Gatling gun - the gun rotated. Also in the casing was a cocking ring with projections to cock and fire the gun. Turning the crank rotated the shaft. Cartridges, held in a hopper, dropped individually into the grooves of the carrier. The lock was simultaneously forced by the cam to move forward and load the cartridge and when the cam was at its highest point the cocking ring freed the lock and fired the cartridge. After the cartridge was fired the continuing action of the cam drew back the lock bringing with it the spent cartridge which was then dropped to the ground. The grouped barrel concept was not new, it had been tried since the 18th century, but poor engineering and the lack of a metal cartridge made the attempts unsuccessful. The innovative.
USS Keokuk - Squadron for the attack on Charleston, South Carolina, and arrived at Newport News, Virginia, two days later. She got underway again on 17 March but returned to Hampton Roads for repairs when her port propeller fouled a buoy. She stood out of Hampton Roads again 22 March and arrived Port Royal, South Carolina, on 26 March. As the day of attack on Charleston approached, Keokuk and USS Bibb were busy laying buoys to guide Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont's ironclad flotilla, which included USS New Ironsides and seven monitors, into the strongly fortified Confederate harbor. The Union ships crossed the Stono Bar on 6 April but were prevented from attacking that day by hazy weather which obscured targets and blinded pilots. The attack began at noon on 7 April, but.
USS Wasp (CV-18) - 32.7 knots Complement: 3,448 officers and men Armament: 12 x 5-inch guns, 40 x 40mm guns, 55 x 20mm guns Aircraft: 80+ The ninth USS Wasp (CV-18) of the United States Navy was an Essex-class aircraft carrier. The ship was laid down as Oriskany on 18 March 1942 at Quincy, Massachusetts, by the Bethlehem Steel Company; renamed Wasp on 13 November 1942, in honor of her fallen predecessor CV-7, launched on 17 August 1943, sponsored by Miss Julia M. Walsh, the sister of Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, and commissioned on 24 November 1943, Captain Clifton A. F. Sprague in command. Following a shakedown cruise which lasted through the end of 1943, Wasp returned to Boston for a brief yard period to correct minor flaws which had been discovered during.
USS Seadragon (SS-194) - the first torpedo exploded halfway to the target. The second torpedo broached and circled abeam of the target. The destroyer avoided the third torpedo. Seadragon changed course and went to 200 feet to avoid the circling torpedo and the expected depth charging. None of the depth charges was close, but a second destroyer soon joined the first, spotted the submarine as she came up for a periscope observation, and turned on her. Seadragon again went deep, then cleared the area. On 12 April, the submarine started south. On 20 April, she cleared Lombok Strait; and, on 26 April, she returned to Fremantle. On her third patrol, 11 June to 2 August 1942, Seadragon returned to the South China Sea. Arriving in her assigned area on 27 June, she patrolled along the.
Basil Zaharoff - among the Russians as a result of the anti-Greek Easter pogroms of 1821. The family returned to Turkey in the 1840s and lived in the Anatolian town of Mughlia. By 1855 the family was back in Constantinople where they lived in the poor quarter of Tatavla. There Basil was a street kid. Little Basil's first job was as a guide for the tourists to the Galata, or prostitution district of Constantinople, helping his clients to find the forbidden pleasures that went beyond the bounds of normal prostitution. He was then to become a fireman. The 19th century firemen of Constantinople were not at all effective at extinguishing fires, but were quite effective at rescuing the treasures of the rich for a healthy commission. Basil then took on the job of a.
Time travel - to be paradoxical. In 1.1, Time travel is constrained to prevent paradox. If one attempts to make a paradox, one undergoes involuntary or uncontrolled time travel. Michael Moorcock uses a form of this principle and calls it The Morphail Effect. In 1.2, The Novikov Self-consistency Principle asserts that the existence of a method of time travel constrains events to remain self-consistent (i.e. no paradoxes). This will cause any attempt to violate such consistency to fail, even if extremely improbable events are required. Example: You have a device that can send a single bit of information back to itself at a precise moment in time. You receive a bit at 10:00:00 PM, then no bits for thirty seconds after that. If you send a bit back to 10:00:00 PM, everything works fine..
Pan-American Highway (route) - not meant to be an official guide to traveling the Pan-American Highway. Always check into local seasonal conditions before planning to travel any significant stretch of the highway, especially south of the contiguous United States. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 United States (Alaska) 2 Canada 3 United States 4 Mexico 5 Guatemala 6 El Salvador 7 Honduras 8 Nicaragua 9 Costa Rica 10 Panama United States (Alaska) Alaska Circle The Pan-American Highway unofficially begins in Circle, Alaska, following Alaska Highway 6 southwest to Fairbanks, Alaska. Fairbanks From Alaska's third largest city, the Pan-American Highway and the Alaska Highway become one in the same, following Alaska Highway 2 southeast to the Canadian border southeast of Northway, Alaska and adjacent to the Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge. ''Note: The Pan-American Highway reenters the U.S..
