• The punji stick or punji stake is a type of booby trapped stake. It is a simple spike, made out of wood or bamboo, which is sharpened, heated, and usually...
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  • Punji Mara is an Indian politician from the state of Arunachal Pradesh. Mara was elected unopposed from Taliha seat in the 2014 Arunachal Pradesh Legislative...
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  • Virtue Billy Dee Williams Robin Williams Debra Wilson John Witherspoon Punji is a Hindu storekeeper who insults customers with obvious physical and/or...
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    instinct for self–preservation was used in the Vietnam War. Spikes known as punji sticks were hidden in grassy areas. When fired upon, soldiers instinctively...
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    Cherrapunji (redirect from Cherra Punji)
    Cherrapunji (/ˌtʃɛrəˈpʌndʒi, -ˈpʊn-/ ) or Sohra is a sub-divisional town (Proposed District) East Khasi Hills district in the Indian state of Meghalaya...
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  • Magurchhara Punji (Bengali: মাগুরছড়া পুঞ্জি, romanized: Magurchhora Punji, lit. 'Village of the walking catfish stream', Khasi: Magursora Puñji) is a tribal...
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    H. W. L. Poonja (redirect from Punji-gee)
    Quotation No teaching, no teacher, no student. Hariwansh Lal Poonja (/ˈpʊndʒə/; born 13 October 1910 (or later) in Punjab, British India – 6 September...
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    hazardous. The tunnels were often rigged with explosive booby traps or punji stick pits. The two most common responses in dealing with a tunnel opening...
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  • The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) (Urdu: ماموریہ تمسکات و مبادلہ پاکستان), formerly known as Company Law Administration, Company...
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    here, we could hear them screaming." Holt added that Bundy built makeshift punji traps around his neighborhood, injuring at least one girl. "One little girl...
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    11 in to 6 ft 7 in) wide at the top. At the bottom of the pit, a sharpened punji stick (wooden stake) would be hammered in. In some cases, the pit was concealed...
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    While on patrol in a Viet Cong-held area, he was wounded by stepping on a punji stake. The large infection made it difficult for him to walk, and caused...
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  • battle tactics – North Vietnamese and Viet Cong tactics in the Vietnam War Punji stick – Booby-trapped stake or spike Lewis, Jon E., ed. (1997). "Tactics...
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    II. Simple rows or clusters of sharpened sticks (nowadays also known as punji sticks), and small caltrops have been used in anti-infantry warfare since...
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  • various contemporary weapons and concepts, such as the AK47 assault rifle and punji stick traps. The game introduced several vehicle improvements over the prequel...
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    establishments adjacent to this hill, such as Nunchora punji, Panaichora punji, Putichora punji and Baigonchora punji. This place is popular among nature lovers to...
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    Central Highlands, he was severely wounded in the knee by a feces-covered punji stick. Sadler dressed the wound with a cotton swab and an adhesive bandage...
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    were often booby trapped with hand grenades, anti-personnel mines, and punji sticks. The VC would even use venomous snakes (placed as living booby traps)...
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    Gyeongju Basin Hangul 경주분지 Hanja 慶州盆地 Revised Romanization Gyeongju-bunji McCune–Reischauer Kyŏngju punji...
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    Commonwealth aid.[citation needed] Punji Sticks are stakes of sharpened bamboo typically used in area denial and booby traps. Punji sticks were widely used in...
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    The composer wrote three sound environments of eight minutes each, with punji, harp and bells pieces. The neural networks of premature babies who heard...
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  • morgue missing an ear; Mulder realizes that the victim was killed by a punji stake—a Viet Cong booby trap. Scully questions the sheriff about a mass...
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    insignia of III Corps (United States) 3rd Marine Division (United States) Punji sticks perform a similar role to caltrops. These are sharpened sticks placed...
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  • During this phase, Kamal Khan imprisoned the young king and tried a coup. Punji Khatun the mother of Ismail hatched a counter-plot and Kamal Khan was stabbed...
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    this particular award, it was presented on the basis of a superficial "punji-stake" injury in Vietnam in October 1965. I do not feel that I earned the...
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    notable madrasa and Islamic centre in the Sylhet region. Om family Magurchara Punji Shaharsree Baraoora Tea Estate Bhurbhuria Tea Estate National Report (PDF)...
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    deployed one at a time. Also, booby traps can be non-explosive devices such as punji sticks. Overlapping both categories is the improvised explosive device (IED)...
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  • into taking the jeep behind her, only to be impaled by a spring-loaded Punji stick trap. Back in Texas, Chappy, Anna and the surviving aces celebrate...
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  • sheet on the ground directly in front of it. Lifting it up, he finds a Punji stick trap underneath. As he considers trying to jump over it, he hears...
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    Punchbowl Korean name Hangul 해안분지 Hanja 亥安盆地 Revised Romanization Haean-punji McCune–Reischauer Haean-bunji Haean Basin Haean, Yanggu County, Gangwon...
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