[5][6] Contents [hide] 1 Greek and Roman catapults 2 Modern use 3 Models 4 See also 5 Notes 6 External links [edit]Greek and Roman catapults Ancient mechanical artillery: Catapults (standing), the chain drive of Polybolos (bottom center), Gastraphetes (on wall) Roman 'catapult-nest' in the Dacian Wars The early history of the catapult and the crossbow in Greece are closely intertwined. Primitive catapults were essentially “the product of relatively straightforward attempts to increase the range and penetrating power of missiles by strengthening the bow which propelled them”. [7] The historian Diodorus Siculus (fl. 1st century BC), described the invention of a mechanical arrow firing catapult (katapeltikon) by a Greek task force in 399 BC. [8][9] The weapon was soon after employed against Motya (397 BC), a key Carthaginian stronghold in Sicily.
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. Concord Hymn Concord, Massachusetts has the distinction of being the place of the very first shot from a minuteman’s musket on April 18th, 1775. Concord Hymn was actually one of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s earliest published poems, coming about the time he was in his mid thirties in 1847. It is one of his best known pieces and has been memorized by many. Emerson actually wrote Concord Hymn as a leaflet on the occasion of the dedication of the Obelisk, a battle monument in Concord, Massachusetts.
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One staggering advantage was Europeans technological superiority. The Maxim gun, for example, was invented in 1884 being the world’s first automatic machine gun. European countries quickly acquired this gun while fighting Africans who were forced to rely on spears and shields which were very outdated weapons. Document eight shows an excerpt from a letter sent by Phan Thanh Gian, governor of Vietnamese state, to his administration in 1867. This Vietnamese man explains that the French imperialism in Indochina in 1867 is very powerful with immense warships that cannot be resisted by anyone.
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William Englebert Could Lincoln Have Been Saved? (Coronet Magazine, 1941) By Otto Eisenschiml This article is about whether Abraham Lincoln could have been saved with modern technology. Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Booth with a Derringer pistol no farther than two feet away making a perfect hole in his head. Dr. Charles A Leale tended to Lincoln’s wound, with him and some other gentlemen they took him to the white house, the doctors cleared away the clots of blood in his head, Dr. Leale felt a circular piece of bone torn out by the bullet and easily took it out using it as a valve, controlling the oozing of the blood. His superior officers decided to probe for the bullet and thought they had succeeded in locating it by inserting fingers
The Zodiac Killer refused to give his identity and the police have never been able to figure out who he really was. So, who was, or still is, the Zodiac Killer’s identity? The world will never know. When the Zodiac was rampaging through Northern California in the late 1960’s and 1970’s, he was operating against a law enforcement system that was unprepared for what they encountered.
In 1886, Dr John Pemberton took a three-legged brass kettle in his backyard to create the formula for Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola was first said to cure diseases, including headache, impotence and morphine addiction. The world first got the true taste of Coca-Cola in a fountain form at Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta on May 8, 1886. For a simple price of 5 cents per glass and selling an average of nine glasses a day in 1886. A century later, The Coca-Cola Company has produced more than 10 billion gallons of syrup.