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A 21-gun salute is the most commonly recognized of the customary gun salutes that are performed by the firing of cannon or artillery as a military honor. As naval customs evolved, 21 guns came to be fired for heads of state , or in exceptional circumstances for heads of government , with the number decreasing with the rank of the recipient of ...
A 21-gun salute differs from the three-volley salute typically seen at military funerals. That practice stems from a 17th-century European cease-fire tradition. After both sides of a battle had ...
A player doing a keepie-uppie Association football (more commonly known as football or soccer) was first codified in 1863 in England, although games that involved the kicking of a ball were evident considerably earlier. A large number of football-related terms have since emerged to describe various aspects of the sport and its culture. The evolution of the sport has been mirrored by changes in ...
An offensive philosophy in football designed to force the defense to show its hand prior to the snap of the ball by splitting up receivers and sending them in motion. Receivers run patterns based on the play of the defenders, rather than a predetermined plan. Also known as "run and gun". run-pass option
Red Gun: The offense of Jerry Glanville when he was with the Atlanta Falcons [410] Snoopy Bowl : Annual preseason game (week 3) between the New York Giants and the New York Jets. The name was coined in 2010 when New Meadowlands Stadium was renamed to MetLife Stadium , stemming from Snoopy being the mascot for MetLife ; a Snoopy-themed trophy ...
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The Falcons had hosted the football team from a Georgia high school that had two students and two teachers killed in a mass shooting days before that game. Lazard will likely be hit with a similar ...
21-gun salute, an arms salute as a military honor; 21 Guns (band), a 1990s rock band formed by Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham "21 Guns" (song), a song from Green Day's 2009 album 21st Century Breakdown "Twenty-One Guns" , a 2006 episode from the 12th season of the medical drama ER "Twenty-One Guns", a song on the 1996 split EP Ignite / Good ...