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Flaming Fist The Flaming Fist is the largest and most powerful mercenary company of the fictional world, the Forgotten Realms. The Fist is based in the city of Baldur's Gate on the Sword Coast, where its members serve as a guard within the city.
Flaming Geyser State Park Flaming Geyser State Park is a State Park of Washington, USA, named after a pair of geysers. The first is a natural gas vent that burns with a low methane flame, while the second is a bubbling geyser in a natural spring.
Flaming June Flaming June is a painting by Frederic Leighton, produced in 1895. Painted with oil paints on a 47" x 47" square canvas, it is widely considered to be Leighton's crowning work, showing Leighton's classicist nature.
Flaming onions Flaming onions were the rounds launched by a revolving-barrel anti-aircraft gun used by the German army during World War I.This gun had five barrels and could launch a 37mm artillery shell about five thousand feet up.
Flaming Star Flaming Star is a 1960 Western film starring Elvis Presley, based on the book Flaming Lance (1958) by Clair Huffaker. A dramatic role, it is said that Elvis Presley gave one of his best acting performances as the half-breed "Pacer Burton.
Flaming Youth (band) Flaming Youth is an obscure British rock group who recorded a single album in 1969 before breaking up. Today, the band is known more as the original group of pop singer Phil Collins, then 18 years of age who was the group’s drummer.
Flamingant The Dutch word Flamingant refers to all Flemish nationalists and was initially used by Belgicists to offend the more radical Flemings. Nowadays, the word is commonly accepted as a neutral term to describe Flemish nationalists.
Flamingo (raytracer) Flamingo is a plugin for the Rhinoceros 3D modelling software which adds raytracing and radiosity functionality. It is developed by the creators of Rhinoceros, Robert McNeel & Associates and sold both separately (although it requires Rhinoceros to work) and as a bundle with the Rhinoceros software.
Flamingo Hotel, Miami Beach The Flamingo Hotel overlooked Biscayne Bay on the west side of the newly-formed city of Miami Beach, Florida until the 1950's, when it was torn down to make room for the new Morton Towers developmentFlamingo Hotel, Miami Beach, database entry, which is now known as the Grand Flamingo. The hotel was built by pioneering Miami Beach developer Carl G.
Flamingo Las Vegas The Flamingo Las Vegas is a hotel casino located on the famed Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is owned and operated by Harrah's Entertainment. The property offers a 77,000 ft² (7,200 m²) casino along with 3,626 hotel rooms.
Flamingo Stakes The Flamingo Stakes was an American Thoroughbred horse race for three year olds held annually in April at the Hialeah Park in Hialeah, Florida. Run over a distance of nine furlongs, the inaugural race took place in 1926 at the Tampa, Florida racetrack.
Flamingo, Florida Flamingo, Florida began as a small coastal settlement on the eastern end of Cape Sable on the southern tip of the Florida peninsula, facing Florida Bay. It is now the southernmost headquarters of Everglades National Park, the end of the 99-mile Wilderness Waterway known as the Ten Thousand Islands, and the southern end of the only road (running 38 miles) through the park from Florida City, Florida.
Flamingosi Serb TV presenter Ognjen Amidžić and Montenegrin Serb actor Marinko Madžgalj make the Serbian - Montenegrin band Flamingosi. Together with the folk-jazz singer Louis they won the national pre-selection for the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, Beovizija, with their song Ludi letnji ples (Crazy Summer Dance).
Flaminio Bertoni Flaminio Bertoni (Italian, January 10, 1903—February 7, 1964) was an automobile designer, responsible for some of the most radical reconceptualisations of automobiles ever. He worked iin the years following World War II.
Flammability Flammability or Inflammability is the ease with which a substance will ignite, causing fire or combustion. Materials that will ignite at temperatures commonly encountered are considered flammable, with various specific definitions giving a temperature requirement.
Flammability limit Flammability limits, also called flammable limits give the fractions of combustible gases in a mixture, between which limits this mixture is flammable. Gas mixtures consisting of combustible, oxidizing, and inert gases are only flammable under certain conditions.
Flammable liquid The term flammable liquid is defined by the National Fire Protection Association, The US Department of Transportation, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration and others.
