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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105, part of the Spiral program, was a crewed test vehicle to explore low-speed handling and landing. It was a visible result of a Soviet project to create an orbital spaceplane.
Lubok depicting a peasant making lapti (Russian bast shoes). Close-up of a modern lapti-maker, using a wooden shoe last and cotton round braid . Most shoes of stiffer bast are woven on the bias , with strips running diagonally, but she is weaving on the grain , with braids running along the sole (see example , and both in one shoe )
Bast shoes were an item worn by the rural poor; leather was preferred in cities. Bast shoes were time-consuming to make. The bark from three or four saplings was soaked in a press for a long period. Despite this, the shoes were somewhat disposable, only lasting a week or so. [3] Bast shoes were used until the mid-twentieth century.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 January 2025. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...
Lapot may refer to: Bast shoe; Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 "Spiral"/"Lapot" Lapot - a legendary tradition of killing frail parents in the Serbian highlands, to avoid supporting them; Lapot, a 1992 novel by Živojin Pavlović about the tradition; Lapot, a rhizarian genus
In 2017, Knight's Armament Company unveiled the KAC LMG/LAMG family of machine guns. The LMG (now named, LAMG) is chambered in 5.56×45mm NATO cartridge and the LAMG (now named, AMG) is chambered in 7.62×51mm NATO. Many features on the platform are unlike that of any other Light Machine Gun currently available. The LAMG and AMG weigh 11.4 lb ...
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The machine gun feeds from a proprietary 100-round synthetic drum magazine (early models also used 60-round drum magazines), or from a modified 20 or 30-round STANAG 4179 magazine (from the M16 rifle). [1] An unusual feature among modern machine guns is the fact the Ultimax was purposely designed to feed from magazines as opposed to belts.