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Gammon Bomb
Gammon may refer to: People * Archer T. Gammon (1918–1945), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient * James Gammon (1940–2010), American actor * James Gammon (engraver) (), English engraver * Kendall Gammon (born 1968), American football player * Reg Gammon (1894–1997), English painter * Richard Gammon (born 1898), English World War I flying ace * Richard Von Albade Gammon (1879–1897), American football player * Roland Gammon (1915–1981), American writer * Russell Gammon (1906–1968), Canadian rower * Steve Gammon (born 1939), Welsh footballer * Wayne Gammon (born 1950), Australian rower Other uses * De Gammon, the language of Irish Travellers * Gammon, a victory in backgammon achieved before the loser removes a single checker * Gammon, a word in Australian Aboriginal English with various meanings, mainly relating to lying or pretence * Gammon (insult), a British pejorative insult term * Gammon (meat), a cut of quick-cured pork leg * Gammon, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archer T
Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern times, it is mainly a competitive sport and recreational activity. A person who practices archery is typically called an archer, bowman, or toxophilite. History Origins and ancient archery The oldest known evidence of the bow and arrow comes from South African sites such as Sibudu Cave, where the remains of bone and stone arrowheads have been found dating approximately 72,000 to 60,000 years ago.Backwell L, d'Errico F, Wadley L.(2008). Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35:1566–1580. Backwell L, Bradfield J, Carlson KJ, Jashashvili T, Wadley L, d'Errico F.(2018). The antiquity of bow-and-arrow technology: evidence from Middle Stone Age layers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backgammon
Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back nearly 5,000 years to the regions of Mesopotamia and Persia. The earliest record of backgammon itself dates to 17th-century England, being descended from the 16th-century game of Irish.Forgeng, Johnson and Cram (2003), p. 269. Backgammon is a two-player game of contrary movement in which each player has fifteen pieces, known traditionally as 'men' (short for 'tablemen') but increasingly known as 'checkers' in the US in recent decades. These pieces move along twenty-four 'points' according to the roll of two dice. The objective of the game is to move the fifteen pieces around the board and be first to ''bear off'', i.e., remove them from the board. The achievement of this while the opponent is still a long way behind results in a triple win known as a ''backgammon'', hence the name of the ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gammon Lake
Gammon Lake is a lake in the Unorganized Part of Kenora District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is in the Hudson Bay drainage basin, is within Woodland Caribou Provincial Park, and is the source of the Gammon River. There are numerous unnamed inflows. The primary outflow, at the southwest and leading to Hammerhead Lake, is the Gammon River, which flows via the Bloodvein River, Lake Winnipeg, and the Nelson River to Hudson Bay. See also *List of lakes in Ontario This is an incomplete list of lakes in Ontario, a province of Canada. There are over 250,000 lakes in Ontario, constituting around 20% of the world's fresh water supply. Larger lake statistics This is a list of lakes of Ontario with an ar ... References Lakes of Kenora District {{NorthernOntario-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gammon India
Gammon India Limited is one of the largest civil engineering construction companies in India. Headquartered in Mumbai, it was founded in 1922 by John C. Gammon. Notable projects Gammon India has executed some notable civil engineering projects: * First Project * The first precast reinforced concrete piling job in India—construction of the foundations of the Gateway of India, Mumbai in 1919 * * Bridge Project * Cable-stayed bridge at Akkar, Sikkim * Gammon have built the largest number of bridges in the Commonwealth region. * * Tunnel Project * One of the longest railway tunnel in Asia for Konkan Railway at Ratnagiri, Maharashtra * Mahatma Gandhi Setu spanning the river Ganges, between Patna and Hajipur in Bihar * * Building Project * Terminal building for Sharjah International Airport, UAE * * Metro Project * Elevated viaducts for Delhi Metro Rail Corporation * * Nuclear Project * India's first second-generation nuclear reactor Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gammon Construction
Gammon Construction Limited is a Hong Kong construction and engineering contractor headquartered in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. In addition to local construction projects, it also involved in construction and engineering various projects in China and Southeast Asia. History The company originated from a construction business founded in India by John C. Gammon in 1919. In 1955, a branch was engaged to build a new runway at Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong. In 1958, Gammon Construction Limited ("Gammon") was formed to establish a permanent presence in Hong Kong. Once incorporated in Hong Kong, it grew rapidly, obtaining construction work of a diverse nature. By the late 1970s, it was established as the leading contractor in Hong Kong, participating in many of the major infrastructure projects of that time. The company began to expand business outside Hong Kong, establishing offices in Singapore and Vietnam. Ownership Jardine Matheson took a minority interest in Gammon in 1969 and it b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gammon Bomb
Gammon may refer to: People * Archer T. Gammon (1918–1945), United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient * James Gammon (1940–2010), American actor * James Gammon (engraver) (), English engraver * Kendall Gammon (born 1968), American football player * Reg Gammon (1894–1997), English painter * Richard Gammon (born 1898), English World War I flying ace * Richard Von Albade Gammon (1879–1897), American football player * Roland Gammon (1915–1981), American writer * Russell Gammon (1906–1968), Canadian rower * Steve Gammon (born 1939), Welsh footballer * Wayne Gammon (born 1950), Australian rower Other uses * De Gammon, the language of Irish Travellers * Gammon, a victory in backgammon achieved before the loser removes a single checker * Gammon, a word in Australian Aboriginal English with various meanings, mainly relating to lying or pretence * Gammon (insult), a British pejorative insult term * Gammon (meat), a cut of quick-cured pork leg * Gammon, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lashing (ropework)
