Sentences with phrase «century gunpowder»

The Gallery, opened in 2013, is housed in a former early 19th century gunpowder store with an impressive expansion, designed by Iraqi - born British architect Zaha Hadid.

The entire gallery, previously a 19th - century gunpowder store, reverberates with the film's soundtrack: music as diverse as Bach's Erbarme Dich and Randy Newman's I think It's Going to Rain Today, along with swearing, shouting and exaggerated sounds of drinks being put down and cigarettes being rolled — noises of everyday life writ large.

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Centuries removed, said Sharpe, very few people in England could pin down the history of the Gunpowder Plot.

Everybody knows that gunpowder was invented centuries ago, and in so far it would be ridiculous of me to pretend to be the inventor; but would it be equally ridiculous of me to assume that somebody was the inventor?

The earliest rockets were solid fuelled, powered by gunpowder, used by the Chinese in warfare as early as the 13th century.

I was singled out to carry a letter about the Gunpowder plot from one room to the next, only for our plans to be foiled, and me to end up behind bars while an actor demonstrated seventeeth century torture devices!

Their primary purpose though is to attempt to enrich what we're seeing with authentic human moments in a film where no period of history, even ones centuries before the invention of gunpowder, is safe from explosions that propel bodies like debris in graceful slow - motion arcs.

Gunpowder, discovered in China around 9th Century AD, was initially only used for fireworks and celebratory activities; however, its application eventually spread to warfare.

For a year she experimented with darkroom techniques before discovering a 19th - century process that would allow her to use gunpowder as a pigment.

The original, early 19th - century brick building, formerly a gunpowder store, was transformed by Zaha Hadid Architects with the addition of a new tensile structure, creating a combination of old and contemporary architecture.

In a brick - arched space of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery — a Grade 1 - listed 19th - century building in the middle of Hyde Park, originally designed to store gunpowder during...