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List of places in New York: G 
 This list of current cities, towns, unincorporated communities, counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of New York also includes information on the number and names of counties in which the place lies, and its lower and upper zip code bounds, if applicable.
List of places in New York: R 
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List of places in New York: S 
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List of places in New York: T 
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List of places in New York: U 
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List of places in New York: V 
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List of places in New York: W 
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List of places in New York: Y 
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List of places in New York: Z 
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Jeong Gu 
 Jeong Gu (1543 - 1620) was a Korean politician and philosopher, historian, writer, Confucian scholar and poet of the Joseon Dynasty.
Nitrocellulose 
 It is formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to nitric acid or another powerful nitrating agent.
Nitrocellulose 
 Kodak, and other suppliers, used placticized nitrocellulose as a film base in photograph, X-ray films and motion picture films.
Nitrocellulose 
 After numerous fires caused by unstable nitrate films, safety film started to be used from the 1930s in the case of X-ray stock and from 1948 for motion picture film.
Big Bertha 
 Big Bertha  is the name of a type of super-heavy howitzer made by the famous armaments manufacturer Krupp in Germany on the eve of World War I. Another huge gun,  42-cm Gamma-Device howitzer, was the forerunner of the Bertha.
Big Bertha 
 Many sources say that Bertha is a reference to Bertha Krupp, heiress and owner of the Krupp industrial empire.
Big Bertha 
 Dicke', meaning fat or big in German, is apparently not a reference to the physical aspect of Ms Krupp.
Big Bertha 
 The name "Big Bertha" subsequently came to be applied generally by the Allies to any very large German gun.
Big Bertha 
 This included the railway guns which used mounted battleship guns known as "Langer Max" and the ultra-long range "Paris Gun".
Big Bertha 
 Strictly speaking, however, Dicke Bertha, or Big Bertha, is only applicable to the 42-cm M-Device howitzer.
Big Bertha 
 Bertha was the result of lessons learned by the Germans (and Austrians) from the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05.
Big Bertha 
 During the war, the Japanese had dismounted a number of their coastal defence 28-cm howitzers and used them to help break their siege of the fortified Russian naval base at Port Arthur.
Big Bertha 
 This was a complete novelty as, until that time, it had been assumed by military experts that the largest transportable siege guns were around 20-cm in calibre.
Big Bertha 
 Other Europeans completely failed to draw the lessons the Japanese had taught, and went forward without any huge siege guns.
Big Bertha 
 Big Bertha gained a strong reputation on both sides of the lines due to its early impressive successes in smashing the forts at Liege, Belgium.
Big Bertha 
 When used later during the German assault upon Verdun in February 1916, however, it proved less effective, as the fort, made of concrete reinforced with steel, could mostly withstand the large semi-armour-piercing shells of the Berthas.
Big Bertha 
 Only Fort Vaux was severely damaged during this event, destroying the water storage and leading to the surrender of the fort.
Big Bertha 
 A total of 12 complete M-Devices were built; besides the two available when the war started, ten more were built during the war.
Big Bertha 
 As the war ground on several Berthas were destroyed when their barrels burst due to faulty ammunition.
Big Bertha 
 Later in the Great War, an L/30 30.5-cm barrel was developed and fitted to a number of Bertha carriages in order to provide longer-range, though not quite as heavy fire.
La Belle au bois dormant (opera) 
 La Belle au bois dormant () is an opera in three acts by Michele Carafa to a French libretto by François-Antonine-Eugène de Planard after the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault.
La Belle au bois dormant (opera) 
 The choreography was composed by Pierre Gabriel Gardel, and sets designed by Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri.
Mortar (weapon) 
 It has a short barrel which fires the mortar bomb at a low speed high into the air to reach its target.
Mortar (weapon) 
 Mortars are made in different sizes, from large and heavy mortars to infantry mortars which can be carried by just one soldier.
Mortar (weapon) 
 They are called an indirect fire weapon because the bomb drops onto the target from above, rather than being aimed straight at it.
