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After the end of World War I, the majority of the United Kingdom gunpowder manufacturers merged into a single company, "Explosives Trades limited"; and number of sites were closed down, including those in Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_IAustro-Hungarian troops executing captured Serbians, 1917. Serbia lost about 850,000 people during the war, a quarter of its pre-war population.
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As Russia mobilized in support of Serbia, Germany invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg before moving towards France, leading Britain to declare war on Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuxembourgBouneschlupp is considered to be a Luxemburgish national dish
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In addition to these structures, the Bock also included a system of casemates which originated in the cellars of the medieval castle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CasemateThe Beehive Casemate was built into this cliff at Obelisk Bay, Sydney, Australia, in 1871
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The American Civil War saw the use of casemate ironclads: armored steamboats with a very low freeboard and their guns on the main deck ('Casemate deck') protected by a sloped armoured casemate, which sat on top of the hull. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironclad_warshipBreech-loading 110 pounder Armstrong gun on HMS Warrior
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From the 1860s to the 1880s many naval designers believed that the development of the ironclad meant that the ram was again the most important weapon in naval warfare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_ramA ram on the bow of Olympias, a modern reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_datingSheep on the beach in North Ronaldsay. In the winter, these sheep eat seaweed, which has a higher δ13C content than grass; samples from these sheep have a δ13C value of about −13‰, which is much higher than for sheep that feed on grasses.
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In 1750 Benjamin Franklin published a proposal for an experiment to prove that lightning was caused by electricity by flying a kite in a storm that appeared capable of becoming a lightning storm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_FranklinFranklin on the Series 2009 hundred dollar bill
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Among his many creations were the lightning rod, glass armonica (a glass instrument, not to be confused with the metal harmonica), Franklin stove, bifocal glasses and the flexible urinary catheter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_harmonicaA modern glass armonica built using Benjamin Franklin's design
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A modern version of the "purported dangers" claims that players suffered lead poisoning because armonicas were made of lead glass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoningA lead warning on a fuel pump. Tetraethyllead, which used to be added to automotive gasoline (and still is added to aviation gasoline), contributed to soil contamination.
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Although leaded soil is less of a problem in countries that no longer have leaded gasoline, it remains prevalent, raising concerns about the safety of urban agriculture; eating food grown in contaminated soil can present a lead hazard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_agricultureEdible Oyster Mushrooms growing on used coffee grounds
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One such wholesale farmers' market is the South Carolina State Farmers Market, which is a major supplier of watermelons, cantaloupes, and peaches for produce buyers in the north-eastern US. Farmers' markets also may supply buyers from produce stands, restaurants, and garden stores with fresh fruits and vegetables, plants, seedlings and nursery stock, honey, and other agricultural products. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeachNetsuke Old Man of the South Pole (Jurojin in Japanese tradition), holding a peach
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However, in the end, none of the European powers sent troops to aid the Dutch government, partly because of rebellions within some of their own borders (the Russians were occupied with the November Uprising in Poland and Prussia was saddled with war debt). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_UprisingSeal of the Dictator of the uprising
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