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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"gunpowder"”.
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God is the Best Guardian: Islamic Talismanic Shirts from the Gunpowder Empires
Islamic talismanic shirts are fragile and highly ornamented textiles that feature Qur'anic text, magic squares, and other complex design elements common to talismanic objects of smaller, more portable form. The way in which these garments invoke the human body and thus differ from other talismans …
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Mediating War in Early Modern German Prose
<p>Gunpowder technology had been in Europe since the fourteenth century, but it took two hundred years before German authors were aware of its social and aesthetic implications. When early modern people discussed gunpowder warfare in texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries they were …
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The Nitrate That Shaped the World: A Global History of Indian Saltpetre (1700-1850)
… is saltpetre, the main ingredient for making gunpowder or black powder. Gunpowder played an essential role in shaping the early modern and modern world both politically and economically. It was impossible to produce gunpowder without saltpetre; thus, the importance of saltpetre was paramount …
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Beyond the Threshold: Allusions to the Òrìsà in Ana Mendieta's Silueta Series
… artist's body fashioned from mud, plants, rocks, gunpowder and other materials. Underlying the creation of the Silueta Series is Mendieta's belief that the elements are sentient and powerful beings. This perception is particularly strong in the Afro-Cuban religion Santeria, a creolized form of the …
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Petrogenesis of the Springfield Granodiorite, southeast Pennsylvania Piedmont
… of the plutons, including the two mica Gunpowder granite, Maryland record a magmatic axis associated with high pressures (>5.0 kb) of emplacement of magmas.
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The nitrate deposits of rock crevices in the Upper Mississippi Valley
… calcium nitrate) in Minnesota caves, for making gunpowder in the wilderness, is thus credible.
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Geochemistry of the Sykesville diamictite in central Maryland: an investigation of clast-matrix activity during metamorphism with tectonic implications
… a thermal event at 300 my generated the Gunpowder Granite (Olsen, 1972; Grauert, 1973a; Sinha et. al., 1979), and produced the observed metamorphism in the Sykesville diamictite matrix. This model is at variance with a Penobscotian deposition (Drake, 1985a).
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The Venetian Connection in early seventeenth-century England
… in early seventeenth-century England: first the Gunpowder Plot (1605), in which Catholics attempted to blow up the English Parliament, including the king, and then, shortly afterwards, the Venetian Interdict controversy (1606–7), a dispute over papal objections to the autonomy of Venetian laws. …
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Death on the Warwickshire Coalfield: an examination of the contribution of miners, coalowners and the state to the decline in mining fatalities in the British coal industry in the period of expansion 1840 to 1913
… of patent explosives to replace the use of gunpowder in Warwickshire mines. This thesis builds upon recent studies by McIvor and Mills which have sought to address this neglect of health and safety in the British coal mining industry. By approaching this through the study of a small …
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Micro, meso and macro materials processing using high-speed liquid projectiles
… were generated by the launchers, which used gunpowder as an energy source. The experiments were carried out at the low (O.35g of the powder), middle (1.2g) and high (10g to 70g) levels of energy consumptions and at several different launchers modification. Experimental investigation of effect …
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Re-appropriating Chinese Art in the Context of Digital Media: From the Chinese Past into a Mediated ‘Presence’ through Creative Practice
… of the viewer’, through painting, reliefs and gunpowder in China, correlates with digital media art today. Such correlation allows the artist to play with the idea of ‘multiple identities’ through digital media (e.g. dual and multiple screens). The results of the analysis reveal a strong …