlooking Fort Mackinac ...42 KB (6,479 words) - 22:53, 3 May 2023
- in Harar, Ethiopia. He made a small fortune as a gun-runner. Rimbaud developed right knee synovitis which degenerated into a carcinoma, and the ...12 KB (1,837 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- building, to find a party in full swing. With a gun against his back, Waller was pushed towards a piano, whereupon the gangsters demanded he start playing ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 21:09, 30 April 2023
- soldier's head to face the camera and leaned a gun against the rocks. Although Gardner identified the soldier as a sharpshooter, the weapon ...15 KB (2,177 words) - 09:08, 18 July 2023
- Irving Berlin's hit musical, Annie Get Your Gun]] Rodgers and ... career as a basis for his Annie Get Your Gun (1946, 1,147 performances ...33 KB (5,216 words) - 19:34, 10 November 2022
- * The 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun is very loosely based on her life. The original stage production starred Ethel Merman, who also starred ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 05:10, 31 July 2023
- [Yechiel] fell. He fell a hero, at the machine-gun. I feel that great things are happening and what we dared do is of great, enormous importance…. ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 21:21, 9 November 2022
- With Love, the 1974 movie The Man with the Golden Gun, and the 1977 movie The Spy Who Loved Me. Steven Jay Rubin, [https://spymovienavigator.com/spydata/belly ...27 KB (4,010 words) - 16:20, 24 April 2024
- early initiation of a fission chain reaction in gun-type atomic weapons, blowing the weapon apart before much of its material can fission. Pu-240 contamination ...37 KB (5,382 words) - 08:10, 24 November 2022
- Sand is a naturally occurring, finely divided rock, made up of small particles or granules called sand grains. It can vary in composition, but ...14 KB (2,163 words) - 03:11, 23 December 2022
- take the floor to begin a sit-in demanding [[gun control|gun safety legislation ... House Speaker Paul Ryan allow a vote on gun-safety legislation in the ...59 KB (8,081 words) - 20:53, 1 May 2024
- cultural assets of Tongdo-sa Temple. [Yangsan-gun?]: Tongdosa Museum. OCLC: 84876815 *Wilkinson, Philip, and Steve Teague. 2003. Buddhism. DK ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- and measles but also the horse and the gun traveled West. ... to native African tribes. Rum, guns, and gun powder were some of the major ...27 KB (3,995 words) - 12:25, 21 January 2023
- the 1918 version of Rope Dancer, he combined a spray-gun technique with a pen drawing. Again, like Duchamp, he made "readymades"--objects selected ...13 KB (2,027 words) - 06:42, 5 November 2022
- | publisher =The Smoking Gun |accessdate=Retrieved November 21, 2007 ... rendition of his anti-war epic, Machine Gun. The release of the Band of ...26 KB (4,016 words) - 01:11, 9 February 2023
- Known in German history as the second Battle of Smolensk (August 7, 1943–October 2, 1943), this was a Soviet Smolensk Offensive operation ...33 KB (4,843 words) - 19:49, 13 February 2023
- In 1801, while aboard the 74 gun HMS Ganges, commanded by his personal ... George. The British then fired a twenty-one gun salute] in three salvos, in ...28 KB (4,513 words) - 18:55, 7 March 2024
- *They Gave Him a Gun (1937) *Captains Courageous (1937) *Big City (1937) *Mannequin (1938) *Test Pilot (1938) *Hollywood Goes to Town (1938) ...13 KB (2,011 words) - 19:15, 7 February 2023
- *A Gun for Sale (1936) (also published as This Gun for Hire) ISBN 014303930X *Brighton Rock (1938) ISBN 0142437972 *The Confidential Agent (1939 ...28 KB (4,089 words) - 10:04, 31 December 2022
- "shook with malice," pulled out his gun and shot the sailor dead. However, that immediately caused him to have a convulsive fit. ...15 KB (2,094 words) - 01:59, 26 March 2024
- in the very popular Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun, which was very successful both with Ethel Merman and more recently with Bernadette Peters in ...27 KB (4,199 words) - 12:10, 8 May 2023
