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17 hours ago · Rifled: Artillery projectiles have traditionally been spin-stabilised, meaning that they spin in flight so that gyroscopic forces prevent them from tumbling. Spin is induced by gun barrels having rifling , which engages a soft metal band around the projectile, called a " driving band " (UK) or "rotating band" (U.S.).
17 hours ago · From the Native American word Accawmack, meaning "on the other side", referencing the county's position across Chesapeake Bay: 33,239: 455 sq mi (1,178 km 2) Albemarle County: 003: Charlottesville: 1744: In 1744, the Virginia General Assembly created Albemarle County by taking the northern portion of Goochland County.
17 hours ago · This is a List of wars involving the Ottoman Empire ordered chronologically, including civil wars within the empire. The earliest form of the Ottoman military was a nomadic steppe cavalry force. [1] This was centralized by Osman I from Turkoman tribesmen inhabiting western Anatolia in the late 13th century.
17 hours ago · English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.
17 hours ago · 1505 in art; 1504 in art – Michelangelo completes the David, Hieronymus Bosch completes The Garden of Earthly Delights; 1503 in art – Birth of Agnolo di Cosimo; 1502 in art; 1501 in art – Birth of Girolamo da Carpi; 1500 in art – Birth of Benvenuto Cellini; 1490s. 1499 in art – Michelangelo completes the Pietà
17 hours ago · The history of Hinduism covers a wide variety of related religious traditions native to the Indian subcontinent. It overlaps or coincides with the development of religion in the Indian subcontinent since the Iron Age , with some of its traditions tracing back to prehistoric religions such as those of the Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilisation .
