Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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 ) .
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.
Directors I to III controlled the gun mounting through "follow the pointer" control and aimed at aircraft using eye shooting techniques through a simple ring sight. [1] These directors began to appear on Royal Navy cruisers, battleships and aircraft carriers in 1930. They were universally fitted, one per pom-pom gun mounting, by the late 1930s. [2]
Pom Poko (Japanese: 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ, Hepburn: Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko, lit. ' Heisei -era Raccoon Dog War Ponpoko ' ) is a 1994 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Isao Takahata , animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten , Nippon Television Network and Hakuhodo , and distributed by Toho .