EditorialEmergency mortar or iron bombarde, The bombarde consists of two parts: a front part or boiler of wrought iron and a back part or breech of supposedly cast iron. The construction of the boiler consists of a spiral-wound iron rod of square cross-section....
EditorialAgnes Hellebic, tragic suicide in Paris, 12th century. Deserted by her lover, she threw herself down a well which came to be known as the Puits d'Amour (Well of Love). She wears her hair tied in a bun, a dress trimmed with fur and puff sleeves a la bom...
EditorialThe town of Bombarde in Haiti. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meissen, circa 1835-1840. Goedsche (1785-1863) was a German ...