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On 9 March 1911, the village of Pleasant Prairie and neighbouring town of Bristol, 4 miles (6.4 km) away, were levelled by the explosion of five magazines holding 300 tons of dynamite, 105,000 kegs of black blasting powder, and five rail wagons filled with dynamite housed at a 190-acre (77-hectare) DuPont blasting powder plant. A crater 100 ft ...
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surface area. [9]
Littleton gunpowder works opened around 1650 and expanded to become the largest powder producing works in South West England by the middle of the 18th century. It closed in the 1820s after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Some of the buildings remain intact, while others are ruined. 1019452: Littleton gunpowder works at Powdermill Farm
Water-fueled cars – an instance of perpetual motion machines. Such devices are claimed to use water as fuel or produce fuel from water on board with no other energy input. Many such claims are part of investment frauds. [36] [37] [38] Gasoline pill or gasoline powder, which was claimed to turn water into gasoline. [39]
Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.It borders Tennessee and North Carolina to the north, South Carolina and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Florida to the south, and Alabama to the west.
Hungary has historically excelled in Olympic water sports. In water polo the men's Hungarian team is the leading medal winner by a significant margin, and in swimming the men's and the women's teams are both rank fifth-most successful. Hungary leads the overall medal count in canoeing and kayaking.