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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
