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  2. Pencil detonator - Wikipedia

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    The briefcase bomb used in the July 20 plot used a captured British pencil detonator inserted into a block of British plastic explosives weighing approximately two pounds. The bomb was set to 30 minutes and detonated as planned, but Hitler survived with minor injuries. Stauffenberg could not prepare the second block, though. He got rid of it ...

  3. Time bomb - Wikipedia

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    A time bomb's timing mechanism may be professionally manufactured either separately or as part of the device, or it may be improvised from an ordinary household timer such as a wind-up alarm clock, wrist watch, digital kitchen timer, or notebook computer. The timer can be programmed to count up or count down (usually the latter; as the bomb ...

  4. Ahmed Mohamed clock incident - Wikipedia

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    The episode arose when Mohamed reassembled the parts of a digital clock in an 8-inch (20 cm) [1] pencil container and brought it to school to show his teachers. His English teacher thought the device resembled a bomb, confiscated it, and reported him to the principal. The local police were called, and they questioned him for an hour and a half.

  5. 30 Minutes or Less - Wikipedia

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    30 Minutes or Less (stylized onscreen as 30:Minutes or Less) is a 2011 American action comedy film directed by Ruben Fleischer, starring Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride, Aziz Ansari, Nick Swardson, Michael Peña, and Fred Ward. The story follows a pizza delivery boy who is strapped with a bomb and forced to, with the help of his friend, rob a ...

  6. Doomsday Clock - Wikipedia

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    It has since been set backward 8 times and forward 17 times. The farthest time from midnight was 17 minutes in 1991, and the nearest is 90 seconds, set in January 2023. The Clock was moved to 150 seconds (2 minutes, 30 seconds) in 2017, then forward to 2 minutes to midnight in January 2018, and left unchanged in 2019. [5]

  7. 5 things to know for Nov. 20: SpaceX, Russia, Trump ... - AOL

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    Thanksgiving dinner will cost less this year amid reduced demand for turkeys, an annual survey found.The average price of a 16-pound turkey — typically the star of the holiday meal — is $25.67 ...

  8. A Cold War-era bomb shelter in Florida has new owners. What's ...

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    The bomb shelter and surrounding 5.85 acres were sold July 12 to South Rock Road LLC for $899,000. According to neighbor Marty Rhoat, speculation about the bunker has grown in the surrounding ...

  9. Daallo Airlines Flight 159 - Wikipedia

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    It was thought that a laptop had been rigged with a timer device to explode the bomb mid-flight. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] According to Mohamed Ibrahim Yassin Olad, the CEO of Daallo Airlines, the suicide bomber and 69 of the 73 other passengers on board [ 3 ] were meant to board a Turkish Airlines flight, which was cancelled on the morning of 2 February ...