Sentences with phrase «from gunpowder»

During fierce engagements, your vision of the battle is obscured by billowing clouds of smoke from gunpowder and cannon fire.

traces the development of naval armaments from gunpowder to the atom bomb to the Exocet missile.

Smoke from the gunpowder billows in the hallway, moving into the rooms filled with terrified students and teachers.

Not exact matches

Carefully itemizing mercantile bills of sale, inventories of militia and volunteer detachments, the evidence that there was a lack of gun - smiths, records of importation of guns from Europe, the incidence of duels (three in the entire South in the 1760s, none fatal), children's books and toys, comments by eyewitnesses about the abysmal shooting ability of settlers (lacking both the weapons and the gunpowder to practice), court records, and a wide variety of other historiographical resources, the author assembles an overwhelming mass of data to show that military prowess was not, in fact, characteristic of early Americans.

I'll continue to enjoy playing around with the assorted bags, twine, ribbon, and tape that came in my package from White Gunpowder.

According to him, among the items recovered from the suspected hoodlums include nine AK 47 rifles, an FN rifle, four HK 21 MGs, one G3 MG, three GPMGs, 20 AK 47 magazines, two G3 magazines, one FN magazine, one container of gunpowder, the gunboat seized from the murdered soldiers and military accoutrements.

According to local legend, the appellation comes from the hidden stashes (cache) of gunpowder (poudre) that French fur trappers once buried along the banks.

In those days nitre was collected from the walls of cesspits and latrines, or from the leachings of manure and soil, and was used to make gunpowder.

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!

We are committed to helping Gunpowder singles discover love every day by narrowing the field from thousands of singles to a select group of compatible matches.

«The Goldfinch» was inspired by a real painting of the golden bird from Carel Fabritius, a young artist who died in the Delft gunpowder magazine explosion of 1654, which also blew up his studio and much of his work.

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.

Other deals included The Orchard and MoviePass picking up the ripped - from - real - life crime story «American Animals» for North America; Saban landing Chloë Sevigny's bloody turn as Lizzie Borden in «Lizzie»; and studio Gunpowder & Sky grabbing Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons» quirky «Hearts Beat Loud.»

Together, they must bring down a new threat, Lord Shen (voiced by Gary Oldman), the former heir to the ruling Peacock Emperors of China, who was banished from the kingdom after trying to harness the power of gunpowder.

Instead of gaining appreciation for the power of pacifism, Christian decides to seek retribution from the confrontational mechanic, plotting revenge with the gunpowder of found old fireworks.

Kit Harington (Game of Thrones), Liv Tyler (The Leftovers), Peter Mullan (Top of the Lake) and Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) have signed on to star in the upcoming three - part historical thriller series Gunpowder from the BBC.

Elsewhere, Robert Schwartzman, taking some time from his music career to concentrate on directing, makes his debut Dreamland available today in theaters via Gunpowder & Sky and... Read

Display pictures - Large A4 coloured pictures of things to do with bonfire night and the story of Guy Fawkes Colouring pictures - Large black and white pictures Display border - Each piece is decorated with pictures and can be printed as many times as you need for a display board of any size Songs and rhymes - Six decorated songs and rhyme cards related to Bonfire Night for the children to learn - 2 of these rhymes are number rhymes so would be great for your maths lessons A4 border - Individual A4 sized page with a border - great for adding work to ready for the display or for the children to use in the writing area Questions - Question cards each decorated with colour pictures Topic words - Words about Guy Fawkes and Bonfire Night each decorated with fireworks Fireworks - Colour photos of fireworks - great for discussion and displays Houses of Parliament - Colour photos of The Houses of Parliament Counting card - Rocket counting cards Dice game - Two different sheets with a black and white firework picture - roll the die and colour the correct part of the firework Literacy Worksheets - Various worksheets such as completing the sentences about fireworks, true and false worksheet about Guy Fawkes, describing fireworks, writing safety instructions Maths Worksheets - Make the rocket symmetrical, complete the addition and subtraction sums on the fireworks plus blank calculation sheets so you can differentiate the sums Ideas - An ideas sheet with lots of ideas to cover different areas of the curriculum when teaching about Bonfire Night and the Gunpowder Plot Cutting skills - Cut out the parts of the firework and assemble - there are two different sheets Safety Posters - Eight posters about firework safety for the children to colour Picture dominoes - A colour dominoes game Guy Fawkes pictures - Pictures from old documents about Guy Fawkes and the plot Draw the fireworks - A colour and a black and white worksheet Size worksheet - Cut out and order the rockets in size order - in colour and black and white Matching pairs game - Match the coloured Bonfire Night pictures Rhyme - «Remember, Remember the Fifth of November» - A decorated rhyme card

Christopher Rowe is one of the lucky few: chosen for an apprenticeship to a kind and brilliant apothecary, Benedict Blackthorn, Christopher is happily learning to solve complex intellectual puzzles and concoct everything from healing potions to gunpowder.

