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Larry Hoover Sr (born November 30, 1950) [3] [2] [6] is an American former gangster and street gang kingpin. He is the founder of the Chicago street gang, the Gangster Disciples.
George Francis Train (March 24, 1829 – January 18, 1904) [1] [2] was an American businessman who organized the clipper ship line that sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco; he also organized the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier in the United States in 1864 to construct the eastern portion of the Transcontinental Railroad, and a horse tramway company in England while there ...
A light machine gun (LMG) is a light-weight machine gun designed to be operated by a single infantryman, with or without an assistant, as an infantry support weapon. LMGs firing cartridges of the same caliber as the other riflemen of the same combat unit are often referred to as squad automatic weapons .
Secondary goals have also been met: the LMG has the potential to improve battlefield effectiveness (due to its simpler and more consistent weapon action, its light weight and low recoil, and its stiffer barrel); its use of recoil compensation (with a long-stroke gas-system, for example) has produced positive feedback regarding controllability ...
George Kelly Barnes (July 18, 1895 [1] [2] – July 18, 1954), [3] better known by his nickname "Machine Gun Kelly", was an American gangster from Memphis, Tennessee, active during the Prohibition era. His nickname came from his favorite weapon, a Thompson submachine gun.
George G. Gilman is one pseudonym, or pen name, of Terry Harknett. Under that name Harknett wrote three series of Western books: Edge, which his US publisher would brand "The Most Violent Westerns in Print", Adam Steele (this character and Edge appeared together in three books) and The Undertaker. The Gilman books were known for their sardonic ...
Davis did, in effect, take what was left of the stable-value [5] Confederate treasury with him, which consisted of $528,000 (equal to $10,509,496 today) in gold and silver bullion (some of it in Mexican silver coinage), when he and his cabinet fled Richmond on April 3, 1865 by train.
An MGC gun team with their Vickers machine gun. Grave of H. Hemming, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry Branch), in Worcestershire. At the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, the tactical potential of machine guns was not appreciated by the British Armed Forces.