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Black powder was the first explosive ever invented, and was the primary propellant used firearms around the world for many centuries. However, in modern times, smokeless powder has largely replaced black powder as the most common firearm propellant.
The 6.5mm Grendel is an intermediate cartridge jointly designed by British-American armorer Bill Alexander, competitive shooter Arne Brennan (of Houston, Texas) and Lapua ballistician Janne Pohjoispää, as a low-recoil, high-precision rifle cartridge specifically for the AR-15 platform at medium/long range (200–800 yard).
USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) was a 180-foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tender (WLB) which sank in 1980 in a collision near the Tampa Bay Sunshine Skyway Bridge, resulting in 23 crew member fatalities.
The MBB Bo 209 Monsun (originally the Bölkow MHK-101) is a two-seat light aircraft that was designed by the West German company Bölkow and originally produced by Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB). The Bo 209 was designed during the mid 1960s, initially as a modest undertaking, to produce a successor to the Bölkow Bo 208 .
The Blohm & Voss P 209 was one of a series of single-engined jet fighter design studies. Under development in the latter half of 1944, when the single-engined jet fighter requirement was issued the P 209 was radically revised to meet the deadline but was not taken further by the RLM .
Aline Pagrovna (Blackthorn) was created by writer Peter B. Gillis and artist Brent Anderson and debuted in Strikeforce: Morituri #1 (December 1986), a Marvel Comics series set in a dystopian future, where young people, intent on fighting an invading alien species, undergo a scientific process which grants them superhuman abilities, albeit significantly reducing their lifespan in the process.
Blackthorn is a 2011 Western film directed by Mateo Gil and starring Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, and Stephen Rea. [3] Written by Miguel Barros, [4] the film is a fictional account of an aged Butch Cassidy living under the assumed name James Blackthorn in a secluded village in Bolivia 20 years after his disappearance in 1908. [5]
Blackhorn Mountain, elevation 3,022-meters (9,915-feet), is situated 300 km (190 mi) north-northwest of Vancouver in the Niut Range of the Coast Mountains. Blackhorn ranks as the seventh-highest peak in the Niut Range. [1] It is set between Whitesaddle Mountain and Razorback Mountain.