** Barbed wire fence

Barbed wire, also known as barb wire ( and sometimes bob-wire or bobbed wire ), is a type of fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strand ( s ).

Barbed wire fencing requires only fence posts, wire, and fixing devices such as staples.

Barbed wire was the first wire technology capable of restraining cattle.

Barbed wire production greatly increased with Glidden and Ellwood ’ s establishment of the Barb Fence Company in DeKalb following the success of " The Winner ".

Barbed wire played an important role in the protection of range rights in the U. S. West.

Barbed wire also emerged as a major source of conflict with the so called “ Big Die Up ” incident in the 1880s.

Barbed wire was used for the first time in the Spanish-American War during the siege of Santiago by the Spanish defenders.

Barbed wire entanglements were placed in front of trenches to prevent direct charges on men below, increasingly leading to greater use of more advanced weapons such as high powered machine guns and grenades.

Barbed wire could be exposed to heavy bombardments because it could be easily replaced, and its structure included so much open space that machine guns rarely destroyed enough of it to defeat its purpose.

Barbed wire served the purpose of keeping humanity contained and was cheap, easy to install, and deadly at the same time.

Barbed wire fences remain the standard fencing technology for enclosing cattle in most regions of the US, but not all countries.

Barbed wire for agricultural fencing is typically available in two varieties: soft or mild-steel wire and high-tensile.

Barbed wire began to be widely used as an implement of war during World War I.

Barbed wire and razor wire

Barbed wire has been reported as a tool for human torture.

Barbed wire fence in line brace

From the 1890s until the early 1900s, the fort at Inchkeith underwent a sequence of gun improvements and replacements, with the shore being covered in Barbed Wire, and the island being made ready in August 1914 for the first world war.

Chain link fencing is, arguably a form of woven wire, and is occasionally used for some livestock containment.

A magnetic containment field around the tube focuses the electrons into a beam, which then passes down the middle of an RF circuit ( wire helix or coupled cavity ) that stretches from the RF input to the RF output, the electron beam finally striking a collector at the other end.

It is the only Korean wire service that works with foreign news agencies, and provides a limited but freely available selection of news on its Internet website in Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic and French.

It also makes many of its Japanese articles available in English through wire services, an English language website, and a licensing agreement with LexisNexis.

Most of the dead were buried in mass graves that the Japanese dug out with bulldozers on the outside of the barbed wire surrounding the compound.

At the front porch, Captain Burr watched three Japanese military lorried drives off each with a section of armed soldiers and a wooden barrier fitted with barbed wire.

The 1962 Japanese single digit seven segment display in terms of anode was more like the Philips DM70 / DM71 Magic Eye as the DM160 has a spiral wire anode.

Careful Japanese artillery preparation — placing flags in the bay to indicate the range — allowed them to destroy about 20 amphibious tanks, and the Japanese strategically placed barbed wire, artillery, machine gun emplacements, and trenches to maximize the American casualties.

The Russians, with mines, Maxim machine guns and barbed wire obstacles, inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese during repeated assaults.

The Japanese reached as far as the Russian line of barbed wire entanglements by daybreak and held their ground throughout the following day, while their artillery kept the defenders busy by a continuous bombardment.

For example, tuba was brewed from coconut palms to provide alcohol to fuel gasoline vehicles, batteries were recharged by soaking them in tuba, soda bottles and fence wire were used to create a telegraph to enhance communications, curtain rods were cut into pieces and shaped to provide ammunition for. 30 caliber rifles, steel was shaved from automobile springs and curled to make recoiling springs for rifles, money was printed in both English and the local language using wooden blocks, and fisherman towed Japanese mines ashore to secure the explosive amatol so it could be used to make gunpowder.

Weapons include a steel chair, half a wooden folding table, a black baseball bat, and a barbed wire bat, the latter not being characteristic of WCW programming but rather Japanese hardcore wrestling.

It seems that the Japanese were sent data concerning the He 162 not by submarine or courier, but by wire transmission.

Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling ( FMW ) was a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded on July 28, 1989 by Atsushi Onita that specialized in hardcore wrestling involving weapons such as barbed wire and fire.

A 7cm long scratch-built model of 1 / 700 scale Japanese gunboat Fushimi ( 1939 ), built out of paper and copper wire.

From 6 April through 11 April, Calvert wrote, “ he sequence of attack was the same practically every night and only varied in intensity .” Japanese infantry attacked after dark, invariably running into stiff resistance from emplaced machine guns, mines, barbed wire, booby traps, artillery, and sustained rifle fire.

