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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Shav LaVigne
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In every generation of mankind there are heroes who may be short in stature but stand head-and-shoulder above the rest. United States Navy Admiral H. G. Rickover was such a man. Rickover came to America, earned his education and spent 63 years in the U. S. Navy where he took the concept of nuclear power from an idea to its present-day reality.

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