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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You never see anyone carrying things on their head these days. It is truly a lost skill and there are plenty of good reasons why. Gender doesn’t seem to be a determining factor in the division of labor that it once was, but women did the most carrying of things on their heads.

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