" At Odessa the Cheka tied White officers to planks and slowly fed them into furnaces or tanks of boiling water ; In Kharkiv, scalpings and hand-flayings were commonplace: the skin was peeled off victims ' hands to produce " gloves "; The Voronezh Cheka rolled naked people around in barrels studded internally with nails ; victims were crucified or stoned to death at Dnipropetrovsk ; the Cheka at Kremenchuk impaled members of the clergy and buried alive rebelling peasants ; in Orel, water was poured on naked prisoners bound in the winter streets until they became living ice statues ; in Kiev, Chinese Cheka detachments placed rats in iron tubes sealed at one end with wire netting and the other placed against the body of a prisoner, with the tubes being heated until the rats gnawed through the victim's body in an effort to escape.

Those prisoners were to be held behind the barbed wire of a former World War I prisoner of war camp for trial by a military tribunal.

Carnegie later joked that he was " the first casualty of the war " when he gained a scar on his cheek from freeing a trapped telegraph wire.

During the First World War, on the Western front, the two sides had been locked in a trench war, where kill zones by overlapping fire of machine guns and barbed wire prevented either side from breaking through.

The British Army in Egypt recognised this before the war and had the Eighth Army begin construction of several " boxes " ( localities with dug-outs and surrounded by minefields and barbed wire ), the most developed being around the railway station at Alamein.

* Charles Tyner as General Victor Ball, Harold ’ s uncle who lost an arm in the war and now pulls a hidden cord to make his wire prosthetic " salute.

After the war most of his paintings were religious allegories or depictions of post-war suffering, including his 1948 Ecce homo with self-likeness behind barbed wire.

After the war, Boosey and Hawkes also produced a " Reporter " tape recorder in the early 1950s using magnetic tape, rather than wire, which was based on German wartime technology.

Artillery bombardments on the Western Front became increasingly aimed at cutting the barbed wire that was a major component of trench warfare, particularly once new " wire-cutting " fuzes were introduced midway through the war.

As the war progressed the wire was used in shorter lengths that were easier to transport and more difficult to cut with artillery.

Other inventions were also a result of the war, such as the screw picket, which enabled construction of wire obstacles to be done at night in No Man's Land without the necessity of hammering stakes into the ground and drawing attention from the enemy.

Thinking that Marvin's intelligence will be an asset, they wire his brain into the interfaces of their intelligent war computer.

The German development teams then turned to wire guidance once they realized what was going on, but these systems were not ready for deployment until the war had already moved to France.

Silvio initially told Tony that they should go after one of Phil's men but Tony was trying to avoid a war and instead decided to blow up Phil's wire room in Sheepshead Bay.

Soviet prisoners of war, 300, 000 after the battle of Minsk alone, were either killed in concentration camps, or literally starved to death in prison camps, mostly nothing more than fields surrounded with barbed wire in the open.

While the Royal Hawaiian's lush tropical garden was ( and still is ) tranquil and poetic, on the beaches fronting the Pink Palace ( sometimes referred to as the Pink Lady ) one saw reminders of the war with rolls and rolls of barbed wire planted in the sand.

During the war, it was a major producer of prefabricated buildings, wire netting and wooden sub-assemblies of aircraft the site was bombed.

Following this action the war was defined by fixed defences of trenches, bunkers and wire, constant patrolling, and numerous clashes.

After nightfall those that were pinned down near the German wire were rounded up and made prisoners of war.

Ieng Sary, reportedly living in " an opulent Phnom Penh villa surrounded by security guards and barbed wire " was arrested on November 12, 2007 in Phnom Penh on an arrest warrant from the Cambodia Tribunal for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

After a stint as a journalist on the New York Post and then on the Community News Service ( a short-lived wire service providing news of the black, Latino, and other minority racial communuities ), he resigned to manage the successful 1970 anti-Vietnam war campaign for Congress by Bella Abzug, making her the first left radical to be elected to the U. S. House of Representatives since Vito Marcantonio.

With his military training, and some leftovers of the war found beneath the hall, Blott begins a covert campaign including blackmail and wire tapping to scrutinize Sir Giles's activities on Maud's behalf and to undermine the construction of the motorway.

When he toured war factories around the country for two weeks in September 1942, for example, only three wire service reporters accompanied him on the private railroad car Ferdinand Magellan.