May 14, 2026
Tag: shot towers
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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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May 17, 2020 2 Comments
A favored line among the pundits in the English-speaking nations these days is, Said the sun to the moonSaid the head to the heartWe have more in commonThan sets us apart The syntax of this six, six, five, four poetic ditty is without doubt a literarydescendant of the famous quote from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s, ’tis better […]