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Re: Gunpowder and the Quest for Immortality     

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Author: tg
Date: Apr 8, 2008 03:34

... Ironically, it was a quest for immortality that led to the ... 850, Chinese alchemists instead discovered gunpowder. Their explosive invention would become...Mongols, historians believe. Explosive trade Gunpowder somehow remained a monopoly of...Age skirmishes. By 1350, rudimentary gunpowder cannons were commonplace in the...birth to the modern army. Gunpowder is still the basis for...
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Author: tooly
Date: Apr 7, 2008 18:48

... message news:d08lv357lhgs7gvrflt6sqjgjl6dgko9l0@4ax.com... How Gunpowder Changed the World By Heather Whipps,... Ironically, it was a quest for immortality that led to the invention.... 850, Chinese alchemists instead discovered gunpowder. Their explosive invention would become the...the Mongols, historians believe. Explosive trade Gunpowder somehow remained a monopoly of the...
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Gunpowder and the Quest for Immortality     

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Author: Sir Frederick
Date: Apr 7, 2008 15:40

...Ironically, it was a quest for immortality that led to the ...850, Chinese alchemists instead discovered gunpowder. Their explosive invention would become...Mongols, historians believe. Explosive trade Gunpowder somehow remained a monopoly of...The Ottoman Turks also employed gunpowder cannons with abandon during their...pyrotechnicians pack a tube with gunpowder, colorizing chemicals and small pellets...
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Author: Sir Frederick
Date: Apr 8, 2008 05:02

... Sir Frederick <mmcne...@fuzzysys.com> wrote: How Gunpowder Changed the World By Heather Whipps, ...://www.livescience.com//history/080407-hs-gunpowder.html When gunpowder was used to create personal ...> Wha? There was no infantry before gunpowder? I guess this is one of those ... of naive. I thought the history and immortality connection interesting. Just commenting from one or ...
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Author: tooly
Date: Apr 7, 2008 23:23

...: Controlling explosions seems to be at the crux of developing technology. Gunpowder was certainly a major stepping stone that changed the world. Another was the combustible engine....7 class civilization presently. So, we've come a pretty good ways since the discovery of gunpowder. Not sure if these scales say anything about peak oil though :). http://en.wikipedia.org/...
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Author: Mark Earnest
Date: Apr 7, 2008 20:48

"tooly" wrote... Controlling explosions seems to be at the crux of developing technology. Gunpowder was certainly a major stepping stone that changed the world. Gunpowder only changed man from hitting his fellow man with a club into hitting him with a projectile from the club. How ...
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Author: Sir Frederick
Date: Apr 7, 2008 19:17

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:48:07 -0400, "tooly" <rdh11@bellsouth.net> wrote: Controlling explosions seems to be at the crux of developing technology. Gunpowder was certainly a major stepping stone that changed the world. Another was the combustible engine. These are two things that history too often treats as footnotes, and yet, think of how the world would be if neither of ...
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