User talk:Whistopathe

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[edit] Translation in french

Hello. I'm very happy to see the article being translated into other languages.

• Stocked to the muzzle means that the stock - on other words the woodwork - goes all the way to the muzzle, without leaving the barrel exposed. The American M1903 is a good example of a rifle stocked to the muzzle, while Frensh Lebel Mle1886 is a good example of a rifle that is not (notice how the overside of the barrel is exposed).
• The terms "rimmed ammunition" and "rimless ammunition" descrive two different approaches to make sure the extractor can grab hold of the cartridge and pull it out of the chamber. the difference is explained inthe article Rim (firearms), but I'll try to give a quick explonation here as well.
  • Rimmed ammunition has a rim, or a ridge, at the rear end of the cartrigde. Modern shotgun cartrigdes are always rimmed, as is most ammunition for revolvers. Rimmed ammunition does not work well in automatic firearms for a number of reasons. The British 303 rifle ammunition is rimmed.
  • Rimless ammunition has a grove, or a canelure, at the rear of the cartrigde. Most modern ammunition, at least as far as military ammunition goes, are rimless. The modern 5.56 NATO rifle ammunition is rimless.

Hope this helps =) WegianWarrior 07:02, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] leuven crisis

The Leuven crisis, often called by french-speaking belgian Walen buiten, a dutch expression for "Waloons outside", is a political crisis that occured in Belgium from November 5 1967 and March 31 1968.

[edit] Background

For a long time, flemish nationalists were pledging for the supression of all the french-speaking universities on flemish ground, the only left was the Catholic university of Louvain, in Leuven. The belgian politics context during the 60' was perturbated by repeated linguage crisis between dutch-speaking and french-speaking Belgian. After the Gilson's law was voted, stating the unilinguism of every region in Belgium, Flemish claims were getting louder and louder. Those claims were firmly opposed by the university board, Belgian bishops, whose position had been renewed on May 13 1966.