- cord has been preserved in Man-In-san, Geumsan-gun, South Chungcheong Province. == Family == *Father: Yi Jachun (이 자춘) *Mother: Lady Choi ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 19:06, 24 October 2022
- André Malraux (November 3, 1901 - November 23, 1976) was a French author, adventurer and statesman preeminent in the world of French politics ...14 KB (2,092 words) - 20:07, 26 July 2023
- first day he injured his hand while learning how a gun worked. He spent time in a military hospital, before fleeing to fight in anti-Nazi groups. ...14 KB (2,188 words) - 04:19, 4 November 2022
- by air attacks long before coming within gun range of the American fleet ... three units featuring a single powerful main gun, the 12.6 in (320 mm) Canet ...62 KB (9,133 words) - 16:43, 12 February 2024
- was Hanyang 88. The standard light machine gun was a local copy of the Czech ... *Morris Abraham "Two-Gun" Cohen [[Image:Flag of the United ...68 KB (9,889 words) - 17:42, 25 January 2023
- cities (si), Jeju and Seogwipo, and two counties (gun), Bukjeju (North Jeju) and Namjeju (South Jeju) respectively. The two cities were further divided ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 18:01, 2 April 2024
- hunters, backed by a team of skinners, gun cleaners, cartridge reloaders, cooks, wranglers, blacksmiths, security guards, teamsters, and numerous ...15 KB (2,366 words) - 02:50, 8 March 2023
- a split tail and two or four fins, and the "Gun," a long and pointed board specifically designed for big waves. ===Common terms=== ...15 KB (2,531 words) - 23:54, 26 February 2023
- killed by a Klamath warrior later that day: His gun misfired, and the warrior drew to fire a poison arrow; but Frémont, seeing Carson's predicament ...16 KB (2,336 words) - 16:59, 5 April 2024
- **ep. #47 / 3-7: "Apollo With A Gun" (a.d. Dec 8 59) ... *Gun (aka Robert Altman's Gun) (1997) ep. 4: "All the President ...44 KB (6,977 words) - 03:11, 15 December 2022
- pay at the rate of 40 sous a day. The alarm-gun was fired at six a.m. ... the city gates, against the tocsin and alarm-gun without the approval of the ...32 KB (4,897 words) - 15:20, 31 August 2022
- left hand in an accident while reloading a gun; thereafter he wore a glove ... approved the bombardment of Urabi's gun emplacements by Admiral Sir ...29 KB (4,472 words) - 12:12, 8 May 2023
- the character could no longer kill or use a gun.Daniels (1999), 42. ... In Batman #1, Batman is depicted as using a gun, stating "Much as I hate ...56 KB (8,607 words) - 11:11, 20 September 2023
- a white man was passing. Lowery ran home to get a gun, but his father arrived and talked him out of it. His family sent him away while he attended ...17 KB (2,453 words) - 00:42, 11 August 2022
- men were instantly killed and wounded, not a gun was fired by any person in ... was buried. The grenadiers burned some gun carriages found in the village ...65 KB (10,526 words) - 02:50, 26 September 2023
- break up a bar-room brawl, a cowboy drew a gun and pointed it at Earp's ... *Hour of the Gun (1967) – Stars James Garner. *Doc (movie) (1971 ...59 KB (9,719 words) - 14:12, 20 May 2023
- He came face to face with a tiger. His gun did not work, and his dagger ... Sultan, 500 rockets were launched as part of the gun salute. ...44 KB (6,987 words) - 23:40, 30 April 2023
- use in a promotional poster for the 1994 comedy Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult. Leibovitz v. Paramount Pictures Corp., has become an important fair ...17 KB (2,434 words) - 04:59, 31 July 2023
- An argument ensued and Saldívar drew a gun from her purse, pointing it first at her own head and then at Selena. As the singer turned and left ...16 KB (2,443 words) - 17:47, 25 January 2023
- fortress, surrounded by hidden machine-gun nests in the nearby marsh ... and impervious to rifle and machine gun fire, though highly vulnerable ...54 KB (8,491 words) - 02:44, 26 September 2023
- was a windmill called Mont-Carmel, where a three-gun battery was in place. At Fort Senneville, a large stone windmill was built on a hill by late ...16 KB (2,438 words) - 10:59, 15 May 2023
