These mines eject tripwires to act as booby traps, and when triggered are launched upward before exploding.

* Fuze, a device for exploding military munitions such as bombs, shells, and mines

Mark Twain went to see Beecher in the pulpit and described the pastor " sawing his arms in the air, howling sarcasms this way and that, discharging rockets of poetry and exploding mines of eloquence, halting now and then to stamp his foot three times in succession to emphasize a point.

Explosive-based area-denial weapons ( mines ) may be intentionally equipped with detonators which degrade over time, either exploding them or rendering them ( relatively ) harmless.

In this way, the driver does not have any contact with the hull except on the pedals and is out of the shockwave area of exploding land mines or IEDs.

FMW escalated the violence to legitimately dangerous levels, with barbed wire ropes, timed explosives, exploding wire ropes, and ' land mines '.

The accuracy of measuring the total electrical energy entering an exploding wire during a few microseconds was verified when two independent types of comparison with the heat energy produced had an uncertainty of less than 2 percent.

Though Bob Carroll seemed to have had his head practically blown off by the exploding grenade, he lived.

When Heureux and Mercure had cut their anchor cables to escape the exploding Orient, their crews had panicked and neither captain ( both of whom were wounded ) had managed to regain control of their ship.

Later, when his crew refused to let Syn leave, Syn and Mipps slipped away in one of the ship's boats ; unknown to Syn, Mipps had arranged a convenient " accident " in the ship's powder hold with an exploding barrel of gunpowder, eliminating witnesses of Syn's piratic acts.

At first, they failed: initial preference was given to the Vanguard program whose launch vehicle had a strange and uncanny way of exploding on national television.

Meanwhile, two volunteers, Joseph Monti and Gaetano Tognetti, succeeded in exploding the Serristori barracks ; both were captured and beheaded on 24 November 1868, despite the request for clemency that Vittorio Emanuele II had sent to Pius IX.

The Bourbon Restoration existed from ( about ) 6 April 1814 until the popular uprisings of the July Revolution of 1830, excepting the interval of the " Hundred Days ", less than a full year into the Restoration, when the Bourbon monarchy had again made themselves so unpopular with the general population of France that the family was again forced to flee Paris and France for Ghent, ahead of exploding civil disorders and collapsing civil authority.

In fact, given the rough handling all the battleships had endured and the danger from exploding Ottoman vessels, it was miraculous that not a single Allied vessel was sunk.

Early in his career, Gaye had been affected by events such as the 1965 Watts riots and asked himself once, " with the world exploding around me, how am I supposed to keep singing love songs?

The shot of the exploding house at the end of the Grimaldi sequence was originally to be rotoscoped, but as the film's release date had been moved up from October / November to August 7, 1981, a lack of time prevented this.

Villagers interviewed in 1973 in Bourj el-Barajneh recalled: We were awakened by the loudest noise we had ever heard, shells exploding and artillery fire women were screaming, children were crying ... Most of the villagers began to flee with their pajamas on.

* August 2 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011, crashes within inches of the runway at Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport, exploding and killing 137 people, including a motorist whose car had been struck by the plane just before it exploded.

However, the Imperial Japanese Army artillery ( Type 96 15 cm Howitzer ) position had already observed General Buckner and commenced fire upon his position and exploding shrapnel tore into his chest.

Spider-Man was forced to let his nemesis beat him in combat so as to allow Octavius to break free of his fears and recruit him to save New York City from an exploding nuclear reactor ; Octavius had been planning to detonate the reactor to kill Spider-Man indirectly, but after his out-of-control arms beat Spider-Man seemingly senseless, Spider-Man convinced him to shut down the reactor to ensure that there were witnesses to his ' great triumph '.

The flag had following minor changes until 1848, when a revolution happened: to follow the liberal revolutions which were exploding in all Europe, King Charles Albert adopted the Napoleonic Italian tricolour, surmonted by the Savoyard shield, as national flag.

The phrase " atomic bomb " predates their existence, and dates back to H. G. Wells ' The World Set Free ( 1914 ) when scientists had discovered that radioactive decay implied potentially limitless energy locked inside of atomic particles ( Wells ' atomic bombs were only as powerful as conventional explosives, but would continue exploding for days on end ).

