Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois

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However, while it remained less and less popular as more efficient siege engines such as the trebuchet and the mangonel became widespread, the Ballista still retained some use in Medieval Siege Warfare, especially by city and castle garrisons, until it became finally extinguished by the more convenient medieval canons, already omnipresent in all major European Catholic cities by the first half of the 14th century. Like all Barrows equipment, it degrades and will fully degrade after 15 hours of combat. It is repairable. Internal Ballistics– Internal ballistic is about Motion of the projectile in the bore of the weapon. In the above example EffectiveDurability =0.75/0.6=1.25 which means it can still have more than it's maximum durability (100 hitpoints).

We are fighting to create an Albania run by people who have not been compromised, by Albanians who have done their utmost at every time and under all conditions for the salvation and welfare of their country, by competent and honest working men Antonijević, Nenad. Arhivska građa o ljudskim gubicima na Kosovu i Metohiji u Drugome svetskom ratu. p.479. Najrealnije procene, na osnovu dostupnih arhivskih izvora, ukazuju da je u toku Drugoga svetskog rata na Kosovu i Metohiji život izgubilo oko 10 hiljada Crnogoraca i Srba, među kojima su većina stradali kao žrtve terora i zločina albanskih kvislinga.Nezavisna revija Sandzak". Archived from the original on 26 April 2012 . Retrieved 24 November 2011. Ballast was also a component used in early model automobile engines that lowered the supply voltage to the ignition system after the engine had been started. Starting the engine requires a significant amount of electrical current from the battery, resulting in an equally significant voltage drop. To allow the engine to start, the ignition system was designed to operate on this lower voltage. But once the vehicle was started and the starter disengaged, the normal operating voltage was too high for the ignition system. To avoid this problem, a ballast resistor was inserted in series with the ignition system, resulting in two different operating voltages for the starting and ignition systems. Soedel, Werner; Foley, Vernard (March 1979). "Ancient Catapults". Scientific American. 240 (3): 120–28. Bibcode: 1979SciAm.240c.150S. doi: 10.1038/scientificamerican0379-150. The sewers cover most of the Lower City, so it would only make sense that there are quite a few entrances to it, some harder to find than others. Regardless of what method you take to enter the sewers, you’ll most likely get an encounter or two, so it doesn’t matter too much which entrance you take, but we suggest going through the Elfsong Tavern as there are a couple of quests you can complete along the way. Understanding Transformer Noise" (PDF). federalpacific.com. Federal Pacific. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 March 2015 . Retrieved 8 August 2015.

Gjergi, Gjon. "ENVER HOXHA, COMMISSIONER AND COMMANDER OF UNCH, EXCELLED AS A GREAT MILITARY STRATEGIST IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR" (PDF). Anëtar i Byrosë Politike të PKSH. 10: 1. Archaeology and the Roman ballista [ edit ] Metal components of the Ampurias Catapult, found in 1912 in the Neapolis of Ampurias Metal components of a 4th-century ballista a b Roberts, Walter (1987). Tito, Mihailović, and the Allies, 1941–1945. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-0773-0. We are fighting to harmonize and unite the creative energies of the nation, to create an intellectual and spiritual union of all Albanians

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Rifle – Essentially a long rifled barrel firearm primarily designed for relatively long range use in warfare or hunting. Rifles are available as single shot, self-loading, manual action, bolt action or automatic, though most commonly encountered are self-loading. Rossos, Andrew (2013). Macedonia and the Macedonians: A history. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press. ISBN 9780817948832. It was used, just before the start of the Empire, by Julius Caesar during his conquest of Gaul and on both of his campaigns in subduing Britain. Pearson, Owen (2006). Albania in the Twentieth Century, A History: Volume II: Albania in Occupation and War, 1940–45. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-104-5. For other uses, see Ballast (disambiguation). Cross section of a vessel with a single ballast tank at the bottom

In spite of Albania's long-standing protection and alliance with Italy, on 7 April 1939 Italian troops invaded Albania, [10] five months before the start of the Second World War. The Albanian armed resistance proved ineffective against the Italians and, after a short defense, the country was occupied. On 9 April 1939, Zog I fled to Greece. [11] After the absorption of the Ancient Greek city-states into the Roman Republic in 146 BC, the highly advanced Greek technology began to spread across many areas of Roman influence. This included the great military machine advances the Greeks had made (most notably by Dionysus of Syracuse), as well as all the scientific, mathematical, political and artistic developments. World Peace Council (1951). First Session of the World Peace Council, Berlin, February 21-26, 1951: (Report and Documents). p.16. Shotgun – A shoulder-fired long gun with no rifling in the barrel, designed to shoot a large number of small projectiles (“shot”) rather than a single large projectile (“a bullet”).Frashëri, Gjergj (2003). "Tiranë". Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.t085195. ISBN 978-1-884446-05-4.

See also: Battle of Durrës (1939) Italian soldiers in an unidentified location in Albania, April 12, 1939. Early tube-based color TV sets used a ballast triode, such as the PD500, as a parallel shunt stabilizer for the cathode ray tube (CRT) acceleration voltage, to keep the CRT's deflection factor constant. Occasionally, this ballast resistor would fail and the classic symptom of this failure was that the engine ran while being cranked (while the resistor was bypassed) but stalled immediately when cranking ceased (and the resistor was reconnected in the circuit via the ignition switch). Modern electronic ignition systems (those used since the 1980s or late '70s) do not require a ballast resistor as they are flexible enough to operate on the lower cranking voltage or the normal operating voltage.This technique uses a combination filament– cathode at each end of the lamp in conjunction with a mechanical or automatic (bi-metallic or electronic) switch that initially connect the filaments in series with the ballast to preheat them. When filaments are disconnected, an inductive pulse from the ballast starts the lamp. This system is described as "Preheat" in North America and "Switch Start" in the UK, and has no specific description in the rest of the world. This system is common in 200–240 V countries (and for 100–120 V lamps up to about 30 watts). Detail from Royal charter awarded to Carlisle, showing the operation of a ballista by the city's garrison. A familiar and widely used example is the inductive ballast used in fluorescent lamps to limit the current through the tube, which would otherwise rise to a destructive level due to the negative differential resistance of the tube's voltage-current characteristic.