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    In agriculture, a plowshare (US) or ploughshare (UK; /ˈplaʊʃɛər/) is a component of a plow (or plough). It is the cutting or leading edge of a moldboard...
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    Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes...
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  • ploughshare or plowshare in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A ploughshare or plowshare is a component of a plough or plow. Ploughshare or Plowshare may also...
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    ploughshares in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Swords to ploughshares (or plowshares) is a concept in which military weapons or technologies are converted...
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    The Plowshares movement is an anti-nuclear weapons and Christian pacifist movement that advocates active resistance to war. The group often practices a...
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    Guns into Plowshares is a sculpture by Mennonite artists Esther Augsburger and Michael Augsburger. It depicts the blade of a giant plow, fashioned out...
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  • The Plowshares Project is a Peace Studies collaborative between Manchester University, Earlham College and Goshen College in Indiana. The Plowshares Project...
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    Sedan (nuclear test) (category Project Plowshare nuclear tests)
    the Nevada National Security Site on July 6, 1962, as part of Operation Plowshare, a program to investigate the use of nuclear weapons for mining, cratering...
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  • opposition to Plowshare was increasing, and a 1970s study of the economics of the concepts suggested they had no practical use. Plowshare saw decreasing...
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    The Kings Bay Plowshares are a group of seven Catholic peace activists who broke into the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base and carried out a symbolic act...
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  • Swords to Plowshares is a veterans organization that provides job training, housing, and benefits advocacy to low income and homeless U.S. military veterans...
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    many ploughs that cuts an edge about 7 inches (18 cm) deep ahead of a plowshare. Its most effective depth is determined by soil conditions. Its earliest...
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  • Dick. It was written in 1964 and first published under the title Project Plowshare as a serial in the November 1965 and January 1966 issues of Worlds of...
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  • (1964) "The Little Black Box" (1964) "Retreat Syndrome" (1965) "Project Plowshare (later "The Zap Gun")" (1965) "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966)...
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    In 1959, a bronze statue promoting the slogan Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares was donated by the Soviet Union to the United Nations. It was sculpted...
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    associated with a fan of tail feathers. The other pygostyle type is plowshare-shaped. It is found in Ornithurae (living birds and their closest relatives)...
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    Project Rulison (category Project Plowshare nuclear tests)
    test series under the name Mandrel Rulison, as well as the Operation Plowshare project which explored peaceful engineering uses of nuclear explosions...
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    are characterized by locality. In other words, homi is classified into plowshare-shaped (보습형), sickle-shaped (낫형), and triangle-shaped (세모형) depending...
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  • a U.S. nuclear test conducted under Operation Crosstie, and Operation Plowshare Buggy, a character in the animated preschool TV series Wow! Wow! Wubbzy...
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    blind man who felt the elephant's head), a winnowing basket (ear), a plowshare (tusk), a plow (trunk), a granary (body), a pillar (foot), a mortar (back)...
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  • Project Oilsand (category Proposed Project Plowshare projects)
    Richfield Oil Corporation. The project was conceived of as part of Operation Plowshare, a United States project to harness the nuclear explosions for peaceful...
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    Storax on July 6, 1962, a 104-kiloton-of-TNT (440 TJ) shot for Operation Plowshare, which sought to prove that nuclear weapons could be used for peaceful...
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    required only one man to control it with two oxen to pull it. It had three plowshares, a seed box for the drills, a tool which turned down the soil and could...
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  • writings of the Prince of Peace Plowshares. Baggarly, Stephen, 1965–, Wilcox, Fred A. (Fred Allen), Prince of Peace Plowshares (Group). Athol, MA: Haley's...
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    (1964) "The Little Black Box" (1964) "Retreat Syndrome" (1965) "Project Plowshare (later "The Zap Gun")" (1965) "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966)...
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  • the capture of Berchtesgaden.) Taylor, Maxwell D. (1972). Swords and Plowshares. New York: W. W. Norton. p. 106. ISBN 9780393074604. 3d Division units...
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    United States, these were performed under the umbrella name of Operation Plowshare. Aside from these technical considerations, tests have been conducted...
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  • a nuclear explosive set off for peaceful reasons, such as Operation Plowshare Penge East railway station, London, National Rail station code PNE The...
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  • establishment. However, in a 1965 interview on the ill-fated Project Plowshare, Teller used the standard pronunciation. In popular culture, this pronunciation...
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    Project Chariot (category Proposed Project Plowshare projects)
    string of nuclear devices. The project originated as part of Operation Plowshare, a research project to find peaceful uses for nuclear explosives. Substantial...
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