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Shoulder-launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon

The Naval Surface Warfare Center teamed with the Marine Corps Systems Command, NSWC Dahlgren and Talley Defense Systems responded to an urgent U.S. Marine Corps need for a shoulder-launched enhanced-blast warhead in 2003.


1943 Michigan Wolverines football team

Hirsch was sidelined for most of the game with a shoulder injury, but a total of ten former Badgers played for Michigan in the game, including center Fred Negus, quarterback Jack Wink, halfback Wally Dreyer, guard Johnny Gallagher, tackle Bob Hanzlik, and ends Hank Olshanski and Earl Maves.

1960–61 FA Cup

United had the ball in the net through Derek Pace in the first game and although the player insisted that it hit his shoulder, the referee disallowed for handball.

1979 National League Championship Series

Despite a sore shoulder, Candelaria gutted out seven painful innings before giving way to Enrique Romo.

2013 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres

Matthew Centrowitz took up the position directly behind Kiprop on the rail, Mekonnen Gebremedhin on his shoulder.

Anti-Structures Munition

The Anti-Structures Munition is a developmental program for the British Army to provide a man-portable shoulder-launched weapon capable of destroying hardened structures such as buildings or bunkers.

Battery terminal

The most common sizes of sealed lead acid (SLA) batteries use Faston tabs, but some larger batteries use L terminals, while some very specialized designs use other, sometimes proprietary terminals, such as older Panasonic camcorder batteries (of the type used for VHS shoulder-mounted camcorders).

Bluey Wilkinson

Determined not to miss the final, Bluey had the Tottenham Hotspur club doctor put his arm and shoulder in plaster.

Bob Cain

On August 19, 1951, St. Louis Browns owner Bill Veeck put the 3 foot, 7 inch Eddie Gaedel into the game with instructions to hold his bat on his shoulder and not swing.

Cato T. Laurencin

Prior to his service at the University of Virginia, Laurencin was at Drexel University School of Medicine and Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia where he served as the Helen I. Moorehead Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, Vice Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Director of Shoulder Surgery.

Cécile Hane

Unfortunately, she lost the first preliminary round match to Venezuela's Ysis Barreto, who successfully scored an ippon (full point) and a seoi nage (shoulder throw), at one minute and forty-seven seconds.

Clinton Portis

Shortly following that, on August 13, 2006, Portis suffered a partially dislocated shoulder in the first quarter of a Week 1 pre-season game after tackling Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Keiwan Ratliff following a Bengals interception.

Coma Divine II

Both tracks were later reissued on Coma Divine - Recorded Live in Rome expanded 2CD edition, though "The Moon Touches Your Shoulder / Always Never" was split into two individual tracks.

Don Liddle

Liddle is most remembered as the man who, in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, threw the pitch to Vic Wertz that resulted in The Catch — Giant center fielder Willie Mays' historic back-to-home-plate, over-the-shoulder grab of Wertz' line drive with two men on base in the deepest part of centerfield at the Giants' home field, the Polo Grounds.

Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

There are oil portraits of Lord Strathcona by many artists, but the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury seems to have made a number of head and shoulder portraits of him from 1898 (examples may be found at the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad offices, and in the Hudson's Bay Company this has a repainted background), and the artist also presented his 1899 bust-length charcoal and crayon drawing of Strathcona to McGill University in Montreal in 1916.

Grovely Wood

An image on Purbeck marble found at Steeple Langford in 1857, a portrait of a man wearing a long robe, with a horn hanging from his left shoulder, may be of Alan de Langford, Verderer of Grovely Wood at the end of the 13th century.

Hatful of Hollow

Originally, the picture was larger and showed a tattoo of a Cocteau drawing on his left shoulder, which he had had done in June 1983 because he idolised Cocteau.

Holly Walsh

On 15 August 2010, Walsh injured herself with a suspected dislocated shoulder and fractured arm after leaping from a pier during the annual Worthing International Birdman festival.

