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History of gunpowder. Earliest known written formula for gunpowder, from the Wujing Zongyao of 1044 AD. Gunpowder is the first explosive to have been developed. Popularly listed as one of the "Four Great Inventions" of China, it was invented during the late Tang dynasty (9th century) while the earliest recorded chemical formula for gunpowder ...
According to Tang Shunzhi, writing in the mid-1500s, the cost of production for a musket required 0.2 taels for 20 catties of Fujian iron, 0.18 taels for 6 days of work to hammer out the iron, 0.19 taels for 6 days of work forging the iron into a tube, 0.21 taels for 7 days of work boring the barrel, and other miscellaneous costs such as 0.01 ...
1,700 dead. 15,000–30,000 captured. 260 dead. The Asturian miners' strike of 1934 was a major strike action undertaken by miners in Asturias against the new government which involved the CEDA, from October 4-19. [ 1] The strike and subsequent demonstrations eventually developed into a violent revolutionary uprising in an attempt to overthrow ...
The first fixture between Manchester United and Arsenal in the 2011–12 Premier League season was played on 28 August 2011 at Old Trafford in Manchester. Manchester United won the match 8–2, making it Arsenal's heaviest league defeat since 1927, 84 years earlier, when they lost 7–0 to West Ham United in the old Football League First Division.
The Thompson was first used in combat in June 13, 1921, when West Virginia state troopers fired on the mountainside near Lick Creek, where striking miners were firing at passing cars. By the time of the Battle of Blair Mountain , 37 had been acquired by the West Virginia state police and 56 were in the hands of coal companies and local law ...
1989–90 →. The 1988–89 season was the 94th in the history of Arsenal Football Club and their 62nd consecutive season in the top flight of English football. It began on 1 July 1988 and concluded on 30 June 1989, with competitive matches played between August and May. The club ended its 18-year wait for the league title by winning the ...
Using the codes eases coordination and improves understanding during multiservice operations. The codes are intended for use by air, ground, sea, and space operations personnel at the tactical level. Code words that are followed by an asterisk (*) may differ in meaning from NATO usage. There is a key provided below to describe what personnel ...
Illustration from a 16th-century illustrated manuscript copy. The Mining Code, also known as the Mining Law or Miners' Law (Serbian Cyrillic: Закон о рудницима) or Novo Brdo Code (Новобрдски законик), was a compilation of medieval laws on mining in the Serbian Despotate, enacted by Despot Stefan Lazarević on 29 January 1412, but formulated somewhat earlier (c ...