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William Tell 's apple-shot as depicted in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia (1554 edition). Shooting an apple off one's child's head, also known as apple-shot (from German Apfelschuss) is a feat of marksmanship with a bow that occurs as a motif in a number of legends in Germanic folklore (and has been connected with non-European folklore).
Nanosaur is a science fiction third-person shooter video game developed by Pangea Software and published by Ideas From the Deep for Mac OS 9 and Microsoft Windows.The player takes on the form of a Nanosaur, a genetically engineered intelligent dinosaur from the future, sent back in time just prior to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
St. Louis gun-toting incident. On June 28, 2020, during the George Floyd protests in St. Louis, Missouri, Patricia and Mark McCloskey pointed firearms and yelled at protesters marching through the private neighborhood they co-owned. [1][2][3] Some protesters yelled back. The incident gained national news coverage and sparked controversy. [2][3]
Shooting. The shooting occurred during the 41st annual gathering of the festival on Sunday, July 28, 2019—its third and final day—shortly before the scheduled closing at 6:00 p.m. [10] The gunman entered the festival by using bolt cutters to cut through a wire fence along Uvas Creek, thus evading security screening. [11][12] Authorities ...
Chekhov's gun. Chekhov's gun (Chekhov's rifle; Russian: Чеховское ружьё) is a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary and irrelevant elements should be removed. For example, if a writer features a gun in a story, there must be a reason for it, such as it being fired some time later in the plot.
Mobile Suit Z-Gundam: Hot Scramble, a first-person shooter; Neon Genesis Evangelion video games; One Must Fall 2097; Patlabor; Perpetuum; Phantom Crash; Robocraft; Robot Alchemic Drive; Robotech video games; Senko no Ronde; S.L.A.I.: Steel Lancer Arena International; Slave Zero; Shattered Steel; Shogo: Mobile Armor Division; Star Cruiser, a ...
Ruby Ridge. Location in Idaho. The Ruby Ridge standoff was the siege of a cabin occupied by the Weaver family in Boundary County, Idaho, in August 1992. On August 21, deputies of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) came to arrest Randy Weaver under a bench warrant for his failure to appear on federal firearms charges.
Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children and teens under the age of 20 in the United States. [1][failed verification – see discussion] Since the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, there have been 417 cases of gun violence in schools as of September 2024. [2] The frequency of school shootings increased dramatically after ...