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"gunpowder" Definitions
  1. explosive powder used especially in bombs or fireworks

341 Sentences With "gunpowder"

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"There are people who have created photographs by firing off gunpowder, but I wanted the image to consist of gunpowder."
To share with the world the painstaking process of creating art with gunpowder, he has put together a Paint with Gunpowder YouTube.
The insects are known variously as no-see-ums, because of their size, or gunpowder midges, because they resemble black gunpowder grains.
In the British historical television miniseries Gunpowder, set in the early 17th century, Harington trims down his beard to play Gunpowder Plot mastermind Robert Catesby.
Kit Harington's other HBO series is Gunpowder, a miniseries that follows the legendary events of Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot to blow up the British houses of parliament.
But then I realized that the smell was actually gunpowder.
But imagine instead you took a little bit of gunpowder.
Gunpowder, however, is only the latest of his art experiments.
"It's dangerous and it's exciting," she said of the gunpowder.
I see no reason gunpowder treason should ever be forgot!
The Chinese invented gunpowder not for war, but to celebrate.
In today's puzzle, however, it's not that kind of gunpowder.
I just love the smell of gunpowder in the mornin'.
Grace Tiffany's "Gunpowder Percy," about the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, is a recent example of a novel that conveys the anger sparked in believers by state regulation of religious faith — in an exclusively European setting.
Perhaps the earliest recorded terrorist plot in London was the so-called Gunpowder Plot in 1605, when a pro-Catholic conspiracy tried to assassinate King James and blow up Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder.
He said he didn't notice any weapons or smell of gunpowder.
"I like the potential for danger inherent in gunpowder," Badach says.
The pipe bomb did contain gunpowder, experts with the FBI said.
I watched every one of those gunpowder scenes through my fingers.
" The singer then launched into her 2007 hit "Gunpowder and Lead.
Off in his improvised gunpowder factory, things are almost going well.
"I could hear the gunfire and smell the gunpowder," he said.
Chemicals giant DuPont was founded in 1802 as a gunpowder manufacturer.
Yet he's especially known for his work with gunpowder and fireworks.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot!
"Gunpowder" is quite gory, with scenes of disemboweling and other torture.
Each device contained small quantities of gunpowder, according to the authorities.
Neither Matthew nor Jessica had been given a gunpowder-residue test.
"Ball propellant" is essentially analagous to gunpowder, and is highly explosive.
He's producing and starring in "Gunpowder," debuting Monday night on HBO.
Using gunpowder as a medium became a way to liberate myself.
And, for now, there are still many issues with using gunpowder.
The air was thick with the scent of burnt gunpowder and blood.
The network has announced the premiere date of "Gunpowder," starring Kit Harington.
Probably because the discovery of gunpowder made this a pretty unsexy prospect.
All this business of gunpowder coming from feces petered out around 1910.
Historically, the tattoos were applied using bone, sinew and soot or gunpowder.
When the fuse burns up it sets off the gunpowder, which explodes.
You turn and look back, you're out of gunpowder, here comes the ship.
Five buildings that were used to store gunpowder (why???) were also set off.
Some quests will direct you to collect chickens, snakes, pigs, or gunpowder kegs.
As you can imagine, pushing and placing gunpowder to resemble landscapes isn't easy.
In 20 years, are we still going to be filling bullets with gunpowder?
In between, a glistening gunpowder blue body stretches up to four feet long.
Ishmael Beah became addicted to "brown-brown," a mixture of gunpowder and cocaine.
In France, the people armed themselves with weapons and gunpowder from the Bastille.
As they got closer to the stairwell, the gunfire continued, and they smelled gunpowder.
There were no traces of gunpowder on his hands and his phone was deleted.
Eventually the British started disarming Americans, seizing gunpowder, and banning guns and ammo imports.
The silencers were coated with gunpowder -- showing that Hasson had used them, Windom said.
One checked bag in Richmond, Virginia, contained 2lbs (900g) of gunpowder and 600 bullets.
He was a peaceable monarch, but saw Parliament almost felled by the Gunpowder Plot.
On October 12, 20003, a gunpowder factory next to Fabritius' apartment in Delft exploded.
He's also a creator and co-executive producer of "Gunpowder" and stars as Catesby.
Imagine you have a certain amount of gunpowder, a big ship bearing down on you.
BBC's Gunpowder is not, in any way, shape, or form, a Game of Thrones remake.
Not just fire, or simple tools like axes, but things like glass, gunpowder, and batteries.
Police said they have found remnants of gunpowder in his residence in Kunshan, near Shanghai.
She said the gunman was so close she could smell the gunpowder as he fired.
The current study includes only injuries from traditional firearms that use gunpowder to discharge bullets.
Interesting that she doesn't seem to know about the whole gunpowder thing — something's fishy there.
Thousands of artillery shells are filled with gunpowder and placed on slopes around a village.
Two homemade explosive devices were constructed of metal cylindrical cigar tubes with gunpowder and wicks.
The doctor says his facial injuries were likely caused by the gunpowder from the blast.
We entered this huge, cavernous room without any windows where gunpowder used to be kept.
