Sentences with phrase «of artillery»

The first two sections of this article appeared as a fall preview in a special issue of Artillery magazine devoted to New York City.
The air campaign — which would dwarf the «shock and awe» of the Iraq War in size and scope — would be designed to decimate North Korea's ground forces and destroy the thousands of artillery pieces trained on the South Korean capital before they could be used to level Seoul.
The May - June 2018 issue of Artillery Magazine features an article by Ezrha Jean Black on the work of MFA Fine Arts Professor JUDIE BAMBER.
As the First World War rages on, the daily life of a small town near the front is hardly disturbed by the report of artillery fire and the parade of wounded in its streets.
Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: November 14, 1914 The tactical use of artillery had been evolving in the years before the Great War: In South Africa in the Anglo - Boer War of 1899 - 1902 the British developed the concept of the «creeping barrage,» where a curtain of shellfire proceeded just in front -LSB-...]
The lone issue of Musings now serves its turn in Audible Signs: it has been revised, expanded and mounted as one piece of artillery in my fourfold assault (Chapter 4) on Alex Ross» best - selling book on 20th - century music, The Rest Is Noise.
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A number of new paintings inspired by Kensington Gardens and created for the exhibition will also be on display — the show's title is both a reference to the park's wildlife and a nod to a type of artillery used in the Second World War.
Whorlies: a bilge hose that emits a variety of pitches depending on spin speed and length; Annoy - a-phones — multi-tonal pieces from dishwasher parts, bagpipe reeds, and balloons; Noisemakers are made of artillery shells, chopped into church - bell like chimes, bike bells and spokes, and soda cans from venues.
Still, any attempt to force the North to denuclearize could have devastating consequences, thanks in part to the large amount of artillery trained on Seoul.
Raffles, too, reported that even at a distance of eight hundred miles, «showers of ashes covered the houses, the streets, and the fields, to the depth of several inches; and amid this darkness explosions were heard at intervals, like the report of artillery or the noise of distant thunder.»
Hyde Park Corner A memorial to the casualties of the Royal Regiment of Artillery in the First World War, the four bronze figures on each side of this sculpture were the first to show ordinary soldiers as opposed to generals in a starkly realistic fashion.
But for some, the real stars of this prequel to the 2008 «Death Race» are the tricked - out cars which are loaded with all sorts of machine guns, rocket launchers and whatever other kind of artillery you can think of.
Player's main objective is to use variety of artillery attacks to stop hordes of enemies throughout series of campaigns.
Aside from the expected menagerie of artillery attacks due to its given arsenal, it has a nice array of lateral movement options when using its secondary weapons and melee attacks to always keep you on the move similar to Full Armor Unicorn's side bazookas.
,» a Josephine Baker — like creature sporting ostrich feathers and a bare breast conjures the West's historic fascination with «Le Noble Sauvage» exoticism, while her kaleidoscopic bod tells a more contemporary tale: With knees made of artillery pieces and stacked cans of crude for high heels, oilmongering geopolitics insinuate themselves in her very contours.
Players will have a variety of artillery at their disposal, each with its own specialty.
I heard the constant «boom - boom» of artillery as they fought the Republican Guard.
Commissioned by Umed Singh II, who ruled in the 1920s, this custom Rolls and its extravagant complement of artillery shows how seriously Indian royals took tiger hunting at the height of the sport's popularity.
There was one stubborn glitch they couldn't figure out: The program did a wonderful job spewing out data on the trajectory of artillery shells, but it just didn't know when to stop.
«So when we hear people say we've got to go up there with Kim Jong - un and whip his ass, how would you do that without Seoul, Korea, coming under fire of hundreds and hundreds of artillery pieces?»
The US military is currently working on two systems to increase the accuracy of artillery — the handheld Joint Effects Targeting System, which an Army official said could turn a howitzer «into a giant sniper rifle,» and Precision Guidance Kit Munitions that could be used with 155 mm rounds like those fired on Raqqa.
But interaction gave way to silence, only to be replaced by the cacophony of artillery.
However, after an exchange of artillery fire at South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island that killed two soldiers in 2010, the South Korean government allowed the tree to be reinstated, despite heated protests from North Korea.
That might be because Big Bertha was the name of a type of artillery created before World War I, and giving a baby girl that name might set her up for teasing later in life.
The existing threat of artillery hitting Seoul is more than sufficient to prevent an invasion.
«Other recoveries include, 1 Charger, 7 Boxes of 7.62 mm Link, 1 GP 340 Hand Held Radio, 4 Boxes of 7.62 mm X 54 mm Ammunitions, 3 Anti-Riot Hand Held Grenade, as well as 30 Cleaning Kits, 2 Packets of Artillery Primers and 97 pieces of Zela fuse.
«Among the events lined up for the parade is the traditional firing of one salvo of artillery guns as well as firing of the volleys from rifles in honour of our fallen heroes.
This article by Scott P. Hippensteel of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte describes how carbonate rocks produced rolling terrain that limited the range and effectiveness of both artillery and small arms.
Did the chimp see itself a few hours into the future and realize it would need a cache of artillery?
Some, such as the development of artillery, became a central facet during the Great War, the first «total war» that involved all of its citizens, industries and scientific ingenuity.»
They created extensive stocks of artillery and bombs that were destroyed when the Army abandoned its biological weapons program in 1969.
Day and night one could hear the thunder of the artillery and the sky turned deep red when night fell.
In fact at one point my socal life seemed to be becoming an intricate web of artillery officers.
There are a number of interesting sonic elements in the film — the propulsive bass, the blanketing textures of Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard's score, the crispness of artillery fire, and the supple sounds of Batman's cape — but the vocal track stands out as a real accomplishment for reasons that you probably did not even consider.
Ben's knowledge of artillery from his many hours on his videogame system is painfully foreshadowed, and if you are wondering why big actors are given thankless roles your brain will soon connect the dots.
Going 3D means a lot of things, it means spatial awareness, it means depth perception, but it doesn't make the game any less of an artillery shooter or any less ridiculous.
It is a type of artillery game where players control a team of cartoonish worms and use creative weaponry to defat the opposing team.
The sparsity of new weapons appears to have some players concerned, but the promise of the sprawling countryside waiting to be discovered makes up for the paucity of artillery.
I couldn't make heads or tails of artillery.
As a member of the U.S. military forces seeking to liberate Anchorage from occupation by the communist Chinese Red Army, you must infiltrate and destroy a series of artillery installations before rejoining the American base camp and leading a strategic assault into the fortified enemy stronghold.
A very short warning of an artillery strike ended the trench defence rather prematurely, and I had no idea where to hide.
From the booming echo of artillery being fired to the mud that coats a player's weapon after crawling on the ground, Battlefield 1 is the best looking and sounding shooter of the year, no contest.
Christopher Michno is a writer and the Associate Editor of Artillery, a bimonthly contemporary art magazine based in Los Angeles.
The Good Luck Gallery opened in 2014 and is owned and curated by Paige Wery, who for six years was the publisher of Artillery art magazine.
With the aid of a Chinati shape - finding booklet, we identified the semicircle of the artillery shed's Quonset hut roofs, the rectangular 100 works in mill aluminum, the squares within Judd's concrete works and so forth.
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