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The Five-seven pistol and its 5.7×28mm ammunition were developed by FN Herstal in response to NATO requests for a replacement for the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge and associated pistols and submachine guns. [1] NATO called for two types of weapons chambered for a new cartridge—one a shoulder-fired weapon, and the other a handheld weapon. [1]
Highway sign for Compton on State Route 91 Map of Compton, c. 2001 According to the United States Census Bureau 's 2020 data, [ 26 ] [ 27 ] the city has a total area of 10.1 square miles (26 km 2 ). 10.03 square miles (26.0 km 2 ) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2 ) of it (1.03%) is water.
Computing – UTF-8: 2,147,483,648 (2 31) possible code points (U+0000 - U+7FFFFFFF) in the pre-2003 version of UTF-8 (including five- and six-byte sequences), before the UTF-8 code space was limited to the much smaller set of values encodable in UTF-16. Biology – base pairs in the genome: approximately 3.3 × 10 9 base pairs in the human ...
Fort Stewart is named for Brigadier General Daniel Stewart, a hero of the Revolutionary War and a political leader from Liberty County, Georgia. [9] It is the largest Army installation east of the Mississippi River, covering 280,000 acres (1,100 km 2), which include parts of Liberty, Long, Bryan, Evans and Tattnall Counties.
Lidar's first applications were in meteorology, for which the National Center for Atmospheric Research used it to measure clouds and pollution. [22] The general public became aware of the accuracy and usefulness of lidar systems in 1971 during the Apollo 15 mission, when astronauts used a laser altimeter to map the surface of the Moon. Although ...