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The Maxim Gorkiy was due to enter service with Orient Lines in April 2009 as SS Marco Polo II.
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The Maxim Gorkiy never was refitted and renamed Marco Polo II.
*, the intended new name of the ship SS Maxim Gorkiy when placed in service with Oriental Lines in 2009
The Black Sea Shipping Company livery carried by the Maxim Gorkiy was altered, the Soviet Union's hammer and sickle emblem in the funnel and bow replaced by the logo of the fictitious Sovereign Line, and the ship was renamed the Britannic.
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An extreme example was in the Battle of Omdurman, in which a large army of Sudanese Mahdists armed in a traditional manner were destroyed by an Anglo-Egyptian force equipped with Maxim guns.
The Maxim gun, invented in 1884, was the first true fully automatic weapon, making use of the fired projectile's recoil force to reload the weapon.
The first self-powered machine gun was invented in 1885 by Sir Hiram Maxim.
The " Maxim gun " used the recoil power of the previously fired bullet to reload rather than being hand-powered, enabling a much higher rate of fire than was possible using earlier designs such as the Nordenfelt and Gatling weapons.
In May, Stalin replaced his Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov, who was regarded as pro-western and who was also Jewish, with Vyacheslav Molotov, allowing the Soviet Union more latitude in discussions with more parties, not only with Britain and France.
Maxim Rudometkin, while he was in prison, wrote a spiritual book that was smuggled out by close friends and relatives who came to visit him that become the basis of the Molokan faith.
Several parts of the book were altered during transcription, to make it appear as if Maxim Rudometkin was telling Molokans to pray through him, contrary to the bible.
In reality, Maxim Rudometkin was a fervent follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ, and never preached contrary to that.
Meant to be the culmination of previous show trials, it was now alleged that Bukharin and others sought to assassinate Lenin and Stalin from 1918, murder Maxim Gorky by poison, partition the Soviet Union and hand out her territories to Germany, Japan and Great Britain.
In 2000 and 2003, she was featured in Maxim.
She was featured in the annual Maxim " Hot 100 " list in 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2008 and in FHM < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s " 100 Sexiest Women " of 2005.
Wearing a black lace brassiere, she was on the cover of the December 2007 issue of Maxim magazine and was named Maxim magazine's 2008 Woman of the Year.
The first automatic weapon to fire a pistol round was a scaled-down version of the Maxim machine gun, used for demonstrations in marketing the Maxim in the late 19th century, especially when a full-sized firing range was not available.
The column was equipped with six Maxim machine guns, two 7-pounder mountain guns, and a 12½ pounder field piece.
Sir Hiram Maxim built a craft that weighed 3. 5 tons, with a 110-foot ( 34-meter ) wingspan that was powered by two 360-horsepower ( 270-kW ) steam engines driving two propellers.
The craft was uncontrollable, which Maxim, it is presumed, realized, because he subsequently abandoned work on it.
The next person to enter Zaharoff's story was Hiram Maxim.
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Maxim had just defeated the great Sugar Ray Robinson by a technical knockout in 14 rounds, forcing Robinson to quit in his corner due to heat exhaustion.
After the conspiracy was revealed by the Cheka, Shklovsky went into hiding traveling over Russia and the Ukraine but was eventually pardoned in 1919 due to his connections with Maxim Gorky, and decided to abstain from political activity.
Murshed earned his first Grandmaster norm in 1984 due to his success in Bela Crkva Open, Yugoslavia ( 1983 ), Oakham School Youth Tournament ( ahead of Nigel Short and Maxim Dlugy ), Novag Commonwealth Chess Tournament 1984, Hong Kong 1984.
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Thomas and Albert Vickers, directors of Vickers and Maxim Britain's largest armaments manufacturer had much earlier decided to enter the industry at the right moment and impressed by Austin's achievements at WSSMC they took on his enterprise.
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The British Vickers machine gun was an improved and redesigned Maxim, introduced into the British Army in 1912 and remaining in service until 1968.
He was the only one of the seven sons of Maxim Vasilkovsky Maximovitch to choose a career in the Eastern Orthodox Church, in which service he was appointed Ekonom of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra by 1678.
Since its founding in 2001, Maxim Institute has supported a greater role for " civil society " and community in New Zealand life, notably in education, welfare and social service provision.
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They were armed with one or two Maxim or Vickers machine guns, which were easier to synchronize than other types, firing through the propeller arc.
The modern trigger-actuated machine gun began with various designs developed in the late 1800s and fielded in World War I, such as the Maxim gun, Lewis Gun, and MG 08 " Spandau ".
" Grammer later told Maxim, " Whether or not you ’ re a celebrity — even if you ’ re just an old slob with a video camera — you don ’ t realize you shouldn ’ t do it.
Maxim has Lemmy at number 8 on its top ten " Living Sex Legends " list, as they claim that he has slept with around 1, 200 women.
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.
* Hiram Percy Maxim develops the muffler in conjunction with the suppressor.
Zinoviev, speaking at an engagement with Maxim Gorky.
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Conversations with Eckermann, Maxim No. 279
Maxim, who knew he had a good product, successfully sought a merger with Nordenfelt, with Zaharoff as the principal salesman with a fat commission rate.
In 1890, the Maxim-Nordenfelt association broke up and Zaharoff chose to go with Maxim.
Another concern was that some of the seeds were coated with the highly toxic fungicides Maxim or thiram.
Its leading figure was Maxim Gorky, who laid the foundations of this style with his works The Mother and his play The Enemies ( both 1906 ).
It was equipped with rifles, somewhere between eight and sixteen Maxim machine guns, and between three and eleven light artillery pieces.
In the Yankee Stadium bout with Maxim, Robinson built a lead on all three judges ' scorecards, but the temperature in the ring took its toll.
After the Maxim bout, Robinson gave up his title and retired with a record of 131-3-1-1.
A small but influential group of social democrats associated with Maxim Gorky's newspaper Novaya Zhizn ( New Life ) refused to join either party.
In 1992, Ashley shared the United States Game / 10 chess championship with Maxim Dlugy.
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