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* American M1919 Browning machine gun: originally chambered for. 30-06 Springfield but has since been converted to a variety of calibers ; it was used as an infantry weapon ( light and support roles ) and also mounted on a variety of vehicles, aircraft and naval platforms.
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Newcomers to the American hunter are the Browning group of bolt-action, high-power rifles.
* 1998 – Browning Ross, American runner ( b. 1924 )
** M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, an American family of automatic rifles and light machine guns
* 1861 – Pete Browning, American baseball player ( d. 1905 )
* 1880 – Tod Browning, American director ( d. 1962 )
* 1926 – John Browning, American firearm designer and inventor ( b. 1855 )
Tod Browning ( born Charles Albert Browning, Jr., July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962 ) was an American motion picture actor, director and screenwriter.
* May 12 – Junie Browning, American MMA fighter
* March 14 – David Browning, American Olympic diver ( b. 1931 )
* August 23 – Peaches Browning, American actress ( b. 1910 )
* October 6 – Tod Browning, American film director ( b. 1882 )
* July 12 – Tod Browning, American motion picture director, horror film pioneer ( d. 1962 )
* January 21 – John Moses Browning, American firearms inventor ( d. 1926 )
* American ( U. S. A .)— Bradley, Will: Moongold: A Pierrot Pantomime ( 1921 ); Browning, Tod: Puppets ( 1916 ); Cukor, George: Sylvia Scarlett ( 1935 ; features performing foursome called The Pink Pierrots ); Lund, Oscar A. C .: When Pierrot Met Pierrette ( 1913 ).
During the 1960s, the popular American television series The Rat Patrol echoed the British SAS and LRDG use of the Willys Jeep, this time fitted with a single. 50 caliber Browning machine gun.
The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a 1934 American film depicting the real-life romance between poets Elizabeth Barrett ( Norma Shearer ) and Robert Browning ( Fredric March ), despite the opposition of her father Edward Moulton-Barrett ( Charles Laughton ).
Ricou Browning ( born February 16, 1930 ) is an American film director, actor, producer, screenwriter, underwater cinematographer and stuntman.
Freaks is a 1932 American Pre-Code horror film about sideshow performers, directed and produced by Tod Browning and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, with a cast mostly composed of actual carnival ( funfair ) performers.
Also working as expert witnesses were the American Holocaust historian Christopher Browning, the German historian Peter Longerich and the Dutch architectural expert Robert Jan van Pelt.
Browning is the birthplace of professional boxer Joe Hipp and Native American poet James Welch.
* October 6-Tod Browning, 82, American director
Herter was born in Paris, France, to American artist and expatriate parents, Albert Herter and Adele McGinnis, and attended the École Alsacienne there ( 1901 – 1904 ) before moving to New York City, where he attended the Browning School ( 1904 – 1911 ).
* Logan Browning, American actress
American and machine
A few years later Whitney and his American contemporaries succeeded in introducing the relevant concepts ( interchangeable parts, tool-path control via machine tools and jigs, transfer of skill to the equipment, allowing use of semi-skilled or unskilled machine operators ) to American firearm-manufacture.
It was initially intended to be a next generation video game machine, but was redesigned as a general purpose computer after the North American video game crash of 1983.
Other forces followed with designs of their own, notably the American M16 created by mounting quadruple M2 machine guns on a M3 Half-track.
In 1886, the American Arithmometer Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri to produce and sell an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs ( grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs ).
In 1935, American radio commentator Walter Winchell coined the term " disc jockey " ( the combination of disc, referring to the disc records, and jockey, which is an operator of a machine ) as a description of radio announcer Martin Block, the first announcer to become a star.
In August 2007 Newsweek reported that in April 1998 a dozen people from what it called " the denial machine " met at the American Petroleum Institute's Washington headquarters.
With the assistance of Salvadoran troops, Manuel Bonilla tried to resist, but in March his forces were decisively beaten in a battle notable for the introduction of machine guns into Central American civil strife.
