This wastes time and gunpowder, but it was the best that any Navy could do at the time.
The law is designed to keep dangerous materials, such as dynamite, fireworks and gunpowder, out of the hands of terrorists--at least, that's the plan.
The ship carried a wide variety of cargo during its working lifetime -- including the finest teas, wool and gunpowder -- and made frequent journeys between the UK and major trading ports in Asia, Europe, Africa, Australasia and the Americas.
Thomas Moore, Charles I and the Gunpowder Plotters were all tried here, and it was the setting for coronation banquets.
The graph would include little spikes marking the high points of Mesopotamian agriculture, Egyptian construction and jewelry, Chinese gunpowder and paper, Athenian education, Roman roads and aqueducts, and so on.
Shotgun rounds are brass-and-plastic cylinders densely packed with gunpowder and tiny pellets, or shot.
The recipe suggests assembling a bomb using different explosives, including fireworks, gunpowder and match heads.
It was all right being a knight until gunpowder and muskets and .22 pistols came along.
The China that invented gunpowder and paper is also known for its poetry.
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First, meet Jonny Cohen, a 16-year-old who in his younger days made home-made gunpowder and a gun that shoots cheese on hamburgers.
The article, headlined "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom, " listed common items including filaments from Christmas light bulbs, gunpowder and a clock.
Other detectives might have picked up his purchase of a weapon, gunpowder and even a pressure cooker an item featured in an article, "How to Build a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom, " in the online al Qaeda magazine Inspire.
For the first time in 200 years, 17 tall ships will line up against each other and fire black gunpowder cannons to recreate the fight against the British that allowed the United States to secure its current border with Canada.
Almost 100 shipping containers packed with gunpowder and other military equipment, seized from a ship bound from Iran to Syria in breach of a UN embargo in 2009, had been piled up at a naval base for more than two years.
While warlords rarely die of old age and few, barring newspaper editors, may mourn IB's passing, his death shows the Kalashnikovs have not yet been laid to rest in Abidjan and after 50 years of independence a living can still be made from gunpowder plots and scheming.
It's like the cartoon, right, you're sort of standing there and somebody hands you a ticking time bomb and it explodes, and you've got all this gunpowder on your hands, and you didn't construct the bomb, but you're holding it.
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Chinese-born artist Cai Guo-Qiang is renowned around the globe for his gunpowder art and his fervent views on Chinese society and politics.
In 1267, legendary English scientist Roger Bacon published a recipe for gunpowder, and by the late 1300s, handheld, muzzle-loading pistols were common in Europe.
Workers immediately called 911, and technicians determined that the gunpowder was still active.
Workers cleaning a cannon, last fired more than 200 years ago, were shocked to find Friday that it was still loaded with gunpowder, wadding and a cannonball.
An FBI expert testified at his trial that it would have taken about 30 minutes to build a bomb using materials Mr. Abdo had gathered including a pressure cooker, gunpowder, clocks and electrical tape by following instructions in an al Qaeda magazine found in his backpack.
Authorities removed about 1.8 pounds of black gunpowder from the scene and took it to a gun range for disposal, the detective said.
On a recent branding mission to China, we learned that every child in Chinese elementary school is taught the three Chinese innovations that changed the world: gunpowder, the compass, and movable type (Chinese ancients also invented paper currency).
' People started to talk about it and the word of mouth spread like a trail of gunpowder.
China, a country with over 4500 years of recorded history, gave the world, gunpowder, paper, compasses, movable type, and even the seismological detector.
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Others suggestions included treating friends and relatives to a firework display by mixing the ashes with gunpowder, while some people wanted a small amount of their remains placed in a specially designed locket for their loved ones to wear.
The uncle was suspicious that the gunpowder was bewitched, tried to neutralise it with fire, and in the resulting explosion was killed.
Common uses for black powder include as gunpowder in muzzle-loading guns, as a blasting powder and as a propellant in rockets for fireworks.
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