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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 ...
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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 ...
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  • during much of the later nineteenth century. Daewon-gun, the father of the penultimate Joseon monarch, Gojong, decisively wielded royal power for ten ...
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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • * 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. ...
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  • ====Gun emplacements==== The 7th Coast Artillery Regiment made up the ... in the emplacement. The 6-inch quick-firing gun represented cutting-edge artillery ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • [[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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • rr=Goguryeo gobun(-)gun| mr=Koguryŏ kobun'gun| }} context=north|hangul=안악3호분|hanja ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • This included the European breech–loading gun and culverin, the wheellock ... time, which includes various compositions of gun powder, hollow cast iron grenade ...
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  • and a rifle was called a "rifled gun." Rifles are used in ... Around 1725, in Eastern Pennsylvania, gun makers began making a long ...
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  • Capone's gang member Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn to eliminate ... was never arrested for the crime and the gun men were never captured. Al ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • world. The particular interests of antique gun collectors vary, but guns ... are best monitored by comparing prices at gun shows, and by checking references ...
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  • |#583 Jisan-ri, Habuk-myeon, Yangsan-gun, South Gyeongsan Province ... |#10 Chiin-ri, Gaya-myeon, Hapcheon-gun, South Gyeongsang Province ...
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  • , symbolising Dangun scaling a mountain (Dan-Gun Hyung). ... cfm Life in Korea: The Legend of Tan-Gun]. Category:Korea ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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) ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • French photographer Jean Roy) by Egyptian machine gun fire, while covering the armistice of the 1956 Suez War. ==Work== Chim's career in ...
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  • Tippmann, a paintball company, has made a paintball gun called the "C3." This gun's propellent is propane as opposed to the usual carbon ...
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  • was absorbed by Silla and renamed Geochilsan-gun. The word Geochilsan means ... In 757, Geochilsan-gun was again renamed Dongnae, which it is still ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • glass envelope containing an electron gun (a source of electrons) and a fluorescent screen, usually with internal or external means to accelerate ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • |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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Revised Romanization: Dae-han-min-guk Guk-gun), consisting of the following ... K1 and K1A1, hosting a 120 mm smoothbore gun. The future replacement ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Image:Mount Gyeryong from Jang-gun peak.jpg|Mount Gyeryong near Daejeon in South Korea taken from Jang-gun peak. Image:Seoraksan1.jpg|Seoraksan ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • *The fake gun that John Dillinger used to bluff his way out of an Indiana jail ==Legacy== Artifacts and their related documents, photographs, ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Smoking Gun, [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0326074report14 ... The Smoking Gun, [http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0326071anna1 ...
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  • , in Yeoju-gun (여주군 驪州郡), in the province of Kyeonggi ... political struggle between Min and Daewon-gun became public when the son ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Bakelite is a material based on a thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin developed in 1907–1909, by the Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland ...
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  • * 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Taekwondo Federation's Joong-Gun formation, named after him. The Joong-Gun form is constructed to remind practitioners how to persevere ...
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  • off and on, until early 1905 when her gun turrets were completed. ... guns mounted in twin gun turrets fore and aft of the superstructure ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • to link any fatal bullet with Sacco's gun, changed his mind after the ... Equal doubt surrounded Vanzetti's gun. The prosecution claimed ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • eighteenth century, Le Blanc proposed making gun parts from standardized patterns ... Repeating Arms, another notable New Haven gun company, in 1888. He served ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • citing the organization’s hesitation to protect gun rights. The ACLU declares itself officially neutral on the issue of gun control, pointing to previous ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • watches, compasses, key chains, and gun sights for firearms. It is ... has been used to make self-illuminating gun sights for firearms, especially ...
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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built from the mid-nineteenth through ...
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  • The Boxer Uprising or Boxer Rebellion was a Chinese rebellion against foreign influence in areas such as trade, politics, religion, and technology ...
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  • (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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • as Al Capone and George "Machine Gun" Kelly. The prison closed ... George "Machine Gun" Kelly arrived on September 4, 1934 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The House Gun (1998) was Gordimer's second post-apartheid novel ... * The House Gun (1998) * The Pickup (2001) * Get a Life (2005) ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • of early grenades and hand cannon, such as the Abus gun. ... was demand for high-quality Turkish gun barrells" in Europe. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • came in seven volumes: Enough Rope, Sunset Gun, Laments for the Living, Death ... * 1927. Sunset Gun * 1929. Close Harmony (play) * 1930. Laments for ...
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  • building with his teacher, Riedel, a double-barreled gun. Again, Daimler became restless in his studies, as his main interest still lay in engineering ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • * 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) ...
