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  2. Minecraft (franchise) - Wikipedia

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    Minecraft: Story Mode, an episodic spin-off game developed by Telltale Games in collaboration with Mojang, was announced in December 2014. [8] [9] [10] Consisting of five episodes plus three additional downloadable episodes, the standalone game is a narrative and player choice-driven, and it was released on Windows, OS X, iOS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One via download ...

  3. History of submarines - Wikipedia

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    During the war, 52 US submarines were lost to all causes, with 48 directly due to hostilities; [73] 3,505 [72] [74] sailors were lost, the highest percentage killed in action of any US service arm in World War II. U.S. submarines sank 1,560 enemy vessels, [72] a total tonnage of 5.3 million tons (55% of the total sunk), [75] including 8 ...

  4. Markus Persson - Wikipedia

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    Markus Alexej Persson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to a Finnish mother, Ritva, [3] and a Swedish father, Birger, [4] on 1 June 1979. [5] [6] [3] He has one sister.[3] [7] He grew up in Edsbyn until he was seven years old, when his family moved back to Stockholm.

  5. Escape trunk - Wikipedia

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    Submarine escape trunk View inside a submarine escape trunk, looking up from below the lower hatch. An escape trunk is a small compartment on a submarine which provides a means for crew to escape from a downed submarine; it operates on a principle similar to an airlock, in that it allows the transfer of persons or objects between two areas of different pressure.

  6. Minecraft: The Story of Mojang - Wikipedia

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    Minecraft: The Story of Mojang is a 2012 documentary film produced by 2 Player Productions and directed by Paul Owens. It is about the first year of Mojang , the development company founded by game designer Markus "Notch" Persson , and the development and release of Persson's game Minecraft .

  7. Naval mine - Wikipedia

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    Naval mines were first invented by Chinese innovators of Imperial China and were described in thorough detail by the early Ming dynasty artillery officer Jiao Yu, in his 14th-century military treatise known as the Huolongjing. [5] Chinese records tell of naval explosives in the 16th century, used to fight against Japanese pirates .

  8. Teardrop hull - Wikipedia

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    Entering service in 1917, the steam-powered British K-class may be seen as the peak of surface-optimized submarines in WWI. They achieved 24 kn (44 km/h) and in an emergency could submerge in just shy of five minutes, although a half hour was a more reasonable timeframe in normal operation. 103 m long, and with an estimated maximum diving depth of 61 m, they were 4 m short of being able to ...

  9. Porthole - Wikipedia

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    Jewish refugees look out through a porthole of a ship while docked in the port of Haifa, c. 1950–1959. A porthole, sometimes called bull's-eye window or bull's-eye, [1] is a generally circular window used on the hull of ships to admit light and air.