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    The Basilic, or The Ottoman Cannon was a very large-calibre cannon designed by Orban, a cannon engineer, Saruca Usta and architect Muslihiddin Usta at...
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  • Basilic can refer to: Basilic (cannon) Basilic vein French for basilisk Basil (name), of which Basilic is a variant This disambiguation page lists articles...
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  • A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant. Gunpowder ("black...
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    The hand cannon (simplified Chinese: 火铳; traditional Chinese: 火銃; pinyin: huǒchòng or 手铳; 手銃; shǒuchòng), also known as the gonne or handgonne, is the...
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  • The history of cannons spans several hundred years from the 12th century to modern times. The cannon first appeared in China sometime during the 12th...
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    This list contains all types of cannon through the ages listed in decreasing caliber size. For the purpose of this list, the development of large-calibre...
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    massive rains, and the Basilic could finally continue its way upstream. On 18 July, Faidherbe arrived at Médine on the Basilic, alongside 400 tirailleurs...
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  • Topkapı is so named because it was the site at which the Ottoman cannon known as "The Basilic" was deployed during the siege of 1453, against the St Romanus...
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  • Basil Konstantine Poledouris (/ˌpɒlɪˈdɔːrɪs/; August 21, 1945 – November 8, 2006) was an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator of film and television...
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  • Basil as "Red" Hank Jones as Chuck Jim Begg as "Fatso" Vicki London as Georgette Joe Turkel as Sheriff The Beau Brummels as Themselves Freddy Cannon as...
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