The dining room, now silent, throbbed slightly, the air thick with gunpowder, treason, and plot.
Re-enactors shoot gunpowder, not bullets, but serious accidents do happen from time to time.
A line of black gunpowder sprinkled on the ground will flare out with little effect.
Before long, the space around us was thick with the stench of oil and gunpowder.
"We stuffed the gunpowder into a galvanized pail or a machine-gun can," she said.
"I had a headache all day, and it went away with the smell of gunpowder."
Do you ever ask yourself if you want to stop using gunpowder in your practice?
Neither is the Olin Corporation, the gunpowder and chemical company he inherited from his father.
For a minute, it looks like Delaney's having a tender moment with his old pal Godfrey, who relays that the only thing he'll be able to trade for pelts at Nootka is gunpowder, and the crown controls all gunpowder sale during times of war.
The bombs weighed a combined 150 kg (330 lb), and included some 75 kg of gunpowder.
All Chinese schoolchildren can name their country's "four great inventions": paper, printing, the compass and gunpowder.
According to the preliminary investigation, Zhou filled a beer bottle with gunpowder from fireworks and firecrackers.
They've rejected applications from vendors who only sell traditional firecrackers with gunpowder and certain chemicals inside.
They even house nitrate film reels, which are extremely flammable because they're essentially rolls of gunpowder.
I never went to the very bottom where they used to keep the gunpowder and all.
The leadership can keep the gunpowder dry and draw on it if a rainy day approaches.
Both rely on electrical power rather than gunpowder, making them faster-acting than old-style guns.
A search was made of the buildings around Parliament, and Fawkes and the gunpowder were discovered.
"The sound of the bullets was so strong I could almost smell the gunpowder," he said.
A second search yielded a suggestion for two out of three ingredients necessary to make gunpowder.
No gunpowder residue was found on his hands, which they said made the suicide theory implausible.
In 1605, Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the palace of Westminster using barrels of gunpowder.
Jon Snow on "Game of Thrones," about his new HBO mini-series, "Gunpowder," which debuts Monday.
Also in Assagao, Gunpowder is the restaurant credited with putting the quiet hamlet on the map.
"It can also light matches, gunpowder, burn paper, or even punch through thin plexiglass," he said.
By that time China had invented gunpowder, the compass, movable type, paper money and the blast furnace.
Jacobs said the Gunpowder & Sky hopes to "help finance and license shorter form content" from these creators.
After a few minutes, the gunfire stopped, Bakhtiari told the newspaper, adding that he could smell gunpowder.
Gunpowder was placed in the bottom of a homemade stand that was welded to a metal base.
Apparently, he'd filled a mason jar with gunpowder and cannon fuse, and stored it in his fridge.
He burns the gunpowder after he completes his work, and watching the slow burn is delightfully mesmerizing.
"GUNPOWDER PLOT" Guy Fawkes Day, also called Bonfire Night, is celebrated with fireworks and bonfires every Nov.
A Bulgarian invented the aerial bomb; a Spaniard, the autogiro; the Chinese, both gunpowder and toilet paper.
In a movie theater, I can suddenly imagine the stench of gunpowder and cordite in the air.
We're talking old-school sea stuff here: complex knots, gunpowder kegs, canon balls, climbing up rigging, etc.
Actually, you can shoot a regular gun with bullets in space, because gunpowder has its own oxidizer.
Here's an Irish ape, swinging a bottle of rum, rocking back and forth on a barrel of gunpowder.
Plus, Gunpowder will be a nice dose of Kit Harington until season eight of GoT premieres in 2019.
IF TO BE British is to cherish understatement, DragWorld is the most treasonous gathering since the Gunpowder Plot.
Is it guilt about incest that makes Delaney leave to go play with flint in his gunpowder room?
Save your strong chem fluids to combine with gunpowder, which creates 10 handgun bullets with enhanced stopping power.
Authorities described the explosive device as a steel tube 47 cm (19 inches)-long, filled with pyrotechnic gunpowder.
A railgun uses magnetism rather than gunpowder to propel a shell, giving the munition greater range and power.
I had imagined that I would be leading a platoon of John Rambos who ate gunpowder for breakfast.
In the event now known as the Delft Thunderclap, 90,000 pounds of gunpowder went off in five blasts.
It was also an industrial center, where bread, gunpowder, leather — anything that fueled the war effort — was made.
In my hometown [Quanzhou, China], there were so many firecracker factories, so I had easy access to gunpowder.
Fireworks have gotten considerably more advanced since the discovery of gunpowder in China more than 1,000 years ago.
The prize is named for Swedish entrepreneur, engineer and chemist Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite and smokeless gunpowder.
There's the inviting front porch, the building's circa-1888 wooden frame, and signs touting gunpowder, antiques and penny candy.
The unidentified man put gunpowder in the pepper mill and then asked his cook, named Sam, for a meal.
Dust, from independent studio Gunpowder & Sky, is a streaming service launched in 2016 that focuses on science fiction content.
For the record, our moon smells like old gunpowder, at least according to the astronauts who walked on it.
Two buildings near the explosion were evacuated immediately, and some bystanders reported the smell of gunpowder in the air.
