Andy Tillman, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 45 relations: AK-74, Alpaca, Alpaca fiber, Animal husbandry, Anti-tank guided missile, Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Athena, Oregon, Autocannon, Bachelor's degree, Barrett Tillman, Bend, Oregon, Bolivia, Camelidae, Grenade launcher, Guanaco, Indiana State Fair, Indianapolis, Jane's International Defence Review, Jeff Cooper, Key West, La Paz, Literature, Llama, M249 light machine gun, Machine gun, Marketing, Mk 19 grenade launcher, Oakland Zoo, Oakland, California, Peru, Philosophy, Pullman, Washington, Rocket launcher, Scanning electron microscope, Selective breeding, Taxonomy (biology), United States Agency for International Development, United States Army, United States Department of Agriculture, United States Marine Corps, University of Oregon, Veterinary medicine, Vicuña, Washington State University, Willamette University.

2. Ranchers from Oregon

AK-74

The AK-74 (Russian: Автомат Калашникова образца 1974 года, tr. Avtomat Kalashnikova obraztsa 1974 goda, lit. 'Kalashnikov assault rifle model 1974') is an assault rifle designed by small arms designer Mikhail Kalashnikov in 1974 as a successor to the AKM.

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Alpaca

The alpaca (Lama pacos) is a species of South American camelid mammal.

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Alpaca fiber

Alpaca fleece is the natural fiber harvested from an alpaca.

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Animal husbandry

Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products.

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Anti-tank guided missile

An anti-tank guided missile (ATGM), anti-tank missile, anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW) or anti-armor guided weapon is a guided missile primarily designed to hit and destroy heavily armored military vehicles.

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Association of Zoos and Aquariums

The Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), originally the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1924 and dedicated to the advancement of zoos and public aquariums in the areas of conservation, education, science, and recreation.

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Athena, Oregon

Athena is a city in Umatilla County, Oregon, United States.

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Autocannon

An autocannon, automatic cannon or machine cannon is a fully automatic gun that is capable of rapid-firing large-caliber (or more) armour-piercing, explosive or incendiary shells, as opposed to the smaller-caliber kinetic projectiles (bullets) fired by a machine gun.

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Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years (depending on institution and academic discipline).

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Barrett Tillman

Henry Barrett Tillman (born 1948) is an American author who specializes in naval and aviation topics in addition to fiction and technical writing. Andy Tillman and Barrett Tillman are university of Oregon alumni.

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Bend, Oregon

Bend is a city in Central Oregon and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States.

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Bolivia

Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Camelidae

Camelids are members of the biological family Camelidae, the only currently living family in the suborder Tylopoda.

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Grenade launcher

A grenade launcher is a weapon that fires a specially designed, large-caliber projectile, often with an explosive, smoke, or gas warhead.

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Guanaco

The guanaco (Lama guanicoe) is a camelid native to South America, closely related to the llama.

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Indiana State Fair

The Indiana State Fair is an annual state fair that spans 18 days in July and August in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. The Indiana State Fair debuted in 1852 at Military Park in Indianapolis and is the sixth oldest state fair in the U.S. It is the largest event in the state, drawing between 730,000 and 980,000 visitors annually since 2010.

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Indianapolis

Indianapolis, colloquially known as Indy, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.

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Jane's International Defence Review

Jane's International Defence Review (IDR) was a monthly magazine reporting on military news and technology.

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Jeff Cooper

John Dean "Jeff" Cooper (May 10, 1920 – September 25, 2006) was a United States Marine, the creator of the "modern technique" of handgun shooting, and an expert on the use and history of small arms.

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Key West

Key West is an island in the Straits of Florida, within the U.S. state of Florida.

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La Paz

La Paz, officially Nuestra Señora de La Paz, is the seat of government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.

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Literature

Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems.

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Llama

The llama (Lama glama) is a domesticated South American camelid, widely used as a meat and pack animal by Andean cultures since the pre-Columbian era.

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M249 light machine gun

The M249 SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon), formally the Light Machine Gun, 5.56 mm, M249, is the United States Armed Forces adaptation of the Belgian FN Minimi, a light machine gun manufactured by FN Herstal (FN).

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Machine gun

A machine gun (MG) is a fully automatic and rifled firearm designed for sustained direct fire with rifle cartridges.

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Marketing

Marketing is the act of satisfying and retaining customers.

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Mk 19 grenade launcher

The Mk 19 grenade launcher (pronounced Mark 19) is an American 40 mm belt-fed automatic grenade launcher that was first developed during the Vietnam War.

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Oakland Zoo

The Oakland Zoo is a zoo located in the Grass Valley neighborhood of Oakland, California, United States.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California.

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Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Pullman, Washington

Pullman is the most populous city in Whitman County, located in southeastern Washington within the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest.

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Rocket launcher

A rocket launcher is a weapon that launches an unguided, rocket-propelled projectile.

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Scanning electron microscope

A scanning electron microscope (SEM) is a type of electron microscope that produces images of a sample by scanning the surface with a focused beam of electrons.

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Selective breeding

Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.

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Taxonomy (biology)

In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.

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United States Agency for International Development

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and production, works to assure food safety, protects natural resources, fosters rural communities and works to end hunger in the United States and internationally.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces.

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University of Oregon

The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon.

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Veterinary medicine

Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in non-human animals.

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Vicuña

The vicuña (Lama vicugna) or vicuna (both, very rarely spelled vicugna, its former genus name) is one of the two wild South American camelids, which live in the high alpine areas of the Andes, the other being the guanaco, which lives at lower elevations.

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Washington State University

Washington State University (WSU) (or colloquially and informally Wazzu) is a public land-grant research university in Pullman, Washington.

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Willamette University

Willamette University is a private liberal arts college with locations in Salem and Portland, Oregon.

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See also

Ranchers from Oregon

• Andy Tillman
• Ben Westlund
• Bernard Daly
• Bev Clarno
• Bill Brown (rancher)
• Bill Hanley (rancher)
• Bob Smith (Oregon politician)
• Bobby Doerr
• Cedric Ross Hayden
• Cliff Bentz
• Denny Jones
• Dick Magruder
• Hazen A. Brattain
• Herman Baertschiger Jr.
• James F. Short
• John Minto (Oregon pioneer)
• John N. Williamson
• Josiah Lamberson Parrish
• Kellen Clemens
• Peter French
• Reub Long
• Robert N. Stanfield
• Sam Coon
• Seymour Jones
• Stephen P. Moss
• Wes Cooley (politician)
• Winlock W. Steiwer

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Tillman