Jones bought the property from Robert Catesby, who, along with the infamous Guy Fawkes, conspired to blow up Parliament in the Gunpowder Plot.

In India, for example, the «Bhor Ghats became the deadliest stretch of railway construction in Asia where... the death rate was close to one - third due to gunpowder blasts, falls from cliffs, and cholera.»

Before his friends had the chance to fully interpret his actions, their ears picked up the crack of gunpowder from outside and, at the sight of Ben, smiling, nodding his head toward the door, they rushed out and stood dumbfounded in the front yard, their eyes tracing the arc of the fireworks in the sky, the wealth of stunning colors crowning the night with festive circles of light.

This historic bed and breakfast gets its name from the original building that stood on the property, which was used to store gunpowder for the Spanish soldiers at the nearby fort.

Throughout the adventure, various resources such as gunpowder, fuses, and herbs can be found or picked up from fallen enemies.

Play as Incendio, our hero, armed with your wits and a keg of gunpowder to liberate the town's gold from the evil Boss Grimshaw in this explosive new puzzle game!

These include new acquisitions, portraits, watercolors, textiles, a retrospective of Cornelia Parker's work, art from the 1960s, sculptures and wallpaper by Sarah Lucas, and a gigantic «gunpowder painting» by Cai Guo - Qiang, in the new landscape gallery.

While living in Japan from 1986 to 1995, Cai explored the properties of gunpowder in his drawings, an inquiry that eventually led to his experimentation with explosives on a massive scale and the development of his signature «explosion events».

The experience from Cai's local excursions culminated in the gunpowder drawings enveloping the gallery space, produced entirely on site with the assistance of local volunteers.

The scorch marks from the explosion transformed the boat into a three - dimensional gunpowder drawing, and this sculpture subsequently becomes a part of the exhibition, generating a dialogue with Reflection - A Gift from Iwaki.

There will be curriculum - related panel discussions address topics such as «Logistics of Dual Credit, Articulations and Partnerships,» alongside artist presentations and demonstrations, including a lunchtime lecture from Summer 2014 Artpace International Artist - in - Residence Margaret Meehan, and studio - based workshops involving gunpowder media, digital animation, fiber arts and more.

His gunpowder and graphite drawings (made during a period of self - imposed exile from painting from 1967 to 1970)[15] feature single words depicted in a trompe l'oeil technique, as if the words are formed from ribbons of curling paper.

From the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, Ruscha painted in alternative mediums such gunpowder, food, condiments and blood.

While living in Japan from 1986 to 1995, he explored the properties of gunpowder in his drawings, leading to the development of his signature explosion events.

The art work includes paintings made with gunpowder, commissioned robots, inventions created from the imagination of peasants and a giant aircraft carrier surrounding by suspended planes, UFOs and other flying machines.

he initially began working with gunpowder to foster spontaneity and confront the suppression that he felt from the controlled artistic tradition and social climate in china at the time.

Birth (Gunpowder Works), from 1981, is a wonderfully graphic film in which the dried, cracked mud and raking light of the Iowa landscape gives birth to a dream of artistic magic and power.

While living in Japan from 1986 to 1995, he explored the properties of gunpowder in his drawings, an inquiry that eventually led to his experimentation with explosives on a...

The Serpentine Sackler Gallery a former 1805 gunpowder store, located five minutes walk from the Serpentine Gallery on the north side of the Serpentine Bridge.

For the last 30 years of his life, he experimented with two - sided paintings, honey - colored translucent resins, see - through surfaces made of plastic, arcane Renaissance and Baroque imagery, paint that disappeared when exposed to light, gunpowder, 20 - million - year - old amber, images sewed together from pajama fabric.

It is located in a former 1805 gunpowder store, five minutes walk from the Serpentine Gallery across the Serpentine Bridge.

And indeed, at the time he said it, most of the civilized world did, the millions of Chinese and Japanese who collected sewage and used poop in the fields, and pee for many different purposes, from making gunpowder to whitening teeth.

Here is a good example; Look at Captain Kirk in Episode 19, Arena; he defeats the Gorn by building a cannon out of bamboo, filling it with gunpowder made from local resources, firing diamonds at his target.

Gunpowder Residue - Once the smoke clears from Heller, Professor Doug Berman reminds us of the implications for felon gun possession prosecutions.

Gunpowder Overlook is situated less than a quarter - mile from shopping, dining, and parks, and less than a 30 - minute drive from downtown Baltimore.

December's column was a mixed bag from the CREA conference in Toronto and at least one Alberta reader asked to hear more about Simon Dean, but I detected a whiff of gunpowder in the email.