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Engraved powder horns from the American Revolution in the Concord Museum
Royal Navy powder horn with engraving
Carved German powder horn, c1700

A powder horn is a container for gunpowder, and was generally created from cow, ox, or buffalo horn. The term may also be used for any personal container for gunpowder, although powder flask is the strictly correct term.

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Powder horn

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A powder horn is a container for gunpowder, and was generally created from cow, ox, or buffalo horn. The term may also be used for any personal container...

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Powder Horn

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up powder horn in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A powder horn was a container for gunpowder. Powder Horn or Powder horn may also refer to: Powder Horn...

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Powder Horn Mountain

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Powder Horn Mountain (PMH) is a gated residential/resort community in Triplett, Watauga County, North Carolina, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The...

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Cayenne pepper

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and ground to make the powdered spice of the same name, although cayenne powder may be a blend of different types of peppers, quite often not containing...

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Powder Horn Pond

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Powder Horn Pond is a lake in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Powder Horn Pond has an outline in the shape of a powderhorn, hence the name. U.S. Geological...

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Scrimshaw

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Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7643-3017-9 Stevens, Jim (2010). Powder Horns: Fabrication & Decoration, Powder horn working, shaping, decorating, and finishing techniques...

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Powder flask

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term powder horn is sometimes used for any kind of powder flask, it is strictly a sub-category of flask made from a hollowed bovid horn. Powder flasks...

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Calumet Island

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Thousand Islands region during the 1800s, purchased what was then known as Powder Horn Island in 1882. He changed the island's name to "Calumet", a French,...

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Lewis Wetzel

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deadlier with a black powder rifle, or musket. While running at full speed, Death Wind could load powder from his powder horn, a ball round and pack...

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Blowing horn

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humans so that they can be blown like a horn, see Conch (musical instrument). Drinking horn Powder horn "Blowing horns". Ancient Music. Retrieved 2008-01-29...

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Boy Scouts of America

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days. Some councils offer high-adventure training for adults using the Powder Horn program. Leaders can also take the Seabadge advanced leadership and management...

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Trust in God and keep your powder dry

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"Trust in God and keep your powder dry" is a maxim attributed to Oliver Cromwell, but whose first appearance in print was in 1834 in the poem "Oliver's...

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Wild boar

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the San Antonio, Saint Louis and San Diego Zoos were released in the Powder Horn Ranch in Calhoun County, Texas, in 1939. These specimens escaped and...

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Shoehorn

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friends. A powder horn similarly inscribed and decorated by him also survives. The British Museum also has a similar inscribed and decorated horn by another...

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Jesse Pomeroy

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seven-year-old named Tracy Hayden of Chelsea was beaten and left on Powder Horn Hill. On May 20, an eight-year-old boy, Robert Maier, was also beaten...

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Unicorn horn

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in a powder form, was known to facilitate wound healing, help neutralize poisons (such as scorpion or viper venom) or against the plague. The horn was...

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Venturing

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council. Kodiak is a Venturing-specific training. Powder Horn offered by a local council. Powder Horn is a Venturing-specific training. Wood Badge offered...

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List of Canadian Pickers episodes

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read on a local picking legend whose wild collection includes an erotic powder horn. But before they can start the dealmaking, the guys have to become honorary...

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Drinking horn

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A drinking horn is the horn of a bovid used as a drinking vessel. Drinking horns are known from Classical Antiquity, especially the Balkans, and remained...

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Quanah Parker

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behind a buffalo carcass, and was hit by a bullet that ricocheted off a powder horn around his neck and lodged between his shoulder blade and his neck. The...

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The Minute Man

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shirt are rolled up; the minuteman's overcoat is draped over the plow. A powder horn, mistakenly, sits on the man's back instead of on his hip where it can...

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Roanoke Colony

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finding the remains of a fort, as well as English coins, firearms, and a powder horn. Research into the disappearance of the 1587 colonists largely ended...

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Jolly Roger

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implements of death. Cannon – symbolizing implements of death. Powder horn or signal horn – symbolizing implements of death. Jolly Roger variations possibly...

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Scouts BSA

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leaders are recognized with the Wood Badge beads, neckerchief, and woggle. Powder Horn is a high adventure resource course designed to help Scout leaders to...

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