Mortar (weapon) 
 A mortar can be moved around by one or more people (bigger mortars can usually be broken down into parts) or moved around in a vehicle.
Mortar (weapon) 
 One possible reason for this is that the fins that stabilise the round when it is flying, and the shape of the round makes it look like a bomb dropped from aircraft.
Mortar (weapon) 
 It is fired on enemy positions or in open areas to block visibility, so friendly forces can move without being visible.
Mortar (weapon) 
 This makes a thick smoke screen to blind and burn the enemy, causing second and third degree burns from the explosion.
Mortar (weapon) 
 It can be even more helpful if there are people around the battlefield that help tell the mortar where to fire (forward observers).
Mortar (weapon) 
 A European description of the Siege of Belgrade (1456) by Giovanni da Tagliacozzo says that the Ottoman Turks used seven mortars that fired "stone shots one Italian mile high".
Mortar (weapon) 
 It was also said that men could be prevented from being injured by putting observers out who warned the troops of what angle the mortars were firing at.
Mortar (weapon) 
 An early mortar that could be moved easily was invented by Baron Menno van Coehoorn  (Siege of Grave, 1673).
Mortar (weapon) 
 At the Siege of Vicksburg, General Ulysses S. Grant reported making mortars "by taking logs of the toughest wood that could be found, boring them out for six or twelve-pound shells and binding them with strong iron bands.
Mortar (weapon) 
 These answered as coehorns, and shells were successfully thrown from them into the trenches of the enemy."
Mortar (weapon) 
 A mortar round could be aimed to fall straight into a trench because of the deep angle that the bombs fell at.
Mortar (weapon) 
 During the Battle of Iwo Jima, the Imperial Japanese Army used twelve 320 mm mortars against the American forces.
Mortar (weapon) 
 The biggest mortars ever made were the French "Monster Mortar" (36 French inches; 975 mm; developed by Henri-Joseph Paixhans in 1832), Mallet's Mortar (36 inches; 910 mm; designed by Robert Mallet and tested by the Woolwich Arsenal, London, in 1857) and the "Little David" (36 inches; 914.4 mm; developed in the United States for use in World War II).
Mortar (weapon) 
 The Provisional Irish Republican Army used some of the best-known examples during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
Bombard (weapon) 
 Items such as stone or metal balls, burning materials and weighted cloth soaked in quicklime or Greek fire are have been written about.
Bombard (weapon) 
 The name comes from medieval Latin and French words from an earlier Greek word meaning the making of a humming noise.
Bombard (weapon) 
 A famous example of a bombard is Mons Meg, a large weapon built around 1449 and used by King James II of Scotland.
Bombardment 
 A bombardment is an attack by artillery weapons against fortifications, troops or towns and buildings.
Bombardment 
 It word came from the name of the medieval artillery weapon, the bombard, which was used to fire heavy stones during a siege.
Bombardment 
 Before World War I the word bombardment was only used for the attack of defenceless or undefended objects, houses, public buildings.
Bombardment 
 Since then it has come to mean any mass attack delivered by artillery or short range  missiles, and also as aerial bombardment if delivered by bomber aircraft or long range missiles.
Bombardment 
 It now is also used to describe activities in science, such as firing high energy particles like electrons into atoms in the study of nuclear reactions.
Bombardment 
 In its old strict sense the term was only applied to the bombardment of defenceless or undefended objects, houses, public buildings.
Bombardment 
 Civilians in a besieged town would put pressure on their military leaders to surrender before the place was destroyed.
Bombardment 
 The practice of using artillery to do this was especially common up until World War I. Since then long range artillery bombardment has been joined by aerial bombardment delivered by aircraft and missiles.
Rapier (missile) 
 It began being used in 1971 and eventually replaced all other anti-aircraft weapons in the British Army.
Rapier (missile) 
 It replaced both guns for targets that were flying low down, and the English Electric Thunderbird which was used against targets that were higher up and further away.
Rapier (missile) 
 BAC decided to change Rapier to fit onto  the M548, a version of the M113 armored personnel carrier.