A third device was made from a plastic tube filled with gunpowder, wrapped in tape, with a fuse attached.
Otter Media's Gunpowder and Sky debuted a science-fiction channel, DustX, on a number of platforms earlier this year.
People were able to return to their homes on Tuesday after the gunpowder charges had stopped detonating, TASS reported.
To recap: gunpowder needs saltpeter, which is a form of fixed nitrogen, and concentrated fixed nitrogen comes from poop.
Gunpowder, a modern Indian restaurant in London's Spitalfields, slipped us the recipe for their take on a Bloody Mary.
While historically accurate, that doesn't make "Gunpowder" a picnic to watch, or do enough to flesh out the characters.
Dental Dynamite ($10.95), which is essentially a charcoal, kaolin clay and gunpowder tea tablet that you chew before brushing.
But as the group held its semiannual meeting here this weekend, a whiff of gunpowder wafted through the air.
Trump's unsubstantiated claim that President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower had the smell of Bannon's gunpowder.
It seems to include everything required to make gunpowder — mostly materials that can be purchased at a hardware store.
"Gunpowder" may be a light attempt at clarifying history, but, like "Game of Thrones," its tone is thrillingly dark.
After I make my civilization an economic giant, I rush gunpowder and unlock advanced military tech before my opponents.
López employs gradients and heavy blacks to set off gunpowder clouds, and each sphere is built with dense detail.
Bo Bratlann, restaurant manager and sommelier at Amass, asks Camanini if he wants the normal or the "Navy strength," then explains that the latter is called that because the proof is high enough that if there's an accident at sea and the gin spills all over the gunpowder, the gunpowder will still ignite.
It all started with a report to the police from the gunmen's neighbor, who said he smelled gunpowder, Hammad said.
A piece of wood was placed over the gunpowder, and then colored powder was placed on top of the wood.
That's what we're doing in a front yard in California on a cold December morning, with Byron's least-favorite gunpowder.
Instead of the gunpowder shooting the powder out the top of the stand, the stand exploded sending metal pieces flying.
Gunpowder kegs are always dangerous on board a ship, not least because a teammate could blow you up for fun.
"You could smell the gunpowder that came from the gun," Wheeler recalled as she was escorted out of the building.
They tossed gunpowder wrapped tightly in masking tape into buildings, to set off any booby traps left behind by ISIS.
CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY — On a May morning, birders and scientists descended on Reed's Beach with gunpowder and a cannon.
Shit was still the source of all gunpowder, but indirect methods were far cheaper and less labor (and smell) intensive.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev set off the first bomb, a 6-quart pressure cooker that contained gunpowder, nails and BBs, prosecutors said.
The cannon, which revolutionized warfare, was said to be the resulting fusion of Chinese gunpowder, Mus­lim flamethrowers, and European metalwork.
"I heard a bang, and felt a strong jolt and the smell of gunpowder," Andrei Shurshev, an eyewitness, told local reporters.
She was a great tiger huntress and brilliant shot (a classic portrait shows her tamping down the gunpowder in a musket).
Harington stars in the new BBC/HBO drama series Gunpowder and is working on the final season of Game of Thrones.
"You could smell the gunpowder that came from the gun," 14-year-old Liberty Wheeler, a junior, told the Houston Chronicle.
He was caught on the morning of the plot, November 5, 1605, guarding the store of gunpowder under the Parliament building.
"[The family] placed gunpowder in the bottom of a homemade stand that was welded to a metal plate," the release said.
They sounded like what they are, shrieking rockets and exploding gunpowder, and every Fourth of July set off Alert Level Yellow.
Gunpowder and primers are the explosive chemical components of modern ammo, and they are difficult and dangerous to make at home.
Only three weeks ago, the Croatian-born artist added a new medium to his arsenal—gunpowder—and Instagram is already mesmerized.
It was never tried; the pile of gunpowder remained unused, and religious conviction was widely credited with stopping the burning river.
Now, he said, he can "smell the gunpowder in the air" once again as the idea of readjusting borders gains traction.
In fact, when she chose to base her book around The Goldfinch, Tartt didn't even know about the gunpowder factory tragedy.
A friend of mine learned how to make explosives — including gunpowder — in the boy scouts and in public school chemistry class.
On Saturday, at their request, the complaint continued, she bought two pounds of gunpowder and over 600 screws for the bomb.
They said gunpowder had been placed under the lenses in the hope it would ignite under prolonged exposure to the sun.
He opened Gunpowder, a modern Indian restaurant near Spitalfields Market, earlier this year and soon began raking in the rave reviews.
The Philadelphia-based photographer actually used gunpowder to make the prints for her new series—so they could, quite literally, blow up.
When ignited, the racks of gunpowder filled bottles shoot out in every direction — some into the sky, and some into the crowd.
The star is a descendant of Robert Catesby, the central figure of the series and mastermind behind the infamously foiled gunpowder plot.
Before paper, Chinese wrote on bamboo slips; they used bamboo tubes for irrigation, and later stuffed them with gunpowder to ignite muskets.
It also co-owns Viacom executive Van Toffler's digital production studio Gunpowder and Sky, which just recently acquired indie film distributor FilmBuff.
