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"The Rabbit in Jazz" (Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Hodges) – 16:49 "Mack the Knife" (Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht) – 8:29 Additional track on CD release "It's the Talk of the Town" (Jerry Livingston, Al J. Neiburg, Marty Symes) – 7:23 Additional track on CD release "Bean and the Boys" (Coleman Hawkins) – 6:58 Additional track on CD release
Old Japanese weapons and other military paraphernalia, c. 1892–95 A Gilbertese shark-toothed weapon (late 19th century). Major innovations in the history of weapons have included the adoption of different materials – from stone and wood to different metals, and modern synthetic materials such as plastics – and the developments of different weapon styles either to fit the terrain or to ...
The Anschütz Fortner action used in biathlon is a good example of an ergonomical straight-pull rifle with good economy of motion and high operating speed. The action lever is located close to the trigger, and is accessed by slightly moving the index finger off the trigger. Pulling the lever rearwards ejects the spent casing.
Lee's bolt action mechanism was a great improvement over other designs of the day: The rear-mounted lugs placed the operating handle much closer to the rifleman, over the trigger. This made it much quicker to operate than other, forward-mounted lug designs which forced the rifleman to move his hand forward to operate the bolt.
There also exist lever-action rifle/shotguns that feed from a box magazine, which allows them to use pointed bullets. Some of the early manual repeating pistols (e.g. Volcanic pistol) also use a scaled-down version of lever-action. A one-off example of lever-action loading on an automatic firearm is the M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun. This ...
The "automatic" fire setting allowed the rifle to fire a cartridge each time the bolt was manually cycled to closed position, [2] in similar fashion to Winchester M1897 pump-action shotgun. The rifle could be equipped with a knife bayonet, measuring 41 centimetres (16 in) and 575 grams (1.268 lb), or a blade-type bayonet of 28 centimetres (11 ...
Lunt's Embassy Scroll pattern was chosen by the United States government as its official tableware in all U.S. embassies and consulates around the world. In late 2009, the company sold its name and inventory to competitor Reed & Barton .
The cutlass is a 17th-century descendant of the edged short sword, exemplified by the medieval falchion.. Woodsmen and soldiers in the 17th and 18th centuries used a similar short and broad backsword called a hanger, or in German a messer, meaning "knife".