These weapons were still powered by hand ; however, this changed with Hiram Maxim's idea of harnessing recoil energy to power reloading in his Maxim machine gun.

Maxim's automatic machine gun was a significant improvement over the hand-cranked models then in use.

Their improved development of the Maxim gun design, the Vickers machine gun, after Maxim's resignation from the board in 1911 on his 71st birthday, was the standard British machine gun for many years.

The PM M1910 ( Пулемёт Максима на станке Соколова, Pulemyot Maxima na stanke Sokolova or " Maxim's machine gun model 1910 on Sokolov's mount ") was a heavy machine gun used by the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and the Red Army during World War II.

It was adopted in 1910 and was derived from Hiram Maxim's Maxim gun, chambered for the standard Russian 7. 62x54mmR rifle cartridge.

Maxim's other great innovation was the use of water cooling ( via a water jacket around the barrel ) to reduce overheating.

Cruz ranked as No. 58 in Maxim's Hot 100 of 2007 list, and was chosen by Empire magazine as being one of the 100 Sexiest Movie Stars in the world.

Among the other dancers at Maxim's were several displaced members of European nobility and there was a premium in demand for them.

Maxim's Paris was arguably the city's most exclusive restaurant.

Moss was voted 9th in Maxim's " 50 Sexiest Women of 1999 " and 22nd in FHMs " 100 Sexiest Women of 1995 ".

Queen Victoria died on January 22, 1901 and the actual knighting was done by Maxim's " friend and new king, Edward VII.

Maxim's father had earlier conceived of a helicopter powered by two counter-rotating rotors, but was unable to find a powerful enough engine to build it.

First was the composer's son Maxim's view on the accuracy of Testimony.

That recognition was bestowed upon them by Curnonsky, the famous French author and epicure, as well as the Parisian restaurant Maxim's after the sisters ' deaths.

One of the legends has it that Louis Vaudable, the owner of Maxim's, once tasted it and was smitten.

They died in 1911 and 1917, while Maxim's was purchased by the Vaudable family in 1932.

However, the Soviet censors demanded that Maxim's last name would be changed to something more Germanic ( this was part of the censor's efforts to steer the novel away from its originally anti-Soviet undertones ).

Progress was slowed further when the composer fell and broke his left leg at his son Maxim's wedding in October 1960.

She announced the news on radio during the Kyle and Jackie O show on 104. 1 Today FM while temporarily filling in as host for Jackie O. Sophie was placed 96th place for 2011 Maxim's hot 100.

In honor of Maxim's 100th issue in 2006, Longoria was featured on a vinyl mesh replica of its January 2005 cover located in a Clark County, Nevada desert.

Ray's dance number, complete with handstands and high kicks, all performed on a table at Maxim's held head high by four men, was a show stopper.

Maxim's next major fight was on May 30, 1951, when he made a bid for Ezzard Charles's world heavyweight title.

The most famous fight of Maxim's career was on June 25, 1952, when he made his second defense of his light heavyweight crown, against Sugar Ray Robinson at Yankee Stadium.

" The " Recon " armor of Halo 3s multiplayer was also rated tenth of Machinima. com's " Top 10 Video Game Armor ," as well as Maxim's.

She repeatedly taunted Maxim with sordid tales of her numerous love affairs and suggested that she was pregnant with another man's child, which she would raise under the pretense that it was Maxim's and he would be powerless to stop her.

This result, which would be the only knockout loss in Maxim's career, was a surprise to Ring Magazine writers and many boxing fans.

In the first, Maxim's and Nordenfelt's machine guns were to be demonstrated at La Spezia, Italy before a distinguished audience that included the Duke of Genoa.

Maxim's first patents related to the development of the Maxim were registered in June and July 1883.

National and military authorities were reluctant to adopt the weapon, and Maxim's company initially had some trouble convincing European governments of the weapon's efficiency.

After the fight three of Mills's teeth were found embedded in Maxim's left glove, Mills never fought again.

It was even unofficially rumored the Chinese government had secretly consulted the head chef for the Peking Garden Restaurant of Hong Kong, part of the Maxim's restaurant and catering conglomerate, to teach chefs back at the renowned Quanjude restaurant in Beijing how to make good Peking Duck, Quanjude's signature dish, in the early 1980s as the skills to produce the dish were largely lost during the Cultural Revolution.

Dennis has since maintained a foothold in the computer magazine business-until Maxim's success in the US in the late 1990s, computer magazines were the mainstay of Dennis ' magazine holdings, second only to Future Publishing in the UK.

In fact Muggeridge ( speaking on the BBC retrospective programme Muggeridge: Ancient & Modern ) said that he encountered no such feeling – indeed he had been allowed, on occasion, to eat and drink for nothing at Maxim's.

Hanadi Tayseer Abdul Malek Jaradat () ( September 22, 1975 – October 4, 2003 ), a Palestinian suicide bomber from Jenin, blew herself up on Saturday, October 4, 2003 in an attack on Maxim's restaurant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa.

The installation consisted of a long pool of water coloured blood red, upon which floated a small white boat named " Snövit " (" Snow White ") carrying a portrait of Hanadi Jaradat, a Palestinian suicide bomber who blew herself up on October 2003 in an attack on Maxim's restaurant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, killing 21 people and injuring 51.

Some have asserted the book's authenticity due to Shostakovich's son Maxim's alleged about-face on the accuracy of the book.

The show led her to being featured in Maxim's Hot 100, a list of the " hottest " women on earth.

Sheppard temporarily spoiled Maxim's plans, knocking him out in round one of their rematch, on March 10.

Later he joined his brother Hiram Stevens Maxim's workshop in the United Kingdom, where they both worked on the improvement of smokeless gunpowder.

* John Maxim's brief scene was left on the cutting room floor.

Indeed, the story is told as Maxim's memoir, his sole intent in writing it being to clear up the story of Glumov: another source ( in the fictional setting ) had implied that Glumov was in the Luden group all along.