Flamman Flamman (meaning The Flame) is a Swedish socialist newspaper. It was founded in 1906 by the workers in the northern mine feelds, and the paper was originally named Norrskensflamman (The Flame of Northern Lights).
Flammarion woodcut The Flammarion woodcut is an anonymous woodcut, so named because its first documented appearance is in Camille Flammarion's L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology").
Flammenwerfer 35 The Flammenwerfer 35 (Literally, "flames-thrower") was a German flamethrower used during World War II to clear out trenches and buildings. This was a deadly weapon that was extremely effective at close range.
Flammenzauber Flammenzauber is an annual festival held at the Wasserburg castle in Heldrungen, Germany. The festival showcases various musical artists within the neofolk, martial and post-industrial music spectrums, as well as artists working within other mediums.
Flammie Flammie is a fictional dragon-like character featured in the Seiken Densetsu video game series created by Squaresoft (later Square Enix). Though not principally a main character, Flammie nonetheless serves an important role by transporting party members on its back, usually to access some location that they couldn't before.
Flammulated Owl The Flammulated Owl (Otus flammeolus) is a small, nocturnal, predatory owl approximately 15 cm (6 in) long with a 36 cm (14 in) wingspan. It breeds from southern British Columbia and the western United States to central Mexico.
Flamstead Flamstead is a village and civil parish in north-west Hertfordshire, England, close to the junction of the A5 and the M1 motorway at junction 9. The name is thought by some historians to be a corruption of the original Verulamstead.
Flamsteed (crater) Flamsteed is a small lunar crater located on the Oceanus Procellarum. It lies almost due east of the dark-hued Grimaldi basin, and north-northwest of the flooded Letronne crater bay on the south edge of the mare.
Flamsteed designation Flamsteed designations for stars are similar to Bayer designations, except that they use numbers instead of Greek letters. Each star is assigned a number and the Latin genitive of the constellation it lies in (see List of constellations for a list of constellations and the genitive forms of their names).
Flan (Greyhawk) In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, the Flan are a race of humans living in the Flanaess. The Flan peoples were the first humans known to have settled the eastern portion of the continent of Oerik, the Flanaess, which is named for them.
Flan Normand Flan Normand is a flaky pastry-based (pâte-sablée) variant of the apple tart made in Normandy which is essentially a creamy egg custard tart topped with apples, sliced almonds and sugar and baked until the topping is slightly caramelised. It is also known as Normandy Tart or Tarte Normande
Flanaess The Flanaess is the eastern part of the continent of Oerik, one of the four continents of the fictional world of Oerth in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. As well as being home to a number of demihuman and humanoid races, it is also inhabited by the Suel, Bakluni, Oerid, and Flan subraces of humanity.
Flanders Etymology of Flanders: a contraction of flood + land; in fact land that remained dry by high tide. The original region was situated north and northwest of Bruges up to the estuary of the Schelde river and the sea.
Flanders (county) The former county of Flanders consists not only of the two Belgian provinces of East-Flanders and West-Flanders but also the present-day French département of Nord, in parts of which there is still a Flemish-speaking minority, and the southern part of the Dutch province of Zeeland known as Zeeuws-Vlaanderen ("Sealandic Flanders").
Flanders and Swann The British duo "Flanders and Swann" were the actor and singer Michael Flanders (1922–1975) and the composer, pianist and linguist Donald Swann (1923–1994) who collaborated in writing comic songs.
Flanders DC Flanders District of Creativity or Flanders DC (FDC) is a non-profit organization founded by the Flemish government, on 7 May 2004, to make the Flemish economy more competitive through creativity, entrepreneurship, and further internationalization.
Flanders DRIVE Flanders’ DRIVE is a Flemish non-profit organization. The aim of the organization is to support the vehicle suppliers with know-how through the Flanders’ DRIVE Network, and to provide infrastructure for the automotive industry through the Flanders’ DRIVE Engineering Centre.
Flanders Field Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial is a cemetery in Waregem, Belgium, for 368 American soldiers who died in battle in World War I. Most of these American military personnel died while liberating Belgium during the war.
