"We Fired Weapons From The 1500s, ... Jonathan Ferguson, we fired a 16th Century replica arquebus, an 18th Century Brown Bess musket and finally the famous Lee Enfield bolt-action rifle.

You’re a 16th century German prince plotting to crush a peasant rebellion, or perhaps you’re leading an army against the Ottoman Empire or looking to settle the score with a rival nobleman.

Hell hath no fury like a rocket-propelled cat. The feline you see in this drawing - the one with the rocket strapped to its back - is from an anonymous 16th Century German manuscript on explosives ...

PHILADELPHIA—You’re a 16th-century German prince plotting to crush a peasant rebellion, or perhaps you’re leading an army against the Ottoman Empire or looking to settle the score with a ...

Explosive document: The dossier is entitled Feuer Buech, which translates from old German as Fire Book. In the 16th Century, a German artillery officer once presented a plan to use cats to spread ...

16th-century manual shows ‘rocket cat’ weapons. Unusual, full-colour illustrations caught the attention of an Australian book blog ...

Illustrations in 16th-century artillery manuals show how to use cats to attack a city. ... German artillery manuals show how cats could be used as weapons. By Brad Scriber. March 11, 2014 ...

How the Louvre got its helmet back. The Louvre Museum in Paris announced Wednesday the recovery of a Renaissance-era armor that had been stolen nearly four decades ago. The recovered items — … ...

"They are prestige weapons, made with virtuosity, sort of the equivalent of a luxury car today. In the 16th century, weapons became works of very luxurious art. Armor became an ornament that had ...