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two and 10-inch
These were usually 10-inch LPs ( released until the mid-1950s ) split onto two seven-inch EPs or 12-inch LPs split onto three seven-inch EPs, either sold separately or together in gatefold covers.
Battery Warwick contained the fort's most powerful weaponry, two 10-inch M1895MI disappearing guns on Buffington-Crozier carriages ..
In addition to the standard 12-inch vinyl release, the record was also released in a special package on two 10-inch discs that also included a Look Sharp!
The Wade Hampton Battery was one of four coastal artillery batteries and contained two 10-inch guns.
Outside of Moultrie were five 10-inch mortars, two 32-pounders, two 24-pounders, and a 9-inch Dahlgren smoothbore.
At Cummings Point on Morris Island were stationed seven 10-inch mortars, two 42-pounders, an English Blakely rifled cannon, and three 8-inch Columbiads, the latter in the so-called Iron Battery, protected by a wooden shield faced with iron bars.
A limited-edition 10-inch EP was released on vinyl that summer in the U. S. Two songs from her first album Nina Hagen Band were on the A side, and two songs from her second album Unbehagen were on the B-side.
There were eleven bogies either side, each carrying two 10-inch wheels.
The diesel engine is an English Electric 6-cylinder, 10-inch bore by 12-inch stroke ( 254 mm by 305 mm ); 4-stroke, 6KT and the traction motors are two: EE506 axle-hung, nose-suspended, force-ventilated traction motors with 21. 7: 1 double reduction gear drive.
It suffered badly from subsidence which forced many changes to the plans, ending up with two 10-inch 18-ton rifled muzzle loading ( RML ) guns to landward and one 12. 5-inch 38-ton RML gun to seaward.
In 1898 Colonel Montgomery recommended that Gilkicker be modified to take the latest Breech Loading guns in place of the 10-inch and 9-inch RMLs on the lower gun floor. The upper battery was to be completely remodelled to take two of the latest 9. 2-inch BL Mark X guns on barbette V mountings with two 6-inch BL Mark VII guns on CPII mountings for closer range support.
They constructed earthworks, erected barracks, dug artillery emplacements, and mounted three large seacoast guns ( one 10-inch Columbiad and two 8-inch Columbiads ) in the fort.
The camera was originally hand-guided through one of two 10-inch ( 25. 5 cm ) aperture refracting telescopes mounted on either side of the camera.
Constructed between 1864 and 1871, the fort was armed with forty two 9-inch and 10-inch muzzle loading guns, which were mounted in a semi-circular arc of two-storey casemates faced with granite blocks and iron shields.
Fort Denison's armament included three muzzle loaders in the tower, two 10-inch ( 254 mm ) guns, one on a 360-degree traverse on the top of the tower and one in a bastion at the other end of the island, and twelve 32-pounder ( 15 kg ) cannons in a battery between the base of the tower and the flanking bastion.
The armament of Fort Wagner on the night of July 18 consisted of one 10-inch seacoast mortar, two 32 lb.
carronade, one 10-inch Columbiad, and two 12 lb.
When completed, the fort mounted 18 guns, a 10-inch ( 25 cm ) mortar and two 24-pound ( 10 kg ) Coehorn mortars.
It is composed of a gatefold sleeve housing two 12 inch records, with a single die cut page that houses a 10-inch record with a design etched on one side.

two and disappearing
With the growth of international human rights law and the frequent use of treaties to govern treatment of foreign nationals abroad, the distinction in practice between these two perspectives may be disappearing.
* May 18-Three weeks after disappearing, Joe Strummer and his girlfriend are found living in Paris, two days after they ran the Paris Marathon.
Batteries Hall and Woodruff each mounted two 6-inch M1905 guns also on disappearing carriages.
Chuck's rarely seen character disappeared without explanation in season two, giving rise to the pejorative term " Chuck Cunningham Syndrome " to describe TV characters simply disappearing from shows, to the point where later episodes of the show are scripted as if the character had never existed.
The ball of fire reportedly divided into two segments, one exiting through a window by smashing it open, the other disappearing somewhere inside the church.
His mission is to investigate the mysterious disappearance of two CIA agents: Alice Madison, who secured a role in Nikoladze's political cabinet, and Robert Blaustein, who went to find Madison when she went missing but ended up disappearing as well.
Foot persuaded Kimche to return as joint editor in 1946 ( after Mulally's departure to the Sunday Pictorial ) and eventually himself became joint editor with Anderson in 1948 after Kimche was fired for disappearing from the office to Istanbul to negotiate the safe passage of two Jewish refugee ships through the Bosporus and Dardanelles.
The two ZOITEC Tigers ( Whitz and Rayse ) team up with a rebelling Brastle to stop the Saurer, however ... and then vanish, the story booklet included with the Brastle Tiger kit describing them as " disappearing back into legend ".
Named for Brigadier General Elon J. Farnsworth, the installation included two 8-inch breech-loading rifles on disappearing carriages.
He also seems to possess some powers of size changing with him being able to shrink down enough to possibly be able to sit on Channing's shoulder, but with his regular height being between two to three feet tall and he has what can be seen as either a teleportation ability or powers of invisibility, disappearing in a burst of clouds when Channing wanted him " out of his sight " at the end of the first scene.
Members of the Orange Order formed a new Tory Party, which formed two short-lived administrations in the 1890s before disappearing.
Sightseeing highlights for anyone visiting Balboa today include the Administration Building, Ancon Hill, the Goethals Memorial, the Prado, the remaining English-language churches, the somewhat preserved architecture of the Canal Zone era ( but which unfortunately is quickly and rapidly deteriorating and disappearing due to the Panamanian government's selling of plots of land for housing, buildings, and in other places where the U. S. Government decided not to build anything at, for various reasons ), two handmade-craft markets, three bed & breakfasts and a country store & café near the Administration Building.
Once Hope learned that Bo had nothing to do with the evidence against Chelsea disappearing, the two seemed to be reconnecting.
During the 7th century, this tradition, though disappearing, was maintained in two special places, Gerardmer in the western Lorraine part of the main range and Munster for the east and Alsatian part.
The fort proper was originally armed on the Eastern side in the 1870s with two 9-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns on " Moncrieff " disappearing carriages, the only such arrangement in the UK.
The visual record Maraini captured in images of Tibet and on the Ainu people of Hokkaidō has gained significance as historical documentation of two disappearing cultures.
By 1895, modifications had been done to the flanks and it was armed with two 9. 2in and two 6in breech loaders on hydro-pneumatic disappearing mounting.
The original emplacements, nineteen 64 pounder ( 29 kg ) RML artillery pieces were almost completely demolished in 1894 when concrete emplacements for three disappearing guns and two quick firing guns were built.
The Army created three batteries: Battery Towson ( two 12 " barbette disappearing carriage guns ), Battery Heart ( two 5 " balanced pedestal-mount guns ) and Battery Augustin ( two 3 " balanced pedestal-mount guns ).
Horse transports the two around seemingly at random, appearing and disappearing at various times without any real given explanation, though Scud offers a few of his own.

