![]() Sangerville is about 80 miles due North of where I grew up on the coast, and can best be described as very rural Maine. Hiram Maxim was born in Sangerville, Maine on the 5 th of February 1840. He further refined this into a practical weapon. Hiram Maxim is seen with his prototype machine gun which operated via the Recoil Principal he developed. To begin our look at this famous design’s life in Russia though, we must begin our journey on the other side of the Atlantic, in rural Maine, the home of its inventor, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim. The Maxim gun would go on to live a long life in Russia, and served through many wars both large and small. Russian gun crews had been stacking bodies ten years earlier while most of Europe was still trying to figure out what exactly to do with the new contraption. By the time the Guns of August sounded, Russia had considerable practical experience with the Maxim, and perhaps some of the best gun crews in the world. Maxim guns were fielded by both sides during the Great War and one notable early adopter was Imperial Russia. The Maxim gun, and quick-firing field artillery, forced even the bravest of the brave to burrow deep into the earth to escape their wrath. ![]() In reality, the carnage was much worse than what could be shown on the silver screen. For 37 seconds the viewer is given a barbed wire view as multiple German MG 08 machine guns, with their distinctive staccato chattering on without end, effortlessly cuts down an endless stream of courageous French infantry. Perhaps the greatest cinematic tribute to the effectiveness of the Maxim machine gun is the 37-second scene in Lewis Milestone’s 1930 film “ All Quiet on the Western Front”. Its distinctive tat-tat-tat-tat-tat brought an end to 19 th Century tactics, and proved time and time again out-of-touch staff officers, ineptly led conscripts, courage and élan were no match for interlocking machine gun fire. In a relatively short amount of time Hiram Maxim’s famous machine gun design not only became a staple of armies around the world but it helped change the face of modern warfare. Very few inventions have had the impact on warfare as the Maxim gun. If Ukrainians must endure this, then we can bear witness and push for action.AugBy David M. Every image of broken bodies or faces smeared with blood and tears is an indictment of the Russian president’s barbarism. This, too, is obvious - that Ukrainians will not sanitize Putin’s atrocities. ![]() Though their faces were blurred, what their bodies suffered, such as amputated limbs, a multitude of shrapnel wounds, and being hooked up to life-supporting machines, was obvious. On CNN, Tanya Kozyreva, a Ukrainian journalist, told stories and shared photos of injured children she has visited. They want the world to see how they are now forced to live and die in their country. This is why Ukrainians insist that war reporters keep their cameras trained on Putin’s carnage. Related : Supreme Court to hear case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense Somehow, Americans had accepted that first-graders could be gunned down with a weapon of war in their classroom. When not a single significant act of gun reform was passed after 20 children and six educators were slaughtered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, that revealed an irreparable breach in this nation’s conscience. But history has already proved that we will, and so will legislators. “We can’t endure this anymore, we just simply can’t,” Gelber said. ![]() In Miami Beach, currently packed with college students on spring break, two shootings that left five people injured compelled Mayor Dan Gelber to declare a state of emergency in his city. Last weekend, multiple people were shot at an Arkansas car show, a Virginia restaurant, a North Carolina hotel, and a Texas birthday party. Nationwide, there have been at least 107 mass shootings so far in 2022, defined as an incident in which four or more people are hit by gunfire. Related : Nestor Ramos: We know what will happen next ![]()
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