A WOMAN had a bizarre mishap during the Chinese New Year celebration when she mistook a firecracker for a sweet. According to China Press, the resident of Chengdu in China’s Sichuan province had ...

San Juan de la Vega, Mexico, where bombs and hammers are used to explode iron plates, unique places around the world and Compiled by Atlas Obscura, a media company that introduces food, events, etc.

A massive fire reportedly erupted at a gunpowder plant in the town of Kotovsk in Russia's Tambov Oblast overnight on June 11, according to the Kyiv Independent. Residents reported experiencing several ...

A Junior High School graduate tragically lost his life during the Wulensi Fire Festival in the Nunumba South District of the Northern Region on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Earlier reports indicated that ...

Throughout history, many inventions, and even tech items have been created accidentally, from champagne to penicillin. One such invention was gunpowder, which owes its origins not to destruction but ...

Nighttime Sakura, a gunpowder artwork, is perhaps the largest of its kind to have been attempted by Cai Guoqiang to date. The 58-year-old Chinese contemporary artist, who is based in New York, is ...

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A factory worker has appeared in court accused of keeping gunpowder in Kinder Eggs in his home. Daniel Magee, 38, was charged with four offences after police searched his property on Shetland Road, ...

London - Bristling with cannon and packed with gunpowder, the warship the London sailed through the Thames estuary in 1665 to fight the Dutch in the English channel. But she never made it, succumbing ...