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Berserk (Japanese: ベルセルク, Hepburn: Beruseruku) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kentaro Miura.Set in a medieval Europe–inspired dark fantasy world, the story centers on the characters of Guts, a lone swordsman, and Griffith, the leader of a mercenary band called the "Band of the Hawk".
Ark: Survival Evolved (stylized as ARK) is a 2017 action-adventure survival video game developed by Studio Wildcard. In the game, players must survive being stranded on one of several maps filled with roaming dinosaurs , fictional fantasy monsters, and other prehistoric animals, natural hazards, and potentially hostile human players.
Portrait identifying Schwarz as the "inventor of artillery" Berthold Schwarz O.F.M. (sometimes spelled Schwartz), also known as Berthold the Black and der Schwartzer, was a legendary German (or in some accounts Danish or Greek) alchemist of the late 14th century, credited with the invention of gunpowder by 15th- through 19th-century European literature.
Hiram Maxim invents the Maxim gun, the first single-barreled machine gun. [223] 1886: West: A safer and more stable form of smokeless powder is invented in France. [223] 1890: West: European countries transition to smokeless powder, which is referred to as "gunpowder", whereas the old mixture is known as "black powder". [226]
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Guts (Japanese: ガッツ, Hepburn: Gattsu, sometimes romanized as Güts) is a fictional character and the protagonist from the manga Berserk, created by Kentaro Miura.Guts is a mercenary who travels from company to company and companionship to companionship.
The term black powder was coined in the late 19th century, primarily in the United States, to distinguish prior gunpowder formulations from the new smokeless powders and semi-smokeless powders. Semi-smokeless powders featured bulk volume properties that approximated black powder, but had significantly reduced amounts of smoke and combustion ...
The early express cartridges used a heavy charge of black powder to propel a lightweight, often hollow point bullet, at high velocities to maximize point blank range. Later the express cartridges were loaded with nitrocellulose -based gunpowder , leading to the Nitro Express cartridges, the first of which was the .450 Nitro Express .