#grape shot

[bluebelle88]

Compsognathus would be a great choice or Archeopteryx, something that would eat rats and keep them out of the stores.” “Could you fire Compsognathus like grape shot at your enemies and then have them run rampant?” “I would insist. What you would do us when you came alongside for your broadside you just send a few of them up the mast and then run along the spars and then they'd hop on to the other boat. And then they'd be like *dinosaur noise* right in the other captains eyes. And then I'd walk over and be all hahaha having trouble with your eyes, Sir? And they'd be like 'sacre bleu!', because it's Napoleonic wars and everyone speaks French.

Luke Westaway, @outsidextra & Mike Channell, @outsidexboxofficial So the preamble: Question for Luke here from Furko08... If Luke was the captain of a Napoleonic era ship which dinosaurs would be his first choice to have as his crew? The background. Lukes two favourite things are tall ships and dinosaurs. This is the best most ridiculous question to him. This is from their Splatoon 2 and Saurian livestream at about the 1:19:00 mark

[warpig8248]

My blog is the equivalent of casually rolling up to the main floor of a Taylor Swift concert, with a 12 pounder Gribeauval Canon..and firing a giant of load of grape shot into the crowd, whilst calmly smoking a Cuban cigar.

[auraeseer]

Is that Johnny Bootlegger or Indiana Jones?

[chubachus]

Photograph of a group of civilians somewhere on the battlefield of Bull Run posing behind what are said to be the remains of unburied soldiers, their uniforms, and equipment strewn about in front of them in the foreground. It is unknown when the photograph was taken, but the civilians are believed to be either tourists visiting the battlefield or the family members of missing soldiers looking for their loved ones. By Andrew J. Russell.

Source.

[archaeologicalnews]

Spiritual Power? 18th-Century Artifacts Unearthed in Caribbean

Archaeologists working on two small Caribbean islands have found artifacts intentionally buried beneath two 18th-century plantation houses.

They appear to have been placed there for their spiritual power, protecting the inhabitants against harm, said John Chenoweth, a professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, in an interview with Live Science.

The discoveries were made recently in the British Virgin Islands, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom.

On one island archaeologists found "grape shot" — iron balls less than an inch (2 centimeters) in diameter meant to be shot from a cannon — buried in two postholes under a sugar plantation house. Read more.

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