11/2/16

  My dog is recovering from his illness. Thanks to God, he is more active now. Also, I had finished my novel The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas. Alexandre Dumas is also the author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Muskateers. And, this is not related to this by the way, Google keep saying that Muskateer is the wrong spelling of musketeer, which is a soldier that uses a musket.

  Musket is like a flintlock. It uses flint and steel to make sparks to burn the gunpowder, thus created a force large enough to push a iron ball out of the gun and pierce it's target. There's three main kinds of guns that uses flint and steel to fire the projectile, the musket, the flintlock, and the blunderbuss. The blunderbuss had a funnel like barrel and had many small projectiles instead of one. I actually know of this because I used to be interest in guns. I watched many videos on YouTube of guns. The inside of the barrel is spiral so that the projectile will spin and had a greater thrust force. The projectile, by the way, is hollow. The force makes the bullet expand and fit the barrel. And since the American Civil War, soldiers stopped standing in the opening due to the development of sniper rifle. That's is basically all I remembered of all that the videos that I watched, which there's might be twenty or so. Of course, there is more, like, how to they load a musket, which country make the first cannon, and what is the materials that are used to make the first cannon, which is leather, by the way. In my point of view, a musket was easy to make. It I had the skill, I could make it. The only thing I miss is how to get the trigger to work. I have never research about the trigger. Thus, if I'm gonna try to make a flont and steel firearm, I would make a old cannon. Cannons today are different. They are way bigger, shoots further, reload easier, and could lower and raise its barrel. Each shell is anout the size of an adult's arm or bigger.

  Now, let's talk about World War II. D-Day was in November, 1944, if I still remembered that correctly. If there's something I'm bad at, then it's remembering the event's date. Of course, it's easy to remember the year. And I could remember the month with a little bit mor effort. But nit the date.