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THEY DON'T CALL IT THE DOWN-UNDERDARK FOR NOTHING! With only FOUR DAYS left until we begin our gunpowder fantasy run of Tomb of Annihilation, it's time we show off our sniper and long range specialist, BAZ played by the wonderful who also provided his art!

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2020-03-26

22 Mar 1644: Newark surrenders to Prince Rupert (BM) He takes 11 brass cannon, 50 barrels of gunpowder & 4,000 muskets

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2020-03-22

The first pitching machines were powered by gunpowder (late 1800s), many injuries ensued.

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2020-03-19

The following year poor handling of gunpowder led to disaster at the Battle of Yellow Ford. English shot replenishing ammunition 'thrust his hand for a handful of powder having a lit match in the same hand. 400lbs detonated, ripping through the crowded English position.

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2020-03-11

she's a killer QUEEEEEEN
gunpowder, gelatine;
dynamite with a laser beam!
guaranteed to blow your mind: anytime!

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2020-02-29

OTD 1595 With Tyrone in open war L. Dep Russell called for merchants to be restrained from selling gunpowder to the Irish, but hard cash trumped patriotism and merchants got rich throughout the war selling munitions to Tyrone at inflated (triple or quadruple) rates

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2020-02-27

OTD 1595 report from Scotland that Tyrone and James MacSorley MacDonnell bought £500 of gunpowder in Glasgow and shipped to Ireland. Glasgow merchants were key to providing war material to the Irish, helped by James VI turning a blind eye for most of the war

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2020-02-10

This dude smells like dust and gunpowder.

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2020-02-10

23 Jan 1606: 4 days before his execution Everard Digby, Gunpowder Plotter, writes a final letter to his children including Kenelm - below. Kenelm would be a privateer , duellist & much else as well as Henrietta Maria’s representative to the Papacy in the 1640s (NPG)

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2020-01-23

kisses in flesh & plastic, steel & gunpowder

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2020-01-20

Drew my friends character, a fancy Air Genasi who is the heiress to a gunpowder empire. She looks sweet but watch out... she’s dangerous!

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2020-01-14

This beautiful 500year old suit of armour was worn in battle by emperor Maximilian I. It was commissioned by him at 18, receipt of payment to the armourer still survives and cost the modern equivalent of millions. The rise of gunpowder would soon make these useless.

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2020-01-08

best gunpowder girl, Fremy Speeddraw

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2019-12-10

She's a Killer Queen; gunpowder, gelatine, dynamites and laser beams...

Guaranteed to blow your mind...


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2019-11-23

[WIP] hnghng finally got my cookiesona design done, will update the ref 2morrow, they're gunpowder flavored

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2019-11-16

she's a killer bean
gunpowder, gelatine
dynamite with a laser beam
guaranteed to blow your mind
anytime

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2019-11-09

8 Nov 1605 – Robert Catesby, the leader of the Gunpowder Plot is killed in a confrontation with soldiers sent to arrest him – an earlier an attempt to dry out their gunpowder ended in disaster for the conspirators…‘The Explosion at Holbeach’ by Cruikshank, via Wikipedia1840

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2019-11-08

Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason & plot...or in this case Pilea microphylla, aka the gunpowder plant - named for the explosive way pollen is released by its male flowers [1821, 945 Lin]

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2019-11-06

"Remember, Remember, the 5th of November, the gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot."

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2019-11-05

1688 the people of Brixham were greeted by the arrival of an invasion fleet: William of Orange making landfall on the fortuitous anniversary of the discovery of the
Now he had to wait to see who would rally to him.

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2019-11-05