the Minié 4.D series of air-cooled, flat four engines began before World War II and resumed afterwards into the 1950s. Établissements Victor Minié, based...
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The Minié ball, or Minie ball, is a type of hollow-based bullet designed by Claude-Étienne Minié, inventor of the French Minié rifle, for muzzle-loading...
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used. D.112A D.112D D.112V D.113 D.11 with a 100 hp (75 kW) Continental O-200-A engine, amateur-built. D.114 D.11 with a 70 hp (52 kW) Minié 4.DA.28 engine...
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it was difficult to clean. The soft lead Minié ball was first introduced in 1847 by Claude-Étienne Minié, a captain in the French Army. It was another...
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Rifle (section Minié system – the "rifled musket")
famous was the Minié system, invented by French Army Captain Claude-Étienne Minié, which relied on a conical bullet (known as a Minié ball) with a hollow...
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Eeny, meeny, miny, moe (redirect from Eenie meenie minie mo)
that Atlanta children were heard reciting this version: Eenie, meenie, minie, moe, Catch the emperor by his toe. If he hollers make him say: "I surrender...
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forces in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871. It replaced an assortment of Minié muzzleloading rifles, many of which were converted in 1864 to breech loading...
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728 lb (330 kg) Max takeoff weight: 794 lb (360 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Minié 4.D.32 4-cylinder horizontally opposed, 75 hp (56 kW) Performance Maximum speed:...
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Minnie Pearl (redirect from Minie pearl)
Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (October 25, 1912 – March 4, 1996), known professionally as her stage character Minnie Pearl, was an American comedian who...
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Caring for 4.72-inch gun, Armstrong, 50 caliber. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. pp. 11–14. Gardiner and Chesneau, p. 154 "4.7"/50 Mark...
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Hatherleigh Press, New York. Scott, Douglas and Lucien Haag 2006 “Listen to the Minié Balls”: Identifying Firearms in Battlefield Archaeology. In Fields of Conflict:...
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List of aircraft (Mb-Mi) (section Minié)
Milon-Brive PMB.78 le Faucon (Société Minié Aéronautiques) Minié Emouchet Escopette (Société d'Études Victor Minié Aéronautiques) See: SEVIMIA (Kirchardt...
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smoothbore weapon whose range and accuracy was far inferior to the French Minié and Austrian Lorenz rifle. The Prussian Army's low level of funding resulted...
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White Paxton. Warner, p. 230: "... he was almost instantly killed by a Minié ball." Warner, p. 230. Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High...
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the American Civil War. It exploited the advantages of the new conical Minié ball, which could be deadly at over 1,000 yards (910 m). It was a standard...
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is engraved rather than the ball. Until the advent of the hollow-based Minié ball, which expands and obturates upon firing to seal the bore and engage...
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At the Battle of Shiloh, he lost most of his right arm when struck by a Minié ball while in the process of giving the order to fire. The raw nerve endings...
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rifled musket. Born from the development of the percussion cap and the Minié ball, rifled muskets had much greater range than smoothbore muskets while...
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John Doby Kennedy (redirect from John D. Kennedy)
Joseph Brevard Kershaw. At the First Battle of Manassas, he was struck by a Minie ball and badly wounded. Recovering, he was promoted to colonel when Kershaw...
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Albert Abraham Michelson Mills bomb – William Mills Minié ball, Minié rifle – Claude-Étienne Minié Molotov cocktail – Vyacheslav Molotov Momsen Lung, Charles...
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upon production of the .702-inch [17.8 mm] Pattern 1851 Minié rifle using the conical Minie bullet, which replaced the Pattern 1842 .753 calibre smoothbore...
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rifle with a self-contained cartridge. In 1849, Claude-Étienne Minié invented the Minié ball, the first projectile that could easily slide down a rifled...
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MythBusters (2006 season) (redirect from MythBusters season 4)
War rifles in front of each other so that when fired, the bullets (lead Minié balls) would collide in midair. However, this proved impossible because...
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Wars, such as charging. With the advent of more accurate rifled barrels, Minié balls, and (near the end of the war for the Union) repeating firearms such...
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service in one form or another since 1722. In 1849, Claude-Étienne Minié produced the Minié rifle, although still a muzzle loader three important advances...
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earlier invention by Henri-Gustave Delvigne) before 1844. Minié rifle by Claude-Étienne Minié, first reliable (easy to load) muzzle-loading rifle in 1849...
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Breeze J, Penn-Barwell JG, Keene D, O'Reilly D, Jeyanathan J, Mahoney PF (2017). Ballistic Trauma: A Practical Guide (4 ed.). Springer. p. 75. ISBN 9783319613642...
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the VI Corps in the initial hours of the fighting but was wounded by a Minié ball through his chest that disabled him for life. Despite his poor health...
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List of Pawn Stars episodes (section Season 4 (2011))
included in Volume 3 on iTunes, with the remaining episodes selling as Season 4. "Pawn Stars on History", Facebook, December 6, 2010, accessed December 24...
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List of The Fairly OddParents episodes (redirect from Timmy's 2-D House of Horror/It's a Wishful Life)
2024. "New Shows, NCAA Hoops Deliver for ABC, CBS". Los Angeles Times. April 4, 2001. Archived from the original on October 12, 2022. Retrieved October 12...
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