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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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  • * harpoon gun ==Verb== harpoon (third-person singular simple present harpoons, present participle harpooning, simple past and past participle ...
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  • ==Etymology== From Middle English wepen, from Old English wǣpn, from Proto-West Germanic *wāpn, from Proto-Germanic *wēpną (weapon), of unknown ...
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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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  • or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer, or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages. # Any similar device for shooting material ...
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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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  • Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch The Zap Gun The Penultimate Truth Deus ... |list3 = "Beyond Lies the Wub" (1952) "The Gun ...
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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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