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Gadkari was born on 26 May 1885 in a Marathi Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu family in the town of Navsari of Gujarat.He died at Saoner near Nagpur on 23 January 1919. [1]His father Ganesh Raghunath[Vasudeo] Gadkari died on 24 September 1893, and poverty hindered his timely formal education.
Jerry Charles Miculek Jr. (/ ˈ m ɪ tʃ ə l ɛ k / MITCH-ə-lek; born September 7, 1954) is an American professional competition shooter known for his achievements in 3-Gun and speed shooting. [1] He holds five officially sanctioned world records in revolver shooting and over 15 unsanctioned records with firearms ranging from 9mm semi ...
A sniper is a military or paramilitary marksman who engages targets from positions of concealment or at distances exceeding the target's detection capabilities. [1] Snipers generally have specialized training and are equipped with telescopic sights.
Qoshqarbaev was born on 19 October 1924 to an ethnic Kazakh family in the village of Akmolinsk within the Kirghiz ASSR (later Kazakh SSR), currently located within the present-day city of Astana. His mother died in 1928 and he was eventually sent to an orphanage at the age of 13 after his father was repressed and declared an " enemy of the ...
Roberto Spinetti (born 1965), known as The 7.65 Caliber Killer (Italian: Il killer della calibro 7,65), [1] is a Swiss serial killer who murdered three prostitutes and wounded one more in northern Italy from October to November 2003 during robberies, which he carried out to pay off his gambling debts.
Jeffrey Allen Manchester (born 1971 [1]) is an American convicted spree-robber and former United States Army Reserve soldier known as the 'Rooftop Robber' or simply 'Roofman' due to his modus operandi of entering his targets (most commonly McDonald's locations) by drilling through the roof and dropping in. [2] Before being apprehended for the second time in 2005 in Charlotte, North Carolina ...
Here were born or lived people of high caliber such as Sigismund Arquer, scholar, theologian, jurist and geographer, who died at the stake in Toledo, charged with being a Lutheran; [19] the lawyers John Dexart, [20] Francis Bellit, [21] Antonio Canales de Vega [22] and Francis Aleo; [23] the physician Joan Thomas Porcell; [24] the historian ...
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]