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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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shrapnel shell that bursts scattering bullets. XIX (
S. shell). f. name of General Henry
Shrapnel (1761–1842), who invented this shell during the Peninsular War.
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Our vehicle was blown in half, I got shrapnel wounds to my face ; Lesley-Anne Henry talks to two of the Royal Irish Regiment soldiers injured in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, this week
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 7/23/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...which went over an IED. The vehicle was blown in half. I got shrapnel wounds to my leg and face. One of the other lads got flown...others outside - there were only two in the vehicle. "I got a shrapnel wound in the arm and injured my back - I just got out of hospital...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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male room; The original `Guy' died for our syntax; A failed terrorist from 400 years ago gave us the word "guy," which has a happier meaning than the eponyms we got from Mr. Boycott, Lynch and Shrapnel.(SIGNATURE)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 1/29/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...nicotine now refers to the addictive alkaloid substance in the plant. Word: Shrapnel. From: Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842). Derivation: A British officer, Shrapnel invented what he called "spherical case" ammunition: a hollow cannon ball...
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The unsettling legacy of General Shrapnel
Magazine article from: Mother Jones; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...transitory had been the empire Shrapnel served. Shrapnel's unremarkable, slightly...was a clothier, like many Shrapnels before him in the southwestern English county of Wiltshire. Henry was born in 1761, and although...According to one account, Shrapnel got the idea for his invention...
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Scarred Beneath the Skin; Veterans Carry the Wounds of War in the Form of Shrapnel
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/4/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...dislodged from his throat. "Shrapnel," the Army specialist told...of metal and debris known as shrapnel that actually cause the wounds...whose bodies are riddled with shrapnel. Many carry around the fragments...more than 200 years, since Henry Shrapnel, a British artillery...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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Hurt soldiers carry painful reminders; Many troops wounded in Iraq carry shrapnel ``souvenirs'' for years.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 2/19/2006; 700+ words
; ...dislodged from his throat. "Shrapnel," the Army specialist told...of metal and debris known as shrapnel that actually cause the wounds...whose bodies are riddled with shrapnel. Many carry around the fragments...more than 200 years, since Henry Shrapnel, a British artillery...
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Catching flak on `shrapnel'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 5/11/1986; ; 700+ words
; ...of words, I had something to say about "shrapnel." A letter had come from retired Army Gen...his complaint along. It appears that the shrapnel shell was invented by British Gen. Henry Shrapnel in 1803 (I had the date wrong) and first...
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Arcane fields of error
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/23/1986; ; 692 words
; ...irritated by misuse of the word "shrapnel." Day after day he hears or reads about someone injured by "shrapnel." He says it just isn't so...a British Army officer, Col. Henry Shrapnel, invented a new artillery shell...
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The lead-meisters
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 9/3/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...September/October issue of Mother Jones: "Before shrapnel was shrapnel, it was a man. The murderously efficient exploding...reference to its inventor, British artillery officer Henry Shrapnel. Like Colt, Luger, and Kalashnikov, the name...
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 "Birmingham Evening Mail (England)")
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M2: Film: Thunderbirds recreated.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England); 7/23/2004; 700+ words
; ...work against.' Action stations LEX Shrapnel's claim to fame used to be that he's from a small family of descendants of Henry Shrapnel, the army officer (1761 - 1842) who gave the world 'shrapnel'. Now he's John Tracy, the intellectual...
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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MAKING THE MILLENNIUM; The thousand movers and shakers who shaped world.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 1/6/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...to include and who to leave out. Henry, who works on the New Jersey Law...invented the vacuum cleaner (991) and Henry Shrapnel, who invented the exploding shell...landmines get banned, for example." Henry said many of the disagreements were...
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Henry Shrapnel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Henry Shrapnel , 1761-1842, British general, inventor of the shrapnel shell. The shell, consisting of a steel case filled...important in modern warfare. An artillery officer, Henry Shrapnel also improved the construction of howitzers...
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Shrapnel, Henry
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Shrapnel, Henry (1761–1842) the English artillery officer who invented...extremely high speeds. It was first used in 1804. In World War I , shrapnel caused most of the wounds inflicted by artillery.
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shrapnel
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
shrapnel shell that bursts scattering bullets. XIX ( S. shell ). f. name of General Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842), who invented this shell during the Peninsular War.
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Shrapnel Shell
Book article from: How Products Are Made
Shrapnel Shell Background There has always been...eighteenth century. History Lieutenant Henry Shrapnel of the British Royal Artillery solved the distance problem in 1784. Shrapnel's contribution was to pack musket balls...
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Barney David Ross
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...same year, and regained it in 1935. Ross lost the title to Henry Armstrong in 1938. During World War II, in action in Guadalcanal...wounded fellow marines. He was a victim of shell shock, minor shrapnel wounds, and malaria. Drugs administered to him caused addiction...
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