Shells are usually large calibre projectiles fired by artillery and combat vehicles ( including tanks ), and warships.

Founded in 2006, a permanent exhibition of Shells from the Greek Seas is displayed at the Chatzopouleios Library.

Shells of the species can be purchased at local shell shops, or can be seen on display in the Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum, in some of the glass display tables at the Sanibel Cafe, or at the Sanibel Shell Fair in early March.

The pupils are known as Shells ( as they are at Radley College and Harrow School ) because when the school first started pupils would be made to sit in a shell-shaped formation around the edge of the Old Library.

During the Shells pupils get to try out all the extracurricular activities on offer at the school in Shell Circus.

" Shells " was filmed primarily at the Pew Campus of Grand Valley State University with several shots of Rob Bell sitting in the Steelcase Library.

Nicolaescu's debut as a director was in 1962 with the short film Scoicile nu au vorbit niciodată ( Shells Have Never Spoken ).

Shells of species within this class range from about 0. 5 to 15 cm in length.

* Mortar Shells: all fireworks of the " aerial shell "/" mortar shell " type, which launch single, large projectiles into the air where they explode to create effects-are Category 4.

* Shells ( i. e. command line interpreters ): bash, dash, pdksh, tcsh, zsh

* " Mosquito Wars on U-Boats With 6-pound Shells.

Shells and rockets fell everywhere.

The second article detailed the discovery of the endohedral fullerenes in " Lanthanum Complexes of Spheroidal Carbon Shells " in the Journal of the American Chemical Society v. 107 p 7779 ( 1985 ).

The third announced the discovery of the fullerenes in " Reactivity of Large Carbon Clusters: Spheroidal Carbon Shells and Their Possible Relevance to the Formation and Morphology of Soot " in the Journal of Physical Chemistry v. 90 p 525 ( 1986 ).

Shells created for other operating systems than Unix, often provide similar functionality.

Shells read configuration files on multiple circumstances which differ depending on the shell.

Shells can knock out a player ; bananas will cause players to skid.

Shells are commonly colored brown, black, or olive green.

His books of poetry include Poems 1913 and 1914 ( 1914 ); Poems Translated from the French ( 1914 ); Three Poems ( 1916 ); The Barn ( 1916 ); The Silver Bird of Herndyke Mill ; Stane Street ; The Gods of the World Beneath, ( 1916 ); The Harbingers ( 1916 ); Pastorals ( 1916 ); The Waggoner and Other Poems ( 1920 ); The Shepherd, and Other Poems of Peace and War ( 1922 ); Old Homes ( 1922 ); To Nature: New Poems ( 1923 ); Dead Letters ( 1923 ); Masks of Time: A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative ( 1925 ); Japanese Garland ( 1928 ); Retreat ( 1928 ); Winter Nights: A Reminiscence ( 1928 ); Near and Far: New Poems ( 1929 ); A Summer's Fancy ( 1930 ); To Themis: Poems on Famous Trials ( 1931 ); Constantia and Francis: An Autumn Evening, ( 1931 ); Halfway House: A Miscellany of New Poems, ( 1932 ); Choice or Chance: New Poems ( 1934 ); Verses: To H. R. H. The Duke of Windsor, ( 1936 ); An Elegy and Other Poems ( 1937 ); On Several Occasions ( 1938 ); Poems, 1930-1940 ( 1940 ); Shells by a Stream ( 1944 ); After the Bombing, and Other Short Poems ( 1949 ); Eastward: A Selection of Verses Original and Translated ( 1950 ); Records of Friendship ( 1950 ); A Hong Kong House ( 1959 ); Poems on Japan ( 1967 ).

Shells of cicadas are employed in the traditional medicines of China.

Shells seemed to be pouring upon us incessantly one after another.

It is made up of a claw, four teatcups, ( Shells and rubber liners ) long milk tube, long pulsation tube, and a pulsator.

In August 2012, a renovated exhibit about Raymond Burr with information about him as an actor, a benefactor and a shell collector, opened in the museum's Great Hall of Shells.

Shells designed for this purpose have a greatly strengthened case with a specially hardened and shaped nose, and a much smaller bursting charge.

Shells are very often washed up onto a beach empty and clean, the animal having already died, and the soft parts having rotted away or having been eaten by either predators or scavengers.

* Shells historically have been and still are made into, or incorporated into, necklaces, pendants, beads, earrings, buttons, brooches, rings, hair combs, belt buckles and other uses.

* Vilnay, Oren, Cable Nets and Tensegric Shells: Analysis and Design Applications, New York: Ellis Horwood Ltd., 1990.

While there, Dahlgren established the U. S. Navy's Ordnance Department ; became an ordnance expert ; developed a percussion lock ; and wrote a number of books, including The System of Boat Armaments in the United States Navy, Shells and Shell Guns, and Naval Percussion Locks and Primers.

An important development came in 1884 with, a large torpedo boat with six 47 mm quick-firing guns and three torpedo tubes.

The long vessel was armed with four 1-pounder ( 37 mm ) quick-firing guns and six torpedo tubes, reached 19 knots ( 35 km / h ), and at 203 tons, was the largest torpedo boat built to date.

Above deck, one or more quick-firing guns were mounted in the bows, in front of the bridge ; several more were mounted amidships and astern.

For quick-firing guns the charge is contained in a brass case to which is fitted a primer for igniting the charge.

The usual recoil system in modern quick-firing guns is the hydro-pneumatic recoil system.

By December 1902 the battery was armed with three 12-pounder and three 6-pounder quick-firing guns and ten 12. 5-inch and fifteen 10-inch rifle muzzle-loading ( RML ) weapons.

By 1941 it was armed with two 12-pounder and two 6-pounder quick-firing guns.

In 1898 six 12-pounder quick-firing guns were installed.

These new guns incorporated recoil control devices which facilitated consistency of aim, allowed single-motion loading and fired as soon as the cartridge was inserted and ejected it after firing: hence the name quick-firing.

In the 1930s, twin 6-pounder, quick-firing anti-torpedo boat guns ; five searchlights ; an Operational Tower ; two machine-guns and two twin Lewis anti-aircraft machine guns were added due to reports of impending war.

In 1898 the battery was reconstructed to provide two concrete emplacements for a pair of 6-pounder quick-firing guns, which, together with a sister battery at St Mawes, would prevent fast torpedo boats evading the heavier guns on the headland and entering the Carrick Roads.

Secondary and anti-aircraft armament consisted of a single 3-inch quick-firing high-angle anti-aircraft gun and ten 0. 303-inch machine guns ( eight Lewis guns and two Maxim guns ).

It was also augmented with guns taken from other forts-two 4. 7 " MK1 quick-firing guns from Fort Paull on the north bank of the Humber ( which was disarmed, being deemed to be too close to Hull ), and what appears to be a 6 " B. L.

However, neither ship was built, probably because the development of quick-firing traversing guns made these vessels vulnerable as they closed for attack.