Flanders Institute for Logistics The Flanders Institute for Logistics (VIL) is a Flemish non-profit organization, founded in 2003 by the Flemish government. The VIL supports and enhances the competitiveness of the logistics sector in Flanders.
Flanders Investment and Trade The Flanders Investment and Trade (FIT) was founded by the Flemish government in 2005. The FIT agency helps both Flemish companies with expanding their business abroad as well as to assist foreign companies sourcing Flemish suppliers of quality goods and services.
Flanders Multimedia Valley Flanders Multimedia Valley the cluster for the multimedia industry in Flanders, was founded by the Flemish Government in 1999. The goal of Flanders Multimedia Valley is to support innovation in ICT and multimedia.
Flanders Recorder Quartet The Flanders Recorder Quartet is a professional recorder group whose members, based in Holland and Belgium, are Bart Spanhove, Han Tol, Joris van Goethem and Paul van Loey. The quartet is one of a handful of ensembles inspiring a recorder renaissance.
Flanders, New Jersey Flanders is an unincorporated area located in Mount Olive Township and parts of Roxbury Township, in southwest Morris County, New Jersey, United States. Flanders is served by the United States Postal Service as ZIP Code 07836.
FlandersBio FlandersBio is a non-profit organization which represents the cluster of Flemish life sciences in Belgium. The members of FlandersBio are organizations involved with Research and Development, and production in life sciences, or organizations and companies servicing Flemish life sciences.
Flandre Flandre, also known as Carla C, Carla Costa, and Pallas Athena, was an ocean liner and cruise ship that took passengers on transatlantic voyages and on Caribbean and Mediterranean cruises from 1952 to 1994. She was operated by the French Line, Costa Cruises, and the Epirotiki Line.
Flandrian interglacial The Flandrian interglacial or stage is the name given by geologists and archaeologists in the British Isles to the first, and so far only, stage of the Holocene, covering the period from around 10,000 years ago when the last ice age ended to the present day. As such, it is in practice identical in span to the Holocene.
Flange A flange is an external or internal rib, or rim (lip), for strength, as the flange of an iron beam or I-beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a train wheel; or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc, or on the lens mount of a camera. Thus a flanged rail is a rail with a flange on one side to keep wheels, etc.
Flange focal distance The flange focal distance (also known as the flange-to-film distance, flange focal depth, or register, depending on the usage and source) of a lens mount for an interchangeable lens camera system is one of its most fundamental attributes. This is the distance from the mounting flange—the metal ring on the camera and the rear of the lens—to the film plane.
Flanging Flanging is a time-based audio effect that occurs when two identical signals are mixed together, but with one signal time-delayed by a small and gradually changing amount, usually smaller than 20 ms (milliseconds). This produces a swept 'comb filter' effect: peaks and notches are produced in the resultant frequency spectrum, related to each other in a linear harmonic series.
Flanimals Flanimals is a children's book written by British comedian Ricky Gervais. The book, illustrated by Rob Steen, features 35 different characters (described as species of animal) which form an imaginary ecosystem.
Flanking maneuver In military tactics, a flanking maneuver, also called a [attack, is an attack on the sides of an opposing force. If a flanking maneuver were to succeed, the opposing force would be surrounded from two or more directions, which significantly reduces the maneuverability of the outflanked force.
Flanking marketing warfare strategies In marketing and strategic management, marketing warfare strategies are a type of marketing strategy that uses military metaphor to craft a businesses strategy. See marketing warfare strategies for background and an overview.
Flann O'Brien Flann O'Brien (October 5, 1911, Strabane, County Tyrone Ireland – April 1, 1966 Dublin) is a pseudonym of the twentieth century Irish novelist and satirist Brian O'Nolan (in Irish Brian Ó Nuallain), best known for his novels An Béal Bocht, At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman. He also wrote many satirical columns in the Irish Times under the name Myles na gCopaleen.
Flann Sinna Flann Sinna mac Maíl Sechnaill (died 25 May, 916), was the son of Máel Sechnaill mac Maíl Ruanaid of Clann Cholmáin, a branch of the southern Uí Néill. He was king of Mide from 877 onwards, following Donnchad mac Eochocain.
