The Liberator fired a standard .380 handgun round without visible damage, though it also misfired on another occasion when the firing pin failed to hit the primer cap in the loaded cartridge due a misalignment in the hammer body, resulting in an anti-climactic thunk.

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They could hammer the body of a Toyota or a Pontiac to resemble a dream car.

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"All of the candy on the market contains sugar and high-fructose corn syrup, a form of sugar that doesn't digest well in the body, " says Armand Hammer (no relation to the late industrialist), president and chief executive of privately held Innovative Candy Concepts .

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Ehrsson created a scenario where the illusory body was threatened - by swinging a hammer towards the virtual figure.

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During the Revolution, as was the custom, someone smashed off his nose with a hammer, but he is oblivious, his whole body and beard twisting in ecstasy at what he has just heard.

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Other items coming under the hammer next week include the heart, eye and brains from the giant Body, arcade games and children's rides, and the exotic costumes from the Millennium Show.

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