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  2. Morris Abrams - Wikipedia

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    Abrams was the first generation of his family to be born in the United States. [citation needed]Arrow brand staple gun.. In 1929, [1] Morris Abrams founded Arrow Fastener. At first, he sold staples for staplers currently on the market, [citation needed] but by 1940 he had received his first stapler patent, [2] and by 1943, was assigning his patents to Arrow Fastener, [3] a process he continued ...

  3. List of Star Trek technical manuals - Wikipedia

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    Star Fleet - Ships of the Star Fleet Technical Manual: Neale Davidson 2003 .pdf 36 8.5" x 11" Star Fleet - Starship Recognition Manual - Ships of the Baton Rouge Era: Neale Davidson 2005 .pdf 36 8.5" x 11" Star Fleet - Starship Recognition Manual - Volume One - Ships of Support 2268: Neale Davidson 2005 .pdf 36 8.5" x 11"

  4. Staple (fastener) - Wikipedia

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    A heavy duty office staple might be designated as F1667 STFCC-04: ST indicates staple, FC indicates flat top crown, C indicates cohered (joined into a strip), and 04 is the dash number for a staple with a length of 0.250 inch (6 mm), a leg thickness of 0.020 inch (500 μm), a leg width of 0.030 inch (800 μm), and a crown width of 0.500 inch ...

  5. Swingline - Wikipedia

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    The Swingline 747 Rio Red The Swingline Commercial Desk Stapler A staple remover. Swingline was founded in 1925 in New York City by Jack Linsky. [2] At that time, it was known as the Parrot Speed Fastener Company and opened its first manufacturing facilities on Varick Street, and in Long Island City in 1931. [2]

  6. Fill device - Wikipedia

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    Next Generation Load Device-Medium (NGLD-M) - replacement for the Simple Key Loader. [1] AN/PYQ-10 Simple Key Loader (SKL) - originated in 2006 as a replacement for the DTD. KIK-30, a more recent fill device, is trademarked as the "Really Simple Key Loader" (RASKL) with "single button key-squirt." It supports a wide variety of devices and keys. [2]

  7. Canna indica - Wikipedia

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    Canna indica, commonly known as Indian shot, [2] African arrowroot, edible canna, purple arrowroot, Sierra Leone arrowroot, [3] is a plant species in the family Cannaceae.It is native to much of South America, Central America, the West Indies, and Mexico.

  8. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    Height of the Salto Angel, the world's highest free-falling waterfall 10 3: 1 kilometer 2.3 km Length of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam in the world [34] [35] 3.1 km Narrowest width of the Strait of Messina, separating Italy and Sicily: 8.848 km Height of Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth 10 4: 10 km: 10.9 km

  9. History of the firearm - Wikipedia

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    Previously, each round was custom-made as needed: the shooter poured loose powder down the barrel, used leather or cloth for wadding if time allowed, selected a suitable projectile (lead ball, rocks, arrow, or nails), then seated the projectile on top of the powder charge by means of a ramrod. Performance was erratic.