Flannan Isle Flannan Isle is a famous English poem by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, first published in 1912. It refers to a mysterious incident that occurred on the Flannan Isles in 1900, when three lighthouse-keepers disappeared without explanation.
Flannan Isles The Flannan Isles (Scottish Gaelic: na h-Eileanan Flannach) are a small island group in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, lying approximately 20 miles west of the Isle of Lewis (). They may take their name from St.
Flannelgraph Flannelgraph (sometimes called a flannel board) is a storytelling system that uses a board covered with flannel fabric, usually resting on an easel. It is very similar to Fuzzy felt, although its primary use is as a storytelling medium, rather than as a toy.
Flannery Flannery is a bridge convention using an 2 diamond opening bid to show a hand of minimal opening bid strength (11-15 high card points) with exactly four spades and five (or sometimes six) hearts. It is invented by American player William Flannery.
Flans Flans is a Mexican pop music group, which enjoyed great popularity from the mid-1980s to early 1990s. Its members were female singers Ivonne Margarita Guevara García, Ilse María Olivo Schweinfurth and Irma Angélica Hernández Ochoa, "Mimí"; they're usually referred to by their first names, Ivonne, Ilse and Mimí.
Flap endonuclease Flap endonucleases (FENs, also known as 5' nucleases in older references) are a class of nucleolytic enzymes that act as both 5'-3' exonucleases and structure specific endonucleases on specialised DNA structures that occur during the biological processes of DNA replication, DNA repair and DNA recombination. Flap endonucleases have been identified in eukaryotes, prokaryotes, archea and some viruses.
Flap steak Flap steak, also known as 'Flap meat', comes from a flank cut of beef, and is generally a very thin steak. In French this region is sometimes called 'bavette', which means 'thin steak', but is often applied to other flank steaks.
Flaperon A flaperon is a type of control surface that combines aspects of both flaps and ailerons. In addition to controlling the roll or bank of an airplane like conventional ailerons, both flaperons can be lowered together to function much the same as a dedicated set of flaps would.
Flapjax Flapjax is a new programming language built atop JavaScript. It provides a spreadsheet-like dataflow computation style, making it easy to create reactive Web pages without the burden of callbacks and potentially inconsistent mutation.
Flapnose houndshark The flapnose houndshark, Scylliogaleus quecketti, is a hound shark of the family Triakidae, the only member of the genus Scylliogaleus, found from the surf line to close offshore from subtropical South Africa, in the western Indian Ocean between latitudes 27° S and 33° S. Its length is up to 1 m.
Flapper The term flapper in the 1920s referred to a "new breed" of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered "decent" behavior. The flappers were seen as brash in their time for wearing makeup, drinking hard liquor and smoking tobacco.
Flappie Flappie is the name of a Dutch Christmas song written by comedian Youp van 't Hek in 1985. The song became popular in The Netherlands, and it has been played as part of the rotation of Christmas music every year since.
Flare (breakdancing move) The Flare (sometimes called "Thomas" after Kurt Thomas) is a difficult breakdancing power move borrowed from gymnastics. The breaker supports his body with his arms and swing his legs around his stationary torso in continuous circles.
Flare (pyrotechnic) A flare is a type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light or intense heat without an explosion. Flares are used for signaling, illumination, or defensive countermeasures in civilian and military applications.
Flare En Kuldes Flare En Kuldes is a charchter in Suikoden IV, and is the daughter of Lino En Kuldes and the sister of Lazlo En Kuldes. Flare, despite being Princess of Obel decided to patrol the surrounding seas, looking for Pirates.
Flareon is one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the Pokémon media franchise created by Satoshi Tajiri. Its main purpose in the games, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both "wild" Pokémon, untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments, and "tamed" Pokémon that are owned by Pokémon trainers.
Flarerizamon Flarerizamon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Champion Level Fire Digimon whose whole body is wrapped in flames. He is a hot-blooded digimon who has both a heart that's hot as fire and the power of a dragon.
Flarf poetry Flarf Poetry is an avant garde poetry movement of the late 20th century and the early 21st century. Its first practitioners practiced an aesthetic dedicated to the exploration of “the inappropriate” in all of its guises.
