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  2. Rural King - Wikipedia

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    Rural King Supply is a farm supply store based in Mattoon, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1960, it now has 135 stores in the U.S. states of Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Alabama. [1] The company also operates an online store, [2] as well ...

  3. The Last Rung on the Ladder - Wikipedia

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    Larry discovers his estranged sister, Kitty, has committed suicide. He recounts a fateful day, when the two were children playing in their family's barn in rural Nebraska. With their parents not home, they play a forbidden game, taking turns climbing to the top of a ladder in their barn and leaping from a crossbeam seventy feet (21 metres) in ...

  4. 8.8 cm Pak 43 - Wikipedia

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    The Pak 43 ( Panzerabwehrkanone 43 and Panzerjägerkanone 43 [2] [3] [4]) was a German 88 mm anti-tank gun developed by Krupp in competition with the Rheinmetall 8.8 cm Flak 41 anti-aircraft gun and used during World War II. The Pak 43 was the most powerful anti-tank gun of the Wehrmacht to see service in significant numbers, also serving in ...

  5. Map of gun deaths across the U.S. shows cities have lower ...

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    From 2011 to 2020, the most rural counties had a 46% lower rate of gun homicide deaths than the most urban counties but a 76% higher rate of gun suicide deaths, according to Reeping’s analysis.

  6. John Wilkes Booth - Wikipedia

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    Booth fled on horseback to Southern Maryland; twelve days later, at a farm in rural Northern Virginia, he was tracked down sheltered in a barn. Booth's companion David Herold surrendered, but Booth maintained a standoff. After the authorities set the barn ablaze, Union soldier Boston Corbett fatally shot him in the neck. Paralyzed, he died a ...

  7. King's Royal Rifle Corps - Wikipedia

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    The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American Regiment during the phase of the Seven Years' War in North America known in the United States as 'The French and Indian War.'. Subsequently numbered the 60th Regiment of Foot, the regiment ...

  8. 8.8 cm KwK 43 - Wikipedia

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    Muzzle velocity. 1,130 m/s (3,700 ft/s) Maximum firing range. 9,350 m (30,680 ft) The 8.8 cm KwK 43 ( Kampfwagenkanone —"fighting vehicle cannon") was an 88 mm 71-calibre-length tank gun designed by Krupp and used by the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War. It was mounted as the primary armament on the Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf.

  9. John Rigby & Company - Wikipedia

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    John Rigby & Company. John Rigby & Company (or John Rigby & Co. (Gunmakers) Ltd) is a gunmaking firm founded by John Rigby in 1775 in Dublin. The company was established by the first John Rigby in Dublin, Ireland, apparently in 1775; his grandson, also John, opened a London branch in 1865; and Dublin operations had ceased by February 1897.