Jim Schrader

After graduating from Scott Township High School in Carnegie, PA, he went on to the University of Notre Dame, where he played under head coach Frank Leahy who was the former line coach for the Seven Blocks of Granite and played shoulder-to-shoulder with Tackle Art Hunter Guard Menil Mavraides, and Fullback Neil Worden as the main blockers for Heisman Trophy winning running back Johnny Lattner.

Keepie uppie

Keepie uppie, or "kick-ups" is the skill of juggling with a football using feet, lower legs, knees, chest, shoulders, and head, without allowing the ball to hit the ground.

Killer whale attacks on humans

In August 2005, while swimming in four feet of water in Helm Bay, near Ketchikan, Alaska, a 12-year-old boy named Ellis Miller was "bumped" in the shoulder by a 25-foot transient killer whale.

L-vocalization

Before coronal consonants, this produced Alderney, alter, bald, balderdash, bold, cold, false, falter, fold, gold, halt, hold, malt, molten, mould/mold, old, palsy, salt, shoulder (earlier sholder), smolder, told, Wald, Walter and wold (in the sense of "tract of land").

LRAC F1

The LRAC F1, officially called Lance-Roquettes AntiChar de 89 mm modèle F1 (89 mm anti-tank rocket launcher model F1) is a French reusable rocket launcher developed by Luchaire Defense SA, and manufactured in cooperation with Manufacture Nationale d'Armes de Saint-Étienne and was in the 1970s marketed by Hotchkiss-Brandt.

Maria Adeodata Pisani

Besides suffering from delicate health, Maria Teresa had a deformed shoulder, caused, it was testified, by injuries sustained at the hands of a maid who beat her when she lived with her grandmother in Naples.

Meggitt Banshee

Banshee entered service with the British Army in the mid-1980s as an aerial target for the Short Blowpipe and Javelin shoulder launched missiles.

Mina Hadjian

The program got the lowest possible rating of 1 by newspaper VG, and the online edition VG.nett wrote 17 April 2007 that Mina would "tattoo the 1-rating on her backside," in an attempt to copy Ari Behn s alleged tattoo of 6-rating (the best) on his shoulder.

NEFERT

If the test results are interfered by unconscious shoulder movements of the patient, a second test course is performed, during which the examining person holds the patient's shoulders with the hands.

Newtownbutler

During the Siege of Lucknow on the 16 November 1857 at Lucknow, India, Private Irwin showed conspicuous bravery at the assault on the Secundra Bagh when, although severely wounded through the right shoulder, he was one of the first to enter the building under heavy fire.

North American Islamic Trust

In August 2004 Mohammed M. Hossain and Yassin M. Aref, two leaders of a mosque owned by NAIT in Albany, were arrested in a sting operation on charges that they took part in what they thought was a plot to import a shoulder-fired missile and assassinate a Pakistani diplomat in New York City.

Nothing to Hide

She tells her friend to leave, scaring Tina who believes that Niki has turned into a completely different person, an assumption which is confirmed by the appearance of the RNA symbol tattoo on Niki's shoulder, showing that Jessica is in control.

Park Safety

Later, Leslie receives a call from Ann (Rashida Jones) that Jerry is in the hospital with a dislocated shoulder.

Pat Angerer

Working through mononucleosis, as well as hamstring, groin and shoulder injuries, Angerer finally made the starting lineup in 2008.

Philip of Acarnania

Philip was still Alexander’s doctor at the siege of Gaza in 332 BC, as Curtius reports that he extracted an arrow from the king’s shoulder (QC 4.6.17-20)

Phoenix Railway Photographic Circle

Many railway photographers of the 1960s, most notably Colin Gifford and also Ian Krause, Malcolm Dunnett and many others had adopted what came to known as the 'new approach', an attempt to portray railways as a part of the environment and to inject a much needed sense of realism into their work rather than the standard sun over the shoulder three-quarter views prevalent at the time.

Port Huron Fighting Falcons

Shoulder patches on both home and away uniforms will feature a cicular logo with the Blue Water Bridge, that spans the St. Clair River separating Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.

