Bessie is a feminine given name, often a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Elizabeth, Beatrice and other names since the 16th century. It is sometimes a name in its own right.

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“Bright one” Bertha is a female Germanic name, from Old High German berhta meaning “bright one”. It was usually a short form of Anglo Saxon names Beohrtgifu meaning “bright gift” or Beohrtwynn meaning “bright joy”.

Bertha’s official name was the L/12 (the barrel was 12 calibre in length), or the M-Device. Many sources say that Bertha is a reference to Bertha Krupp, heiress and owner of the Krupp industrial empire. ‘Dicke’, meaning fat or big in German, is apparently not a reference to the physical aspect of Ms Krupp.

Officially designated as the 42-cm kurze Marinekanone 14 L/12 in Räderlafette (“42-cm short naval canon 14 L/12 on wheeled carriage”), the gun was nicknamed “Big Bertha” by German soldiers after one of its projectiles completely destroyed Fort Loncin during the siege of Liège, Belgium.

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Tunnel boring was completed on April 4, 2017, and the finished tunnel opened to traffic on February 4, 2019. Practically none of Bertha’s components were reusable, and most of its steel was melted and recycled. The final, disassembled pieces of Bertha were removed from the tunnel portal in August 2017.

It’s the end of an era: Bertha, the much-maligned tunnel-boring machine that drilled the State Route 99 Viaduct replacement tunnel, has officially completely come apart.

The Washington State Department of Transportation said Friday that the steel pipe that stopped Bertha, as the borer is nicknamed, on Dec. 6 is a 119-foot-long well casing installed in 2002 to study groundwater movement under downtown Seattle.

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Big Bertha is the name given by Callaway Golf to a number of its lines of golf clubs. The name was chosen to evoke the famous German Big Bertha howitzer. The original Big Bertha driver was launched in 1991. Most other drivers were still made of persimmon wood and had smaller heads.

Cannon became the general term for large ordnance. A gun was a cannon designed to fire in a flat trajectory, a howitzer was a shorter piece designed to throw exploding shells in an arcing trajectory, and a mortar was a very short piece for firing at elevations of more than 45°.

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German 88, versatile 88-millimetre (3.46-inch) multirole artillery piece, developed from 1917 by Germany. It was tested in the Spanish Civil War and was used extensively by the Germans in World War II as a field-artillery piece and as an antiaircraft and antitank gun.

The 8.8 cm KwK 36 (German: 8,8 cm Kampfwagenkanone 36) was an 88 mm tank gun used by the German Army during World War II….8.8 cm KwK 36.

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The weapon was rugged, hard-hitting, and adaptable. Across Occupied Europe during World War II, 88 mm guns were often employed to fire at high-flying Allied bomber formations. The heavy gun could propel its 20.25-pound high-explosive shell to altitudes beyond 30,000 feet at a rate of about 15 projectiles per minute.

Anti-aircraft guns are weapons designed to attack aircraft. Such weapons commonly have a high rate of fire and are able to fire shells designed to damage aircraft. They also are capable of firing at high angles, but are also usually able to hit ground targets as well in a direct fire role.