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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell is a series of stealth action-adventure video games, the first of which was released in 2002, and their tie-in novels that were...

and the Korean War. Nicknamed "Teddy Ballgame", "the Kid", "the Splendid Splinter", and "the Thumper", Williams is widely regarded as one of the greatest...

Splinter fleet or Splinter navy was a nickname given to the United States wooden boats used in World War II. The boats served in many different roles during...

scattered splinters and debris near a gun and its crew, killing one. To protect the gun from further damage it was decided to erect splinter plates around...

Charles Robert "Splinter" Johnson (June 16, 1920 – August 6, 2002) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball...

armor plates. The body armor is connected to a belt, which helps redistribute the load from the shoulders. When equipped with GOST class 5 armor plates, the...

tool enabling a so-called "extended precision grip" (e.g., pulling out a splinter in one's finger), and certain cutting or scraping actions. The growing...

283 mm (11.1 in) shell burst just short of Exeter, abreast the ship. Splinters from the shell killed the torpedo tubes' crews, damaged the ship's communications...

Lebanon British journalist for Reuters who was kidnapped by a Palestinian splinter group in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. His kidnappers planned to trade him...

plate plants proved incapable of producing plates of cemented armor thicker than 230 mm (9.1 in) which forced the decision to replace cemented plates...

or discharge may be present. An infection of the cuticle secondary to a splinter Left and right ring fingers of the same person: The distal phalanx of the...

prints; Goya was sometimes forced to use defective plates or reuse old plates after they were burnished. Plate 70: No saben el camino (They do not know the...

Smith said the plates were returned to the angel after he finished the translation. During the time Smith said he possessed the plates, 15 people were...

leg pieces. The coat of plates was developed, an armor made of large plates sewn inside a textile or leather coat. Early plate in Italy, and elsewhere...

the Liberal Party of Australia from 1949 to 1965 Liberal Country Party, splinter group of the Victorian branch of the Australian Country Party 1938–1943...

timber cut to size to fit between this and what it is shoring up, e.g. a splinter box, bulkhead or door. Timber wedges are then used to tighten up the structure...

consequence, the two plates could separate when struck by a shell, and the rear plate was often not elastic enough to stop the splinters. With the discovery...

steel (STS). Below it was the splinter deck that consisted of 1.25 inches (32 mm) of STS that was intended to catch splinters from shells that burst on the...

for a given overall thickness than a single plate, but was done because making thicker plates or plates with different metallurgical properties through...

sixty-pound plates on his knee for "an hour-and-a-half" and handled them "plate after plate." Even later, Harris affirmed that he had seen the plates and the...