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The Peerless chassis had almost identical dimensions to the Pierce-Arrow so practically the same armour was used, they were, like the Pierce-Arrows, armed with a 2-pounder "pom-pom" and a Vickers machine gun. [2] Delivered to Russia in 1916, the Russians subsequently fitted some with a small turret in place of the 2-pounder. [2]
The film was created by Andreas Hykade and funded by the Federal Film Board. [a] [2] [3] Nuggets features a stylised and minimalist animation style.[4] [5] A kiwi, the short's only character, is drawn with black strokes and lines, and is staged on a pure white background, with splashes of goldish yellow being featured in the form of the titular nuggets.
It won official recognition on March 26, 2007, when viewers voted it the Most Adorable video of 2006 in the first annual YouTube Video Awards. [1] This was an event large enough to draw international media attention [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] with ABC News describing Kiwi! as "so cute it hurts" [ 2 ] while the International Herald Tribune , critical of ...
The Space Engineering EDucation Satellite 2 [1] (SEEDS-2) is a Japanese amateur CubeSat picosatellite, built and operated by Nihon University. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation, aboard a PSLV rocket, on 28 April 2008. [2] It was built to replace the SEEDS satellite, which was lost in a launch failure on a Dnepr rocket in ...
The QF 2-pounder Mark II was a larger version of the QF 1-pounder Maxim gun produced by Vickers. It was a 40 mm calibre gun with a water-cooled barrel and a Vickers-Maxim mechanism. It was ordered in 1915 by the Royal Navy as an anti-aircraft weapon for ships of cruiser size and below. The original models fired from hand-loaded fabric belts ...
The Taito Legends pack includes an emulated version of the original arcade version of The NewZealand Story, allowing it to be played on the Xbox, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and any PC. In October 2008, the PC-Engine version was released for the Wii Virtual Console in Japan.
This article on the Ordnance 2-pounder Tank and Anti-Tank Gun has some fundamental errors, which I will try to put right. Firstly, the 2pdr was originally designed by Vickers, initially as a tank weapon, but for reasons of economy and standardisation of ammunition, it was also chosen as the basis for an anti-tank gun (although even at this ...
"Kiwi", Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, New Zealand Government, archived from the original on 8 June 2008. "North Island Brown Kiwi feeding in the wild", YouTube (daylight video), 21 January 2010. Pests & threats, Taranaki Kiwi Trust, archived from the original on 2 April 2012.