Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain.

[Gleb Gamow]

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Black powder may have been an important invention of Chinese alchemists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder


The old Powder or Pouther magazine dating from 1642, built by order of Charles I. Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland

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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_I


Austro-Hungarian troops executing captured Serbians, 1917. Serbia lost about 850,000 people during the war, a quarter of its pre-war population.

[Gleb Gamow]

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/Luxembourg


Bouneschlupp is considered to be a Luxemburgish national dish

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The recorded history of Luxembourg begins with the acquisition of Lucilinburhuc (today Luxembourg Castle) situated on the Bock rock by Siegfried, Count of Ardennes, in 963 through an exchange act with St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock_(Luxembourg)


The "Hollow Tooth" tower with Saint Michael's Church in the background







NOTE:

I had to mirror the above image (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Huelen_Zant.jpg) for this post, I took a screenshot of the error that the direct link from wiki produced:

[Gleb Gamow]

The recorded history of Luxembourg begins with the acquisition of Lucilinburhuc (today Luxembourg Castle) situated on the Bock rock by Siegfried, Count of Ardennes, in 963 through an exchange act with St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock_(Luxembourg)


The "Hollow Tooth" tower with Saint Michael's Church in the background




NOTE:

I had to mirror the above image (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Huelen_Zant.jpg) for this post, I took a screenshot of the error that the direct link from wiki produced:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock_(Luxembourg) <--Note that link is broken due to that second parenthesis, but if you wrap in code it works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock_(Luxembourg)



The image seems to work for me: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Huelen_Zant.jpg/640px-Huelen_Zant.jpg

BTW, I love this addition. Thanks, bud.

[Gleb Gamow]

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/Casemate


The Beehive Casemate was built into this cliff at Obelisk Bay, Sydney, Australia, in 1871

[Gleb Gamow]

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_warship


Breech-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_ram


A ram on the bow of Olympias, a modern reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme.

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Carbon 14 dating of timber remnants date it to between 530 BC and 270 BC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating


Sheep 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.

[Gleb Gamow]

The development of radiocarbon dating has had a profound impact on archaeology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology


An early photograph of Stonehenge taken July 1877

[Gleb Gamow]

Aerial survey is conducted using cameras attached to airplanes, balloons, or even Kites.

<no idea why "Kites" was capitalized unless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite_(disambiguation)>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kite


Morro Bay, California Kite Festival 2014

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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_Franklin


Franklin 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_harmonica


A 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_poisoning


A 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_agriculture


Edible Oyster Mushrooms growing on used coffee grounds

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Farmers' markets, such as the farmers' market in Los Angeles, provide a common land where farmers can sell their product to consumers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_market


Alpacas at the Richmond Farmers' Market in Richmond, Rhode Island, USA.

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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/Peach


Netsuke Old Man of the South Pole (Jurojin in Japanese tradition), holding a peach

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At the time of the Belgian Revolution of 1830–1839, and by the 1839 Treaty establishing full independence, Luxembourg's territory was reduced by more than half, as the predominantly francophone western part of the country was transferred to Belgium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Revolution


Charles Rogier leads the 250 revolutionary volunteers from Liège to Brussels (Charles Soubre, 1878)

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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_Uprising


Seal of the Dictator of the uprising

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The Polish forces then assembled on the right bank of the Vistula to defend the capital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vistula


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