Flash (juggling) In juggling, the term flash is used to describe the throwing and catching of a number of props when each prop is thrown and caught only once. The term is used to distinguish the flash from the more continuous juggle, wherein every prop must be thrown and caught at least twice.
Flash (photography) In photography, a flash is a device that produces an instantaneous flash of light (typically around 1/1000 of a second) at a Color temperature of about 5500K to help illuminate a scene. While flashes can be used for a variety of reasons (e.
Flash and the Pan Flash and the Pan were an Australian New Wave group formed in the late 1970s by Harry Vanda and George Young, both formerly members of the Easybeats. In the UK until the release of "Waiting for a Train" in 1983 they had been a one-hit wonder, which was coincidental as the expression, 'Flash in the pan', denotes something which is only briefly popular.
Flash ADC A Flash ADC (also known as a Direct conversion ADC) is a type of analog-to-digital converter that uses a linear voltage ladder with a comparator at each "rung" of the ladder to compare the input voltage to successive reference voltages. The output of these comparators is generally fed into a digital encoder which converts the inputs into a binary value (the collected outputs from the comparators can be thought of as a unary value).
Flash Airlines Flash Airlines is a private charter airline operating out of Cairo, Egypt that was part of the Flash Group tourism company. The airline operated two Boeing 737-300 aircraft manufactured in 1993 on non-scheduled commercial passenger flights on both international and domestic routes.
Flash Airlines Flight 604 Flash Airlines Flight 604 was a charter flight operated by Egyptian charter company Flash Airlines. On January 3, 2004, a Boeing 737 operated by the airline crashed into the Red Sea shortly after takeoff from Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport, killing all 135 passengers, many of them French tourists, and all 13 crew members.
Flash Cadillac & the Continental Kids Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids, now known simply as Flash Cadillac, were the band that portrayed Herbie and the Heartbeats in the film American Graffiti. As Herbie and the Heartbeats, they performed At the Hop, She's So Fine, and Louie, Louie.
Flash Crowd "Flash Crowd" was a 1973 short story by science fiction author Larry Niven, one of a series about the social consequence of inventing an instantaneous, practically free transfer booth that could take one anywhere on Earth in milliseconds.
Flash disk A flash disk , related to a solid state disk and a solid state drive, is a storage device that uses flash memory rather than conventional spinning platters to store data. Unlike a flash drive or keydrive, flash disks tend to physically imitate conventional hard drives in size, shape, and interface so that they may act as a replacement for hard drives.
Flash drama Flash drama is a type of theatrical play that does not exceed 10 minutes in duration, hence the name Flash drama. Groups of four to six flash drama plays are popular with school, university and community drama companies since they offer a wide variety of roles and situations in a single performance.
Flash evaporation Flash (or partial) evaporation is the partial vaporization that occurs when a saturated liquid stream undergoes a reduction in pressure by passing through a throttling valve or other throttling device. This process is one of the simplest unit operations.
Flash Elorde Gabriel "Flash" Elorde (March 25, 1935 – January 2, 1985) is widely considered as one of the greatest Filipino boxers of all time along with featherweight slugger Manny Pacquiao. He was born and raised in the town of Bogo, Cebu.
Flash fiction Likely coined by James Thomas, Denise Thomas, and Tom Hazuka in their 1992 anthology by this name, flash fiction, also called "sudden fiction," "micro-fiction," "postcard fiction" or "short-short fiction," is a sub-genre of the short story characterized by limited word length. There is no "official" or exact word limit, but flash-fiction stories are generally less than 2,000 words long, and tend to cluster in the 250- to 1,000-word range.
Flash fire A flash fire is an unexpected, sudden intense fire caused by ignition of flammable solids (including dust), liquids, or gases. It is characterized by high-temperature, short-duration, considerable shock waves, and a rapidly moving flame front.
Flash flood A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas, rivers and streams, that is caused by the intense rainfall associated with a thunderstorm, or multiple training thunderstorms. Flash floods can also occur when ice jams block the normal course of a river, or when a man-made structure, such as a dam, collapses, e.
