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Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945–59. Most were former members and leaders of the Nazi Party .
A kusarigama ( Japanese: 鎖鎌, lit. " chain - sickle ") is a traditional Japanese weapon that consists of a kama (the Japanese equivalent of a sickle or billhook) on a kusari-fundo – a type of metal chain ( kusari) with a heavy iron weight ( fundo) at the end. The kusarigama is said to have been developed during the Muromachi period.
Kusari katabira ( Japanese: 鎖帷子; "chain + single-layer robe") is the Japanese term for mail armour. Kusari is a type of armour used by the samurai class and their retainers in feudal Japan. When the word kusari is used in conjunction with an armoured item, it usually means that the kusari makes up the majority of the armour defence.
One red paperclip is a website created by Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald, who traded his way from a single red paperclip to a house in a series of fourteen online trades over the course of a year. [1] MacDonald was inspired by the childhood game Bigger, Better. His site received a considerable amount of notice for tracking the transactions.
Arm's Length. Arm's Length are a Canadian emo band from Quinte West, Ontario. The group formed in 2018 with Allen Steinberg on guitar and vocals, and brothers Jeremy and Jeff Whyte on guitar and drums, respectively. Benjamin Greenblatt, originally from New Jersey, joined the band on bass in 2022, and former merch rep Marty Hacker-Mullen joined ...
Bell 214 – Reverse engineered and built in Iran. HESA Shahed 278 – Developed from Bell 206 & Panha Shabaviz 2061. HESA Shahed 285 – New Iranian Designed Attack Helicopter [19] [20] [21] Sorena (helicopter) Shahed 216 [22] Saba 248 – medium-weight, double-engine, quadrotor aircraft, capable of carrying eight occupants.
Chain weapon. A chain weapon is a weapon made of one or more heavy objects attached to a chain, sometimes with a handle. The flail was one of the more common types of chain weapons associated with medieval Europe, although some flails used hinges instead of chains.
Polymelia. Polymelia is a birth defect in which an affected individual has more than the usual number of limbs. It is a type of dysmelia. In humans and most land-dwelling vertebrates, this means having five or more limbs. The extra limb is most commonly shrunken and/or deformed. The term is from Greek πολυ- "many", μέλεα "limbs".