Meanwhile, Sir Stuart is creaming himself over the intel from Helga and her prostitute that Delaney sold the gunpowder to the Americans.
The county's police and fire department tweeted that Perry Hall Elementary, Seven Oaks Elementary and Gunpowder Elementary were subject to the alert.
The company has acquired and invested stakes in a number of digital entertainment and streaming networks, including Fullscreen, Ellation and Gunpowder & Sky.
"Cannons and gunpowder came to Europe that could penetrate or go over walls and books could bring ideas around them," he said.
Known as the Gunpowder Plot, the plan was to kill James, his family and supporters during the ceremonial State Opening of Parliament.
"There is probably some monetary policy gunpowder left, but certainly not an unlimited amount," Deputy Governor Henry Ohlsson said in the minutes.
A decade ago, only a few niche fragrances prominently featured notes like Scotch pine, birch tar, gunpowder, palo santo and wood smoke.
And at the end, Chinese gunpowder tea with a bouquet of mint leaves thrust into the pot, poured from a great height.
Then they managed to rent a cellar directly beneath the House of Lords chamber, and gradually moved in 36 barrels of gunpowder.
Cai is best known for what he calls ''outdoor explosion events,'' public installations in which the medium is gunpowder, his signature material.
Lewes also commemorates the killing of 17 Protestant martyrs who met their horrific deaths in the town well before the Gunpowder Plot.
She said this was not the attitude "responsible countries" should have when the "smell of gunpowder" remained strong over the Korean peninsula.
Yes, I've often have the thought that one day I will know longer use gunpowder, but it still has its unique appeal.
Investigators have suggested that Yare was the likely killer, but they found traces of gunpowder on several of the pirates following the raid.
Ignite a wad of gunpowder, for example, and the result is a chemical reaction generating heat, which represents a sudden accumulation of energy.
More people would live because of technical progress, from refrigeration to vaccination, than perish because of it, despite lethal inventions such as gunpowder.
In his new novel, Gunpowder Moon, David Pedreira envisions an inhabited Moon and its role in a larger geopolitical fight for planetary dominance.
The Gunpowder Plot, as it was called, is a national fascination in Britain, and November 5 is a day of celebration and fireworks.
Shaped like a bowl, it was designed so that the rays of the sun would ignite gunpowder to trigger hammers for hourly bells.
Danny Shervin is a painter who has taken to using gunpowder as his material of choice to create incredibly detailed works of art.
The phrase dates back to battlefield surgeries, where soldiers might bite paper cartridges holding gunpowder and bullets to cope with the pain.9.
Harneet Barweja and Nirmal Save of London's Gunpowder are known for harnessing the flavors of their Indian upbringing in bold and delicious ways.
" China's state news agency Xinhua called the epidemic a "battle that has no gunpowder smoke" and chided some officials for "dropping the ball.
"This gunpowder doesn't go in one direction, it goes into several directions to spread into a wide fire," said Nineveh's agriculture chief Hekmat.
As the game stalls, the Byzantines eventually push back with gunpowder, using their pikemen as effective meat shields for formations of hand cannoneers.
At Stoddard's Range and Guns in Atlanta, one thunderous clap after another reverberates through the room, mixing with laughter and the smell of gunpowder.
The actor is starring in a new BBC One show called Gunpowder premiering on HBO this December, but he'll be nothing like Jon Snow.
"Because the writers had written such good stuff for 'Dinner Party,' it was like tons of gunpowder being in one room," John Krasinski explained.
I packed his shirts, slacks, shoes, belts and ties into the gunpowder-gray suitcases we'd bought for our trip through western Ireland years earlier.
The "Haber Bosch process," or just "Haber process," as it came to be called , allowed gunpowder to be mass-produced independently of soil bacteria.
The men managed to move 36 barrels of gunpowder directly beneath the House of Lords chamber, and Fawkes was responsible for lighting the fuse.
But they also discovered Pratchard had the equipment to make many more firearms, and he had gunpowder to make nearly 9,000 rounds of ammunition.
The booms and starbursts have often prompted your Back Story writer to wonder: What if wars were decided by fireworks shows rather than gunpowder?
Fabritius was living and working in his hometown of Delft, where 90,000 lbs of gunpowder accidentally exploded and destroyed the center of the city.
A third left an entrance wound surrounded by gunpowder stipple at the base of his skull and an exit wound in his left cheek.
Photograph courtesy Gunpowder & Sky On a rainy Sunday afternoon in Huntington, Liza carried a plastic tub of Gus's effects downstairs to the living room.
If gin (or rum) could ignite gunpowder, it gave "proof" that it was not diluted, and had to be at least 57 percent alcohol.
The unique sense of exploration and interactivity with a Doctor Who world doesn't fully come into its own until "The Gunpowder Plot," the final episode.
Many JROTC cadets take marksmanship courses and compete on rifle teams (most use air rifles, which fire pellets, rather than actual firearms, which use gunpowder).
Neither Ohio nor the city of Columbus restrict possession of guns like BB guns -- which use air instead of gunpowder to project ammunition -- by age.
Concerns over future "undetectable guns," while valid, are tempered by the reality that those guns will still require gunpowder-filled metal bullets to be effective.