Rapier (missile) 
 The first Tracked Rapiers were used with 11 (Sphinx) Air Defence Battery, of 22 Air Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery in 1982-83.
Rapier (missile) 
 The biggest difference between towed and tracked Rapier was that the tracked Rapier launcher has eight missiles.
Rapier (missile) 
 After Tracked Rapier entered service, it was upgraded many times to follow the upgrades being made to all Rapiers.
Rapier (missile) 
 However, the Laserfire lights up the target and automatically tracks it with a powerful YAG:Nd laser.
Rapier (missile) 
 "Within the total only five Argentine aircraft might have been shot down by Rapier, and, as originally noted by Ethell and Price, only one of these was certain, with two probables and two possibles.
Rapier (missile) 
 Similar discrepancies arose over other weapons systems, notably Blowpipe (one confirmed kill as against nine confirmed and two probables in the White Paper) and Sea Cat (zero to one against eight confirmed and two probables in the White Paper). […]
Rapier (missile) 
 This confirmation that MoD had exaggerated, however unwittingly, the capabilities of Rapier was deemed to be political dynamite.
Rapier (missile) 
 It was observed that if this assessment became publicly known it 'could have a serious adverse effects on sales' prospects for Rapier, which is the staple revenue-earner for BAe's Dynamic Group."
Rapier (missile) 
 It has been announced the UK Ministry of Defence was giving money to a company to find a replacement for Rapier.
Rapier (missile) 
 The Common Anti-Air Modular Missile (CAMM) would have some components the same as the ASRAAM missile which is in service with the RAF.
Step Up 
 This movie is similar to "Bring It On" (which was released in 2000), except there is hip hop involved.
Step Up 
 A third sequel called Step Up Revolution was released in 2012 and the fifth and final movie, Step Up: All In, was released in 2014.
Type 90 75 mm field gun 
 After the Versailles Treaty, the Japanese considered other options including field guns designed by Schneider et Cie from France.
Step Up 2: The Streets 
 Andie now lives with Sarah (her guardian and her mother's best friend), though actually Andie always feels like she does not really belong anywhere.
Step Up 2: The Streets 
 One day, Andie, who is with Maryland School of Arts, is expelled from there by the MSA school director after the dance studio at her school is vandalized by students from 410 (four-one-oh), a competing [hip hop] dancing crew.
Step Up 2: The Streets 
 She is also expelled from MSA due to her connection with a hip hop crew known as The Streets, at which point Sarah has had enough of Andie's behavior and threatens to send Andie to Texas to live with her aunt.
List of phobias 
 Phobias are irrational fears of things and situations which can be a danger but most are not harmful.
List of phobias 
 Phobias are most known to cause panic attacks and shock and epileptic fits, with phobias that have loneliness, spiders, fumes, and maybe heights.
Railway gun 
 A railway gun, also called a railroad gun, is a large artillery weapon, built on, transported by, and fired from a specially designed railway wagon.
Railway gun 
 Many countries have built railway guns, but the best known were made by Krupp and used by Germany in World War I and World War II.
Railway gun 
 He published a pamphlet in the United Kingdom titled National Defence in which he proposed a plan of ironclad railway carriages.
Railway gun 
 A Russian, Lebedew, claimed to have first invented the idea in 1860 when he is reported to have mounted a mortar on a railway car.
Railway gun 
 On 29 June 1862, Robert E. Lee had the gun pushed by a locomotive over the Richmond and York River line (later part of the Southern Railway) and used at the Battle of Savage's Station.
Railway gun 
 There is also a photo of a Union 13-inch siege mortar mounted on a rail car during the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia.
Railway gun 
 Railway guns were used by France during the Siege of Paris in 1870, and by the British during the Siege of Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
Railway gun 
 Germany already had a few Big Bertha guns at the start of the First World War but the French had a shortage of heavy field artillery.
Railway gun 
 Baldwin Locomotive Works made five 14"/50 caliber railway guns on trains for the United States Navy during April and May 1918.
Railway gun 
 These were a  naval rifle used on New Mexico and Tennessee class battleships, mounted on a rail carriage with four 6-wheel bogies.
