Making gunpowder is a bit like cooking, except more explosive. Gunpowder makers in the 14th and 15th centuries used black powder brought to Europe from China, then mixed its three ingredients together ...

A Committee of Safety was formed to keep the other colonies informed, and one of the messengers of this committee was Boston ...

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The Boston bombing probe might have been helped if the explosives were marked with microscopic identifiers called taggants. But the technology has long been off-limits, thanks to the National Rifle ...

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In 1605, a group of British Catholics, including Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby, devised a plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament. They hoped to wipe out the anti-Catholic political establishment and ...

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Le ​Gardeur serves as the Gunpowder riverkeeper, an essential role in protecting the watershed. His job is to pay meticulous ...

When people call a photograph explosive, they usually mean it metaphorically. That's not the case with Justyna Badach’s work. The Philadelphia-based photographer actually used gunpowder to make the ...

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