A lashing is an arrangement of rope, wire, or webbing with linking device used to secure and fasten two or more items together in a somewhat rigid manner. Lashings are most commonly applied to timber poles, and are commonly associated with cargo, containerisation, the Scouting movement, and sailors. It has been imagined that the first lashing made by humans was wrapping a few strips of bark around a stone to hold it to a tree branch to make an ax to hunt and build with. In modern times, the same methods are used, but strips of bark and vines have been replaced with natural and synthetic fiber ropes. Scouts and campers use lashings to build camp gadgets and improve their campsites for comfort and convenience, including the building of rafts for transport and competitive events. Lashings are also used in pioneering, the art of creating structures such as bridges and towers, using ropes and wooden spars. There are still areas in the world where lashing spars (or poles) is the ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gammon (meat)
Gammon is the hind leg of pork after it has been cured by dry-salting or brining, which may or may not be smoked. Strictly speaking, a gammon is the bottom end of a whole side of bacon (which ''includes'' the back leg), ham is just the back leg cured on its own. Like bacon, it must be cooked before it can be eaten; in that sense gammon is comparable to fresh pork meat, and different from dry-cured ham like prosciutto.W K H Bode; M J Leto. The Larder Chef'. Routledge; 25 June 2012. . p. 178–. The term is mostly used in the United Kingdom and Ireland, while other dialects of English largely make no distinction between gammon and ham. Ham hock, gammon hock, or knuckle, is the back end of the joint, and contains more connective tissue and sinew.GOOD HOUSEKEEPING. Gh Food Encyclopedia'. Anova Books; 2009. . p. 185–. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, joints of cooked gammon are often served at Christmas. It can be found in most supermarkets either as a full joint or sliced in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gammon (insult)
''Gammon'' is a pejorative popularised in British political culture since around 2012. The term refers in particular to the colour of a person's flushed face when expressing their strong opinions, as compared to the type of pork of the same name. It is characterised in this context by the Oxford English Dictionary as occurring "in various parasynthetic adjectives referring to particularly reddish or florid complexions". In 2018, it became particularly known as a term to describe either those on the political right or those who supported Brexit. Due to its referencing of skin colour, there is controversy as to whether the term is racist. Recent history In 2004, in a section termed "The Ten: Lamest Sporting Excuses" in ''The Observer'', the following appeared: In 2010, Caitlin Moran wrote that British Prime Minister David Cameron resembled "a slightly camp gammon robot" and "a C3PO made of ham" in her 13 March column in The Times, later collected in her 2012 anthology ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Aboriginal English
Australian Aboriginal English (AAE or AbE) is a dialect of English used by a large section of the Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander) population. It is made up of a number of varieties which developed differently in different parts of Australia, and grammar and pronunciation differs from that of standard Australian English, along a continuum. Some of its words have also been adopted into standard or slang Australian English. General description There are generally distinctive features of accent, grammar, words and meanings, as well as language use in Australian Aboriginal English, compared with Australian English. Pronunciation is one of the fundamental differences: even where the words mean the same thing in both varieties of English, some Aboriginal people pronounce words and letters differently; letters may be overcompensated, left out or substituted. The language is also often accompanied by a lot of non-verbal cues. There exists a cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Gammon
Shelta (; Irish: ''Seiltis'') is a language spoken by Rilantu Mincéirí (Irish Travellers), particularly in Ireland and the United Kingdom.McArthur, T. (ed.) ''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (1992) Oxford University Press It is widely known as the Cant, to its native speakers in Ireland as De Gammon, and to the linguistic community as Shelta.Kirk, J. & Ó Baoill (eds.), D. ''Travellers and their Language'' (2002) Queen's University Belfast It was often used as a cryptolect to exclude outsiders from comprehending conversations between Travellers, although this aspect is frequently overemphasised. The exact number of native speakers is hard to determine due to sociolinguistic issues but '' Ethnologue'' puts the number of speakers at 30,000 in the UK, 6,000 in Ireland, and 50,000 in the US. The figure for at least the UK is dated to 1990; it is not clear if the other figures are from the same source. Linguistically Shelta is today seen as a mixed language that s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gammon
James Richard Gammon (April 20, 1940 – July 16, 2010) was an American actor, known for playing grizzled " good ol' boy" types in numerous films and television series. Gammon portrayed Lou Brown, the manager in the movies '' Major League'' and ''Major League II'', fictionalized versions of the Cleveland Indians. He was also known for his role as the retired longshoreman Nick Bridges on the CBS television crime drama '' Nash Bridges''. Biography Early life Gammon was born in Newman, Illinois, the son of Doris Latimer ( née Toppe), a farm girl, and Donald Gammon, a musician. After his parents divorced, he made his way to Orlando, Florida. He worked at Orlando's ABC TV affiliate WLOF-TV (Channel 9), as a cameraman and director. In his 20s, he packed up and moved to Hollywood to find work. Acting career In the 1970s, Gammon helped found the Met Theatre in Los Angeles. While performing there, a rep from The Public Theater saw him and had him cast as Weston in Sam Shepard's ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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