Search results for "Gun" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...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 (4,093 words) - 04:08, 3 May 2024
- 20, in June 1779, he was made post; the 28-gun frigate HMS Hinchinbroke, ... he was recalled to service. Given the 64-gun HMS Agamemnon in 1793, he ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- to sail for home in his flagship, the 98-gun Prince of Wales. Calder's ... difficulty firing accurately from a moving gun platform. In the event, the ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- as Al Capone and George "Machine Gun" Kelly. The prison closed ... George "Machine Gun" Kelly arrived on September 4, 1934 ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 05:05, 17 June 2023
- For example, if a person were to threaten someone with an unloaded gun (not a lethal threat), the defending party would not be convicted if defending ...26 KB (4,174 words) - 17:48, 25 January 2023
- The uranium bomb was a gun-type fission weapon. One mass of U-235 ... From 1943-1944, development efforts were directed to a gun-type fission ...52 KB (8,009 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- The House Gun (1998) was Gordimer's second post-apartheid novel ... * The House Gun (1998) * The Pickup (2001) * Get a Life (2005) ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 20:34, 13 February 2023
- entered the room armed with a pistol, but no gun was found on his body. Other ... deputies, Kurt Kearney, was killed in the gun battle that followed. Garrett ...17 KB (2,723 words) - 09:03, 18 November 2022
- Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen. The song has also been covered by The Byrds on their album, Sweetheart of the ...9 KB (1,370 words) - 22:48, 30 November 2022
- in but they were stopped by intense machine gun and rifle fire: Three German ... single-handedly wiped out the German machine gun crew which had just killed ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 18:26, 21 August 2023
- of early grenades and hand cannon, such as the Abus gun. ... was demand for high-quality Turkish gun barrells" in Europe. ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 16:11, 8 February 2023
- and then hit heavily by American machine gun, mortar, and artillery fire ... 01:15. Within five minutes, a Marine machine gun section led by Sergeant John ...46 KB (6,816 words) - 11:29, 20 September 2023
- came in seven volumes: Enough Rope, Sunset Gun, Laments for the Living, Death ... * 1927. Sunset Gun * 1929. Close Harmony (play) * 1930. Laments for ...18 KB (2,914 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- building with his teacher, Riedel, a double-barreled gun. Again, Daimler became restless in his studies, as his main interest still lay in engineering ...18 KB (2,661 words) - 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
