According to eyewitness reports to deputies, the man loaded gunpowder and a paperweight into a cannon and lit the gunpowder. The subsequent explosion injured one of the victim’s hands.

The holy month of Ramadan has a unique cultural flavour in Egypt, and among its special traditions is the firing of the ...

The Song army also used a kind of flame thrower which involved packing gunpowder into bamboo tubes. The earliest picture of a European cannon shows that it bears a striking similarity to Chinese ...