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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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unfortunately yes  Imperial German picklehaube you mean  I think theyre same as prussian  _________________
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| Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:22 pm |
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TheFrenchun
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My Great aunt fed chickens in one of those in the 60s. Everyday she'd fill it with grain and plant it in the ground and say : "Eat his [LIFTED] face off!"
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| Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:29 pm |
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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does she still have it? theyre worth a fortune
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TheFrenchun
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She's been dead for a long time. And considering it was a leftover from when the Germans invaded northern France, she did not treasure it that much.
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brataccas
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omg, do you have any idea where it is? maybe if I run out of uk to digup ill move onto france, maginot line sounds a good start
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TheFrenchun
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Do not dig in northern France. There's thousands of live unexploded shells. When I was a child we got fenced off our house several time because they'd found 50kg shells.
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brataccas
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yep same as verdun, and lots of places in belgium, ww2 battlefields that were formerly ww1 battlefields then you also got napoleonic era cannonballs too, ive heard of a guy restoring one in his garage and blew up on him
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leeds_manc
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The cannon ball blew up? 
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brataccas
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leeds_manc
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So it was a shell, not a cannon ball then.
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brataccas
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article says it was a cannonball _________________
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brataccas
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why would they? theyre not classed as pcs etc _________________
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leeds_manc
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jonbwfc
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Is there anything to stop a round being both a cannon ball (i.e. a ball shaped round fired from an artillery piece) and a shell (i.e. a metal casing enclosing an explosive payload)? I think not.
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belchingmatt
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I thought a cannon ball was just kinetic mass, and a shell was something similar, but with explosive filling. The terms have changed since original conception of course.
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