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Queen Anne pistols are a type of breech-loading flintlock pistol known as a turn-off pistol, in which the chamber is filled from the front and accessed by unscrewing the barrel. Another distinguishing feature of the design is that the lock-plate and the breech section (chamber) of the firearm are forged as a single piece.
Statue of a street urchin performing the gesture, Ashton-under-Lyne, UK Stalin performing the gesture in the 1940s. Thumbing one's nose, also known as cocking a snook, [1] is a sign of derision, disrespect, contempt, or defiance, made by putting the thumb on the nose, holding the palm open and perpendicular to the face, and wiggling the remaining fingers.
Queen Anne's Revenge, flagship of the notorious pirate Blackbeard; Queen Anne's War, the North American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession; Queen Anne pistol, a style of flintlock pistol with a 'turn-off' or screw-off barrel allowing it to be breach-loaded with a tight-fitting ball, popular in Britain during her reign.
The Queen Anne was clearly a transitional style, creating a bridge between the exuberant Victorian and the restrained Colonial revival styles. The Queen Anne home is characterized by its ...
Princess Anne, who is widely known as the hardest working royal, appears to also be a stickler for the rules because, the royal just refused to break protocol even with Queen Camilla's permission ...
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Queen Anne–style rowhouses located in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Queen Anne style buildings in America came into vogue in the 1880s, replacing the French-derived Second Empire as the "style of the moment." The popularity of high Queen Anne Style waned in the early 1900s, but some elements continued to be found on ...
Getting a ceiling fan doesn’t mean your home will resemble a Brady Bunch episode; they now come in many modern looks. Meanwhile, Schiavon studies fan types and finds few differences in ...