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    Henry Nock (1741–1804) was a British inventor and engineer of the Napoleonic period, best known as a gunmaker. Nock produced many innovative weapons including...
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    was invented by British engineer James Wilson in 1779, and named after Henry Nock, the London-based armaments manufacturer contracted to build the gun....
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  • as a manufacturer of guns made in Shotley Bridge in County Durham, by Henry Nock in London in 1772. Besides guns, the company has also produced swords...
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  • the bowstring Nock (arrow), in an arrow, the notch in the fletched (feathered) end of the arrow, for engaging the bowstring Henry Nock (1741–1804), British...
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    James Wilson in 1779 and manufactured by Henry Nock for use through the Napoleonic Wars. Five hundred Nock guns were produced for the Royal Navy intended...
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    Albert Jay Nock (October 13, 1870 – August 19, 1945) was an American libertarian author, editor first of The Freeman and then The Nation, educational theorist...
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    verify] Between 4th July 1793 and 25th November 1795, the London gunsmith Henry Nock delivered 12,010 'screwless' or 'Duke's' locks to the British Board of...
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  • Name Manufacturer Image Cartridge Country Year Nock gun Henry Nock .46 inches (12 mm)  United Kingdom 1779...
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  • design of the Baker rifle in 1800. Baker was apprenticed to gunsmith Henry Nock and opened a gunshop of his own at 24 Whitechapel Road, London in 1775...
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    commission pistols from London gunsmiths such as Joseph Manton, Robert Wogdon, Henry Nock and Durs Egg until the mid 19th century. Light cavalry of the early modern...
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    Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best...
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    master Lluis Calisto, contracted expressly. 1766. Esquilache Riots 1772. Henry Nock was the founder of a gun-making company. He bequeathed to his manager...
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    Biography, s.v. "George, Henry," 213. Nock, Albert Jay. Henry George: Unorthodox American, Part IV Jurgen G. Backhaus, "Henry George's Ingenious Tax: A...
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  • Arthur Darby Nock (21 February 1902 – 11 January 1963) was an English classicist and theologian, regarded as a leading scholar in the history of religion...
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    Champ (2018), p. 321. Nock (1980), p. 120. Nock (1983), p. 234. Nock (1980). Nock (1980), pp. 121–2. Nock (1980), p. 127. Nock (1980), p. 124. le Fleming...
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  • "Report to Board of Trade". Nock & Cooper 1987, pp. 25–27. Rolt & Kichenside 1982, p. 142. Nock & Cooper 1987, pp. 28–30. Nock & Cooper 1987, pp. 32–39....
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    007 Legends (2012). In 2014, he played the fictional character, Detective Nock, in The Imitation Game based loosely on the biography Alan Turing:The Enigma...
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    brains out, which I might have done if I had not had Albert Jay Nock by my side." Nock had weathered similar "war fever" during World War I when as editor...
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    Railway; and Henry Booth Nock, O. S. Booth's father Thomas had been an original member of the L&M project original provisional committee in 1822. Henry later...
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    Henry Stuart Hazlitt (/ˈhæzlɪt/; November 28, 1894 – July 9, 1993) was an American journalist who wrote about business and economics for such publications...
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  • (4249), 16th/5th Lancers, Royal Armoured Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel James Henry Nock, Fifeshire Home Guard. Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Besley Pasmore, TD...
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    Enemy, the State is the best-known book by libertarian author Albert Jay Nock, serving as a fundamental influence for the modern libertarian and American...
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  • history for the class. Griffiths (1987), pp. 46–48 Nock (1984), p. 51 Jackson (2018), p. 175 Nock, O. S. The GWR Stars, Castles and Kings: Part 1 & Part...
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    McClure Press. p. 28. Nock III, Floyd (1976). Drummondtown: Accomac Court House, Virginia. Verona, VA: McClure Press. p. 7. Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin...
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  • published Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind, as well as books by Albert Jay Nock, James J. Kilpatrick, and James Burnham. He also published paperback editions...
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    string and to provide a thickness which helps hold the nock (hazu (筈/弭, lit. '[Japanese arrow] nock/notch') of the arrow, a ya (矢, lit. '[Japanese] arrow')...
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  • PlayStation LifeStyle. Retrieved 2023-09-18. Romano, Sal (2023-02-21). "Nock coming to PS VR2 in March". Gematsu. Retrieved 2023-04-18. "Not for Broadcast:...
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    classical liberalism, which [Albert Jay Nock and Francis Nielson] were afraid was being lost, and for the economics of Henry George, which both men shared." Norris...
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    Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English...
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    include real estate investment banking firm Sonnenblick Goldman, Semco, Alston Nock. On February 24, 2015, it was confirmed that Exor SpA had approved management's...
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