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    Cannonball House is a 17th-century town house on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was built in 1630 and substantially renovated in the early 20th...
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  • Cannonball House may refer to: Cannonball House (Edinburgh), Castlehill, Edinburgh Cannonball House Maritime Museum, Lewes, Delaware Cannonball House...
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    the Castle Esplanade, the first building on the right is Cannonball House which has a cannonball lodged in the wall facing the Esplanade, often said to...
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  • meeting place for the tours was provided in Cannonball House, a historic town house next to the entrance to Edinburgh Castle. The tours followed the length...
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    certified platinum by the RIAA, and is best known for its hit single "Cannonball". A year after the success of Last Splash, drug and alcohol issues forced...
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    Merchiston Tower (category Castles in Edinburgh)
    was frequently under siege. During restoration in the 1960s, a 26-pound cannonball was found embedded in the Tower, thought to date from the struggle in...
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    nickname "Cannonball" which spawned a number of race events in both the United States and Europe over the next few decades in his honor. The Cannonball events...
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  • a list of venues used at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival, which takes place in Edinburgh, Scotland each August. Many venues...
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    achievements as a sportsman, soldier, and traveller; for instance: riding on a cannonball, fighting a forty-foot crocodile, and travelling to the Moon. Intentionally...
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    Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll in Edinburgh in 1678. Their first child, John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, was born at Ham House in 1680; their second son, Archibald...
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  • Wingfield Manor (category Country houses in Derbyshire)
    curtain walls and on the towers can still be seen the damage caused by cannonballs. One in particular on the north wall, shows by its shape, the direction...
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    Battle of Waterloo. At the end of the battle, he lost part of one leg to a cannonball. In later life, he served twice as Master-General of the Ordnance and...
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    Scotland, vol. 3 (Edinburgh, 1903), pp. 529, 532–533, 535, 620–621, 623–624, 636. Reid, David, ed., David Hume of Godscroft' History of the House of Angus, vol...
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    Althorp (redirect from Althorp House)
    Battle of Newbury on 20 September 1643, where he was killed, aged 23, by a cannonball. Following Henry's death, the estate passed to his eldest son Robert Spencer...
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    Basil Hall (category Military personnel from Edinburgh)
    who later married Hall's sister Magdalene. De Lancey was struck by a cannonball at the Battle of Waterloo, and it was for her brother that Magdalene wrote...
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    which featured the hit song "Cannonball", which opens with Wiggs' highly-recognisable bass riff. The video for "Cannonball", much-played on MTV, was directed...
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    Leon Jackson (category Musicians from Edinburgh)
    winners single beating off competition from the likes of Little Mix with "Cannonball", Sam Bailey with "Skyscraper" and Louisa Johnson with "Forever Young"...
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  • Broughty Castle (category Tower houses in Scotland)
    workmen were sent from Berwick and new armaments including falcon guns, cannonballs for demi-culverins, bows, bills, pikes, cresset lights, cables and anchors...
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    were burnt in May 1544 during the war of the Rough Wooing after 80,000 cannonballs were looted by the English army. The soldiers took a quantity of linen...
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    1952 and 1960 for practicing with explosives, including mortar bombs, cannonballs, and small rockets, which can be deadly within a radius of 300 m (980 ft)...
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  • about the adventures of railroad engineer Casey Jones and the crew of the Cannonball Express steam locomotive. Pirner would use a runaway train as a metaphor...
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    the track debuted at No. 2 with "Cannonball" by Little Mix retaining the No. 1 position largely because of "Cannonball"'s greater availability as a CD...
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    James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault (category House of Hamilton)
    trumpeter. Horses dragged the artillery and carts laden with cannonballs and tents out of Edinburgh Castle. The guns were dragged toward Langholm with oxen...
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    French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, who was killed by a cannonball at the Battle of Trafalgar. Born in Banff James Ferguson (1710–1776),...
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  • television station from liability for broadcasting Hugo Zacchini's human cannonball act without his consent. This was the first, and so far the only, U.S...
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    Ian Anderson (category Musicians from Edinburgh)
    spaceflight by Yuri Gagarin. Anderson played the flute on the track "Cannonball" by The Darkness on their 2012 album, Hot Cakes. He played the flute on...
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    ISBN 978-1844159307. Bottomley 1983, pp. 17, 43. Bottomley 1983, p. 25. "'Oldest' cannonball from Roses Battle of Northampton site". BBC News. 12 February 2015. Kingsbury...
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    Marshall Mathers LP for helping him stammer less. He was also inspired by "Cannonball" singer-songwriter Damien Rice in 2002, with Sheeran stating, "seeing...
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    Haweis, James Walter (1908), The campaign of 1815, chiefly in Flanders, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, pp. 228–229 Hofschröer, Peter (1999), 1815:...
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    Length: 82 cm. The Dardanelles Gun. Mons Meg at Edinburgh Castle, mid-15th century Mons Meg cannonballs English Bombards abandoned during the Hundred Years'...
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