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Worker hanging strapped into a safety harness during a fall rescue drill. Suspension trauma, also known as orthostatic shock while suspended, harness hang syndrome (HHS), suspension syndrome, or orthostatic intolerance, is an effect which occurs when the human body is held upright without any movement for a period of time.
The Winchester Model 1912, also commonly known as the Winchester 1912, Model 12, or M12, is an internal-hammer pump-action shotgun with an external tube magazine. Popularly named the Perfect Repeater at its introduction, it largely set the standard for pump-action shotguns over its 51-year high-rate production life. From August 1912 until first ...
[4] [dubious – discuss] The vehicle was also dubbed "King Kong" by American operators due to the raw power of its gun. [citation needed] In 1945, the M12 was complemented in Europe by the M40 gun motor carriage, designed on a late-war M4A3 Sherman chassis with the 155 mm gun M1 the successor to the 155mm M1918. Postwar, the M12 was retired ...
Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity [54] on 5 November 2006, and was executed on 30 December 2006 at approximately 6:00 a.m. local time. During the drop, there was an audible crack indicating that his neck was broken, a successful example of a long-drop hanging.
The Beretta M12 (Model 12) is a 9×19mm Parabellum caliber submachine gun designed by Beretta. Production started in 1959, the first users were the Italian Carabinieri , Italian State Police and the Guardia di Finanza , though in limited numbers; it was only widely issued beginning in 1978, replacing the old Beretta MAB .
Rainey Bethea, last public hanging in Kentucky, for rape and murder (14 August 1936) Roscoe "Red" Jackson, last public hanging in U.S., for murder (21 May 1937) Udham Singh, Indian revolutionary (31 July 1940) Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (9 April 1945) Irma Grese, German Nazi concentration camp guard and war criminal (13 December 1945)
M12 connector, a size of IEC metric screw sized electrical connector Mathieu group M 12 , in the mathematical field of group theory Magic 2012 , the thirteenth core set in Magic: The Gathering
The Maschinengewehr (Schwarzlose) M. 7, also known as the Schwarzlose MG, is a medium machine-gun, used as a standard issue firearm in the Austro-Hungarian Army throughout World War I. It was utilized by the Dutch , Greek and Hungarian armies during World War II .