Founding Father John Adams once wrote that American independence should be celebrated with "illuminations from one end of ...

Yanzhao Evening News commented on Tuesday: The four great inventions of ancient China－the compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing－had a huge impact on human civilization. Their modern ...

In the U.S. we celebrate July 4th, our Independence Day, with fireworks and all manner of noise making and bright flashing ...

In preparing it for Sharp's breech-loader, Captain Norton places a little gnn cotton first in the lower end of the cartridge, and gunpowder over the cotton, the fire from the cap being certain to ...