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Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916) was an American-born British inventor best known as the creator of the first automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun. [1] Maxim held patents on numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curling irons , a mousetrap , and steam pumps .
A Virgin Paradise is a lost [1] 1921 American silent adventure film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and starring serial queen Pearl White, for who it had been written by her friend Hiram Percy Maxim.
So Goes My Love (released as A Genius in the Family in the UK) is an American 1946 comedy-drama film, produced by Universal Pictures.It is based on a true story, A Genius in the Family, the memoir of Hiram Percy Maxim, which focuses on the relationship between Maxim and his father, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim.
Sir Hiram Maxim showing his Extra Light gun in Germany in April 1895. Maxim M1895 cavalry gun, complete with a detached tripod carried on the back of a single soldier. With a mass of only 44.5 pounds (20 kg), it was the only complete machine gun at the time that could be carried by one man.
Ted Merwin wrote that the film was seen as a glorification of Jewish assimilation into American culture. [12] Benny Goodman was a vital Jewish American to the progression of jazz. Goodman was the leader of a racially integrated band named King of Swing. His jazz concert in the Carnegie Hall in 1938 was the first ever to be played there. [8]
As he does, Elijah becomes upset and stands on the balcony. On the roads of the Jewish quarter, Brutus (Nazir Hussain), Governor of Rome, is passing, making an announcement. A stone slips from Elijah's hand on the balcony and hits Brutus on the head. Brutus immediately gets Elijah arrested, and as Elijah is a Jew, sentences him to death.
DK King of Swing, a video game; the Ponza Swing King, a baseball pitching machine invented by Lorenzo Ponza; the Swing King, a special cricket ball designed for swing bowling; Teddy Stauffer, German swing musician; Buddy Schwimmer, American swing dancer; Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Indian swing bowler; The Sultan of Swing may refer to: Wasim Akram ...
Hiram I, king of Tyrus, 980–947 BC; Hiram II, king of Tyrus (modern-day Tyre, Lebanon), 739–730 BC; Hiram Abiff, an appellation in Masonic myth applied to the "skillful man" whom Hiram the king of Tyre sent to make the furnishings of Solomon's temple. 966 BC; Hiram Abas (1932–1990), official in the National Intelligence Organization of Turkey