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  • Thumbnail for Japanese sword mountings
    Japanese sword mountings are the various housings and associated fittings (tosogu) that hold the blade of a Japanese sword when it is being worn or stored...
    31 KB (3,267 words) - 01:38, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mount Takahe
    Mount Takahe is a 3,460-metre-high (11,350 ft) snow-covered shield volcano in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, 200 kilometres (120 mi) from the Amundsen Sea...
    53 KB (5,482 words) - 05:22, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vavasseur mounting
    Vavasseur mountings were several mounting devices for artillery and machine guns. They were invented and patented by Josiah Vavasseur. The mountings were used...
    936 bytes (90 words) - 01:55, 30 November 2024
  • up Mount, mount, mounted, or mounting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest...
    2 KB (320 words) - 13:38, 2 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lydden Spout Battery
    three 6-inch Mark VII naval guns on Mark V mountings, later upgraded to Mark XXIV guns on the same mountings. Fan Bay Battery to the east of Dover is built...
    1 KB (147 words) - 01:28, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arethusa-class cruiser (1934)
    two UP mountings and four single 20 mm Oerlikons were added. The former were removed in the spring of 1942, as were the single 4 in mountings (replaced...
    13 KB (1,151 words) - 21:56, 23 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Western Electric hand telephone sets
    performance. In addition, the type C, and later type G, handset mountings were small wall-mounted units for hanging up the handset. The 1927 handset and its...
    28 KB (3,834 words) - 04:25, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mount Hermon
    Mount Hermon (Arabic: جبل الشيخ / ALA-LC: Jabal al-Shaykh ('Mountain of the Sheikh', Levantine Arabic pronunciation: [ʒa.bal eʃ.ʃeːx]), Hebrew: הַר חֶרְמוֹן...
    29 KB (3,015 words) - 11:17, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atlanta-class cruiser
    caliber guns in three quad mountings, without directors fitted. By early 1942, as more weapons became available, a fourth quad mount had been installed on...
    18 KB (1,792 words) - 07:17, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for QF 4.5-inch Mk I – V naval gun
    of the 4.7 inch twin mount (see HACS), and the setting of fuzes by hand on early, pre-war, mountings. Later 4.7 inch mountings used mechanical fuze setters...
    21 KB (2,385 words) - 14:00, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Foster mounting
    double hinge of the French mount with a quadrant-shaped I-beam rail. This rail became the feature of all later "Foster" mountings, and enabled the breech...
    13 KB (1,800 words) - 08:44, 12 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Equatorial mount
    Florence ITALY. Archived from the original on 2010-08-08. "Telescope Mountings". 2001, 2004 John J. G. Savard. Philip S. Harrington, Star Ware: The Amateur...
    10 KB (1,177 words) - 14:00, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Madsen 20 mm cannon
    standard mountings produced by DISA, although they also used a number of locally designed mounts, were: Light Field Mount - Primary anti tank mount, could...
    8 KB (547 words) - 11:41, 19 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mount Everest
    fonts, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Tibetan characters. Mount Everest, known locally as Sagarmatha or Qomolangma, is Earth's highest mountain...
    271 KB (26,426 words) - 00:23, 10 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for 10.5 cm Flak 38
    these mountings, but the project was cancelled due to credit shortage. They were mounted in pairs on an electrically powered tri-axial mounting, intended...
    5 KB (397 words) - 19:22, 15 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kanlaon
    Kanlaon (redirect from Mount Canlaon)
    Kanlaon, also known as Mount Kanlaon and Kanlaon Volcano (Hiligaynon: Bolkang Kanglaon; Cebuano: Bolkang Kanglaon; Filipino: Bulkang Kanlaon), is an active...
    42 KB (3,821 words) - 06:46, 17 December 2024
  • triple mountings were used on the Andrea Doria-class battleships as a secondary battery (with each having four turrets); four double mountings each were...
    4 KB (388 words) - 15:21, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for QF 2-pounder naval gun
    pedestal mountings P Mark II (Royal Navy nomenclature gave mountings and guns separate Mark numbers) except for a small number of weapons on the mounting Mark...
    22 KB (2,730 words) - 11:02, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mount Rushmore
    The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Lakota: Tȟuŋkášila...
    78 KB (7,013 words) - 00:33, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for 15 cm SK C/28
    casemate mountings. These weighed 47.6 tonnes (46.8 long tons; 52.5 short tons) and had an armored shield 30 millimetres (1.2 in) thick. The mount elevated...
    11 KB (1,298 words) - 12:27, 19 November 2024
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