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    Georg Johann Luger (6 March 1849 – 22 December 1923) was an Austrian designer of the famous Luger pistol and the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge. Georg Luger...
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    Parabellum), commonly known as just the Luger or Luger P08, is a toggle-locked recoil-operated semi-automatic pistol. The Luger was produced in several models...
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    9×19mm Parabellum (redirect from 9mm Luger)
    developed by Austrian firearm designer Georg Luger in 1901. The cartridge was derived from an earlier round designed by Luger (7.65×21mm Parabellum), which itself...
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    (designated as the 7,65 Parabellum by the C.I.P. and also known as .30 Luger and 7.65mm Luger) is a rimless, bottleneck, centerfire pistol cartridge that was...
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    his original design. DWM then appointed Georg Luger to make the requested improvements to the pistol. Luger took the Borchardt design, using the shorter...
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  • Look up luger in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Luger may refer to , or: Luger pistol, a semi-automatic handgun Luger (film), a 1982 Dutch film written...
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    magazine (plus one chambered). The next notable design was the 7.65 mm Luger by Georg Luger, which although successful in its function, nonetheless failed to...
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    bicycles. However, documents from Browning's later legal dispute with Georg Luger tell a different story. In 1896-1897 Berg, who was acquainted with Browning...
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    1901. DWM introduced the Pistol Parabellum ('Luger Pistol') in the early 1900s. It was worked on by Georg Luger and Hugo Borchardt. DWM manufactured the Maschinengewehr...
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    modification of the Swiss Luger pistol to fire in single shots or in full-automatic. Around the same time Georg Luger demonstrated a similar Luger machine-pistol...
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    important design contributions from inventors such as John Browning and Georg Luger. The first repeating gun to see military service was actually not a firearm...
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    modification of the Swiss Luger pistol to fire in single shots or in full-automatic. Around the same time Georg Luger demonstrated a similar Luger machine pistol...
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    The 7.65×25mm Borchardt cartridge was designed by Georg Johann Luger for use in Hugo Borchardt's Borchardt C-93 pistol. It was the first successful rimless...
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  • language textbook in tropical medicine. The semi-automatic Luger pistol is patented by Georg Luger. The telegraphone, a magnetic wire recording machine, is...
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    2018 Savage Model 64 Savage Arms .22 LR  Canada Selbstlader Model 06 Georg Luger 7.92x57mm  Germany 1906 Scotti Mod. X Società Anonima Armi Automatiche...
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    Georg Hackl (German pronunciation: [ˈhakl̩ ʃɔʁʃ] ; born 9 September 1966), often named Hackl Schorsch, is a German former luger who was three time Olympic...
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    patented by Georg Luger as an improvement upon the Borchardt Automatic Pistol, and was produced as the Parabellum Automatic Pistol, Borchardt-Luger System...
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    chemist, wrote the kinetic theory of gases Georg Luger (1849–1923) an Austrian designer of the famous Luger pistol Erwin Payr (1871–1946), surgeon, eponym...
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    M. Browning wished to join contemporaries such as Hugo Borchardt and Georg Luger in designing a marketable semi-automatic pistol. Browning partnered with...
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  • poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1926) 1849 – Georg Luger, Austrian gun designer, designed the Luger pistol (d. 1923) 1864 – Richard Rushall, British...
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    Sima Igumanov Jovan Belimarković Živojin Mišić Baron Eugen von Albori Georg Luger Filip Vujanović, President of Montenegro Albert II, Prince of Monaco...
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    inventor of the LeMat revolver. Georg Luger (March 6, 1849 – December 22, 1923), Austrian weapons designer, inventor of the Luger pistol and the 9×19mm Parabellum...
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    February 19 – Giovanni Passannante, Italian anarchist (d. 1910) March 6 – Georg Luger, Austrian firearm designer (d. 1923) March 7 – Luther Burbank, American...
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  • Gallignani, Italian composer, conductor and teacher (b. 1851) December 22 – Georg Luger, German firearms designer (b. 1849) December 25 – William Ludwig, Irish...
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    2017-2030 (scarlet line); for 2020-2030 (green line) Georg Luger (1849–1923), designer of the famous Luger pistol Max Fechner (1892–1973), politician (SPD...
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    cartoonist; in Somerville, Texas (d. 2014) Died: Georg Luger, 74, German firearms designer known for the Luger pistol In the burial chamber of Tutankhamun's...
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  • not selling well. Ludwig Loewe & Company also employed Georg Luger, the inventor of the Luger pistol (as well as the associated gun cartridges). After...
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    24 July 1804, Milan), a fresco painter in South Germany and Austria. Georg Luger (born 1849, Steinach am Brenner; died 1923, Berlin), an inventor and...
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    Luge (redirect from Luging)
    or two-person sled on which one sleds supine (face-up) and feet-first. A luger begins seated, propelling themselves initially from handles on either side...
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  • Georg Antholzer was an Italian luger who competed in the mid-1980s. A natural track luger, he won two medals in the men's doubles event at the FIL European...
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