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  • their Citizen's Campaign and Campaign for a Gun Free Northern Irleand." ==After the prize== In 1981, she married Jackie Maguire, who ...
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  • * Siu, Ralph Gun Hoy. "Panetics and Dukkha: Integrated Study of the Infliction of Suffering and the Reduction of Infliction." Intl ...
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  • and his henchmen, especially Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn, who is thought to have led the operation, using Thompson submachine guns. By staging ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Uprising barricade. He is using the Polish submachine gun Błyskawica.]] [[Image:Uprising Barykady.png|thumb|right|200px|Locations of barricades ...
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  • law. One example of this is the Larne Gun Running or Provisional IRA arms importation. ===Rum-running=== Bootlegging Rum-running or "bootlegging ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • *Under the Gun (1995) *Rush Hour 2 (2001) *Sunshine State (2002) *Mind the Gap (2004) ===Television=== *Alan King: Inside the Comedy Mind (1990 ...
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  • walls, plugging breaches, constructing gun platforms and the laying of ... pass; the Afghans replied with a three field-gun battery. Before Roberts could ...
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  • 039;s acceptance of the principle of rule-by-gun. Yet ironically, Stoddard ... * Gun Law (1919) * The Gun Packer (1919) * Riders of Vengeance (1919) ...
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  • Massacre.” The massacre, which occurred after a gun battle between striking miners and Colorado state militia, left 15 dead including many women and ...
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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 ...
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  • The Marines advanced slowly while taking heavy machine gun and artillery ... only repelled by a combination of machine gun defensive positions and artillery ...
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  • replace spears, and rebel commanders argued that a gun death carried no individual responsibility in a "government war." Therefore, there was ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • [[Image:Screwgun.jpg|right|thumb|Electric screw gun used to drive ... * Screw gun * Stud finder * Tape Measure * Taping/joint knives ...
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  • The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address he delivered ...
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  • [[Image:radar gun.jpg|right|thumb|250 px|Radar gun]] Instrumentation engineering deals with the design of devices to measure physical quantities ...
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  • piece remains; an 8-inch British–made gun captured by the Japanese in Singapore and relocated to Wake Island. Ruins of the partially completed ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • it with minefields, set up machine-gun positions at the windows, ... including the gigantic 800 mm railroad gun nicknamed Dora. The Germans ...
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  • era, appear around Seoul, extending to Yeoncheon-gun in a northeasterly direction. Divided into upper and lower parts, biotite-quartz-feldspar-schist ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • a combination of entrenchments, machine gun nests, barbed wire, and artillery ... the interrupter gear, in which the machine gun is synchronized with the propeller ...
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  • Naramoto, 397; Noel Perrin. Giving up the gun: Japan's reversion ... * Perrin, Noel. Giving up the gun: Japan's reversion to the sword ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • in Harar, Ethiopia. He made a small fortune as a gun-runner. Rimbaud developed right knee synovitis which degenerated into a carcinoma, and the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • soldier's head to face the camera and leaned a gun against the rocks. Although Gardner identified the soldier as a sharpshooter, the weapon ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • * The 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun is very loosely based on her life. The original stage production starred Ethel Merman, who also starred ...
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  • [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…. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Sand is a naturally occurring, finely divided rock, made up of small particles or granules called sand grains. It can vary in composition, but ...
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  • cultural assets of Tongdo-sa Temple. [Yangsan-gun?]: Tongdosa Museum. OCLC: 84876815 *Wilkinson, Philip, and Steve Teague. 2003. Buddhism. DK ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • the 1918 version of Rope Dancer, he combined a spray-gun technique with a pen drawing. Again, like Duchamp, he made "readymades"--objects selected ...
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  • | publisher =The Smoking Gun |accessdate=Retrieved November 21, 2007 ... rendition of his anti-war epic, Machine Gun. The release of the Band of ...
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  • Known in German history as the second Battle of Smolensk (August 7, 1943–October 2, 1943), this was a Soviet Smolensk Offensive operation ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • "shook with malice," pulled out his gun and shot the sailor dead. However, that immediately caused him to have a convulsive fit. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • cities (si), Jeju and Seogwipo, and two counties (gun), Bukjeju (North Jeju) and Namjeju (South Jeju) respectively. The two cities were further divided ...
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  • hunters, backed by a team of skinners, gun cleaners, cartridge reloaders, cooks, wranglers, blacksmiths, security guards, teamsters, and numerous ...
