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ShKAS machine gun

A one-second burst from four ShKAS in Polikarpov I-153 or Polikarpov I-16 placed 120 bullets within 15 angular mils at 400 meters (1,312 feet) giving a firing density of 5 bullets per square meter of the sky.


1979 Boeing 707-323C disappearance

Notably, the cargo included 153 paintings by Manabu Mabe, returning from a Tokyo exhibition, valued at US$1.24 million.

2007 Kansas State Wildcats football team

Deon Murphy caught Freeman's touchdown pass and ran 21 yards on a reverse for a 34-7 lead for the Wildcats, who had 153 yards rushing Saturday night after being held to 27 in last week's 23-13 loss at Auburn.

2009 Connecticut Huskies football team

Senior running back Andre Dixon ran for 153 yards and three touchdowns and Connecticut beat Louisville for the Huskies first Big East win of the season.

2010 Irwin Tools Night Race

On lap 153, Kevin Harvick said, "We don't know what we're doing. Leave the air alone.", after being frustrated that his crew could not fix the car handling.

2011 Nabro eruption

Another 167,153 people, in the Elidar and Kori woredas, were reported as requiring monitoring according to the Afar regional government.

Ages of consent in Oceania

The age of consent in Tuvalu is 15 (sections 133, 134 & 135), but homosexual sex is illegal at all ages (sections 153, 154 & 155).

Alec Bedser

In the first Test of the 1954–55 tour of Australia he was suffering from shingles and took 1/131 as seven catches were dropped off his bowling, including Arthur Morris (153) before he had scored - and England lost by an innings.

Bamf

In Uncanny X-Men #153, Kitty Pryde tells a fairy tale to six-year-old Illyana Rasputin, which includes a race of creatures called "Bamfs", described as small versions of Nightcrawler even wearing a costume identical to Nightcrawler's.

Charles Christian Plitt

According to The Sun, a Baltimore newspaper, he made 3,153 tramps between 1899 and 1922.

Diego Junqueira

In May, he won a Challenger in Italy, beating #206 Dick Norman, #162 Harel Levy, #97 Santiago Ventura, #153 Nicolas Devilder, and #149 Máximo González, those last 4 being the #6, #1, #5,

Entrenched clause

Article 152 specifies the Malay language as the national language of Malaysia; Article 153 grants the Malays special privileges; Article 181 covers the position of the Malay rulers; and Part III deals with matters of citizenship.

Fuel tax

Excise taxes on gasoline and diesel are collected both federal and provincial governments, as well as by some select municipalities (Montreal, Vancouver, and Victoria); with combined excise taxes varying from 16.2 ¢/L (73.6 ¢/imperial gal; 61.2 ¢/US gal) in the Yukon to 30.5 ¢/L ($1.386/imperial gal; $1.153/US gal) in Vancouver.

Geography of the United States Rocky Mountain System

West Spanish Peak (13,626 ft, 4,153 m), in the Front Range of southern Colorado, may be mentioned as an example of a deeply dissected volcano, originally of greater height, with many unusually strong radiating dike-ridges near its denuded flanks.

German submarine U-178

She then shaped a course across the Indian Ocean to Penang, arriving there on 27 August after 153 days at sea.

Golf-class submarine

Project 619: K-153 was converted in 1976 to test SS-N-20 SLBM, and received NATO reporting name Golf V.

Greenwich Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey

In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 44.7% of the vote here (153 ballots cast), ahead of both Democrat Jon Corzine with 43.6% (149 votes) and Independent Chris Daggett with 7.0% (24 votes), with 342 ballots cast among the township's 583 registered voters, yielding a 58.7% turnout.

Hooded carpetshark

The hooded carpetshark, Hemiscyllium strahani, is a bamboo shark in the family Hemiscylliidae found around Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea, between latitudes 5° S and 10° S, and longitude 144° E and 153° E.

Inclusive fitness

Hamilton, W. D. 1975, Innate Social Aptitudes of Man: an Approach from Evolutionary Genetics, in Robin Fox (ed.), Biosocial Anthropology, Malaby Press, London, 133-153 (IF including altruism to fellow altruists among strangers discussed herein)

Jacob Fick

Jacob Fick born in Ulm on the 17 January 1912, was one of the early volunteers for the SS as can be seen by his SS service number 3 247, he was also a member of the NSDAP party number 153 672.

