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  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc., trading as Cracker Barrel, is an American chain of restaurant and gift stores with a Southern country theme. The company's...
    69 KB (5,703 words) - 20:08, 6 June 2024
  • The Snowtown murders (also known as the bodies in barrels murders) were a series of murders committed by John Justin Bunting, Robert Joe Wagner, and James...
    36 KB (4,739 words) - 15:52, 18 May 2024
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    the current stand configuration of the Holte End, Trinity Road Stand, North Stand and Doug Ellis Stand. Before 1914, a cycling track ran around the perimeter...
    57 KB (5,919 words) - 12:10, 7 June 2024
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    terms half-barrel and quarter-barrel are derived from the U.S. beer barrel, legally defined as being equal to 31 U.S. gallons (this is not the same volume...
    24 KB (3,203 words) - 23:05, 26 May 2024
  • Metal Storm (category Multiple-barrel firearms)
    weapons via RIS rails or to a stand-alone folding stock. The first 36-barrel prototype was unveiled in June 1997. The Chinese government offered Metal...
    19 KB (1,741 words) - 10:07, 24 February 2024
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    mounted on a swiveling stand or fork and allows a wide range of motion) which used a set of barrels designed to rotate to allow either the rifled or the smoothbore...
    9 KB (1,325 words) - 05:54, 29 November 2023
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    Mossberg 500 (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    the muzzle end, and the barrels fit around the magazine tube and are held on by a capnut at the end. The Model 500 magazine facilitates easy barrel changes...
    45 KB (4,858 words) - 18:39, 7 June 2024
  • Accuracy International Arctic Warfare (category Bolt-action rifles of the United Kingdom)
    fore end which envelops the free floating barrel offering modular attachment points for user (re)movable MIL-STD 1913 Picatinny accessory rails on four...
    56 KB (6,213 words) - 05:12, 4 June 2024
  • Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 British crime film written and directed by Guy Ritchie. It follows a heist involving a confident young card...
    20 KB (2,144 words) - 11:09, 29 May 2024
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    The objective is to jump over the most barrels without landing on the barrels. At the far end, the skaters need not land on their skates. Most jumpers would...
    9 KB (982 words) - 21:00, 17 September 2023
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    M203 grenade launcher (category Grenade launchers of the United States)
    (0:39) The M203 is a single-shot 40 mm under-barrel grenade launcher designed to attach to a rifle. It uses the same rounds as the older stand-alone M79...
    38 KB (3,583 words) - 12:15, 27 May 2024
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    Heckler & Koch MG5 (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    accessories. The quick-change cold hammered chrome-lined barrel is an integral part of the barrel assembly and has a heat shield and a carrying/barrel exchange...
    26 KB (2,420 words) - 09:45, 29 May 2024
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    A barrel bomb is an improvised unguided bomb, sometimes described as a flying IED (improvised explosive device). They are typically made from a large barrel-shaped...
    38 KB (3,889 words) - 21:23, 29 April 2024
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    week before the 1998 contest prompted the end of the barrel exchange. Kentucky athletic director C. M. Newton expressed the idea that the ongoing use...
    22 KB (1,515 words) - 23:05, 24 February 2024
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    MG 3 machine gun (category Commons link is on Wikidata)
    swapped: The gun is cocked and the barrel catch on the right of the barrel shroud is swung forward. Then, the breech end of the hot barrel swings out...
    47 KB (4,660 words) - 02:22, 3 June 2024
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    with "chopped" 8.9-inch barrels and fake automatic conversions were often used as cost-effective MP5 stand-ins well into the 2010s. HK94/SG-1 Accurized...
    138 KB (9,812 words) - 01:35, 7 June 2024
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    slide and barrel. This means that the G47 slide and barrel can be put on a G19 frame to give the G19 a longer slide, barrel, and sight radius (the equivalent...
    213 KB (20,313 words) - 04:36, 10 June 2024
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    Annie Edson Taylor (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    schoolteacher who, on her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Her motives were financial...
    14 KB (1,553 words) - 15:52, 6 February 2024
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    Gatling gun (category Multi-barrel machine guns)
    and a forerunner of the modern electric motor-driven rotary cannon. The Gatling gun's operation centered on a cyclic multi-barrel design which facilitated...
    37 KB (4,090 words) - 16:41, 8 June 2024
  • caliber and barrel length. However, for illustration, here is the energy balance of a typical small firearm for .300 Hawk ammunition: Barrel friction 2%...
    8 KB (1,297 words) - 20:06, 12 May 2024
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