I was born in Germany, when my family was living in Dusseldorf, a city that my father, while he was in the artillery in World War II, had been largely responsible for destroying and then, as an American diplomat, had been assigned the task of rebuilding. And he always said he was just as proud of having rebuilt it as he was of having destroyed it-- and for good reason.
they had. So, for example, Bayes' rule helped free Dreyfus from the treason trials in the 1890s in France. Artillery officers in France, in Russia, and the US, tested their ammunition and, and aimed their fire using Bayesian tables in both World Wars. The Bell telephone system survived the 1907 financial panic and the US insurance industry started our first and only--for many years--social insurance, workers compensation insurance, almost overnight at the time of
It's a seaborne empire. It is motorized artillery.
So the first applications for machinery arithmetic, for machine computing, were the same as the applications for human computing. So we had artillery tables. So we had cannons, they shot cannonballs.
or you're dealing with civilians or enemy combatants. We have rained artillery down upon an Iraqi unit. It's reduced to 50% strength.
- In Xiamen, China, in the winter of 1954, air raid sirens are sounded all over the city. People scramble for cover as artillery shells are being fired in the distance. The people's Republic of China is bombarding the nearby Kinmen Islands in an attempt to take over control from the anti-communist Chinese.
It's a seaborne empire. It is motorized anti-aircraft artillery.
It's a seaborne empire. It is motorized anti-tank artillery.
one thing that we can tell uh from North Korea's military activities over the past couple of months is that they've uh enhanced their artillery capabilities. They've gone on um you know, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr uh Zelensky, he's um said that um North
And one day Abed came back and he'd been basically doing interviews in this place called the Akcakale, which is a refugee camp 500 meters from Syria where sometimes they take incoming artillery. And he sat there with me, we were saying down, kind of eating dinner, drinking tea.
Similarly, people have trouble discriminating color patches that are small. Now there is some heavy artillery that you can use to make sure people are going to see error messages or other
He loved weapons from the beginning. So here theyíre visiting an Austro-Hungarian artillery gun emplacement in 1915 and heís the kid sitting on the barrel of the cannon. There at a wedding with his, uh, his cousinís wedding.
aircraft, not unlike the one that's hanging in the lobby here as I walked in. They're all, it's all ready to go here. The geoengineering's all ready to go. A various, even some scientists before have even talked about using artillery shells to put it up there. But, the upshot of all this was, to me, was that, and Lowell was, when I asked him, "Well, Lowell, you're messing with the climate system. What is this gonna do to rainfall? What is this going to do to possibility of droughts? What is this, how is this going to, what impact is this
But troops on the islands fire back. Soon, artillery shells are raining down on both sides. Back in Xiamen, Inside one of these shelters is 21-year-old Chen Jingrun.
either because they don't have the money to go back or they're so humiliated because their parents spent their whole savings to get them over there And so the desert would just erupt with artillery shells hitting.
Exactamente. No sabemos que tenemos ahí en nuestro interior-- un potencial increíble. Nos tiene que pasar algo para sacar la artiller ía pesada. Como me dicen a mí, tú eres el buque insignia.
"And indeed, had not nature tapped a more than ordinary, pleasing sensation and desire to each sex in the act by giving those parts such a quick, tender sense and transporting titillation and which with all the artillery of reason we are not able to control, so furious is our passion in the embrace, we should have no manner of incitement or inclination to performing it.
forth but you find that your thinking is what I call in a kind of a pillbox mentality you know pillbox in the old days used to be something someplace you hi from uh enemy artillery fire and you have this bunker with you know concrete walls that are 6 ft deep now that's great if you're trying to protect yourself from bullets but if you're
There's a bunch of 155s over there, artillery over there.
So you just have a bunch of people in completely anonymous black uniforms with outrageous artillery.
is: World War II proved that conventional warfare with good old fashioned tanks and artillery and aerial bombardment could do so much damage that it served as a deterrent
There can't have been many instances of using that kind of heavy legal artillery for such a charge. Companies that supported the WikiLeaks site, like PayPal, Amazon, and Visa and MasterCard,
more. First, heavy artillery guns, soon followed by Challenger tanks.
The story essentially is during World War II, as artillery manufacturers are producing new guns, new propellants, new shells,
AL Totten, a lieutenant in the Fourth United States Artillery.
mean, there's not a lot of white people on the other end of that artillery, you know? It's always brown people. It's
It's a seaborne empire. Because they know that France has got a larger army, they know that France has got more tanks and they know that France has got double the number of artillery pieces.
The UK helped lead the charge to send The UK helped lead the charge to send more. First, heavy artillery guns, soon
And then when we heard, because we live very close to the Airport, so there's a lot of bombing an artillery,
And during our walk, we are accompanied by literally a wall of fire being shot from vessels, helicopters, artillery, everything in order to make sure that we
either because they don't have the money to go back or they're so humiliated because their parents spent their whole savings to get them over there And you'd be out there, and all of a sudden, Gaddafi would just start firing artillery at you.
Whereupon, the US will then, with South Korea, destroy all the additional artillery and rockets that could kill even more people in South Korea.
And by November of 1944, it felt like a full fledged battlefield-- continuous air raids, artillery,
I think that's a big, big deal, big change. That said, I think service in the infantry, crewing an armored vehicle, being an artillery man, crewing various
helped--helping working at this statistics office at Columbia University, helping figure out things like how many pieces you want to score in artillery shell into--so, to determine
Every bit of industry was turning to build airplanes, tanks, vehicles, artillery.