Flash Flood Warning A Flash Flood Warning is a short-fuse bulletin issued by the National Weather Service when a flash flood is present or imminent in the warning area. Flash flood warnings can be issued when the Doppler radar indicates very heavy reflectivities and hence outflow from thunderstorms, but more often are taken into account along with the current water content of the soil and other factors.
Flash Forward Flash Forward was an American television series produced in Canada for pre-teens and teenagers which aired on both the Disney Channel and ABC during the mid-1990's. The show took a look at the lives of two best friends and neighbors since birth, Tucker and Rebecca, and their respective adventures as they travel through the world of eighth grade.
Flash Gordon (1954-55 TV Show) Flash Gordon is a television show based on the characters of the Alex Raymond comic strip (of the same name), but featured its own storyline. The series was filmed in West Germany following World War II, and in the opinion of many sources on the Internet, the copyright of the series has expired (and is thus, in the public domain).
Flash Gordon (serial) Flash Gordon is a 1936 film serial which tells the story of three people from Earth who travel to the planet Mongo to fight the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless. Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Priscilla Lawson and Frank Shannon played the central roles.
Flash Gordon (TV series) Space-travelling hero Flash Gordon got an all-new series in 1996. The character, who had been around in the comics pages since Alex Raymond created him in 1934, had already starred in several movie serials, a 1980 feature, and two earlier cartoon series—The New Adventures of Flash Gordon and Defenders of the Earth.
Flash intro A piece of animated content displayed at the beginning of a presentation, such as a web site, that is specifically prepared using Macromedia Flash. The main content is preparing to load in the background, while the animated content is displayed in the foreground.
Flash lag illusion The flash lag illusion or flash-lag effect is a visual illusion wherein a flash and a moving object that appear in the same location are perceived to be displaced from one another (MacKay, 1958; Nijhawan, 1994). Several explanations for this simple illusion have been explored in the neuroscience literature.
Flash mob In modern usage, flash mob describes a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a brief period of time, and then quickly disperse. They are usually organized with the help of the Internet or other digital communications networks.
Flash mob computing A flash mob computing (also flash mob computer) is a temporary ad-hoc computer cluster running specific software to coordinate the individual computers into one single supercomputer. A flash mob computer is distinct from other types of computer clusters in that it is set up and broken down on the same day or during a similar brief amount of time and involves many independent owners of computers coming together at a central physical location to work on a specific problem and/or social event.
Flash Museum The Flash Museum is a museum that appears in stories published by DC Comics. Located in fictional Central City, the museum is dedicated to the superheroes sharing the alias of the Flash, with its primary focus on Barry Allen.
Flash pan The flash pan or priming pan is a small receptacle for priming powder, found next to the touch hole on muzzleloading guns. Flash pans are found on gonnes, matchlocks, wheellocks, snaplocks, snaphances, and flintlocks.
Flash pasteurization Flash pasteurization is a method of heat pasteurization of perishable beverages like milk, fruit and vegetable juices, and beer. It is done prior to filling into containers in order to kill spoilage microorganisms, as an effort to make the products safer and to extend their shelf life.
Flash photolysis Flash photolysis is a pump-probe technique, in which a laser of nanosecond, picosecond, or femtosecond pulse width is excited by a short-pulse light source such as a flash lamp. The technique was developed in 1949 by Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and George Porter , who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this invention.
Flash protection Flash protection is a term used in the design and specification of protective suits, particularly in bomb disposal. Note is often made in specifications of Hazmat or NBC suits etc of whether they are "flash protective", meaning they are protective of the wearer against (exclusively or inclusively) flame, fragmentation or impact.
Flash pulmonary edema In medicine, flash pulmonary edema (FPE), is rapid onset pulmonary edema. It is most often precipitated by acute myocardial infarction or mitral regurgitation, but can be caused by aortic regurgitation, heart failure, or almost any cause of elevated left ventricular filling pressures.
Flash suppressor A flash suppressor, also known as a flash hider, flash guard, flash eliminator, or flash cone, is a device attached to a rifle or other gun that directs hot escaping gases from the barrel end. It reduces the visibility of the brilliant muzzle flash which occurs upon firing to the shooter and or other individuals.

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