the Minié 4.D series of air-cooled, flat four engines began before World War II and resumed afterwards into the 1950s. Établissements Victor Minié, based...

The Minié ball, or Minie ball, is a type of hollow-based bullet designed by Claude-Étienne Minié, inventor of the French Minié rifle, for muzzle-loading...

used. D.112A D.112D D.112V D.113 D.11 with a 100 hp (75 kW) Continental O-200-A engine, amateur-built. D.114 D.11 with a 70 hp (52 kW) Minié 4.DA.28 engine...

it was difficult to clean. The soft lead Minié ball was first introduced in 1847 by Claude-Étienne Minié, a captain in the French Army. It was another...

famous was the Minié system, invented by French Army Captain Claude-Étienne Minié, which relied on a conical bullet (known as a Minié ball) with a hollow...

"Atlanta children were heard reciting this wartime rhyme: Eenie, meenie, minie, moe, Catch the emperor by his toe. If he hollers make him say: "I surrender...

728 lb (330 kg) Max takeoff weight: 794 lb (360 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Minié 4.D.32 4-cylinder horizontally opposed, 75 hp (56 kW) Performance Maximum speed:...

forces in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871. It replaced an assortment of Minié muzzleloading rifles, many of which were converted in 1864 to breech loading...

Hatherleigh Press, New York. Scott, Douglas and Lucien Haag 2006 “Listen to the Minié Balls”: Identifying Firearms in Battlefield Archaeology. In Fields of Conflict:...

Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (October 25, 1912 – March 4, 1996), known professionally as her stage character Minnie Pearl, was an American comedian who...