"It's obvious that should a political battle end up between both of them, Bloomberg has substantial more gunpowder to throw into the race," Friedman said.
In a bid to remove the "stain in his blood" as the son of a Gunpowder Plotter, he decided to reinvent himself as a pirate.
Even though "Kerosene" or "Gunpowder and Lead" should have been her first Number One, she and I got to share our first Number One together.
For the show, the foundation commissioned an original work by the New York-based Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, who works with gunpowder on paper.
In 2013, the original Serpentine Gallery expanded with the opening of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, a former gunpowder depot, and a futuristic restaurant next door.
At the conclusion, in a last-ditch attempt to win over his audience, Daffy swallows gasoline, nitroglycerin, "a goodly amount of gunpowder" and uranium-238.
The very first ancient rockets used gunpowder as a solid fuel, while the liquid rocket engine shares some design traits with jet and automobile engines.
New technologies of destruction have appeared throughout history, from the trireme and gunpowder in past centuries to biological and nuclear weapons in more modern times.
The Ottomans used the Parthenon as a gunpowder magazine, hence its pockmarked masonry — the result of an attack by Venetian forces in the 17th century.
Think of it like this: You're a detective working on a murder case, and you come upon a safe that is smoking and smells of gunpowder.
Naval observers quickly identified the weapon as a likely electromagnetic railgun, a technologically advanced weapon that uses magnetic force rather than explosive gunpowder to propel projectiles.
At the time the pronouncement seemed partially ridiculous to observers: no insurgent group could take and hold territory in the chaos and gunpowder of Syria's conflict.
The idea was that once the gunpowder ignited, it would launch the powder into the air -- typically blue for a boy or pink for a girl.
The group stated that the introduction of autonomous technology would be tantamount to a "third revolution in warfare," following the development of gunpowder and nuclear weapons.
"The preliminary suspicion is that a child had a cigarette lighter which ignited foam rubber in this trampoline room, and it erupted like gunpowder," Chernov said.
During a search of Dalton's home, investigators reportedly discovered a cache of weapons in his basement, including bullets, gunpowder, 11 long guns, two handguns and knives.
Cody spends a lot of time on his channel doing science experiments "from scratch"—turning pee into gunpowder, extracting iodine from seaweed, and refining precious metals.
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The gunpowder, the terrorism, the virulent sectarianism and nationalism, are wafting up from the flames consuming Syria, spreading out over national borders and across the sea.
"Hello Colombia" and "Goodbye Philippines" — named after the recent Miss Universe fiasco were discovered and outlawed, because they packed more gunpowder than in smaller, legal versions.
Mr. Cai made a 60-foot-long mural of horses at a watering hole by lighting the gunpowder until the images were burned into the paper.
According to a criminal complaint reported by WCHS, Charron had a 9mm handgun, 300 rounds of ammunition and an unspecified amount of gunpowder in the car.
The camp—Yolen calls it Sobanek, an amalgam of actual names—is populated mainly by children, whose small fingers are useful for stuffing gunpowder into munitions.
Whenever the meal, it's brought to a close with Chinese gunpowder tea, brewed first alone and then again with bright mint leaves crowded into the pot.
"Gunpowder" is less concerned with the details of history, though, than it is with atmosphere, particularly the terror felt by priests and those who sheltered them.
China's state news agency Xinhua called the epidemic a "battle that has no gunpowder smoke" and chided some officials for "dropping the ball" in some places.
As Robert Catesby (Kit Harington) begins unloading 6,000 pounds of gunpowder into a secret cellar underneath the British Parliament, the government catches wind of the plan.
Authorities said gunpowder was placed inside a stand that was made with a metal base plate, which had a hole drilled in the side for a fuse.
In the 1230s the armies of the Song dynasty, who were fighting Mongol invaders, started launching "fire arrows" propelled by gunpowder some 300 metres into enemy lines.
"I was covered in three different people's blood and my face smelled like gunpowder," recalls Stone, who was slashed and nearly lost a thumb in the attack.
It's unclear what this powder was, but a video from around this time shows Thompson making one of the key components of gunpowder from tree stump remover.
Civ is where I learned what monotheism and polytheism are, the requisite ingredients for gunpowder, and the world-changing effects of the invention of the printing press.
"Under such conditions, it is natural that the lower classes, who were the grassroot supporters of the Islamic Revolution, will turn into a gunpowder barrel," Karroubi said.
In theory, railguns will fire metal shells using an electrical rather than an explosive charge -- a potentially revolutionary development in weapons technology that would render gunpowder obsolete.
An anonymous letter sent to a Catholic lord warned him to stay away, arousing suspicions, and a search led to the discovery of Fawkes and the gunpowder.
Dozens of containers of gunpowder and other munitions, which had been confiscated en route from Iran to Syria and stored next to a Cypriot naval base, exploded.
" Hazem Qassim, a Hamas spokesman, described the attack on the high-rise as "barbaric behavior, which belongs to backward eras that fought culture with fire and gunpowder.
You see, to make fireworks, you need four basic components: Fuel, usually gunpowder, a compound that produces color, a fuse, and glue to hold it all together.
