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	Cannon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the West, the use of cannon was first recorded in the battles of the early 14th century, for instance, at the siege of Metz in 1324, and by the English against the Scots in 1327.
		A Rodman cannon—a successor to the similarly bottle-shaped Dahlgren cannon
		Cannons in fortified positions, such as the Maginot Line and the Atlantic Wall, were increasingly unable to protect areas from infantry and tank attacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cannon (1642 words)

	Encyclopedia: Cannons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		"Cannon" serves both as the singular and plural of the noun; "cannons" is generally considered incorrect.
		The military use of cannon declined in the mid-19th century as fabrication technology improved enough to enable the rifling of gun barrels (which in turn required the introduction of breech loading) and the use of the far more destructive explosive shells.
		The definition of a modern "cannon" is entwined with the term "autocannon", and refers to a gun with a bore diameter of 20 mm or more; capable of firing explosive ammunition; and generally possessing some form of automatic loading system.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cannons (1217 words)

	Read about Cannon at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Cannon and learn about Cannon here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Tsar Cannon), "demi-cannon", "culverin", "demi-culverin", "falcon", "falconer", "minion" etc., but by the 18th century they were classified by the weight of the round shot that they fired.
		Kentucky in the 18th Century; their size, expressed in gauge, is expressed in the fraction of a pound that a round shot of a diameter equal to their barrel bore diameter would be.
		RAF fighters with 20 mm Hispano cannon and Luftwaffe with 20 mm and 30 mm cannon.
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	Cannon - Wikipedia
		The use of cannon was first recorded in the battles of the early 14th C. At the siege of Metz in 1324, and by the English against the Scots in 1327.
		The first cannons were of two types, either small guns of cast bronze or larger banded wrought iron cannons.
		For smaller cannon arrow-like rounds were used in the 14th C, sometimes with brass fin stabilisers or inflammable heads.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cannon (356 words)

	Cannon (disambiguation) Definition / Cannon (disambiguation) Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cannon additionally refers a large, smooth-bored, muzzle-loading gun used before the advent of breech-loading, rifled guns firing explosive shells....
		Cannon fodder"Cannon Fodder" is an expression used to denote the treatment of armed forces as a worthless commodity to be expended.
		Cannon RiverThe Cannon River flows from Tetonka Lake near Waterville to Red Wing in the U.S. state of Minnesota, where it joins the Mississippi River.
	www.elresearch.com /Cannon_%28disambiguation%29 (405 words)

	Atomic Cannon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A cannon is a large, smooth-bored, muzzle-loading gun used before the advent of breech-loading, rifled guns firing explosive shells.
		A cannon is also a modern day rifled machine gun with a calibre of 20 mm or more (see autocannon).
		The word "cannon"serves both as the singular and plural ofthe noun; "cannons" is generally considered incorrect.
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	Cannon Cameras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the West, the use of cannon was first recordedin the battles of the early 14thcentury, for instance, at the siege of Metz in 1324, and by the English against the Scots in 1327.
		The first cannon were of twotypes, either small guns of cast bronze or larger banded wrought iron cannon.
		For smaller cannon arrow-like rounds were used in the 14thcentury, sometimes with brass fin stabilisers or inflammable heads.
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	wiki/Cannon (disambiguation) Definition / wiki/Cannon (disambiguation) Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Toy Cannon, nickname for former MLB player Jimmy WynnJames Sherman "Jimmy" Wynn (born March 12, 1942 in Hamilton, Ohio), nicknamed "The Toy Cannon", is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Houston Astros, Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, New York Yankees, and Milwaukee Brewers.
		Cannon (company), now part of ITTITT, originally International Telephone and Telegraph, was a large conglomerate that owned a variety of businesses during its heyday under Harold Geneen in the 1960s.
		Cannon Street in London, as is Cannon Street stationCannon Street is a National Rail and London Underground station complex in the City of London financial district of London in England.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/Cannon_(disambiguation) (939 words)

	Games Fresh : Article 'Cannon Township, Michigan' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cannon Township is a township located in Kent County, Michigan, United States.
		Sassafrass Hill is found in central Cannon Township, Kent County, Michigan.
		The dome shaped hill is an ancient glacial dune overlooking the Schutte's Creek Valley in the area of Woodbrook and takes its name from the number of sassafrass trees once found from its steep slopes to its summit.
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	Planetary orbit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Imagine a cannon sitting on top of a (very) tall mountain, which fires a cannonball horizontally.
		The mountain needs to be very tall so that the cannon will be above the earths atmosphere so that we can ignore the effects of air friction on the cannon balls.
		If the cannon fires its ball with a low initial velocity, the trajectory of the ball will curve downwards and hit the ground (A).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orbit (2505 words)

