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@настроение: что бы ни делать - лишь бы не работать

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Патрика!
спасибо  Gun_Grave

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освоемноеНакормил вчера ребенка мандаринкой.
За это ребенок просклонял мне слова *мандарин*, *шкурка*, *кожура* и *долька*. Пусть привыкает, что в этой жизни ничего просто так не дается ^__^
Но он правда не слышит не просто разницу мягкий/твердый и звук [ы] ("пыль" у нас упорно "пил"), он с трудом различает [о]/[у] и гласные между согласными О_О Надо, в общем, учить дари, чтобы понять, что ребенку не так
(вчера это чудо написало мне "его завод Игр" - это "его зовут Игорь").

Меня просветили по поводу вудумистики. П*здец Айзеку

@темы: лукошко, бакренология

@темы: позитивная вибрация, песТня, куклы

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Всем Патрика Харпера!
разве ж я мог пройти мимо ^_^

The Henry Nock Volley guns are the most famous and were designed by James Wilson and some 600 were made around 1780. They were used on board ships in the fighting tops of naval vessels. Henry Nock became sole supplier of these weapons to the British Navy. All seven barrels fire at once, this considerable flash is purported to have risked setting fire to the sails. The first few weapons were rifled, but that made them difficult to load as well as delivering an uncomfortable recoil.



и из википедии, но вроде там адекватно всеThe Nock gun was a seven-barrelled flintlock smoothbore firearm used by the Royal Navy during the early stages of the Napoleonic Wars. A volley gun originally designed for ship-to-ship fighting, its use was limited and eventually discontinued because the powerful recoil limited its use.

Since then, it has gained some historical fame for its bizarre appearance, notably in The Alamo and the Richard Sharpe series of novels by Bernard Cornwell.

The weapon was invented by British engineer James Wilson in 1779, and named after Henry Nock, the London-based armaments manufacturer contracted to build the gun. It was intended to be fired from the rigging of Royal Navy warships onto the deck in the event that the ship was boarded by enemy sailors. Theoretically, the simultaneous discharge of seven barrels would have devastating effect on the tightly packed groups of enemy sailors.

The volley gun consisted of seven barrels welded together, with small vents drilled through from the central barrel to the other six barrels clustered around it. The central barrel screwed on to a hollow spigot which formed the chamber and was connected to the vent.

The gun operated using a standard flintlock mechanism, with the priming gunpowder igniting the central charge via a small vent. When the flash reached the central chamber, all seven charges ignited at once, firing more or less simultaneously.

The first models featured rifled barrels, but this made loading a long and cumbersome process, resulting in all following models being manufactured with smoothbore barrels.

и не из википедии, прилично, интересно и про NavyMulti-barrel guns provided a new challenge to inventors, with one of the major difficulties being the flintlock ignition system itself, which was hardly ideal for multiple, simultaneous discharges, especially when grounded on a swaying, chaotic ship’s deck. Such volley guns were initially designed to be fixed to the ship’s railing via a swivel mount. That could theoretically provide one successful, devastating volley, but reloading the chambers during an engagement would be both cumbersome and time-consuming. Perhaps the greater issue was one of maneuverability, as a mounted gun could be aimed and discharged from only a single, static location.

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