Jon Snow on "Game of Thrones," is producing and starring in "Gunpowder," a mini-series about Guy Fawkes's failed scheme to blow up England's Parliament in 1605.
"We're going to see a two-pronged approach," said Floris Bauer, co-founder and president of Gunpowder & Sky, which has offices in Los Angeles, New York and London.
Papa Delaney bought both the land and a wife from the indigenous Nootka people (fact check, they were actually called the Nuu-cha-nulth), in exchange for gunpowder.
Unfortunately for all bystanders, Agnes really is a witch who could see the future, so she immediately exacts her revenge by lacing her skirts with gunpowder and nails.
Gunpowder & Sky, named after a lyric in the Aimee Mann song "4th of July," was formed as a global studio for today's digital media landscape, Mr. Toffler said.
In the biggest deportation in known history, weapons and gunpowder from Europe were swapped for millions of African slaves who were shipped across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Gunpowder Moon by David Pedreira In 2072, people have set up helium-3 mining operations on the Moon, helping power civilization back on a climate-change stricken Earth.
Air gun laws Neither Ohio nor the city of Columbus restrict possession of guns like BB guns -- which use air instead of gunpowder to project ammunition -- by age.
A former New York City high school teacher and his twin brother have been charged with attempting to make explosives by paying students to extract gunpowder from fireworks.
They smell it in their air when the tiny volume of the LM repressurizes and the helmets come off—it smells like gunpowder, or ashes doused with water.
I mean, this is such an explosive issue, such a charged issue, that it wouldn't take a whole lot of additional gunpowder to make the whole thing explode.
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When the Venetian merchant Marco Polo got to China, in the latter part of the thirteenth century, he saw many wonders—gunpowder and coal and eyeglasses and porcelain.
When Bannerman's collection, which included explosive black gunpowder, became too unsafe to store in the city, he bought Pollepel Island and constructed the castle to store his supply.
Kit Harington, the British actor best known as the moody Snow in HBO's "Game of Thrones," is a descendant of Robert Catesby, the leader of the Gunpowder Plot.
This three-part historical series following the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 comes to its less-than-explosive end (are there spoiler alerts for history?) under J Blakeson's direction.
Despite concern over the trajectory of the bullet and controversy about gunpowder on the skin, there was never clear evidence of conspiracy and Sirhan was ruled the lone gunman.
For example, during Sierra Leone's war, child soldiers were reportedly given a combination of cocaine and smokeless gunpowder called "brown-brown" that would send them into a killing frenzy.
His Gunpowder costar Liv Tyler chimes in to say that Harington was bragging about this "hilarious" joke he'd played on Leslie when he came onto set the next day.
But prosecutors said physical evidence, including the lack of gunpowder residue on McKnight's body, disputed Gasser's account and showed the two men were farther apart than Gasser has asserted.
We get that answer soon enough when the Americans decide to pressure Delaney into making the gunpowder just for them, and to make it available in just eight days.
Sky Ladder is a mesmerizing documentary about his bombastic creations, focusing primarily on his quest to build a thousand-foot floating ladder of gunpowder and light it on fire.
The cross-fertilization of languages, cultures and ideas within the dynasty led to major advances in art and technology, like the invention of everything from gunpowder to woodblock printing.
Similarly, New England colonial governments made laws such as the 1632 requirement that each person have a functioning firearm plus two pounds of gunpowder and 10 pounds of bullets.
Under a new doctrine, the nation's generals were redefining war as more than a contest of steel and gunpowder, making cyberwarfare a central tenet in expanding the Kremlin's interests.
About 300 residents holed up near their gunpowder magazine in late July 1816, as American troops and a group of allied Creeks assaulted the outer walls of the fort.
A new look and a new book, too: the latest addition to the series is called Gunpowder and Tea Cakes: My Journey with Felicity, a choose-your-own-adventure novel.
What makes Gunpowder Moon stand out from most lunar novels is Pedreira's emphasis on realism in the details that make up his world and the political structures that govern it.
Gunpowder and Sky The indie science fiction film Prospect, directed by Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell, shows that you don't need $100 million to make a first-rate space opera.
Authorities said Pamela Kreimeyer died after members of her family inadvertently created a pipe bomb while trying to make a device that would shoot colored gunpowder out of a stand.
Documents said the weapons included what agents believe to be AR-15-style and AK-47-style rifles as well as ammunition, gunpowder, and accessories including bump stocks and grips.
Angela, a girl of about 18 with the nickname "Gunpowder," stepped out giggling in her underwear to escape a group of young men and teenage boys splashing water at her.
While the recipe for gunpowder originates in 9th century Chinese alchemy, perhaps the last man to really make practical knowledge of the poop-firearm link was Joseph LeConte in 1862.
David Pedreira is a science fiction author whose debut novel, "Gunpowder Moon," envisions a near-future where superpowers go to the brink of war over resource mining on the moon.
The three-part miniseries recreates the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, the failed scheme by Guy Fawkes and other Catholic militants to blow up England's Parliament and kill the Protestant king.
The 5373-year-old tow truck driver was going to travel to the remote mountain region near home in Modesto, California and build bombs from PVC pipe, gunpowder and nails.
