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  • reduce gun violence in the United States. The project's aim is to improve neighborhood safety and decrease gun violence in American communities. Project Safe...
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    Voter suppression is a strategy used to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting. It is...
    41 KB (4,589 words) - 05:58, 24 September 2024
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    soldiers, many sepoys were killed during the suppression, while six mutineers were sentenced to be blown from the guns. In 1812, a plot was discovered at Travancore...
    50 KB (5,950 words) - 23:53, 17 September 2024
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    Revolver (redirect from Wheel gun)
    revolver allows the user to fire multiple times until having to reload the gun, unlike older single-shot firearms that had to be reloaded after each shot...
    70 KB (8,785 words) - 02:16, 7 October 2024
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    contract to provide three LAVs, designated the LAV-105, with the EX35 gun. This project was canceled in 1991 due to a lack of funds. However, funding was...
    30 KB (3,081 words) - 08:59, 31 August 2024
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    Hiram Maxim (category Articles with Project Gutenberg links)
    inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun. Maxim held patents on numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curling...
    32 KB (3,708 words) - 11:41, 6 October 2024
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    Nitrocellulose (redirect from Gun cotton)
    XLIV/No. 261/February 1872/Editor's Scientific Record/Explosion of Gun-Cotton at Stowmarket Gun Cotton at The Periodic Table of Videos (University of Nottingham)...
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  • the Suppression of Vice founded. Henry L. Pierce becomes mayor again. Horatio J. Homer, Boston's first black police officer, is hired. 1879 Boston Cooking...
    124 KB (9,876 words) - 22:07, 31 August 2024
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    headlined its biography: "Coolidge Firmness Won Recognition; His Suppression of the Boston Police Strike Made Him a National Figure". Coolidge's political...
    43 KB (6,016 words) - 23:35, 13 September 2024
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    Canada (category Pages using Sister project links with hidden wikidata)
    multiculturalism, which is based on selective immigration, social integration, and suppression of far-right politics, has wide public support. Government policies such...
    274 KB (22,834 words) - 17:23, 12 October 2024
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    legislation introduced by state senator Justin Ready, calling it "voter suppression". In September 2022, Moore said he opposed a lawsuit filed by state delegate...
    211 KB (17,691 words) - 14:15, 11 October 2024
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    Israel (category Pages using Sister project links with hidden wikidata)
    humanity under the Rome Statute and the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. The Washington Post's 2021...
    404 KB (38,798 words) - 21:31, 11 October 2024
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    was Top Gun. The Navy had revitalized its air combat training, while the Air Force had stayed stagnant. Most of the Navy MiG kills were by Top Gun graduates...
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    Avalon Project. Yale Law School. 2008. Archived from the original on October 22, 2008. Retrieved December 26, 2012. DeConde, Alexander (2001). Gun Violence...
    281 KB (31,233 words) - 17:39, 28 September 2024
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    Sacco and Vanzetti (category 20th century in Boston)
    the private hearing on the gun barrel switch, Van Amburgh kept Sacco's gun in his house, where it remained until the Boston Globe did an exposé in 1960...
    155 KB (19,876 words) - 12:59, 2 October 2024
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    Samuel Adams (category Boston Latin School alumni)
    regulations in Boston, so they requested military assistance. Help came in the form of HMS Romney, a fifty-gun warship which arrived in Boston Harbor in May...
    96 KB (12,428 words) - 12:15, 24 August 2024
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    Leonard Nimoy (category English High School of Boston alumni)
    used street weapons like switchblades and guns or had to threaten or attack people. He overcame his Boston accent, but realized his lean appearance made...
    97 KB (9,726 words) - 16:37, 28 September 2024
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    The 'B' gun-nose version housed six (and later, eight) .50 caliber machine guns, officially the "all-purpose nose", later known as the "six-gun nose" or...
    50 KB (6,497 words) - 23:10, 6 October 2024
  • towed PCF 3 out of the danger area. PCF 43, 51, and 23 all assisted in suppression of automatic weapons and small arms fire, evacuation of wounded in action...
    28 KB (3,592 words) - 13:01, 12 August 2024
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    fortifications, which enabled the Continental Army to drive the British from Boston. George Washington was so impressed that he made Putnam his chief engineer...
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