Tag: ammunition

  • Shot Towers

    Shot Towers

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    Is it some sort of munitions testing facility? Why build it in downtown Baltimore? There’s a reason for everything, and then I found out there were lots of them, and some are still around, almost 200 years and several technological revolutions later.

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Past Article

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Here at the editor’s desk at Postcard History, soon after we publish an article a new postcard often appears as an attachment in my email or by coincidence shows up in a box of unsorted cards where I search for interesting topics. Many great cards are missed if these are ignored. Today we start an occasional series entitled Sunday Odds and Ends. All comments welcome.

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