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  • a split tail and two or four fins, and the "Gun," a long and pointed board specifically designed for big waves. ===Common terms=== ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • **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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • fortress, surrounded by hidden machine-gun nests in the nearby marsh ... and impervious to rifle and machine gun fire, though highly vulnerable ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • a crystal growth chamber, and an electron beam gun. Among the experiments to be performed was research on molten metal processing; photographing ...
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  • * Gun, Nerin E. Eva Braun: Hitler's Mistress. New York: Bantam, 1969. * History Learning Site. The Death of Adolph Hitler. [http://www.historylearningsite ...
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  • * [http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/loadedgun/film.html Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson] – Documentary film about Dickinson ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • a Sioux Indian witnessing the arrest fired his gun at one of the soldiers, prompting an immediate retaliation; this conflict resulted in deaths ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • power comes from the barrel of the gun" (one of Mao's quotes), and the peasantry can be mobilized to undertake a "people's ...
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  • Computer animation is the art of creating moving images through the use of computers. It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation. It ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • such group not only mastered the way of the gun, but became proficient horsemen ... challenge of concentrated rifled, machine gun (Gatling gun), and artillery ...
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  • In addition, the army was equipped with the precursor to the machine ... The army was still equipped with the Dreyse "needle-gun" ...
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  • 90 kilometers north of Delhi). Employing gun carts, movable artillery, ... this lavish lifestyle. Meanwhile, the gun-power technology that had ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • A ballistic vest is an item of protective clothing that absorbs impacts from gun-fired projectiles and shrapnel fragments from explosions. A ...
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  • leader in British India granted a personal gun salute; all other salute dynasties were either rulers of Princely States, or Political Pensioners ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Cheon gun (천군; 天軍) or "Heaven's Soldiers. A 2005 Korean film, Cheon gun (천군; 天軍) or "Heaven's Soldiers," ...
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  • This recorded conversation later became known as the Smoking Gun. After a series of court battles, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ...
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  • Various gun-control groups, such as Handgun Control Incorporated and ... reversed, holding that the word “machine gun” in the relevant statute ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Houston's chest and pull the trigger—the gun misfired. On April 17, Congress ordered the arrest of Houston, who pleaded self-defense, and ...
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  • the 1966 revival of the musical, "Annie Get Your Gun."). Counterpoint is common in musical theatre songs, especially those that try ...
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  • (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 ...
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  • each year doubled under Nixon. He advocated gun control, reduced speed limits ... recordings, known as the "smoking gun" tape, was released on ...
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  • especially with regard to economic and gun control policies. However ... conservatives over economic issues and gun laws. On many social issues ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • For the Canadians he painted A Canadian Gun-Pit (1918, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa) from sketches made on Vimy Ridge. For the British ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • during the period of assembly. In particular the gun method cannot be used with plutonium. ===History=== The concept was first developed by Leó ...
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  • and he sailed down the Mississippi with his gun, paintbox, and assistant, intent on finding and painting all the birds of North America. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • sa: reflection on a Calm Sea Temple. Hapchʻŏn-gun: Haein-sa Press. OCLC: 80600628 *Hanʼguk Pangsong Kongsa. 2004. Living in Korea sansa esŏŭi ...
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  • Russian and some other languages); a mischievous, gun-happy, fast-talking black cat Behemoth (Бегемот, a subversive Puss in Boots); a fanged hitman ...
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  • A liquid crystal display (LCD) is a thin, flat display device made up of any number of color or monochrome pixels arrayed in front of a light ...
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  • National Geographic, RocketNews, and The Smoking Gun.[http://web.archive.org/web/20060529172442/http://www.webbyawards.com/press/article.php?id=2 The ...
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  • Walnut wood has been the timber of choice for gun makers for centuries, including the Lee Enfield rifle of the First World War. Today, it is used for ...
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  • Every five minutes a psycho with a machine gun says, 'Let's kill ... up inside the craft, could not. During the gun battle, the hostages secretly ...
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  • fingers are held perpendicular to one another in a gun-like configuration (with the middle finger crossing under the index finger), they indicate the ...
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  • and affectionate relations, shot at him with a gun. One bullet missed, but the second bullet entered Verne's left leg, giving him a permanent ...
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  • a high voltage electron beam emitted by an electron gun, usually fitted with a tungsten filament cathode as the electron source. The electron beam is ...
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  • |caption=An Indian Bofors 155 mm howitzer field gun being repositioned ... lack of space and depth to deploy the Bofors gun. The Indian military introduced ...
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  • and later with modified flat deck, gun turret, and grenade launcher, designated the 9255 PACV. One of these craft is currently on display in ...
