Word: 1800s
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...methods of mass destruction with an ingenuity that becomes distressingly evident in these pages. As early as 1453, the Turks lobbed 800-lb. shells at the walls of Constantinople. The revolver, the rifled barrel and the machine gun all date from the 17th century or earlier. By the early 1800s there were carved pistols that fired around corners and a cannonball that burst just beyond the muzzle into honed sword blades-a rude forerunner of the grenade. Dudley Pope, a naval historian and author of several books, has drafted a text of deadly fascination, set off by 350 illustrations that...
...Applause That Stopped. The painting experienced even more vicissitudes than Rembrandt, ending up, according to legend, over a bedstead in a Dutch farmhouse. There, in the early 1800s, a traveling British art restorer named George Barker saw and picked it up for one shilling, which also included the price of bed and breakfast. Barker presented it to his patron, Lord Spencer. In 1915 it passed into the hands of Sir Herbert Cook for $168,000. Last week it was up for auction in London's Christie's auction house, identified simply as Item...
Lost Coaches & Dead Cattle. Built by the British in the mid-1800s, Argentina's railroads opened up the country, turned handsome profits hauling meat and wheat to the coast for export, and ran up a record for good service. Then, in 1948, Dictator Juan Perón decided on "economic independence," and bought out the British for $600 million. Into top management spots went Perón's political cronies. By 1955, the payroll had ballooned from 150,000 to 230,000 workers, who later bulldozed one government after another with strikes and strike threats for higher...
...centuries master shipwrights taught their jealously guarded trade by word of mouth to a handful of working apprentices. Webb Institute's founder, William Henry Webb, learned the business from his father Isaac, a flourishing New York shipbuilder of the early 1800s. Taking over in 1840, he turned out 138 major vessels during the next three decades. Among them were the clipper ships Challenge, which had a 210-ft. mainmast (the tallest ever built) with almost three acres of sail, and the Comet, which set the record (76 days) for sailing round the Horn from San Francisco to New York...
...Indian Supreme Court has changed all that with an historic decision, laying down clear guidelines of court power in a manner reminiscent of the pioneering U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall in the early 1800s...