	Business Software Review : Article 'Cannon' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Shooting cannon balls connected with a chain was commonly done in naval warfare, but these chain shots were fired from a single barrel.
		The cannon was aimed at a target of two upright poles, but the uneven explosion gave the connected balls a spinning movement in an off-center direction, destroying a cornfield and damaging some trees before the chain broke and one ball damaged a chimney and the other one killed a cow.
		Cannon Fodder A walled city perpetually at war, everyone's lives and livelihood depend upon maintaining and firing the cannons, the millions of cannons, from cannons the size of the Seagrams Tower to the cannons the size of a bottle of Seagrams, the entire city is cannons.
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	Snow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Snow can be also manufactured using snow cannons, which actually create tiny granules more like sleet.
		Where snow is scarce but the temperature is low enough, snow cannons may be used to produce an adequate amount for such sports.
		Tightly packed snow may be used as a construction material in, for example, Inuit snow houses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Snow (897 words)

	Joe Cannon Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography at Karr.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Joe Cannon (soccer), American soccer player, who currently plays for the Colorado Rapids.
		Joseph Gurney Cannon, U.S. politician, former speaker of the House of Representatives.
		This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	www.karr.net /search/encyclopedia/Joe_Cannon (213 words)

	Cannon
		However, it is undeniable that regardless of their (usually feeble) physical impact, early cannons, with their noise, smoke, and flames, had a terrifying psychological impact on horses or soldiers who had never encountered the weapons before.
		The need for a micrometer or other accurate linear measurement tool, for sizing round shot diameter, was eliminated in both instances.
		See also: Cannon, 1543, 16th century, 17th century, 1862, 25 mm caliber, 30 mm caliber, American Civil War
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	Big Bertha Cannon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Big is a 1988 comedy film which tells the story of a teenaged boy who isaged to adulthood by a magical fortune telling machine.
		Big Bertha is the nickname of several WW1 artillery cannon.
		Usuallyassociated exclusively with one specific gun, the Kaiser Wilhelm Geschütz, created by Germany to bomb Paris from a safe distance-- it was also used to name a model of heavy mortar-like howitzers.
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	Encyclopedia: Yi Sun-sin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		At Busan, the surviving Japanese warships took aboard some heavier guns and iron plates, and clustered beneath the harbourâs defences of heavy shore-mounted cannon.
		His cannons and guns had longer range than the enemy.
		His turtle ship, which actually had first set sail the day before the invasion, was very effective in leading the attack and breaking the enemyâs formation.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yi-Sun_sin (4582 words)

	Encyclopedia: Rhydon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Its thick hide is capable of shrugging off even direct hits from a cannon and can withstand molten lava of 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit in temperature (close to 2,000 degrees Celsius).
		Look up hide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Hide may refer to: Rawhide, the skin of animals hide (musician), a Japanese rock musician, one of the two guitarists of X Japan, and founder, composer, singer and guitarist hide, the traditional unit of land area This is a disambiguation page â€” a...
		A small cast-iron cannon on a carriage A cannon is any large tubular firearm designed to fire a heavy projectile over a considerable distance.
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	Business Software Review : Article 'Cannon (disambiguation)' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Water cannon, originally designed for fireboats, now also used for crowd control
		Electrified water cannon, experimental version of the water cannon, to be used for crowd control
		Cannon Street in London, as is Cannon Street station and the Cannon Street Railway Bridge
	www.business-software-review.org /DisplayArticleFull1206446.html (115 words)

	Orbit - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This understanding is particularly useful for mathematical analysis, because the object's motion can be described as the sum of three one-dimensional orbits around a gravitational center.
		As an illustration of the orbit around a planet (eg Earth), the much-used cannon model may prove useful.
		As the firing velocity is increased, the cannonball will hit the ground further and further away from the cannon, because while the ball is still falling towards the ground, the ground is curving away from it (see first point, above).
	www.netlexikon.akademie.de /Orbit.html (2170 words)

	loan Cannon - loan-reports.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		If they default, lenders cannot recoup the full value of the loan....Federal Reserve pushes up short-term interest rates, to which the loans are tied, Cannon said...
		The Quakes other two players who were on loan to USL First Division teams, Kevin...now has 26 career shutouts in San Jose, tying him with Joe Cannon for the all...
		Scale model of RE Lee Camp; cannon that fired first shot at Fort Sumter....Sheridan.
	www.loan-reports.com /Cannon (348 words)