Walas had also created the exploding gremlin in the microwave by means of a balloon that was allowed to burst.

The launch escape system ( LES ) had to be capable of pulling the spacecraft away from a possibly exploding rocket while it sat on the pad.

The exploding population of New England, and the splintering impulses of its religious-based colonies, had led to significant English settlement in the Connecticut River Valley, along the coast of Long Island Sound and on Eastern Long Island.

Advances in metallurgy and artillery in the 1850s allowed the casting of guns that fired substantially heavier shot than had previously been in use, as well as exploding shells.

He had used data for a far more deadly gamma-ray burst ( GRB ) exploding 1 kiloparsec from Earth, not a supernova, and T Pyxidis certainly is not expected to produce a GRB.

The Oxford English Dictionary, citing the use of the term in a 1946 New York Times report on the destroyed city of Hiroshima, defines ground zero as " that part of the ground situated immediately under an exploding bomb, especially an atomic one.

Asteroid M is destroyed by Scott and Alex Summers, but not before two metal spheres fly from the exploding asteroid.

The Pancake XL4 is destroyed by a collision with a mountain, exploding in a huge fireball and earning the XL5 its name.

Three years later the tribe was destroyed by a rock falling out of the sky, as a result of a star exploding a billion years before.

But soon thereafter, the Imperious Leader is destroyed when his basestar gets too close to the exploding planet Carillon.

If the lantern is somehow destroyed, the layout of that section becomes invisible ; exploding dynamite will light up the mine for a very short time.

The mine shafts are populated by spiders, bats and other unknown creatures that are deadly to the touch ; these creatures can be destroyed using the laser, or will also be destroyed if they are close to exploding dynamite.

He lands by the " White Mailbox " area and watches Area 51 being destroyed by the exploding ship in a tornado like explosion.

The Norwegians destroyed their boat by exploding their payload, and Baalsrud and some other surviving soldiers fled.

The Rangers managed to survive the blast, but Loki was fatally wounded and died in Diabolico's arms, his body exploding and reduced to ash in the typical way monsters were destroyed.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater – Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.

* July 30 – American Civil War – Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.

It compared this cost to an estimated US $ 1. 2 billion " cost to society " from a large airliner exploding in mid-air.

Prepared to fight her way out on the surface if attacked, she went into action, sending two torpedoes with deadly accuracy into a large Japanese ammunition ship and exploding the target in a mountainous and blinding glare of white fame ...

While substantially more robust than their real counterparts, smaller and weaker vehicles stand less abuse before breaking down and finally exploding, than large armoured vehicles.

Despite the rain and the soft ground which reduced the effect of the shell bursts, the effectiveness of the artillery was aided by the otherwise favourable technical conditions which prevailed, including the location of the infantry between the guns and the assaulting Viet Cong, the convenient range of at which the engagement occurred, good communications afforded by the newly issued PRC-25 radios, the airburst affect created by rounds exploding in the rubber trees, and a large supply of rounds which had been stock-piled at Nui Dat.

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The game then cuts to a still of the Earth with a large nuclear mushroom exploding over a certain portion of it.

** For large parts, explosive hydroforming can generate the forming pressure by simply exploding a charge above the part ( complete with evacuated mold ) which is immersed in a pool of water.

During mating season, male Swamp Dragons will compete when they see each other by attempting to inflate themselves as large as possible ( hopefully without exploding ).

With only a few large shipping crates on the pier, one of Keith's barrels slipped out the stevedores ' hands while being loaded and struck the ground, exploding in a huge column of fire whose blast caused two ships at the quay to overturn.

The two are alcohol-obsessed ; when their home-brewed beer ( which takes all of two days to brew and has a head made from washing-up liquid ) isn't available, they steal from the delivery lorries pulling up at the off-licence downstairs: Edmondson's character dives out of the window into a large builders ' bucket and is hauled back up with the stolen exploding tonic water by Mayall.

Astronomers inferred that the star had been a red supergiant, and had shed a large amount of matter into space, before evolving into a blue supergiant and exploding.