The 22017-year-old tow truck driver was going to travel to the remote mountain region near home in Modesto, California and build bombs from PVC pipe, gunpowder and nails.
As we wrapped up the gunpowder art, she told me that if her friends in special effects were to honor her last wishes one day, they'd reanimate her after she dies.
He reportedly said that stories labelling the movie as "whitewashed" were "outrageous," and that his role as a mercenary going to China to steal gunpowder had always been intended as European.
Many JROTC students take marksmanship courses and compete on rifle teams, though schools have done away with real firearms that use gunpowder, replacing them instead with air rifles that fire pellets.
To clear roadways, they stuffed gunpowder into empty cigarette boxes and wrapped them with electrical wire, stringing them into chains and laying them out onto the streets before setting them off.
Gunpowder was also found on Woodroffe's clothes, though not on his hands - possibly the result of having been buried for two days before his body was found by police, Jimenez said.
The evidence was rushed to a special British military lab—one originally created to investigate the Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament and kill King James I in 1605.
Piccolo firecrackers — often available as a cardboard cylinder of gunpowder and pyrotechnic material — are readily available and inexpensive, they're often the cause of the majority of accidents and injuries at home.
The gunpowder stored inside the building ignited, "blowing out 28 columns, damaging several internal rooms and killing up to 19683 people," according to a PBS website devoted to the building's history.
It's a throwback to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, when Guy Fawkes tried to murder England's king and its ruling classes by blowing up the House of Lords.
Soon after Hammack's Nashville arrival, the first song she performed on Lower Broadway was Miranda Lambert's "Gunpowder & Lead," foreshadowing Hammack's inclusion this year in Lambert's Roadside Bars and Pink Guitars Tour.
Zero Limit by Jeremy K. Brown Following last year's Artemis by Andy Weir, and last month's Gunpowder Moon by David Pedreira, here's another book about things going wrong on the Moon.
The queen encouraged similar deals with Morocco, selling weapons and buying saltpeter, the essential ingredient in gunpowder, and sugar, heralding a lasting craving and turning Elizabeth's own teeth an infamous black.
Whether primitive (gunpowder) or cutting-edge (unmanned aerial vehicles) in the wrong hands, technology can empower bad actors and put our society at risk, creating a sense of helplessness and frustration.
By this point in time, the Confederacy had been cut off by the Union blockade for nearly a year, meaning the South would soon have to produce all its gunpowder domestically.
In a 25-minute video confession recorded on his cell phone, Conditt described in detail how he built the six bombs with different detonation mechanisms, smokeless gunpowder, and batteries from Asia.
In online forums, they worry about the threat of big government intrusions, regulatory barriers, market shortages or price hikes that might limit their access to essential supplies like lead or gunpowder.
She and her classmates were taught that they were the heirs to the Middle Kingdom — a 5,000-year-old civilization responsible for the invention of gunpowder, paper, printing and the compass.
One possible answer: the themes of faith-driven terrorism, political opportunism and state-sponsored torture in "Gunpowder," which begins Monday night on HBO, have a startling resonance with our own times.
A 19th-century Thomas Cole landscape will be missing, as will a 213 geometric painting by Ilya Bolotowsky, while a 1985 wood-carved and gunpowder-burned Ana Mendieta sculpture will be masked.
The booms from air strikes, smell of gunpowder and sight of rising smoke from nearby districts testified to the ongoing violence on Friday as the army and allied militias press their assault.
Authorities believe he snuck into her home on May 18, shoved a pressure cooker filled with nuts, bolts, and makeshift gunpowder under her bed, and tried to detonate it later that evening.
He's starring in a three-part miniseries about the Gunpowder Plot to blow up a house of the British Parliament in 1605 — you know, the whole Guy Fawkes, 5th of November thing.
"Clearly, they [Amazon and Netflix] have deep pockets to go out and purchase films for their audiences," said Van Toffler, head of digital studio Gunpowder & Sky, which picked up The Little Hours.
"At this time with the situation on the Korean peninsula, there are swords drawn and bows bent in mutual hostility, and the air is saturated with the taste of gunpowder," Wang said.
"The stakes are high: autonomous weapons have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms," reads the letter, which is signed by Bengio and 17,700 other people.
Otter Media's portfolio includes digital media company Fullscreen Media (which owns digital studio Rooster Teeth), social marketing agency McBeard, and Gunpowder & Sky, the digital studio launched by former Viacom executive Van Toffler.
Handsomely mounted, "Gunpowder" reaches back to 1605, when England's King James I and his Protestant minions persecuted the country's Catholic subjects, seeking to root them out using the most aggressive of methods.
ITHACA, N.Y. — Long before he made a fortune and helped found the Ivy League university here, Ezra Cornell assembled a crew that used gunpowder to blast through the wall of a gorge.
Set around the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 (in which a group conspired to destroy the British Parliament and assassinate King James I), the series stars Mr. Harington as the plotter Robert Catesby.
During the mid-game of my Rome campaign, just before I'd developed gunpowder and before anyone had expanded to the second continent, I checked the scorecard to see how I was doing.