Ranks in Gerakan Pramuka Indonesia

In Penegak group, the only shoulder loop that looks different is the CARA (Calon Bantara) or Bantara Cadet, where the logo is not the Tunas Kelapa (coconut sprout), but the kujang, an Indonesian traditional weapon, from West Java), and the word written: CARA (Calon Bantara) or Bantara Cadet.

Ritchie Neville

He acted as a replacement for actor Sam J. Jones, who had been forced to pull out after a shoulder injury.

Rob Styles

In awarding Birmingham City a penalty 13 minutes from time during the Premier League game at St Andrews on 29 March 2008, Styles caused many observers in the media to question whether the away side's Sun Jihai had actually fouled home striker Gary McSheffrey in the penalty area, or merely been punished for a legitimate shoulder-to-shoulder challenge, which would ordinarily have brought no sanction whatsoever.

RPO-A Shmel

The RPO-A "Shmel" (Rus. "РПО-А Шмель") ("Bumblebee") is a man-portable rocket launcher although it is classified as a flamethrower (Rus. Реактивный Пехотный Огнемет) by the manufacturer, KBP, Tula.

Secret of the Incas

Throughout Secret of the Incas, the main character, Harry Steele, can be seen wearing the "Indiana Jones" outfit - brown leather jacket, fedora, tan pants, an over-the-shoulder bag, and revolver.

Shoulder-fired missile

Rocket-based weapons have a long history, from the black powder fire arrows used by the ancient Chinese to the Congreve rocket referenced in "The Star-Spangled Banner," the national anthem of the United States.

Shoulders

:For the body part, see Shoulder.

Soviet support for Iran during the Iran–Iraq war

Also part of the Kharg Island air defenses were shoulder-fired Strela SA-7 surface-to-air missiles.

Symphonies of Wind Instruments

According to Arthur Rubinstein, who attended the performance with Stravinsky, laughter broke out during the bassoon segment, and the conductor, Koussevitsky, "instead of stopping the performance and addressing the audience with a few words, assuring them that it was a serious work in the modern idiom, smiled maliciously and even had a twinkle in his eye as he looked over his shoulder at the laughing audience" (Rubinstein 1980, 173).

Tamara Karsavina

In the film, A Portrait of Giselle, Karsavina recalls a "wardrobe malfunction": during one performance her shoulder straps fell and she accidentally exposed herself.

The Strange Encounter

The shoulder strap had the words: "Yellow King, 8061, Danger, Light, Plutonian, H, Poplar Trees, Temple 1954" which translate into: Basam Damdu, the year of origin of the invaders, the threat, the lights used for time travel, the plutonium that is part of the H-bombs, Operation Poplar Trees and a comet discovered by Wilhelm Tempel which is due to appear on the 17 October 1954 in just a few days time and will be used to get the bombs into the future.

There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder

"There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" is a 1928 song sung by Al Jolson in the early Warner Bros. talking picture The Singing Fool the same year.

U.S. Military connector specifications

Often referred to as a Micro-D connector system, the connector is suited to a multitude of systems where weight, miniaturization or signal transmission integrity are paramount, such as missiles and their guidance systems, aerospace avionics, radars, shoulder-launched weapon systems, advanced soldier technology systems, military Global Positioning Systems, satellites, medical devices and down-hole drilling tools.

Werner Ostendorff

During the fighting in Normandy, Ostendorff was badly wounded near Carentan on 16 June 1944 when he was hit in the shoulder by machine gun-fire.

William S. Bowdern

During the rites, Roland slipped one of his hands out of the restraints; he then broke a bedspring from under the mattress and used it as an impromptu weapon, slashing the priest's arm from wrist to shoulder and causing a wound that required over one hundred stitches.

Yammoune

Locals claiming to be "defending their livelihood" planted explosives and retaliated on the troops with an assortment of small arms, and shoulder-launched missile weapons including three RPG-7 rockets and medium-calibre PK machine guns.


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