The Cannon Balls is a mountain ridge located in Grafton County, New Hampshire. It is part of the Kinsman Range of the White Mountains. The ridge has three...

up cannonball in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A cannonball is round shot ammunition for a cannon. Cannonball or cannon ball may also refer to: Couroupita...

their bore size: Stone balls: Cannon of extraordinary bore, which fired stone balls, were first introduced at the turn of the 14th to 15th century in Western...

m), collectively known as "The Cannon Balls". Geologically, it is an exfoliating granite dome. Part of the Kinsman Range, the mountain is within Franconia...

end of the battle, "the whole plain was covered by men struck down by arrows and cannon balls". Similar cannon were also used at the Siege of Calais (1346–47)...

Galilean cannon is a device that demonstrates conservation of linear momentum. It comprises a stack of balls, starting with a large, heavy ball at the base...

Florentine gun maker Antonio Petrini. He cast the first cannon with the intention of simultaneously firing two balls linked by a chain from side-by-side barrels...

see into kitchens of nearby houses. The tower is 38 m (125 ft) high and has walls 4 m (13 ft) thick. Cannon balls dating back to 1577 are still embedded...

stone balls were shattered by the impact on the walls rather than smashing them. Thus, the mass of the cannon balls and, consequently, of the ordnance...

The hand cannon (simplified Chinese: 火铳; traditional Chinese: 火銃; pinyin: huǒchòng or 手铳; 手銃; shǒuchòng), also known as the gonne or handgonne, is the...

Gunpowder artillery in the Middle Ages primarily consisted of the introduction of the cannon, large tubular firearms designed to fire a heavy projectile...

a billiards table with the same dimensions as one used for snooker and points are scored for cannons and pocketing the balls. English billiards originated...

The bombard is a type of cannon or mortar which was used throughout the Late Middle Ages and the early modern period. Bombards were mainly large calibre...

history. The 20-inch-diameter (510 mm) cannon accepted stone balls that weighed 175 kilograms (386 lb). In April 1497, John Mawer elder, one of the castle...

Corps in 1922, the crest was again modified. It contained three cannon balls and three field pieces on the shield with a crown on the top. 1954 – After...

the city of Arad, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary (now in Romania), after the Hungarian Revolution (1848–1849). The execution was ordered by the Austrian...

Light Years from Home", and called "Cannon Balls" a "heavy vocal progressive rocker". AllMusic described the Call of the Wild album as "Ted Nugent going through...

cannon is any large tubular firearm designed to fire a heavy projectile over a long distance. They were first used in Europe and China, and were the archetypical...

and faced the cannon balls with the sang froid of a Saladin ..." Early in 1864, Hecker resigned, leaving Salomon in permanent command of the regiment,...

Alabama, US. The Appalachians, at their initial formation, were a part of the larger Central Pangean Mountains along with the Scottish Highlands, the Ouachita...

partly in front of the cannon barrel, is a pile of three cannon balls. To the right of the cuirass and musket is a flag of unidentified designs with...

Look up Ball, ball, or balls in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A ball is a spherical round object with various uses. Ball(s) or The Ball may also refer...

The history of cannon spans several hundred years from the 12th century to modern times. The cannon first appeared in China sometime during the 12th and...

groups, the stone spheres are "Tara's cannon balls". Tara or Tlatchque, the god of thunder, used a giant blowpipe to shoot the balls at the Serkes, gods...

The Gauss gun (often called a Gauss rifle or Gauss cannon) is a device that uses permanent magnets and the physics of the Newton's cradle to accelerate...

Canons-Pierriers and Marble Cannon Balls". artserve.anu.edu.au. Schmidtchen 1977a, p. 162 Schmidtchen 1977a, p. 163 List of the largest cannon by caliber Schmidtchen...

Carol "Preview: Cannon and Ball at Princess Royal, Port Talbot". Wales Online. Retrieved 5 January 2013. "Cannon and Balls Playhouse". Cannon and Ball's Playhouse...

bombards that fired stone cannon-balls. According to the Record Office of Genoa, cannon batteries were constructed on the site in the early 16th century, and...

Maris Urb. His father is an Estonian musician and the brother of actor and singer Toomas Urb. At the age of ten, he moved to live in Finland with his mother...

is part of the Kinsman Range of the White Mountains. To the northeast, Kinsman is connected by The Cannon Balls ridge to Cannon Mountain. The west side...