Captain Blood whisks players away on a pirate adventure set within the backdrop of the Spanish Main in the 17th century ... fire a flintlock pistol, or toss a few grenades to cause massive ...

The flintlock, the principal means of ignition for two centuries from the 17th century onwards ... For instance, the best pairs of 18th and 19th century English boxed pistols have long considered ...

Long before art fairs, advisory firms and mega-galleries, there were barbers, tailors and innkeepers managing the flow of art in 17th-century Italy. Beyond the Fringe, an exhibition at Nicholas ...

It stood on a later mahogany stand. The 17th century Italian walnut and bone-inlaid cabinet that sold for £5,800. “It was a really unusual piece and we don’t see them that often,” said ...

According to a recent announcement, 10 Doune flintlock ... pistol’s influence had already begun to wane by the time the Act of Proscription was repealed in 1782. By the end of the 18th century ...

About half a century before Diderot’s Encyclopédie, and three centuries before the invention of Google, Dunton intended to cater to the learned male patrons of London’s new coffeehouses ...

Ten eighteenth-century pistols have returned to their place ... for celebration,” said collector Andrew Yool. “These flintlock firearms are of unique design, construction and decoration ...

all in an attempt to uncover more about the people and medicine of 17th-century Milan. “The study of their remains aims to give back a general identity and a story to each of these persons,” the team ...