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	25 Pounder
		Greater ranges with the Marks 1 and 2 guns could be achieved only by digging the trails down a foot for each additional 1000 yards range desired and laying by field clinometer, the maximum practicable being three feet for 9500.
		This was not a modified Mark 1 or 2 but an entirely new gun on a new carriage which permitted an elevation of 37°30', giving a range of 11 000 yards.
		First produced as the QF 18-pr Mark 4 in 1918 this gun was converted in 1935 to 25-pr by fitting a loose liner of 3.45-inch (87.6-mm) calibre.
	riv.co.nz /rnza/hist/25pr.htm (3434 words)

	QF 25 pdr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The 25 pounder was the major British field gun/howitzer that was introduced into service just before World War II and was the British Army's primary artillery system into the 1950s.
		However the 25 pdr was nevertheless considered by all to be one of the best artillery pieces in use, and in particular its HE round was particularly deadly due to excellent embrittlement of the metal casing.
		Mark II The Mark II, many of which were built by Canada in Sorel, Quebec, entered service with the Royal Canadian Artillery in 1940.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Q/QF-25-pdr.htm (1142 words)

	! International Angler
		He decided that marking and releasing fish that could be recaptured at a later date was the most obvious way to gather precise data.
		Mark Sosin has been involved in broadcasting since 1967 when he began a five-year stint covering the outdoors for CBS Radio in New York.
		Mark Sosin does everything he can to help people catch fish, and over the past 40 years he has shared his expertise — and a huge amount of useful information -- with the angling public in more than 3,000 magazine articles, 29 books, and at lectures, seminars and clinics.
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	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Irving, Washington. 1917. Rip Van Winkle & The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Vol. X, Part ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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		The sons, in short square-skirted coats with rows of stupendous brass buttons, and their hair generally queued in the fashion of the times, especially if they could procure an eel-skin for the purpose, it being esteemed, throughout the country, as a potent nourisher and strengthener of the hair.
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	Howitzer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It can be disassembled into several main components and carried by mule through very difficult terrain, although the gun size is still a limiting factor and smaller howitzers have generally been abandoned in favor of larger guns with greater capabilities.
		The Big Bertha was a large, 42 centimeter howitzer used in the German push of 1914.
		The gun was based on a similar 42 centimeter gun manufactured for a short while by Krupp for the German military.
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	FM 1-140 Chapter 5
		The Mod 1 is the standard motor for Army use as will be the Mod 3 when it is fielded.
		The M151 HE is an antipersonnel, antimateriel warhead and is traditionally referred to as the "10 Pounder." The bursting radius is 10 meters; however, high velocity fragments can produce a lethality radius in excess of 50 meters.
		An elongated version of the M151, it is commonly referred to as the "17 Pounder." The M229 filler consists of 4.8 pounds of composition B4 and has the same fuzes as the M151.
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	Light Gun v. 25 Pounder
		A single layer could not lay the howitzer; two men were needed, using a system reminiscent of World War 1 equipments long-since declared obsolete.
		The carriage lacked strength; stub axles failed, so that on long hauls at high speed the howitzer could not be towed but had to be carried on the back of a truck.
		It is connected to the underside of the carriage by three short wire ropes instead of rigid metal stays.
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	Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The ammunition was the same Mark VI.303 inch ammunition used in the rifle, in 250 round belts.
		Like the rifle, the Maxim could also fire Mark VII ammunition, but this was frowned upon as it increased the heat in the barrel and therefore the wear on the weapon.
		The 18 pounder shrapnel shell contained 375 lead/antimony balls packed in trinitrotoluene (TNT), as Lyddite cannot be used with lead balls because it causes the formation of lead picrate, an unstable explosive.
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		Tie two short badger hackles on either side of the tail, then top off with a long pale gray webby saddle tied in flat with a plum of amber marabou over that.
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	nl_1-1
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		I have a spare forestay, various size cables such any two shrouds can be replaced, turnbuckles, toggles, etc. We have added hinged trays under port and starboard cockpit seats, and other nook and cranny storage so that parts, screws, tape, drills, etc. are available for most any eventuality.
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	Catalog 1
		Original CSA marked coat button that I believe was used post war for reunions since it's backmarked by Waterbury.
		There are no markings on the plate or the keeper but you can see evidence of being on a belt.
		$25 The other is metal with a design on the front with a pearl and some paste diamonds on it.
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		About that time (March 1, 1845) Congress had, by a joint resolution, provided for the annexation of Texas, then an independent Republic, subject to certain conditions requiring the acceptance of the Republic of Texas to be final and conclusive.
		A short, steep ascent from this place carried us to the summit, from which is beheld one of the most picturesque views on earth.
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		I was zooming along on the many short straight bits before ducking and weaving through the bends and absolutely blasting past the few cars out and about at that ungodly hour.
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	Israel and the Occupied Territories: Shielded from scrutiny: IDF violations in Jenin and Nablus - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Jamal was just a short distance, a few metres or so, away from me. Jamal lay on the ground but held on to his bag.
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	Schweizer 1-35 page
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	Howitzer.eu
		The Big Bertha was a large, 42 centimeter howitzer used in the German push of 1914.
		The gun was based on a similar 42 centimeter gun manufactured for a short while by Krupp for the German military.
		That similar, older 42 centimeter gun was based almost completely on a gun designed by Louis Gathmann in the late 1800s.
	howitzer.eu (466 words)

	Mark 4
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		The copper coins, 1p and 2p are in strict weight proportions, a mixed bag of 1p and 2p coins weighing the same as 100 1p coins is worth £1.
		And that is the limit of size and weight relationships, it would not be practical to have coins with a 5 to 1 or more size or weight relationship.
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	25 Pounder Short Mark 1 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This was a shortened version of the standard 25 pounder, mounted on the Carriage 25 pr Light, Mark 1.
		The (A car suitable for traveling over rough terrain) jeep-towable gun could be broken down into 13 sections.
		Shell Weight: 11.3 kg (25 (16 ounces) lb)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/2/25/25_pounder_short_mark_1.htm (146 words)

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	New Page 1
		Character decisions have to hit certain marks: plot events; and if that train of events, driven by their decisions, ever ceases to be logical, the whole story does.
		So out we go, and ahead of us, this older gentleman has chosen to push a cart to his car, which, given the usual condition of the carts, the uphill route and rapid slope-off toward the service entry on that side, was quite a labor.
		I drove generally 25 to 30, a fairly brisk rate for downtown conditions, considering it's also the speed limit on dry pavement---and I kept getting passed by people doing 40.
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