Project Nike - at about 175mph at 25,000ft, Nike would have to deal with bombers flying at 500mph or more at altitudes of up to 60,000ft. At these sorts of speeds even a supersonic rocket like the Wasserfall is no longer fast enough to be simply aimed directly at the target, instead the missile must "lead" the target to ensure it hits it as soon as possible, before it runs out of fuel. As a result of these requirements, Nike used a complex system of radars and computers to calculate the proper flight path of the missile and guide it to an interception. After detection by long-range radars a target tracking radar was "locked onto" the target aircraft. The missile was tracked by another similar radar, while a radio direction finder allowed the radar.
List of Amiga games - -- Der Patrizier -- Der Produzent -- Der Reeder -- Der Seelenturm -- Descent -- Desert Strike -- Detroit AGA -- Deuteros -- Diablo -- Dick Tracy -- Die Drachen von Laas -- Die Nordländer -- Die unendliche Geschichte 2 -- Diggers -- Dino Wars -- Dinosaur Detective Agency -- Disc -- Discovery -- Diskman -- Disposable Hero -- Dithell in Space -- Dizzy - The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure -- Dizzy Down the Rapids -- Dizzy Panic -- DNA Warrior -- Doc Croc's Adventure -- Dogfight -- Dojo Dan -- Domination -- Dominator -- Dominium -- Donk -- Doodlebug -- Doofus -- Doom -- Double Agent -- Double Dragon 1 -- Double Dragon 2 -- Double Dragon 3 -- Double Mind -- Down at the Trolls -- Dr. Doom's Revenge --.
Kit Carson - Madison County, Kentucky. During his career throughout the desert Southwest, he was a trapper, guide, military scout, Indian agent, soldier (rising to the rank of brigadier general), and rancher. His renown initially came from guiding John C. Fremont on an expedition to map the western trails to the Pacific Ocean. Descriptions in Fremont's popular report of his expeditions made Kit Carson famous. He fought against the Mexicans in California in the 1840s, and played a part in the Civil War. When civil war erupted in April of 1861, Kit Carson resigned his post as federal Indian agent for Northern New Mexico and offered to help organize the New Mexico volunteer infantry. Although the territory of New Mexico officially allowed slavery, geography and economics made the institution so impractical that there were.
Heavy metal music - classical influences, which can be heard in the work of Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads, among others. Heavy metal further influenced the development of hardcore punk and alternative rock, among other genres. The explosion of guitar virtuosity founded in the leadership of pioneer Jimi Hendrix a music generation earlier was ushered to the fore by Eddie Van Halen, and many consider his 1978 solo appropriately called Eruption as the significant new dawn in heavy metal history. Ritchie Blackmore (formerly of Deep Purple), Randy Rhodes (w/ pioneer Ozzy Osbourne) and Yngwie Malmsteen went on to solidify this explosion of virtuoso guitar work. All of a sudden, classical guitars, even nylon-stringed guitars, were commonplace at heavy metal concerts, and classical icons such as Liona Boyd became associated with the heavy metal stars.
History of Kansas - engagements made by the United States Government, with the Indian tribes inhabiting the Territory, to remain inviolate, notwithstanding anything contained in the provisions of this act. Missourian Emigration Within a few days after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, hundreds of leading Missourians crossed into the adjacent Territory, selected each his quarter-section, or larger area of land, put some sort of mark on it, and then united with his fellow-adventurers in a meeting or meetings, intended to establish a sort of Missouri pre-emption upon al this region. As early as June 10, 1854, the Missourian Emigrates held a meeting at Salt Creek Valley, a trading post three miles west from Fort Leavenworth, at which a Squatter's Claim Association was organized. They were in favor of making Kansas a "Slave State" if.
Government of the United States - Reclamation manages scarce water resources in the semiarid western United States. The department regulates mining in the United States, assesses mineral resources, and has major responsibility for protecting and conserving the trust resources of American Indian and Alaska Native tribes. Internationally, the department coordinates federal policy in the territories of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and oversees funding for development in the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau. Department of Justice The United States Department of Justice represents the U.S. government in legal matters and courts of law, and renders legal advice and opinions upon request to the president and to the heads of the executive departments. The Justice Department is headed by the attorney general of the United States, the.
