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unusual facts about Trigger



Automatic pistol

Semi-automatic pistol, a type of self-loading handgun that can be fired in semi-automatic mode, firing one cartridge for each pull of the trigger.

Beaumont–Adams revolver

On 20 February 1856, Lieutenant Frederick E.B. Beaumont of the Royal Engineers was granted a British patent for improvements to the Adams revolver which allowed them to be cocked and fired either cocking the hammer as in Colt single-action revolvers, or by just pulling the trigger.

Big-character poster

A key trigger in the Cultural Revolution was the publication of a dàzìbào on May 25, 1966, by Nie Yuanzi (聂元梓/聶元梓) and others at Peking University, claiming that the university was controlled by bourgeois anti-revolutionaries.

Blind Zero

The first album "Trigger" (1995) was produced by Ronnie S. Champagne (an L.A. producer which had previously worked with bands such as Jane's Addiction, Alice in Chains, Remy Zero e Deconstruction).

Caffeic acid

The studies are the first to show that oxidative stress that would otherwise trigger or enhance Aspergillus flavus aflatoxin production can be stymied by caffeic acid.

Common cold

For example, the rhinovirus is typically acquired by direct contact; it binds to human ICAM-1 receptors through unknown mechanisms to trigger the release of inflammatory mediators.

Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death

Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death is the third book in the Cosmic Trigger series, a three-volume autobiographical and philosophical work by Robert Anton Wilson.

Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook

The book played a critical role in the fictional series Illuminatus! by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea regarding a coup in Fernando Poo (now Equatorial Guinea), which was the outward trigger for a global crisis in the book.

Cynergy Shotgun

The beginning of the Cynergy technically begins with the original B-25 Superposed, designed by John M. Browning in 1928 and finished for production using a single trigger with barrel selector by his son Val Browning by 1939.

Deflex

This version also has a distinctive soundtrack composed of piano chords and arpeggios that trigger on events in the game, and commentary by a voice-over reminiscent of Fluttershy from My Little Pony.

Dry needling

Chan Gunn introduced a type of dry needling called intramuscular stimulation in the 1980s that moved away from using trigger points.

Duke Snider

A more mature Snider became the "trigger man" in a power-laden lineup which boasted players Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Gil Hodges, Billy Cox, Roy Campanella, Carl Erskine, Preacher Roe, Carl Furillo, Clem Labine, and Joe Black.

Erwin Meister

Because a Mebo timing device was alleged to have been used to trigger the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on 21 December 1988 killing 270 people, Erwin Meister was summoned to give evidence in week 8 of the Lockerbie trial.

Final Fantasy Chronicles

Final Fantasy IV features computer animated cutscene sequences, while Chrono Trigger features anime-style sequences designed by Akira Toriyama that "help further tell the story of Chrono Trigger." Final Fantasy IV was given gameplay features such as a two-player mode, a "Sprint Feature" to "enhance and quicken gameplay", and the "Memo File" system to "reduce saving time." Chrono Trigger, instead of added gameplay features, has an "Extras Mode".

Financial contagion

As has been shown by the US financial recession, the trigger of failure of Lehman Brothers dramatically spread the shock to whole financial system and other financial markets.

Flic Story

Gary Giddins, printing his review from the August 16, 2005 issue of The New York Sun, praised the film as "the most interesting and resonant" of Derays work, and gave particular credit to Trintignant's "hair-trigger" performance.

Gilbert Clayton

In this role, he worked with many of the people that helped to trigger the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks.

Glovebox

At the now-deactivated Rocky Flats Plant, which manufactured plutonium triggers, also called "pits", production facilities consisted of linked stainless steel gloveboxes up to 64 feet, or 20 meters, in length, which contained the equipment which forged and machined the trigger parts.

Guanosine nucleotide dissociation inhibitors

It also inhibits cdc42 by binding to its tail and preventing its insertion into membranes; hence it cannot trigger WASPs and cannot lead to nucleation of F-actin.

Harilyn Rousso

After graduation from college she worked at the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, D.C. which helped trigger her interest in working with people.

Hellfire trigger

The Hellfire trigger was used, with a pair of TEC-9 pistols, by the perpetrator of a 1993 mass shooting that killed nine people.

Homochirality

One supposition is that the discovery of an enantiomeric imbalance in molecules in the Murchison meteorite supports an extraterrestrial origin of homochirality: there is evidence for the existence of circularly polarized light originating from Mie scattering on aligned interstellar dust particles which may trigger the formation of an enantiomeric excess within chiral material in space.

