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Jaivana | Jaivan Cannon-World's largest Cannon on wheels, which was cast in India during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah by his Kiladar, Jai Singh II.
It was defined by Claude Bernard and later by Walter Bradford Cannon in 1926, 1929 and 1932.
Joseph Gurney Cannon ( May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926 ) was a United States politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party.
Cannon was born in Guilford, Guilford County, North Carolina, and in 1840 moved with his parents to Annapolis, Indiana, about 30 miles north of Terre Haute, Indiana.
He was the elder of two sons of Gulielma ( née Hollingsworth ) and Horace Franklin Cannon, a country doctor.
Horace Cannon drowned August 7, 1851 when Joseph was fifteen years old as he tried to reach a sick patient by crossing Sugar Creek.
Because Cannon did not have a ticket, he was removed from the train in Tuscola.
After Lincoln was elected President in 1860, Cannon received an appointment as a regional prosecutor.
Cannon, a member of the Republican Party, was elected as to the United States House of Representatives from Illinois to the Forty-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses ( March 4, 1873 – March 4, 1891 ), and was the chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department ( Forty-seventh Congress ), Committee on Appropriations ( Fifty-first Congress ).
" Uncle Joe ", as he was known, often clashed with fellow Republican Theodore Roosevelt, who Cannon remarked had " no more use for the Constitution than a tomcat has for a marriage license ".
Cannon was chairman to the Committee on Appropriations ( Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh Congresses ), Committee on Rules ( Fifty-eighth through Sixty-first Congresses ), and Speaker of the House of Representatives ( Fifty-eighth through Sixty-first Congresses ).
However, his iron rule of the House was broken, and Cannon lost the Speakership when the Democrats won a majority later that same year.
Cannon declined to run in the 1922 Congressional election, and retired at the end of his last term in 1923 ; he was featured on the cover of the first issue of Time magazine on the last day of his last term in office.
* The first building of offices for congressmen outside of the United States Capitol building was named after Cannon.
However, the modern version of the stellar classification scheme was developed by Annie J. Cannon during the 1900s.
The catalogue was compiled by Annie Jump Cannon and her co-workers at Harvard College Observatory under the supervision of Edward Charles Pickering, and was named in honour of Henry Draper, whose widow donated the money required to finance it.
The game, whose concept was devised by Andy Davidson, was described by the Amiga gaming press as a cross between Cannon Fodder and Lemmings.
With the aid of District Attorney and later Hawaii's Attorney General John Manicote ( played by Glenn Cannon ), McGarrett was successful in sending most of his enemies to prison.
William Howard Taft was nominated with 702 votes to 68 for Knox, 67 for Hughes, 58 for Cannon, 40 for Fairbanks, 25 for LaFollette, 16 for Foraker, 3 for President Roosevelt, and one abstention.
Mann " had angered many Republicans by objecting to their private bills on the floor ;" also he was a protégé of autocratic Speaker Joseph Cannon, R-IL ( 1903 – 1911 ), and many Members " suspected that he would try to re-centralize power in his hands if elected Speaker.

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Thanks to the efforts of the 13th Autonomous, however, the Mars Zeons were defeated and the Olympus Cannon was destroyed.
Hackenschidt continued touring England and defeated the local favorites Tom Cannon, Tom Connors, Tom MacInerney and Tom Clayton.
After Rave was defeated in a match by Arik Cannon, Fairplay entered the ring, confronted Cannon and got on the receiving end of his finishing maneuver, Total Anarchy.
Cochran took Hackenschmidt under his wing and booked him into a match in which Hackenschmidt defeated another top British wrestler, Tom Cannon, for the European Greco-Roman Heavyweight Championship.
After the Intelligencia members were defeated, the Sinister Six stole their Zero Cannon ( a powerful weapon which changes Earth's gravity field to send specific objects to space ).
In the election, Polk narrowly defeated Cannon by a vote of 54, 680 to 52, 114.
However, on November 2, 2004, Naifeh defeated Cannon by a margin of approximately 58 % to 42 %.
In 1958, he was elected to the United States Senate, unseating Republican Senator Ernest Malone with 58 % of the vote .. Cannon was nearly defeated in his first re-election bid in 1964, holding off Republican Lieutenant Governor Paul Laxalt in one of the closest Senate elections ever.
: Worked under Hol ( Horu ) on his mirage island shipping children to him, was defeated by Bocca who's Aiba Machine Elan Vital appeared to be immune to the Aibar Machine sealing attack Global Noise Cannon.
She was narrowly defeated in the race to become the leader of the Progressive Democrats by Ciarán Cannon.
They would make it to the finals of the tournament, where they were defeated by AC / DC ( Arik Cannon and Claudio Castagnoli ), after Hero turned on Quackenbush.
Cannon ran for the UFM in the 1922 provincial election, and defeated Liberal incumbent James Baird in the constituency of Mountain.
Cannon, however, faced a challenge from Conservative candidate George Fraser, whom he defeated without difficulty on December 24, 1923.
Cannon was defeated by Liberal candidate Irvin Cleghorn in the 1927 provincial election, losing by eighty-four votes.
Later in the night, Rave was defeated in the finals of the tournament by Arik Cannon.
On September 24, 2005, Sydal won the fifth Ted Petty Invitational tournament, defeating El Generico, Tyler Black, and Sabin to reach the final match, where he defeated Kevin Steen and Arik Cannon.
Rhinix ended up fighting the Pink Ranger and was defeated by RIC's new mode, the Canine Cannon.
She was defeated by the Canine Cannon.
Bugglesworth was defeated by the Canine Cannon.
Once he was back in his own body, Wootox was defeated by the Canine Cannon.
* 1st Round match: Mike Quackenbush defeated Arik Cannon to advance.
* 1st Round match: Sabian defeated Drake Younger, Bruce Maxwell & TJ Cannon to advance.

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