Flintheart Glomgold - count their wealth in cash and not their investments and have to liquidate much of their fortunes. Flintheart uses a number of dirty plots against Scrooge but his plans backfire when their cost in money also costs Flintheart his chance at victory. The story adds little to what was established in the previous but for the first time some panels concentrate on Flintheart's thoughts, revealing that his insecurities about his own worth are the driving force behind both his efforts to best Scrooge and his dishonest tactics (since he doubts his ability to win in a direct confrontation). Barks would use Flintheart for a third and last time in So Far and no Safari, first published in January, 1966. This was one of the last stories Barks created before his retirement..
USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) - men Armament: 12 x 14-inch guns, 14 x 5-inch guns, 4 x 3-inch guns, 4 x 3-pounders, 2 x 21-inch torpedo tubes The second USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) was the lead ship of her class of US Navy "superdreadnought" battleships. She was laid down 27 October 1913, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia. She was launched on 16 March 1915, sponsored by Elizabeth Kolb (daughter of Colonel Louis J. Kolb of Philadelphia), and commissioned 12 June 1916, with Captain H. B. Wilson in command. Pennsylvania was attached to the Atlantic Fleet. On 12 October, 1916, she became flagship of Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, when Admiral Henry T. Mayo shifted his flag from Wyoming to Pennsylvania. In January 1917, Pennsylvania steamed for Fleet maneuvers in.
USS Wyoming (BB-32) - and 1005 men Armament: 12 12-inch guns, 21 five-inch guns, two three-inch guns, two 21-inch torpedo tubes USS Wyoming (BB-32), the lead ship of her class of battleship was the third ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 44th state. Her keel was laid down on 9 February 1910 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by William Cramp and Sons. She was launched on 25 May 1911 sponsored by Miss Dorothy Eunice Knight, the daughter of former Chief Justice Jesse Knight of the Wyoming Supreme Court, and commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 25 September 1912 with Captain Frederick L. Chapin in command. Wyoming departed Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 6 October and completed the fitting-out process at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, before she joined the fleet.
USS Chicago (1885) - ( m) Speed: 14 knots Complement: 33 officers, 376 enlisted Armament: 4 x 8-inch guns, 8 x 6-inch guns, 2 x 5-inch guns The first USS Chicago (later CA-14) was a protected cruiser of the United States Navy, the largest of the original three authorized by Congress for the "New Navy". She was launched 5 December 1885 by John Roach and Sons, Chester, Pennsylvania, sponsored by Edith Cleborne (daughter of Navy Medical Director Cuthbert J. Cleborne) and commissioned 17 April 1889, Captain H. B. Robeson in command. On 7 December 1889, Chicago departed Boston for Lisbon, Portugal, arriving 21 December. The cruiser served in European and Mediterranean waters as the flagship of the Squadron of Evolution until 31 May 1890 when she sailed from Funchal, Madeira, to call at Brazilian and.
Dorset - of Hall and Woodhouse, whilst Weymouth is acknowledged as the first ever holiday resort, used by King George III, and is still a popular seaside resort. Jutting out into the English Channel is the Isle of Portland. Dorset is famed in literature for being the native county of author and poet Thomas Hardy. Many of the places he describes in his novels in the fictional Wessex are in Dorset. The National Trust own Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in woods east of Dorchester, and Max Gate, his house in Dorchester. Stalbridge was home of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Poet William Barnes, authors Theodore Francis Powys, John le Carré and P.D. James and satirical novelist Thomas Love Peacock are also locals. The author John Fowles lives in Lyme.
Tabletop role-playing game - their abilities, skills and various other parts of their personality and guide them through a world described by the system's setting and the system's rules, which form the game mechanics. One person is responsible for telling the story, presenting plotlines to the characters and who interacts there are some diceless system, too. Game systems usually consist of a set of rules and a description of the setting, i.e. of the game world and the different peoples. In most RPGs, Player Charcters (PCs) can be of different races (more properly, species, although most games use the term 'race'), depending on the setting Elves, Humans, Dwarfs or all sorts of aliens) and of different Character Classes (in fantasy settings these might be Barbarians, Druids, rogues etc. while in Science Fiction settings they might.
Aberdeen - university. The University Library comprises nearly 100,000 books. A Botanic Garden was presented to the university in 1899. Aberdeen is also home to The Robert Gordon University, which has a long history associated with it, stretching back to 1750 when Robert Gordon willed his entire estate to establish a residential school known as the Robert Gordon's Hospital. Aberdeen and Glasgow Universities combine to return one member to Parliament. The United Free Church Divinity Hall in Alford Place, in the Tudor Gothic style, dates from 1850. The Grammar School, founded in 1263, was removed in 1861-1863 from its old quarters in Schoolhill to a large new building, in the Scots Baronial style, off Skene Street. Robert Gordon's College in Schoolhill was founded in 1729 by the merchant Robert Gordon, grandson of Robert.
