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** As a weapon, to make a thunderhead deliver a precise lightning strike onto a target from an aircraft ; in this case, the aircraft and laser can be compared to a triggered spark gap, in that the relatively minor amount of initial input from the laser allows a large amount of energy to flow between the cloud and the ground.
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** Cold War: U. S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and begin destroying their respective stocks.
** Nuclear test: Under Project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, becoming the 6th nation to do so.
** The Canadian ketch Vega, flying the Greenpeace III banner, collides with the French naval minesweeper La Paimpolaise while in international waters, to protest French nuclear weapon tests in the South Pacific.
** Pole weapon, combat weapon in which the main fighting part of the weapon is placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood
** Pulmonary agent or choking agent, chemical weapon agent designed to impede a victim's ability to breathe
** Gun assembly: one piece of fissile uranium is fired at a fissile uranium target at the end of the weapon, similar to firing a bullet down a gun barrel, achieving critical mass when combined.
** The character of Young Lucius is a much more important figure in the adaptation than in the play ; he is present throughout Act 1, he retrieves the murder weapon after the death of Mutius ; it is his knife which Titus uses to kill the fly ; he aids in the capture of Chiron and Demetrius ; he is present throughout the final scene.
** BFG10K, the fictional weapon of the first-person shooters Quake II and Quake III: Arena, and in later unofficial Doom expansions
** Out-of-battery, the discharge of a weapon before the action has returned to the normal firing position
** Murder committed on the property of a public or private school, at an activity sponsored by a public or private school or on a school bus while the bus was engaged in its official duties by a person who intended to create a great risk of death or substantial bodily harm to more than one person by means of a weapon, device or course of action that would normally be hazardous to the lives of more than one person.
** The B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay drops the atomic bomb " Little Boy ," the first nuclear weapon used in warfare, over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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** Telepathic Camouflage: Xavier can make others see him as someone else by manipulating and controlling the minds of others to make them see him with another appearance.
** histone acetyltransferase ( HAT ) activity – acetylates histone proteins, which weakens the association of DNA with histones, which make the DNA more accessible to transcription, thereby up-regulating transcription
** histone deacetylase ( HDAC ) activity – deacetylates histone proteins, which strengthens the association of DNA with histones, which make the DNA less accessible to transcription, thereby down-regulating transcription
** Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to make an official visit to Israel, when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
** WWI: Battle of Cambrai: British forces, using tanks, make early progress in an attack on German positions but are soon beaten back.
** In Holmdel, New Jersey, scientists at Bell Labs announce they have created a digital optical processor that could lead to the development of superfast computers that use pulses of light rather than electric currents to make calculations.
** President of the United States George H. W. Bush gives his first State of the Union address and proposes that the U. S. and the Soviet Union make deep cuts to their military forces in Europe.
** Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
** In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refuses to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger and is arrested, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott.
** João Ribeiro de Barros becomes the first non-European to make a transatlantic flight, from Genoa, Italy, to Fernando de Noronha, Brazil.
** His interim chancellor and effective regent, Walter de Merton retires from royal service to make the final revisions to his statutes for the foundation of Merton College, Oxford and take up the post of Bishop of Rochester.
** Mastopexy (" breast lift "): Lifting or reshaping of breasts to make them less saggy, often after weight loss ( after a pregnancy, for example ).
** Thatching uses straw, reed or similar materials to make a waterproof, lightweight roof with good insulation properties.
** Food technology – branch of food science which deals with the actual production processes to make foods.
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