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  • spying and he was the first to test the new Gatling gun in battle. In the conduct of tactical operations, Butler was almost uniformly unsuccessful, ...
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  • Chekhov's dictum (also known as Chekhov's Gun): If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or ...
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  • *** Prince Gun (1909-1991) *** Prince Wu (1912-1945) **** Yi Cheong (1936-) ... * Prince (君 군 gun), a son born to the match between the king and ...
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  • in a jeep—or handling a switchblade or a tommy gun. [[file:The Magnificent ... before loading it, repeatedly checking his gun while in the background of ...
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  • cordite is a much safer explosive to handle than gun-powder. Second, but more important, the altered construction of the magazines on board led to a ...
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  • This was especially true after the invention of the Maxim Gun, which played a significant role in the European domination of Africa. As Hillaire ...
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  • *1956 - Studio One: The Silent Gun *1956 - Front Row Center: Winter Dreams *1956 - Goodyear Playhouse: Joey *1957 - The Ed Sullivan Show ...
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  • but a furious German soldier held her at gun point and threatened to shoot her on the spot. Closeup photographs from that day survive, showing ...
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  • resources from the civil sector. "Every gun that is made, every warship ... *Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired ...
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  • * Sporting breeds were originally bred and trained to assist gun-wielding ... are organized by kennel clubs or other gun dog organizations. ...
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  • Superior National Forest, part of the United States National Forest system, is located in the Arrowhead Region of the state of Minnesota between ...
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  • torture is stunning with an electroshock gun, such as a cattle prod or a taser (provided a sufficiently high voltage and non-lethal current is ...
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  • brother, who had admitted to actually firing the gun, was tried. He was defended again by Darrow, who argued to the all-white jury: ...
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  • smashed by his enemies and he is forced to fire a gun with his wounded hands, * The song Django from the 1973 Lindsey Buckingham / Stevie Nicks ...
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  • fired upon. No British soldier was wounded by gun-fire or reported any injuries, nor were any bullets or nail-bombs recovered to back up their claims ...
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  • "Bogart can be tough without a gun. Also, he has a sense of humor ... * Kanfer, Stefan. Tough Without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary ...
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  • and defensive structures such as bunkers and gun emplacements. To avoid alerting ... and the 311th and 322nd StuG Assault Gun Brigades. All told, the German ...
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  • weight 10 tons, for ranging World War II naval gun targets 25 km away) have been used, although late-twentieth century technology made this application ...
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  • example of this is the bank robber putting his gun against a teller’s head and screaming: “The money or your life!” #Interest in the second ...
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  • saying "you can't shoot an idea with a gun." He later told Styles Bridges, the Republican national campaign manager, that he was not ...
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  • * 3, 8, and 13 posture Gun (staff) forms * 30 posture Halberd (Da Dao/Kwan Dao) form * several double weapons forms utilizing the above-mentioned items ...
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  • in electronic circuits included the control of gun mounts and radar antenna during World War Two. Jay Forrester, a graduate student at the Servomechanisms ...
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  • Patrick Seale, Abu Nidal: A Gun for Hire (London, England: Hutchinson ... * Seale, Patrick, Abu Nidal: A Gun for Hire. London, England: Hutchinson ...
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  • attempted to shoot the queen. Although his gun was loaded only with paper ... In 1872, Victoria endured her sixth encounter involving a gun. As ...
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  • * Myrdal, Jan, and Gun Kessle. The Silk Road A Journey from the High Pamirs and Ili Through Sinkiang and Kansu. New York: Pantheon Books, 1979 ...
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  • both battery objectives only to find the gun mounts empty and the guns ... batteries of 75 mm guns, as well as machine-gun nests, pillboxes, other concrete ...
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  • trying to restore order after a rebellion, the Gun War, in 1880. The ministry had precipitated the revolt by applying its disarmament policy to the ...
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  • battle began at 0600 with the opening of the 102-gun French grand battery against the Russian center. Riehn, p. 245. Davout sent Compan's ...
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  • The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal, was fought between August 7, 1942, and February 9, 1943, in the Pacific theater ...
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  • Galtons were famous and highly successful Quaker gun-manufacturers and bankers, while the Darwins were distinguished in medicine and science. ...
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  • behind me in the wood [bin], and he put the gun on my shoulder, and them crackers ... the town barber who also refused to lend his gun to anyone. He said he did ...
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  • which sought to end a 1970 protest with machine gun fire. The establishment of Poland’s Solidarity also differed from the broader Soviet communist ...
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  • They met once and Malcolm presented Marshall with a gun. Marshall claimed that his wife would not allow any weapon into their house and declined the gift ...
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