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Roberta Freeman is an American singer, best known for her work with Guns N' Roses, [1] Pink Floyd, [1] Cinderella, [1] Engelbert Humperdinck, [2] and Mary Wilson's Supremes. [3] According to Rolling Stone, "Freeman was one of six women brought into the madness of GN’R for their marathon ‘Use Your Illusion’ tour." [4] Fellow female musicians include Tracey Amos, Cece Worrall, Lisa Maxwell ...
The key moment in the transformation of Birmingham from the purely rural manor recorded in the Domesday Book takes place in 1166, with the purchase by Peter de Birmingham of a royal charter from Henry II permitting him to hold a weekly market "at his castle at Birmingham" [This quote needs a citation] and to charge tolls on the market's traffic – one of the earliest of the two thousand such ...
The KS-1 has been given the designation L403A1 and is known as the Alternative Individual Weapon (AIW) system. [4] The Royal Marines have purchased more than a thousand KS-1 rifles and the British Army has purchased 1,620 KS-1 rifles worth £15 million. [3] [4] Knights Armament's submission (KS-1) was selected over other notable competitors including Heckler & Koch, SIG Sauer, Daniel Defense ...
The O.K. Corral hearing and aftermath was the direct result of the 30-second Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, on October 26, 1881. During that confrontation, Deputy U.S. Marshal and Tombstone Town Marshal Virgil Earp, Assistant Town Marshal Morgan Earp, and temporary deputy marshals Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday shot and killed Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury.
To meet the increased demand for rifle barrels, in 1828 the Remingtons moved their forge and foundry from its rural setting to 100 acres (0.40 km 2) of land they had purchased astride the canal and abutting the Mohawk River near a town then called Morgan's Landing (later Ilion ), New York. [4] The move coincided with the elder Eliphalet's death, and Eliphalet II assumed control of the business ...
The Gunpowder Incident (or Gunpowder Affair) was a conflict early in the American Revolutionary War between Lord Dunmore, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, and militia led by Patrick Henry. On April 21, 1775, two days after the Battles of Lexington and Concord (and well before news of those events reached Virginia), Lord Dunmore ordered the removal of the gunpowder from the ...
These measures saw mixed results. Initially, the crime rate dropped, [12] but subsequently rose in later years. 2012 marked the highest rate of gun deaths in 35 years for Brazil, eight years after a ban on carrying handguns in public went into effect, [13] and 2016 saw the worst ever death toll from homicide in Brazil, with 61,619 dead. [14] The death toll rose again in 2017 to 63,880, a 3.7% ...
The French Revolution [a] was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate. Many of its ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy, [1] while its values and institutions remain central to modern French political discourse. [2]