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Firing a real Civil War cannon from 1865

In this video, we get a rare opportunity to fire a real Civil War-era cannon built in 1865. Seeing a piece of history come to life like this gives a powerful glimpse into the technology and force used ...
He almost had nothing to show for the trip until the detector locked onto something deep and solid near the water’s edge.
A military investigation has found that a “one in a million” malfunction during a live fire demonstration over Camp Pendleton last October led to a misfire that rained shrapnel on Interstate 5.
On December 22, 1984, a pale, dweeby, thirty-seven-year-old white man named Bernhard Goetz boarded a subway car bound for Lower Manhattan. After taking a seat close to four rambunctious black ...