Josiah Merritt Adobe

The Benicia State Capitol Building (California State Landmark #153) included the Greek temple format but is made of stone or masonry.

Kazimierz Kmiecik

Kazimierz Kmiecik (born 19 September 1951 in Węgrzce Wielkie) is a retired Polish footballer who played almost all his career for Wisła Kraków, where he played 304 league matches and scored 153 goals.

Kelvin Scottish

The largest constituent was 153 Leyland Leopard single-deckers; the first new buses were six Leyland Tigers ordered by Central Scottish prior to the creation of Kelvin.

Laquey, Missouri

Route 17 crosses Interstate 44 at exit 153 at Buckhorn, runs east through Waynesville, turns north to Crocker, and then runs north out of the county to Iberia.

Libertarian Party of Canada candidates, 1980 Canadian federal election

Eaglesham received 153 votes (0.72%), finishing sixth against the Ontario New Democratic Party incumbent Tony Grande.

Manabu Mabe

On 30 January 1979, after an exhibition in Tokyo, 153 of his paintings were on board of a Varig, cargo Boeing 707-323C registration PP-VLU en route from Tokyo - Narita to Rio de Janeiro-Galeão via Los Angeles.

Mark Roth

He plays an opponent of a 153-average bowler (Al Molinaro) fulfilling a fantasy to compete and win against professionals.

Maury Shapka

He would finish seventh out of nine candidates taking 153 votes finishing well behind Rahim Jaffer.

Melbourne Park, Kingston

In one-day cricket, Dawnley Joseph's 153* for Windward Islands against Jamaica in 1997-98 was the highest List A score made in the West Indies, a record that stood until Imran Nazir hit 160* for Pakistan against Zimbabwe in the 2007 World Cup.

Neil Harvey with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948

In the Fifth Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, he hit 153 to break Archie Jackson's record for the youngest Australian to make a Test century.

Pave Spike

156 examples of the original AN/ASQ-153 were used by USAF F-4 Phantom II aircraft (D and E variants) from 1974 through 1982, replacing the earlier Pave Knife.

Pre-Adamite

The first known debate about human antiquity took place in 170 AD between Theophilus of Antioch and an Egyptian pagan "Apollonius the Egyptian" (probably Apollonius Dyscolus), who argued that the world was 153,075 years old.

S. P. Adithanar

On 17 March 1967, Adithan became the speaker of the assembly defeating the Swatantra Party candidate K. S. Kothandaramiah, by 153 votes to 21.

Schau

Schau, lieber Gott, wie meine Feind, BWV 153 ("See, dear God, how my enemies"), BWV 153, a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach

SNCF Class X 97150

Three units, numbered X 97151-153 were built to work the Guingamp to Carhaix and Paimpol lines in Brittany.

Sonnet 153

Sonnets 153 and 154 are filled with rather bawdy double entendres of sex followed by contraction of a venereal disease.

Sonnet 154

As the last in the famed collection of sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare from 1592-1598, Sonnet 154 is most often thought of in a pair with the previous sonnet, number 153.

The Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon and The Animals

Despite containing three tracks that had been US Top 15 singles, the compilation was not commercially successful, rising only to #153 on the Billboard 200.

Tranvía del Este

Replacing them on the Tranvía del Este was another tram of the same type, but loaned from Madrid, Spain, where it was number 153 (a number it also used in Buenos Aires) in the fleet of the Metro Ligero de Madrid light rail system.

United States obscenity law

The first is "mere nudity" as upheld in "Jenkins v. Georgia, 418 U.S. 153 (1974)" whereby the film Carnal Knowledge was deemed not to be obscene under the constitutional standards announced by Miller.

Vern Riffe State Office Tower

The Vern Riffe State Office Tower is a 503-foot-tall (153 m) skyscraper in Columbus, Ohio.

Wantage Tramway

Several other steam locomotives were used for short periods, including GWR no. 1329 Raven (Avonside Engine Company 0-4-0ST 1052/1874), GWR no. 1359 Wye (Fletcher, Jennings & Co. 0-4-0T 153/1876) and ex-Royal Arsenal Railway Driver (Manning Wardle 0-4-0ST 515/1875).

Yakovlev Yak-7

The GKO and the NKAP issued decrees in August 1941 for the Yak-7 to be produced by Factories N°301 and N°153, but the Factory 301 had to be evacuated to Novosibirsk where it merged with N° 153.


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