The venture, an independent studio called Gunpowder & Sky, was started by Van Toffler, a 28-year veteran of MTV, with Floris Bauer, the former global head of strategy at the entertainment group Endemol.
A beatific Lambert introduced what she called a "country punk" song, "Locomotive;"  it came with a driving beat that hearkened back to "Kerosene" and "Gunpowder and Lead" (both of which she also performed).
"On Saturday afternoon five family members and the expectant mother gathered and placed gunpowder in the bottom of a homemade stand that was welded to a metal base plate," the sheriff's statement said.
Though Gatiss joked to EW that he never really worked with Harington on GoT, he said that it's been a great experience playing opposite him and getting to know him while shooting Gunpowder.
Every year on the island of Andros, people stick iron pipes filled with gunpowder in the ground and set them off during a procession that features the key figures of the resurrection story.
Britain celebrates the failed attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605 by letting off fireworks and lighting bonfires with an effigy of the "Gunpowder Plot" leader Guy Fawkes on top.
Technological sea change Railgun technology, which uses electromagnetic force to send projectiles up to 125 miles at 7.5 times the speed of sound, is cheaper and more accurate than traditional gunpowder-based methods.
But tests found no gunpowder residue on Nisman's hands or traces of blood on his arms to suggest the bullet wound was self-inflicted, judge Julián Ercolini wrote in a 656-page ruling.
Even as you patiently explain the history related to human combat and warfare, and provide historical context for the inventions of gunpowder and guns, you will be shouted down by special interest groups.
Admiral Boom (David Warner) still presides over Cherry Tree Lane with militant neurosis, and he still possesses a baffling cache of gunpowder and weaponry, but he is mercifully no longer sputtering racial epithets.
Perhaps a bigger puzzle is the fact that the Gunpowder Plot — and the accompanying rhyme "Remember, remember the fifth of November" — is still commemorated in Britain more than four centuries after it failed.
It floods the screen with a horde of minions, and within moments, my four teammates and I are battering it with power, fireworks, and concussive blasts of energy and gunpowder everywhere, all at once.
We'd love to tell you that your month will be as explosive as a Cai Guo-Qiang gunpowder drawing, as melodramatic as a Ragnar Kjartansson video, or as colorful as a Mickalene Thomas installation.
Advances in technology, from the longbow to gunpowder, to the tank and even the airplane, did not change the fundamental calculus involving the ability of troops on the ground to seize and hold territory.
As men in camouflage, one in an orange vest that read "Attention, Wild Boar Hunter at Work," yelped to their pets and each other, the smell of gunpowder, garlic and dandelions scented the air.
As you watch him, armed with a squeeze bottle full of gunpowder, painstakingly shape the grainy substance on his paper, it's hard not to marvel at his eye for detail despite his unruly medium.
Railguns use electromagnetic energy instead of gunpowder to propel rounds, and China's is capable of striking a target 124 miles away at speeds of up to 1.6 miles per second, according to the report.
Based on historical precedent, the tradition is a nod to the failed 221 Gunpowder Plot by Guy Fawkes and his Catholic collaborators to blow up Parliament and, with it, King James I, a Protestant.
And the film "Gunpowder Milkshake," which I just finished my portion of in Germany, is a female-driven action thriller, with the wonderful Michelle Yeoh and Carla Gugino and Lena Headey and Karen Gillan.
Why, you might ask, has the Gunpowder Plot — a failed attempt by rebellious English Catholics to blow up Parliament in 1605 — been turned into a three-hour mini-series more than 500 years later?
The show's scenes of torture — they go on to include the drawing of limbs and an early version of waterboarding — caused a stir in Britain, where "Gunpowder" was shown in October by the BBC.
Macdonald puts the artist's work in context, making the argument that his practice with gunpowder is analogous to cultural revolution because his art is born from an explosion that destroys what has come before.
The pressure-sensitive volume button, for instance, now works using electronics, rather than by exerting pressure on a tiny leather pouch containing a secret combination of conductive powders (the recipe is said to include gunpowder).
"A hole had been drilled in the side for a fuse, a piece of wood was placed on top of the gunpowder and colored powder was placed on top of the board," the statement said.
And the press likes to talk of high-speed rail, e-commerce, mobile payments and bike sharing as China's "new four great inventions" (to rival the past accomplishments of papermaking, printing, gunpowder and the compass).
On November 4, thousands of Brits are expected to gather around a 36-foot effigy of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein as his lumbering, robed body is packed full of gunpowder and blown to smithereens.
And that more gunpowder was used to blast rock into the formation that Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. had prescribed than what more than 600 cannons had fired during the Battle of Gettysburg.
It was midway through one of those purported interviews, in a terrifying flash of gunpowder, that Mr. Werner's true identity came to light: He was, in fact, a Chechen assassin, the Ukrainian authorities now say.
" But Vernon Henderson, a trauma surgeon for more than two decades, who treated Jessica, wrote that her injury "did not fit with that description"; neither of her hands had "any evidence of any gunpowder stippling.
"There is more proof than just these people's statements," William Adam Hopper, an assistant district attorney, told the judge, adding that investigators had found gunpowder residue on Mr. Flowers's hands and cash at his home.

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