two and guns
Afghans with two captured artillery field guns in Jaji, 1984.
Historically, the use of two guns at once, one in each hand, is most associated with the American Old West, where revolvers holding only six rounds of ammunition were the highest capacity handguns available and reloading was a slow process.
Use of two guns was therefore a reasonable compromise, as this allowed one gun to be cocked as the other is being fired, in practical terms doubling the rate of fire and the available number of bullets.
A possible example of actual use of two guns firing at the same time is " Dual wield ", practiced by Russian special forces.
Using modern full capacity firearms, a shooter can fire more shots with greater accuracy using a single gun in a two-handed grip than two guns with one-handed grips.
To the south the Dutch Guards, under the command of Colonel Wertmüller, came forward with their two field guns to seize the hamlet of Franquenée.
During the First World War, on the Western front, the two sides had been locked in a trench war, where kill zones by overlapping fire of machine guns and barbed wire prevented either side from breaking through.
General Edmund Allenby used infantry, to successfully attack the strong Ottoman front line, under cover of an artillery barrage. This creeping barrage lifted and moved forward at a rate of between 50 yards ( 46 m ), 75 yards ( 69 m ) and 100 yards ( 91 m ) per minute, while 4. 5-inch howitzers fired on points beyond the barrage augmented by the guns of two destroyers firing from the Mediterranean Sea.
Twelve men survived the sinking of the submarine: the crews of her two deck guns and those who had been on the conning tower.
Strong points armed with heavy machine guns were set up around the island, particularly around the island's two airports.
For example, he painted two rail-mounted coastal guns, one in conventional style, one countershaded.
Her displacement was 380 tons, and she was armed with one 90 mm Hontoria gun, four 57 mm Nordenfelt guns, two 37 mm Hotchkiss cannons and 3 Schwarzkopf torpedo tubes.
In the simplest case an economy can produce just two goods ( say " guns " and " butter ").
ETC technology offers a medium-risk upgrade and is to the point, currently, where changes for maturity are so minor that it can be considered as a realistic replacement for current solid propellant guns within the next two decades.
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.
These could be warships carrying their principal battery of carriage-mounted guns on a single deck or on two decks ( with further smaller carriage-mounted guns usually carried on the forecastle and quarterdeck of the vessel ).
In the definition adopted by the British Admiralty, they were rated ships of at least 28 guns, carrying their principal armament upon a single continuous deck — the upper deck, while ships-of-the-line possessed two or more continuous decks bearing batteries of guns.
Two of these feathers allow his guns to swivel and fire automatically ( often while Tex's hands are raised ) and the other two allow his horse ( Rocky ) and his dog ( Dusty ) to speak English.
Most automatic weapons are classed as long guns ( as the ammunition used is of similar type as for rifles, and the recoil of the weapon's rapid fire is better controlled with two hands ), but handgun-sized automatic weapons also exist, generally in the " submachine gun " or " machine pistol " class.
Machine guns of this type were originally defensive firearms crewed by at least two men, mainly because of the difficulties involved in moving and placing them, their ammunition, and their tripod.
Still, possessing, manufacturing and import / exporting airsoft guns with a muzzle energy that no more than or above two joules of kinetic energy is legal to citizens in China's SARs.
The northern fortress of Eger was famously defended in the autumn of 1552 during the 39 day Siege of Eger against the combined force of two Ottoman armies numbering circa 120, 000 men and 16 ultra-heavy siege guns.
The situation in Ireland had become critical, with the two large militia organisations openly drilling, unionists having illegally imported guns, and the reliability of the British armed forces uncertain.

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