Word: shotgunful
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...Garden District, and you're like in the 'hood. And that's what makes New Orleans New Orleans." But New Orleans is already changing. In the 7th Ward, east of downtown in an area that got little flooding, Latoya Crump is overseeing work on her mom?s shotgun house painted a pale minty green with dark green gingerbread trim. But she?s heard that most of the African American residents, who rented their homes, aren?t returning, and she worries that the neighborhood will be gentrified by those with more money. "They keep saying come home, rebuild, but there...
Among architectural preservationists, the greatest fear six months ago was that developers eager for large tracts of open land would push the city to bulldoze whole neighborhoods of traditional housing, like the long, narrow "shotgun" houses that produce the intricate streetscape rhythms around large parts of the city. Because replacing them with cookie-cutter suburban development would destroy the heart of the city, the National Trust for Historic Preservation teamed with the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans to help finance the restoration of a number of flood-damaged older homes. The point was to show that it was entirely...
Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot Texas lawyer Harry Whittington with a 28-gauge double-barreled shotgun. Unlike rifles, which fire single bullets over a wider area. Usually, the larger the game, the larger the pellets used. Because Cheney was hunting quail, he was using birdshot-not buckshot, which is bigger. Whittington was hit in the face, neck and chest at a reported distance of about...
...AmmunitionThe 28-gauge is the second-smallest commonly used shotgun, with a barrel just larger than half and inch in diameter. Cheney was using size-7 1/2 shot. Each shell contains about 260 pellets 0.095 inch in diameter, which will kill a quail but leave its body intact so it can be eaten...
...Rifle barrels contain grooves that spin the bullet, making it travel straight and fast. Shotgun barrels generally are smooth, causing the pellets to disperse when the gun is fired...