In the late 1880s, the American Herman Hollerith invented data storage on a medium that could then be read by a machine.
* 1819 – Elias Howe, American inventor, invented the sewing machine ( d. 1867 )
The Japanese military machine ran on American oil.
Thus a cash dispenser ( British English ) as well as and automatic teller machine or ATM in ( American English ) while belonging to speakers of different dialect would be understood by both American and British dialect speakers.
In Croatia, " machine pistols of the American Ingram brand " were also illegally copied and manufactured.
In American English, " phonograph ", properly specific to machines made by Edison, was sometimes used in a generic sense as early as the 1890s to include cylinder-playing machines made by others, but it was then considered strictly incorrect to apply it to the upstart Gramophone, a very different machine which played discs.
In 2005, the American indie / alternative rock band The Bravery released a video for their debut single, " An Honest Mistake ," which features the band performing the song in the middle of a Rube Goldberg machine.
The first computers to implement architectures enabling RPN were the English Electric Company's KDF9 machine, which was announced in 1960 and delivered ( i. e. made available commercially ) in 1963, and the American Burroughs B5000, announced in 1961 and also delivered in 1963.
A slot machine ( American English ), informally fruit machine ( British English ), the slots ( Canadian English ), poker machine or " pokies " ( slang ) ( Australian English and New Zealand English ) or simply slot ( American English ) is a casino gambling machine with three or more reels which spin when a button is pushed.
American and gun
Another evidence of the spreading rule of reason was provided from Mexico City with the daily hijacking of an American plane by a demented Algerian with a gun.
The American gun and ammunition producers sponsor a successful promotional program through their industry trade association.
Are you looking ahead to the exploding market of millions of American boys and girls, who will grow up to enjoy a traditional American way of life -- ranging the fields with a fine American gun and uniformly excellent ammunition??
* 1920 – Jack Cover, American inventor of the Taser gun ( d. 2009 )
British and American forces also deployed vehicles designed for a close support role, but these were conventional tanks whose only significant modification was the replacement of the main gun with a howitzer.
As the amount of German armour encountered by the Allies decreased, especially in Italy, a number of American tank destroyer units were used in the assault gun role for infantry support.
These are a popular compromise for ( American ) shooters who would like to own a submachine gun but cannot due to local restrictions or the prohibitive cost of buying a civilian legal submachine gun ( full automatics or semi-automatics with barrels shorter than are restricted under Title II of the National Firearms Act ).
One example is the American wrought-iron, muzzle-loading rifle, or Griffen gun, used during the American Civil War, which had an effective range of over.
The lightweight American 120 mm XM-291 came close to achieving 17 MJ of muzzle energy, which is the lower-end muzzle energy spectrum for a 140 mm gun.
* 1840 – Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor ( Maxim gun ) ( d. 1916 )
The first weapon generally considered in this category is the Gatling gun, originally a carriage-mounted, crank-operated firearm with multiple rotating barrels that was fielded in the American Civil War.
Well-known examples are the Israeli Uzi and Heckler & Koch MP5 which use the 9 × 19mm Parabellum cartridge, and the American Thompson submachine gun which fires. 45 ACP.
The American Academy of Pediatrics ( AAP ) advises that keeping a gun in the home, especially a handgun increases the risk of injury and death for children and youth in the home.
: In American English, the term gunpowder also refers broadly to any gun propellant.
The Gatling gun was designed by the American inventor Dr. Richard J. Gatling in 1861 and patented November 4, 1862.
The Gatling gun was first used in warfare during the American Civil War.
During the American charge up San Juan and Kettle Hills, the three guns fired a total of 18, 000. 30 Army rounds in eight and one-half minutes ( an average of over 700 rpm per gun ) against Spanish troop positions along the crest of both hills, wreaking terrible carnage.
It starred Jamie Bell and Bill Pullman and dealt with gun worship and violence in American society.
Originally, " maschinenpistole " was simply the German word for personal, automatic military weapons, while " submachine gun " was a term coined by John T. Thompson, American inventor of the Thompson submachine gun.
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