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Ambrose Everts Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an American army officer and politician who became a senior Union general in the Civil War and three-time Governor of Rhode Island, as well as being a successful inventor and industrialist.
The carbine was designed and patented by Ambrose Burnside, who resigned his commission in the U.S. Army to devote himself full-time to working on the weapon. The carbine used a special brass cartridge which was also invented by Burnside. This cartridge contained a bullet and powder, but no primer; Burnside considered primed cartridges a safety ...
Burnside High School (Māori: Te Kura o Waimairi-iri) is a state co-educational secondary school located in the suburb of Burnside in Christchurch, New Zealand. With a roll of 2,544 students, [ 1 ] it is the largest school in New Zealand outside Auckland , [ 3 ] and is among the country's four largest schools.
Kamar de los Reyes, who was best known for playing cop Antonio Vega on the ABC daytime soap One Life to Live, has died at the age of 56. The actor passed away on Sunday, Dec. 24, in Los Angeles ...
The Knoxville campaign [1] was a series of American Civil War battles and maneuvers in East Tennessee, United States, during the fall of 1863, designed to secure control of the city of Knoxville and with it the railroad that linked the Confederacy east and west, and position the First Corps under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet for return to the Army of Northern Virginia.
Come On In is a remix album by Delta blues guitarist R. L. Burnside, released by the label Fat Possum in 1998. Largely produced by Tom Rothrock, the album was a departure for Burnside in that it fuses his blues guitar work with dance and electronic music, incorporating sampling and looping techniques.
Cara-Beth Burnside, nicknamed "CB" (born July 23, 1971, in Orange, California, United States), is a professional skateboarder and snowboarder and ranks amongst the top female athletes in these sports in the world.
The Burnside problem for groups with bounded exponent can now be restated as follows: Burnside problem II. For which positive integers m, n is the free Burnside group B(m, n) finite? The full solution to Burnside problem in this form is not known. Burnside considered some easy cases in his original paper: B(1, n) is the cyclic group of order n.