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2. Jump start (vehicle) - Wikipedia

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   AC charger with boost feature Jump starter with lithium battery. Some AC battery chargers have a boost, engine start, or engine assist feature. Despite being able to assist in jump starting a dead vehicle battery, these types of battery chargers perform their task over a longer period of time, rather than an instantaneous boost.

3. Fort Banks (Massachusetts) - Wikipedia

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   Fort Banks was a U.S. Coast Artillery fort located in Winthrop, Massachusetts.It served to defend Boston Harbor from enemy attack from the sea and was built in the 1809 during what is known as the Endicott period, a time in which the coast defenses of the United States were seriously expanded and upgraded with new technology. [1]

4. Battery Chamberlin - Wikipedia

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   The battery received two six-inch guns on simple barbette carriages in 1920. During World War II, the Sixth Coast Artillery (Harbor Defense) Regiment, Battery "D", manned the two guns at Battery Chamberlin, living on-site until the end of the war. The battery was covered with camouflage netting to hide it from air attack. These guns were ...

5. Wolfpack Seewolf - Wikipedia

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   The first U-boat group code-named Seewolf operated in the North Atlantic, to intercept Allied convoys to and from Gibraltar, and to and from Sierra Leone in west Africa. The group comprised 17 U-boats, from the dissolved groups Bosemuller and Kurfurst, that had operated in the same area.

6. Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor - Wikipedia

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   Artistic depiction of the Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor while engaged in the Battle of Fort Sumter. Sometime in the dark hours between April 9 and April 10, [15] the battery was towed and emplaced near the western end of Sullivan's Island by order of Brigadier General P. G. T. Beauregard.

7. Joseph Kittinger - Wikipedia

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   Excelsior I: Kittinger's first high-altitude jump, from about 76,400 feet (23,300 m) on November 16, 1959, was a near-disaster when an equipment malfunction caused him to lose consciousness. [8] The automatic parachute opener in his equipment saved his life.