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  2. Holless Wilbur Allen - Wikipedia

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    Allen was born July 12, 1909, in Stilwell, Kansas.In the 1960s, he sawed the ends off a conventional recurve bow and then added pulleys to each end. [1] Allen experimented with a number of designs to apply for a patent on June 23, 1966, [2] and U.S. patent 3,486,495 was granted to him in December 1969.

  3. Binary cam - Wikipedia

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    The binary cam is a design for the pulley system of a compound bow. Craig Yehle, director of research and development at Bowtech Archery, received a patent [1] for the design on December 11, 2007. Bowtech started equipping its bows with the new cam design in the 2005 model year. [2] [3]

  4. Bowstring - Wikipedia

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    Almost any fiber may be used in emergency. Natural fibers would be very unusual on a modern recurve bow or compound bow, but are still effective and still used on traditional wooden or composite bows. Sinew and hide strings may be seriously affected by water. [4] The author of Arab Archery suggests the hide of a young, emaciated camel. [5]

  5. Compound bow - Wikipedia

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    In modern archery, a compound bow is a bow that uses a levering system, usually of cables and pulleys, to bend the limbs. [1] The compound bow was first developed in 1966 by Holless Wilbur Allen in North Kansas City, Missouri, and a US patent was granted in 1969. Compound bows are widely used in target practice and hunting.

  6. Quiver - Wikipedia

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    A modern invention, the bow quiver attaches directly to the bow's limbs and holds the arrows steady with a clip of some kind. They are popular with compound bow hunters as it allows one piece of equipment to be carried in the field without encumbering the hunter's body.

  7. Wikipedia:Unusual articles - Wikipedia

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    A compound housing Fela Kuti - a famous Nigerian musician - his family, band musicians and recording studio, which he declared independent and used to criticize the Nigerian military junta of the 1970s. They responded by raiding it with over a thousand soldiers, setting it alight, and throwing Fela's mother out of the window.

  8. A-frame complex - Wikipedia

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    In organometallic chemistry, A-frame complexes are coordination compounds that contain two bridging bidentate ligands and a single atom bridge. They have the formula M 2 (μ-X)(bd) 2 L 2, where bd is a bidentate ligand like dppm, and X and L are a wide variety of ligands. The term was coined to describe products arising from the oxidative ...

  9. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/February 2006 ...

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    The two cities are not necessarily alike, I would guess that in the case of Atlanta and Savannah, the resemblance is, if not coincidental, then a very minor factor in deciding to cooperate with their respective sister cities. — QuantumEleven | 12:20, 1 February 2006 (UTC) Never heard of Switzerland and Swaziland ever being mixed up.