Railway gun 
 The Germans used the massive  Schwerer Gustav gun, the largest artillery piece to be used in battle.
Railway gun 
 A 12 inch railway gun is at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Virginia (see this link  for an image and brief description).
Railway gun 
 Soviet era 305mm MK-3-12 guns are on show at the Krasnaya Gorka fort near Lomonosov, Russia, and the Museum of Railway Technology, Saint Petersburg.
Railway gun 
 Soviet ТМ-1-180 180mm guns may be seen at Krasnaya Gorka fort,  the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow and at Sevastopol Railway Station in the Ukraine.
Railway gun 
 The last surviving American-made Bethlehem 177 coastal railway gun is on show at Museu Militar Conde de Linhares in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Railway gun 
 "Gun Train Guards Ends of Panama Canal -- Rolling Fort Crosses Isthmus in Two Hours" Popular Mechanics, December 1934 pp.844-845 excellent drawings in article on the 14-inch M1920 railway gun
Ion cannon 
 Because of their electrical charges, they can cause electronic devices, vehicles, and anything else that has an electrical or similar power source to stop working.
Ion cannon 
 In Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, the Rebel Alliance uses a large ion cannon on the planet Hoth to disable Imperial Star Destroyers near the planet.
Ion cannon 
 In the Command&Conquer franchise the Global Defense Initiative(GDI) uses a orbital ion cannon as that faction superweapon.
Lumsden, Saskatchewan 
 The town was originally known as Happy Hollow in 1881 and was changed to Lumsden in 1889 after Hugh Lumsden, a senior engineer with the Qu'Appelle, Long Lake and Saskatchewan Railway.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! 
 The character then appeared in the television specials Halloween is Grinch Night and The Grinch Grinches The Cat in the Hat.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! 
 He also was a recurring villain in The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, an educational show for kids, and had a small part in the Broadway play Seussical.
Mortier de 12 Gribeauval 
 It is measured using the French ancient system of measurement, in which 1 pouce (1 inch) is equal to 2.707 cm.
Mortier de 12 Gribeauval 
 The Gribeauval system was a new way of making artillery as a single piece of metal and then drilling a bore hole.
Mortier de 12 Gribeauval 
 The Mortier de 12 pouces Gribeauval was first used during the American Revolutionary War from 1780-82.
Mortier de 12 Gribeauval 
 It was later used in by the French army during the wars that followed the French Revolution and during the Napoleonic Wars.
Mortier de 12 Gribeauval 
 Some of the Mortier de 12 pouces were used for coastal defense, in which case they were fixed on solid metal platforms.
Aerospace Valley 
 It is in the regions of Occitanie and Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the southwest of France and is mainly concentrated in and around the city of Toulouse.
Ivry-sur-Seine 
 The engineering schools École spéciale de mécanique et électricité, École supérieure d'informatique, électronique, automatique and Institut polytechnique des sciences avancées are located at Ivry-sur-Seine.
Ivry-sur-Seine 
 The schools École des technologies numériques appliquées and IONIS School of Technology and Management are also located in the commune.
Doubochinski's pendulum 
 The pendulum (with a magnet at the end) will swing at a frequency of one swing per period of 1-2 seconds.
Doubochinski's pendulum 
 The electromagnet is then supplied with an alternating current of a fixed frequency, of between 10 and 10.000 Hz.
Doubochinski's pendulum 
 When the pendulum is released at any location, its movement will then evolve to stop at a height which depends on the frequency of the current of the electromagnet.
Don Pasquale 
 In London, England, it was first performed on June 29, 1843, and in the United States on January 7, 1845 in New Orleans.
Tierra del Fuego 
 The archipelago consists of a big island, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego and a number of smaller islands.
Tierra del Fuego 
 About 127.000 people live in the part belonging to Argentina, about 8.000 in that belonging to Chile.
Tierra del Fuego 
 The biggest cities on the main island are Rio Grande, 57.000 people, and Ushuaia in the Argentine part, and Porvenir with 5.700 inhabitants in the Chilenan  part.
