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The name "Medicine Hat" is an English interpretation of Saamis (SA-MUS) – the Blackfoot word for the eagle tail feather headdress worn by medicine men. [14] Several legends are associated with the name of a mythical mer-man river serpent named Soy-yee-daa-bee – the Creator – who appeared to a hunter and instructed him to sacrifice his wife to get mystical powers which were manifested in ...
Along with a high rate of fire, the fairly heavy round (390 g or 14 oz) used by the Kortik is comparable to the DPU rounds of the GAU-8 Avenger (425 g or 15.0 oz), although the muzzle velocity (and therefore both the kinetic energy and effective range) is slightly lower, partially offsetting the high caliber and rate of fire.
Viewed from the air, the feature has been said to resemble a human head wearing a full Indigenous type of headdress, facing directly westward.An additional road (Township Road 123A) and an oil well have been said to resemble a pair of earphones worn by the figure, [2] [3] which were installed in the early 2000s [4] and are expected to disappear once the oil well is abandoned.
Getty, Ronald; Forbes, Jack (October 1981). "Alberta pottery: An overview of the pottery industry in the Medicine Hat/Redcliff area of southern Alberta". Canadian Antiques and Art Review. 3 (22): 26– 30. ISSN 0704-4429. Hayward, Anne (2001). The Alberta pottery industry, 1912-1990: A social and economic history. Mercury Series. Vol. 50.
A mine shell (from German: Minengeschoss, "mine shot") or high-explosive, high-capacity (HEHC) [a] in British military nomenclature, [1] [2] [3] is a military explosive shell type characterized by thin (usually steel) shell walls and a correspondingly high quantity of explosives, much higher than the traditional high-explosive shell type per caliber, meaning that mine shells trade ...
KOTC: High Caliber: Lincoln City, OR, USA 1. def. Ryan Walker on Feb 4, 2017 at KOTC: Heavy Trauma 2. def. Justin Baesman on May 27, 2017 at KOTC: Head Strong 3. def. Tyson Jeffries on Aug 5, 2017 at KOTC: Fractured. Egli vacated the title after signing with Absolute Championship Berkut. - Dez Hill def. Anthony Rozema for interim title April 8 ...
This high caliber autocannon has an effective range of 6 km and fires at a rate of 120–140 rds/min. The turret traverses 360° across the azimuth and has an elevation range between −8° and +70°. 80–100 rounds are carried within the turret with an additional 100 stowed away. [2]
Adolf Gun, a Nazi German cross-channel firing gun. The formal definition of large-calibre artillery used by the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA) is "guns, howitzers, artillery pieces, combining the characteristics of a gun, howitzer, mortar, or rocket, capable of engaging surface targets by delivering primarily indirect fire, with a calibre of 76.2 mm (3.00 in) and above". [1]