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In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
John Boyd Orr
I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.
Pete du Pont
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Wendell Phillips
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Philip James Bailey
I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.
Mark Oliphant
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In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
John Boyd Orr 
59% of people like this quote
I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions.
Pete du Pont
58% of people like this quote
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
Wendell Phillips
53% of people like this quote
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
Philip James Bailey
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I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.
Mark Oliphant
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Andre Maurois
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