- brother accidentally shot her in the eye with a BB gun when she was eight-years-old. She became blind in her right eye as a result. This event had a ...16 KB (2,347 words) - 18:21, 21 July 2023
- a crystal growth chamber, and an electron beam gun. Among the experiments to be performed was research on molten metal processing; photographing ...17 KB (2,555 words) - 19:04, 7 February 2023
- * Gun, Nerin E. Eva Braun: Hitler's Mistress. New York: Bantam, 1969. * History Learning Site. The Death of Adolph Hitler. [http://www.historylearningsite ...16 KB (2,578 words) - 04:47, 23 March 2024
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Lifestyle [[Image:Samovar.silver.jpg|thumbnail|right|A conical urn-shaped silver-plated samovar]] ...16 KB (2,540 words) - 01:15, 21 April 2023
- * [http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/loadedgun/film.html Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson] – Documentary film about Dickinson ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 18:16, 13 February 2024
- a part of the Revolution as any man who carried a gun or wrote a document. She did this as she raised five sons and ran her household. ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:13, 9 November 2022
- Stone, when he entered the building armed with a gun, a knife and homemade explosives. Stone was wrestled to the ground on entry and disarmed by security ...19 KB (2,877 words) - 15:48, 27 April 2023
- The Kingdom of Lunda (c. 1665-1887), also known as the Lunda Empire was a pre-colonial African confederation of states in what is now the Democratic ...16 KB (2,448 words) - 03:03, 5 November 2022
- a Sioux Indian witnessing the arrest fired his gun at one of the soldiers, prompting an immediate retaliation; this conflict resulted in deaths ...15 KB (2,439 words) - 18:46, 8 December 2022
- in full military dress. With the aid of a thirteen gun salute, boarded his barge and headed to the onshore pavilion where the properly ranked Prince ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- power comes from the barrel of the gun" (one of Mao's quotes), and the peasantry can be mobilized to undertake a "people's ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 03:00, 6 November 2022
- Computer animation is the art of creating moving images through the use of computers. It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation. It ...20 KB (3,215 words) - 00:25, 8 January 2024
- and Gomes (2000), 183-184. For the machine-gun role, the German MG42 in 7 ... (.50 caliber) U.S. M2 Browning heavy machine gun saw service in both ground ...54 KB (8,315 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- such group not only mastered the way of the gun, but became proficient horsemen ... challenge of concentrated rifled, machine gun (Gatling gun), and artillery ...42 KB (6,753 words) - 06:01, 28 July 2023
- In addition, the army was equipped with the precursor to the machine ... The army was still equipped with the Dreyse "needle-gun" ...61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022
- 90 kilometers north of Delhi). Employing gun carts, movable artillery, ... this lavish lifestyle. Meanwhile, the gun-power technology that had ...31 KB (4,705 words) - 17:54, 10 November 2022
- another parallel trench would be dug with gun emplacements. If necessary ... [[Image:Skoda 305 mm Model 1911.jpg|thumb|right|400 px|The Skoda gun ...44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
- A ballistic vest is an item of protective clothing that absorbs impacts from gun-fired projectiles and shrapnel fragments from explosions. A ...58 KB (9,062 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- leader in British India granted a personal gun salute; all other salute dynasties were either rulers of Princely States, or Political Pensioners ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 06:09, 16 June 2023
- into the house and ran up the stairs. Ryoma used his gun, but his fingers were so badly wounded in the sword fight that he could no longer shoot. In the ...18 KB (2,973 words) - 00:57, 23 December 2022
