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2. Railgun - Wikipedia

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   The fireball is a result of pieces of the projectile shearing off during launch and igniting mid-air. [ 1 ] A railgun or rail gun , sometimes referred to as a rail cannon , is a linear motor device, typically designed as a weapon, that uses electromagnetic force to launch high- velocity projectiles.

3. The Show-Off (1934 film) - Wikipedia

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   The Show-Off is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Spencer Tracy, Madge Evans and Henry Wadsworth.It is notable for being the first movie Tracy made for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; he was on loan-out from Fox at the time and later moved to MGM.

4. 2020 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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   The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. [a] The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president, Donald Trump, and vice president, Mike Pence. [9]

5. Prince Edward Island - Wikipedia

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   Prince Edward Island (PEI; French: Île-du-Prince-Édouard; Scottish Gaelic: Eilean a' Phrionnsa; colloquially known as the Island) is an island province of Canada. While it is the smallest province in terms of land area and population, it is the most densely populated.

6. Gate turn-off thyristor - Wikipedia

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   A distributed buffer gate turn-off thyristor (DB-GTO) is a thyristor with additional PN layers in the drift region to reshape the field profile and increase the voltage blocked in the off state. Compared to a typical PNPN structure of a conventional thyristor, the DB-GTO thyristor has a PN–PN–PN structure.

7. Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 - Wikipedia

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   These codes effectively embedded the idea of slavery into law by the following devices: [4] These codes: established new property rights for slave owners, allowed for the legal, free trade of slaves with protections granted by the courts, established separate courts of trial, prohibited slaves from going armed without written permission, [5] [6 ...