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| − | <noinclude>'''November 22''' currently has two featured articles: the [[Magic bullet]], because Kennedy was assassinated on this date and [[Eugene Stoner]] because it's his birthday.
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| − | == Featured Article ==</noinclude>
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| − | |title= Magic bullet
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| − | |more= (Click here to find out just ''how'' astounding)
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| − | |summary= On this day in 1963, millions of shocked and horrified Americans, glued to radios or televisions across the nation, waited through hours they would never forget in the wake of the news that had hit the nation like a freight train: "The President is dead." As unbelievable as the news had been, the explanation that would follow seemed even more so — actor Kevin Costner, portraying New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison in the film "''JFK''," summed it up succinctly:
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| − | [[File:blank.gif]]''"Never in the history of gunfire has there been a [[bullet]] this ridiculous."''
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| − | Ever since the assassination of John F. Kennedy the question has lingered: how could just one bullet possibly traverse 15 layers of clothing, 7 layers of skin, approximately 15 inches of tissue and a necktie knot, remove 4 inches of rib, and shatter a radius bone? Simply preposterous, right?
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| − | A Discovery Channel special "''Unsolved History: JFK — Beyond the Magic Bullet''", attempted to replicate the conditions of that day. The participants set up blocks of [[ballistics gel]] with a substance similar to human bone inside. Next, two mannequin figures made of [[ballistic]] anatomical substances (animal skin, gelatin, and interior bone-analog cast) were set up in the exact relative position of JFK and Connally. A [[marksman]], from a distance equal to that of the sixth floor of the Book Depository building, fired the same [[rifle]] model found in the Book Depository, using a round from the same batch of [[Western Case Cartridge Company]] [[6.5x52 mm]] [[ammunition]] purchased with the surplus [[Carcano]] weapon in early 1963.
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| − | The results were astounding.}}
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| − | |summary= Eugene Morrison Stoner was born on this day in 1922. The man most associated with the design of the [[AR-15]], which was adopted by the US military as the [[M16]], is regarded by most historians, along with John Browning and John Garand, as one of the United States’ most successful military firearms designers of the 20th century.
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| − | He is also, along with the Soviet designer [[Mikhail Kalashnikov]], considered by some historians as one of the two men whose work most shaped the events of the last half of the 20th century.
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| − | The prolific designer of rifles began work in the aircraft industry before taking his expertise, along with plenty of new notions about engineering and alloys, to [[ArmaLite]] where his career in firearms design really took off.
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| − | ! style="background:#9BCD9B; border:1px solid green"| <div style="float:right"><small><nowiki>[</nowiki>[[November 22|more]]<nowiki>]</nowiki></small></div>What else happened today
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| − | * [[1922]] — [[Eugene Morrison Stoner]] (inventor of the [[AR-15]], which was adopted by the military as the [[M16]]) is born in Gosport, Indiana. He is regarded by most historians, along with [[John Browning]] and [[John Garand]], as one of the United States’ most successful military firearms designers of the 20th century.
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| − | * [[1963]] — American President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. The Warren Commission would later offer the [[magic bullet]] theory as an explanation to how one bullet could traverse 15 layers of clothing, 7 layers of skin, 15 inches of tissue and a necktie knot, remove 4 inches of rib, and shatter a radius bone.
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| − | ==Today in pictures==
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