“Old Yellow Creek" ….RaeDi ~ © The year was 1962. My parents were going to town for the afternoon to get our Christmas tree and do some shopping. They told us that we were to stay away from the creek. It had been snowing for days and the water on the creek had only a thin layer of ice, it definitely was not yet strong enough for anyone to be playing on it. I think my Mother was worried we would go out there and fall through the ice, we wo...
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Cannon
balls It was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon
balls near the cannon on old war ships. But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the problem. The best storage method devised was to stack them as a square based pyramid, with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which rested on sixteen. Thus, a supply of 30 cannon
balls could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon. There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom laye...
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