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    Roaring Meg was the name of several powerful cannons used in the 17th century. It is not to be confused with Mons Meg, a medieval bombard preserved at...
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  • Roaring Meg may refer to: Roaring Meg (cannon), any of several large siege cannon Mons Meg, a famous cannon at Edinburgh Castle Roaring Meg (river), a...
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  • allegedly placed loyalist symbols, notably a replica of the famous Roaring Meg cannon used in the Siege of Derry, before an affronted Costello at a state...
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    placed symbols of Northern Ireland—notably a replica of the famous Roaring Meg cannon used in the Siege of Derry—in front of Costello at an official dinner...
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    descent, placed loyalist symbols, notably a replica of the famous Roaring Meg cannon used in the Siege of Derry, before an affronted Costello at the dinner...
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    placed symbols of Northern Ireland, notably a replica of the famous Roaring Meg cannon used in the Siege of Derry, before an affronted Costello at a state...
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    This list contains all types of cannon through the ages listed in decreasing caliber size. For the purpose of this list, the development of large-calibre...
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    Existing also in Lydbrook around the 1690s was an Anvil making works. Roaring Meg (cannon), on display at Goodrich Castle, was made in Lydbrook in 1649. By...
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    diameter many times that of the bore diameter. An early example was Roaring Meg, with a 15.5 in (390 mm) barrel diameter and firing a 220 lb (100 kg)...
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    at Brook Hall) were restored to their former glory, with the famous 'Roaring Meg' located at the double bastion near Bishop gate. Macaulay, Thomas Babington...
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    War, the castle was besieged and captured, using a cannon cast in the Forest of Dean called Roaring Meg, from Sir Henry Lingen by Parliamentarians led by...
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  • including the Edwardian period, women's suffrage, the First World War, the Roaring Twenties, and the Wall Street Crash. It was a ratings success for ITV and...
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    London: English Heritage. ISBN 978-1-84802-075-7 Musty, A. E. S. (2007) Roaring Meg: Test Firing a Copy of Colonel Birch's Civil War Mortar. Hereford, UK:...
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  • Fancy 1807 Resolution and Independence 1802, 3 May – 4 July "There was a roaring in the wind all night;" Poems of the Imagination 1807 I grieved for Buonaparte...
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    the original on January 15, 2018. Retrieved September 18, 2019. McDonnell, Meg T. (December 3, 2012). "The Marriage Gap in the Women's Vote". Crisis Magazine...
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    king's aides-de-camp was killed by a shot from the city's largest cannon, the "Roaring Meg". James would ask thrice more, but was refused each time. That...
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  • (2009), Ali Smith Blue is the Warmest Color (2010), Jul Maroh Lesbians Roaring Like A Tsunami (2010), by Mikhail Volokhov Un Soir du Paris (2010), short...
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    more southerly route than previously, to catch the strongest winds in the Roaring Forties despite having to face icebergs, gales and storms whipped up by...
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    and used these to move mortars forward, probably including the famous "Roaring Meg", bringing the interior of the castle into artillery range. Facing a...
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    under that suppression; Scottish clans, in romanticised form, were to come roaring back in the "clan tartans" run of the Regency (late Georgian) to Victorian...
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  • Karlsson Nazareth Twelfth Night Thor Silent Running New Model Army IQ The Roaring Boys She Marillion Grand Slam The Bluebells Helix Clannad The Opposition...
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  • 1897–c. 1937) U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934) Prohibition (1920–1933) Roaring Twenties (1920–1929) January 2 Harold Bradley, American country music session...
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  • legs growing in, spikes growing in an eye shine and her rearing up and roaring (the genus name "Saichania" is mispronounced in the 4Kids dub). She has...
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    siege of Haddington, and says that the cannon that nearly injured Mary of Guise at the nunnery was called "roaring meg". Fulwell composed a verse naming the...
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  • when Colonel John Birch finally broke the defences using the famous cannon Roaring Meg. His house of Freen's Court at Sutton was besieged until Prince Rupert...
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    first gun, a secret recipe for ancient tracer fire, a mega-mortar named "Roaring Meg", and a nine-barreled medieval volley gun. The truth behind the bizarre...
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    Harold Daniels Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore Film noir RKO Roaring City William Berke Hugh Beaumont, Wanda McKay, Joan Valerie Crime Lippert...
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