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Powder Magazine, Powder House, or Powderworks may refer to:

  • Powder tower or powder house, a building used to store gunpowder or explosives; common until the 20th century
  • Gunpowder magazine, a building designed to store gunpowder in wooden barrels; historical successor to the above
  • Magazine (artillery), an item or place within which ammunition or other explosive material is stored

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Powder Magazine

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Powder Magazine, Powder House, or Powderworks may refer to: Powder tower or powder house, a building used to store gunpowder or explosives; common until...

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Gunpowder magazine

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storage magazines. Most magazines were purely functional and tended to be in remote and secure locations. They are the successor to the earlier powder towers...

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Kalthoff repeater

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separate magazines for powder and ball, a 30 shot capacity, and a trigger guard that could be rotated to reload the weapon. Bartmans made a magazine rifle...

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Arkadi Monastery

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hegumen's house, the monks' cells, the refectory, the stockrooms, the powder magazine and the hospice. The monastery has two main doors : one to the west...

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Old Powder Magazine

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The Old Powder Magazine is a historic building in Arkengarthdale, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was constructed in about 1804...

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Hessian Powder Magazine

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The Hessian Powder Magazine, also known as the Hessian Guardhouse Museum, is an historic guardhouse and gunpowder magazine which is located on the grounds...

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Cooktown Powder Magazine

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Cooktown Powder Magazine is a heritage-listed gunpowder magazine at Webber Esplanade, Cooktown, Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. It was designed...

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Powder monkey

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during the Age of Sail. His chief role was to ferry gunpowder from the powder magazine in the ship's hold to the artillery pieces, either in bulk or as cartridges...

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Gunpowder

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Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive. It consists of...

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Mount Perry Powder Magazine

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Mount Perry Powder Magazine is a heritage-listed former gunpowder magazine at Sandy Camp Road (north of Magazine Road), Mount Perry, North Burnett Region...

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Traveston Powder Magazine

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Traveston Powder Magazine is a heritage-listed gunpowder magazine incorporated within the Traveston Soldiers' Memorial Hall at 7 Traveston Road, Traveston...

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CCC Company 749 Powder Magazine

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The CCC Company 947 Powder Magazine is a historic powder magazine in the eastern part of Ouachita National Forest. It is located in southern Yell County...

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USS Arizona

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starboard magazines for the main armament, but smokeless powder is relatively difficult to detonate. Thus the 14-inch powder bags required a black powder pad...

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Fort Ticonderoga

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bastion held a bakery capable of producing 60 loaves of bread a day. A powder magazine was hacked out of the bedrock beneath the Joannes bastion. All the...

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Skull Tower

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and his fighters would be impaled if captured, Sinđelić detonated a powder magazine within the rebel entrenchment, killing himself, his subordinates and...

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North Arm Powder Magazine

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The North Arm Powder Magazine near Port Adelaide, South Australia, was from 1858 to 1906 a secure storage facility for dynamite and gelignite used in...

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Gunpowder Incident

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as the Powder Alarm. In early September, General Thomas Gage, the royal governor of Massachusetts, had removed gunpowder from a powder magazine in Charlestown...

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Baking powder

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Baking powder is a dry chemical leavening agent, a mixture of a carbonate or bicarbonate and a weak acid. The base and acid are prevented from reacting...

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Candide Thovex

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Annual Men's Powder Poll #3". POWDER Magazine. 6 December 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2019. "15th Annual Men's Powder Poll #2". POWDER Magazine. 5 December...

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