- Cheon gun (천군; 天軍) or "Heaven's Soldiers. A 2005 Korean film, Cheon gun (천군; 天軍) or "Heaven's Soldiers," ...34 KB (5,442 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- This recorded conversation later became known as the Smoking Gun. After a series of court battles, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ...17 KB (2,600 words) - 14:08, 31 May 2022
- Various gun-control groups, such as Handgun Control Incorporated and ... reversed, holding that the word “machine gun” in the relevant statute ...56 KB (8,825 words) - 22:04, 3 May 2023
- and Big Black River Bridge--and not losing a single gun or stand of colors. As the Union forces approached Vicksburg, Pemberton could put only ...17 KB (2,734 words) - 01:42, 26 September 2023
- deposed, and is referred to as 'Prince' (Gun), the title of Crown Prince was taken from his son, and the line of succession passed to his brother ...95 KB (11,477 words) - 06:43, 18 April 2024
- Houston's chest and pull the trigger—the gun misfired. On April 17, Congress ordered the arrest of Houston, who pleaded self-defense, and ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 01:57, 23 December 2022
- the 1966 revival of the musical, "Annie Get Your Gun."). Counterpoint is common in musical theatre songs, especially those that try ...21 KB (3,187 words) - 08:33, 10 January 2024
- (81,000 square meters). The first use of black gun powder for mining appears to have been in a mineshaft under Banská ·tiavnica, Slovakia, in 1627 ...18 KB (2,752 words) - 18:50, 9 November 2022
- each year doubled under Nixon. He advocated gun control, reduced speed limits ... recordings, known as the "smoking gun" tape, was released on ...34 KB (5,153 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
- especially with regard to economic and gun control policies. However ... conservatives over economic issues and gun laws. On many social issues ...55 KB (8,054 words) - 11:02, 7 March 2023
- that required 200 men wrestling the ropes of each gun. Although Jackson wanted all of his guns to open fire simultaneously, Walker on Loudoun Heights ...18 KB (2,860 words) - 09:46, 22 September 2023
- For the Canadians he painted A Canadian Gun-Pit (1918, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa) from sketches made on Vimy Ridge. For the British ...18 KB (2,685 words) - 14:13, 20 May 2023
- historic relics and weapons (including Rob Roy's gun and Montrose's sword), and a library containing over 9,000 rare volumes. More land was ...17 KB (2,589 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- Thomas Cochrane launched kites from the 32-gun frigate HMS Pallas in order ... their potential use as scouts for their big gun warships. In 1909, the French ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- during the period of assembly. In particular the gun method cannot be used with plutonium. ===History=== The concept was first developed by Leó ...22 KB (3,405 words) - 00:39, 17 November 2022
- and he sailed down the Mississippi with his gun, paintbox, and assistant, intent on finding and painting all the birds of North America. ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 06:04, 3 August 2022
- Devil; thunder is imitated by the report of a gun. In a typical example, in order to signify that the Devil had entered into him, Judas holds ...20 KB (2,912 words) - 09:02, 18 November 2022
- allowed to fire in salvos (6 rockets at a time), and gun-laying devices. Zasyadko elaborated a tactic for military use of rocket weaponry. In 1820, Zasyadko ...39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
- floor, and she then got up and ran to retrieve her gun. She said that she then fired at Cooke in self-defense because she feared for her life. According ...19 KB (3,031 words) - 01:14, 21 April 2023
- sa: reflection on a Calm Sea Temple. Hapchʻŏn-gun: Haein-sa Press. OCLC: 80600628 *Hanʼguk Pangsong Kongsa. 2004. Living in Korea sansa esŏŭi ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 16:38, 21 January 2024
