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  2. Hardware disease - Wikipedia

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    Sharp metallic objects, such as nails, barbed or baling wire, are the common initiators of hardware disease. [2] Most farmers have switched from baling wire to plastic cord to avoid harming cows. The object travels into the rumen and is then pushed into the reticulum along with the rest of the feed. [3]

  3. Barbed wire - Wikipedia

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    Barbed wire, also known as barb wire, is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands. Its primary use is the construction of inexpensive fences , and it is also used as a security measure atop walls surrounding property.

  4. Wiring party - Wikipedia

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    The integration of barbed wire as an instrument of war required the formation of tactical teams, or wiring parties. Barbed wire defences needed to be maintained frequently, as shrapnel often cut the wire, or the enemy had sabotaged it during battle or the night before. Workers did not just deal with the actual wire; they also had to clear the ...

  5. Texas expands controversial barbed-wire fence on ... - AOL

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    Activists have said these measures by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, are “inhumane” and harm the most vulnerable.

  6. Sights, smells of holding cells for immigrant kids

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    Hundreds of young boys and girls covered with aluminum foil-like blankets next to chain link fences topped with barbed wire. The Sights, smells of holding cells for immigrant kids

  7. Prisoner-of-war camp - Wikipedia

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    The conference addressed the war, and the Red Cross addressed the conditions that the civilians were living under, which resembled those of soldiers in prisoner of war camps, as well as "barbed wire disease" (symptoms of mental illness) suffered by prisoners in France and Germany.

  8. Razor wire - Wikipedia

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    The barbed wire was arranged in a cat’s cradle formation that for every 12 yards of barbed fence built, 420 yards of barbed wire was strung (or 35 yards of wire per yard of fence). [1] Later versions of this type of barbed wire were manufactured by Germany during the First World War. The reason for this was a wartime shortage of wire to make ...

  9. Auschwitz: How death camp became centre of Nazi Holocaust

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    A group of child survivors behind a barbed wire fence at the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz [Getty Images] It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz ...