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The first naval pom-pom was the QF 1.5-pdr Mark I, a piece with a calibre of 37 mm (1.46 in) and a barrel 43 calibres long. This was tested in the Arethusa -class light cruisers HMS Arethusa and Undaunted but did not enter full service, being replaced instead by a larger weapon, the QF 2-pdr Mark II (see below).
The weepul (also known as a weeple, wuppie, or wuppet) is a small, spherical, fluffy pom-pom toy, with large, plastic googly eyes, and no limbs. Weepuls come in various colors. Weepuls come in various colors.
Pom-poms are mainly used to cheer for sports. Three cheerleaders dancing with pom-poms in Tokyo, Japan. A pom-pom – also spelled pom-pon, pompom or pompon – is a decorative ball or tuft of fibrous material. The term may refer to large tufts used by cheerleaders, or a small, tighter ball attached to the top of a hat, also known as a bobble ...
Hiram Maxim originally designed the Pom-Pom in the late 1880s as an enlarged version of the Maxim machine gun.Its longer range necessitated exploding projectiles to judge range, which in turn dictated a shell weight of at least 400 grams (0.88 lb), as that was the lightest exploding shell allowed under the Saint Petersburg Declaration of 1868 and reaffirmed in the Hague Convention of 1899.
Lybia edmondsoni is a species of small crab in the family Xanthidae and is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.Like other members of the genus Lybia, it is commonly known as the pom-pom crab or boxer crab because of its habit of carrying a sea anemone around in each of its claws, these resembling pom-poms or boxing gloves.
FuzzyCLIPS is a fuzzy logic extension of the CLIPS (C Language Integrated Production System) expert system shell from NASA. It was developed by the Integrated Reasoning Group of the Institute for Information Technology of the National Research Council of Canada and has been widely distributed for a number of years. It enhances CLIPS by ...
Chim-Pom (stylized "Chim↑Pom") is an artist collective formed in Tokyo in 2005, when all the members were in their twenties. The six members are Ellie ( エリイ ) , Ryūta Ushiro ( 卯城竜太 ) , Yasutaka Hayashi ( 林靖高 ) , Masataka Okada ( 岡田将孝 ) , Toshinori Mizuno ( 水野俊紀 ) and Motomu Inaoka ( 稲岡求 ) .
They were prominently used in the Weepul promotional toys, invented in the 1970s by Tom Blundell, an executive of the toy company BIPO, who stuck googly eyes to a small pom-pom out of boredom. The inventor claimed that 400 million were sold between 1971 and 2012.