Mons Meg 
 It seems, from the accounts of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, that it was made to his order around 1449 and sent as a gift eight years later to King James II of Scotland, with other artillery supplies.
Mons Meg 
 Another story suggests Mons Meg was made in order to help James II in the 1452 siege of Threave Castle in Kirkcudbright, when the Clan MacLellan used it to batter the castle.
Mons Meg 
 It could only be fired 8-10 times a day due to the tremendous heat generated by the huge powder charge.
Mons Meg 
 In early years the gun, like the other royal cannon, was painted with red-lead to keep it from rusting.
Mons Meg 
 From the 1540s Meg was retired from active service and was fired only on ceremonial occasions from Edinburgh Castle, from where shot could be found up to two miles away.
Mons Meg 
 When Mons was fired on 3 July 1558, workmen were paid to find and retrieve the shot from Wardie Mure, near the River Forth.
Mons Meg 
 The gun was fired in 1680 to celebrate the arrival of James, Duke of Albany and York, later King James II of England and VII of Scotland.
Mons Meg 
 An English cannoneer had loaded the charge and many Scots believed that the damage was done on purpose, since the English had no cannon as big as this.
Mons Meg 
 It was next taken, with other disused ordnance, to the Tower of London in 1754, but was returned to the Castle in 1829, after a campaign by the author Sir Walter Scott.
Castelnaudary 
 Castelnaudary () is a commune in the Aude department in the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France.
Castelnaudary 
 A campus of the École nationale de l'aviation civile (French civil aviation university) is located at Castelnaudary.
Schwerer Gustav 
 Schwerer Gustav (English: Heavy Gustaf, or Great Gustaf) and Dora were the names of two huge World War II German 80 cm K (E) railway siege guns.
Schwerer Gustav 
 Although they were intended for World War II, they were not ready for action when the Wehrmacht outflanked the Maginot line by sweeping through the low country (Belgium) to start the Battle of France.
Schwerer Gustav 
 However, they were ready in Autumn 1941, after the Wehrmacht invaded the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa).
Schwerer Gustav 
 By the end of the siege on 4 July the city of Sevastopol lay in ruins, and 30,000 tons of artillery ammunition had been fired.
Schwerer Gustav 
 Gustav had fired 48 rounds and worn out its original barrel, which had already fired around 250 rounds during testing and development.
Schwerer Gustav 
 The gun was fitted with the spare barrel and the original was sent back to Krupp's factory in Essen for relining.
Schwerer Gustav 
 Gustav was eventually captured by US troops and cut up, whilst Dora was destroyed near the end of the war to avoid capture by the Red Army.
Schwerer Gustav 
 The Schwerer Gustav was the largest calibre rifled weapon in the history of artillery to see actual combat.
Schwerer Gustav 
 A few other huge guns were never fired in anger: the French Monster Mortar (36 French inches; 975mm), the  British Mallet's Mortar (36 inch; 914 mm) and the American Little David mortar (36 inch; 910 mm).
Dominion of Newfoundland 
 The Statute of Westminster of 11 December 1931 said that the Dominion of Newfoundland was independent within the British Commonwealth, along with Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Dominion of Newfoundland 
 But on 16 February 1934 the Newfoundland parliament gave up its self-government, and governance of the dominion went back to being controlled from London.
Dominion of Newfoundland 
 Though governed from overseas, Newfoundland stayed legally a dominion, until it joined Canada in 1949 to become Canada's tenth province.
Type 95 75 mm field gun 
 This artillery piece was planned to replace the Type 38 75 mm field gun and the Type 41 75 mm cavalry gun in front line combat.
Type 95 75 mm field gun 
 After the Versailles Treaty, the Japanese considered other options including field guns designed by Schneider et Cie from France.
Type 95 75 mm field gun 
 In 1931, IJA began to use the "Type 90" which was based on Schneider designs; however, the Type 90 was not considered successful.
Hamitic 
 Hamitic theory is a theory that claims that so called  hamitic race is superior to the negroid races on the African continent.