Jadea Kelly

She is also featured on their song "Hair-Trigger" from their 2011 release Scurrilous and makes numerous appearances on their 2013 release Volition.

Max Koffler

In 2005, Max Koffler recorded his first studio album "taboo" together with different musicians which was released in 2008 on trigger music, a sublabel of 313JWP (distributed by Sony BMG).

Microchimerism

One hypothesis is that these fetal cells might trigger a graft-versus-host reaction leading to autoimmune disease.

Nanhai District

In May 2010, 2,000 workers at a Honda transmission plant went on strike in the Nanhai district.The trigger was a rise of the legal local minimum wage from $123 to $147, announced by the city government May 1 in response to rapidly rising costs of living.

No Trigger

In 2005, No Trigger signed to independent record label Nitro Records, and their debut full-length, entitled Canyoneer, was released on March 21, 2006.

On a Pale Horse

As he starts to pull the trigger, he sees the spectre of Death (Thanatos) advancing on him.

Patrick Haseldine

Haseldine labelled the four South Africans "terrorists", a term deriving from Michael Dukakis and from some anti-apartheid activists calling apartheid South Africa a "terrorist state" in order to trigger automatic sanctions.

Propositional formula

William Eccles and F. W. Jordan (1919) describe a "trigger relay" made from a vacuum tube.

Remington Model 700

On 20 October 2010, CNBC televised a program, Remington Under Fire: a CNBC Investigation, reporting that the trigger mechanism used prior to 2007 on the model 700 could fire without the trigger being squeezed.

Ringtone

In old phones, this voltage was used to trigger a high-impedance electromagnet to ring a bell on the phone.

Seecamp

The Seecamp, like the Czechoslovakian CZ 45 pistol, utilizes a very compact and reliable DAO trigger mechanism.

Self-loading rifle

Automatic rifle, a firearm that automatically loads and fires rounds, through the bullet's energy, as long as the trigger is held down it.

Semantic Pipes

Semantic Pipes are close to Oracle’s Materialized Views (used in data warehousing), which are static snapshots of the data and their accuracy depends on the trigger mechanize behind their updates.

Single Integrated Operational Plan

In What Ifs? of American History, edited by Robert Cowley, one essay ("The Cuban Missile Crisis: Second Holocaust", by Robert L. O'Connell) outlines a scenario where the Cuban Missile Crisis leads, via miscalculations, incompetence and trigger-happiness on both sides, to a two-day thermonuclear war, with horrific results in terms of both overkill and long-term effects on the world.

Skin immunity

Lymphocytes move to the epidermis where they reside as a memory T cells, they will thus be activated and will trigger inflammatory response.

Syrup of ipecac

It is typically used to induce vomiting, which it accomplishes by irritating the lining of the stomach (gastric mucosa) and by stimulating part of the brain called the medullary chemoreceptor trigger zone.

System Global Area

shared pool, the cache of parsed commonly used SQL statements, and also the data-dictionary cache containing tables, views and triggers

The Brothers Bloom

The brothers tell Bang Bang to set off a small explosive in Prague Castle that will trigger the fire alarm, allowing Penelope to sneak in and steal the book.

The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest

The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest is a soundtrack by The Flaming Lips to the Bradley Beesley fishing documentary Okie Noodling, featuring three country-tinged songs not found elsewhere, two of which are instrumentals.

Trigger Argee

Eventually Trigger teams up with a younger woman, Telzey Amberdon of the fictional planet Orado.

Trigger Happy

Trigger Happy!, a 1956 jazz album by Herman "Trigger" Alpert

Trigger pad

Tim Waterson, the current world record holder as stated in the Guinness Book of World Records, uses trigger pads to record his speeds.

Varmint hunting

Bushmaster AR-15 based Varminter model; includes extended heavy barrel, adjustable trigger, and no iron sights (being designed for dedicated use with telescopic sights).

Vishnu Ganesh Pingle

A last-ditch attempt was made by Kartar Singh and Pingle to trigger a mutiny in the 12th Cavalry regiment at Meerut.

Waking Moments

Before entering a dream state, Chakotay provides himself with a trigger image, Earth's Moon that will remind him that he is still dreaming and can use it to restore himself to a conscious state.

Working cow horse

Adopted by the pre-Moors and Moors in Spain, and transferred to the Spanish conquistadors, the Californio methods created horses so sensitive to their riders' signals they were known as "Hair-trigger" or "whisper" reined horses.


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