	Artillery Cannon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The word bombarde was used for Camnon but from the early 15th century came to refer only to the largest weapons.
		The oldest evidence for the use of Cennon is a relief carved by Buddhist monks in China in 1128, where a Cznnon is portrayed among other weapons of war.
		The first Cannoh were of twotypes, either small guns of cast bronze or larger banded wrought iron Cabnon.
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	Science Fair Projects - London Bridge
		For other meanings, see London Bridge (disambiguation); for the nearby overground and underground railway station, see London Bridge station.
		London Bridge is a bridge over the River Thames, between the City of London and Southwark.
		It is between Cannon Street Railway Bridge and Tower Bridge; it also forms the western end of the Pool of London.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/London_Bridge (1509 words)

	stock Cannon - stock-notes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Wistrich that Medawar is the subject of a separate "stock fraud" investigation...Medawar would ever consider," said Deputy Federal Public Defender Victor Cannon....
		Miller relinquished the lead to Cannon on the restart....Scott Thunberg captured the 20-lap street stock main over Kevin Seigler, Kody Sites, Rich Bossinger and...
		Ilan Levy-Mayer, vice president of Cannon Trading Inc believes crude oil may well end the day above 66.50 usd a barrel....
	www.stock-notes.com /Cannon (365 words)

	math lessons - The Covenant
		When encountered in combat they can be as difficult as walking tanks, with their massive size (8' in their normal contracted stance and 12' full sized), near impenetrable armor, and hand-mounted cannons.
		They are easily the toughest infantry unit in the Covenant military, but a lucky shot targetting the fleshy orange skin between the armour plating can sometimes succeed in bringing the Hunter down in a single shot.
		Because of their aforementioned tendancy towards panic, disarray, and dying, the Grunts are usually herded as cannon fodder and directed by one or more of the higher caste.
	www.mathdaily.com /lessons/The_Covenant (2379 words)

	CORTICAL REPRESENTATION OF THE EMOTIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Cannon, Bard and others vigorously challenged this view.
		Based on observations in sympathectomized or decerebrate animals who are capable of producing authentic emotional displays when appropriately stimulated and patients with sympathectomies who report the ability to experience emotions, they concluded that visceral changes were neither sufficient nor specific to emotional experience.
		Prosody is a nonverbal (suprasegmental) feature of language that, in addition to enhancing the verbal aspects of communication by modifying meaning through syntactical disambiguation, also conveys affective (attitudinal and emotional), dialectal and idiosyncratic information to the listener.
	w3.uokhsc.edu /neuro/faculty/emot.htm (4904 words)

	Dobson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dobsonian telescopes, the design of which was adapted from cannon mounts to telescopes by John Dobson.
		This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
		If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/d/do/dobson.html (83 words)

	Clipper - Bvio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		They had low expected lifetimes and rarely outlasted two decades of use before they were broken up for salvage.
		Given their speed and maneuverability, clippers frequntly mounted cannon or caronade and were often employed as pirate vessels, privateers, smuggling vessels, and in interdiction service.
		Decline in the use of clippers was a result of the steamship.
	bvio.ngic.re.kr /Bvio/index.php/Clipper (551 words)

	Cannon - guideofcasinos.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Great discounts on historical replica miniature cannons, Civil War, gatling gun, 18th century naval, French revolution, guillotine and more.
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	Cannon Beach
		1) " Cannon" -- In the context of Cannon Beach
		Initially round shot was made of iron but this was soonreplaced with stone bhttp:/.
		For Lord Emsworth 's butler in the stories of P. Wodehouse, see Sebastian Beach.
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	Bryce Cannon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bryce is a texture based rendering and ray tracing program ideal for creating 3D landscapes, space scenes, buildings and otherobjects.
		The collectionof images created along the camera’s trajectory are combined to create a realistic animation simulating a journey through adynamic world.
		2) " Cannon" -- in the term Bryce Cannon
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