• The Great Saltpetre Cave is a notable limestone cave located in Rockcastle County in southeastern Kentucky. During the War of 1812, it served as an important...
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  • filmed at Cumberland Falls State Resort Park. The cave scenes were filmed in the Great Saltpetre Cave. This was the third, and final time that Kane Hodder...
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  • Jones Cave Fisher Ridge Cave System Glover's Cave Goochland Cave Great Onyx Cave Great Saltpetre Cave Horse Cave also known as "Hidden River Cave" Lost...
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  • negative impact. As saltpetre and copper exports collapsed levels of unemployment rose dramatically causing a migration of unemployed saltpetre miners from the...
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  • mined in Carter County and at the Great Saltpeter Cave in Rockcastle County. But the most notable mining was at Mammoth Cave, whose saltpeter, considered exceptional...
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    Wildlife: 8–10. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022. "Great Saltpetre Cave History". www.rkci.org. Retrieved March 28, 2018. http://www.monroewvhistory...
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    variously called the Mammoth Cave of Indiana, the Epsom Salts Cave, and the Indiana Saltpetre Cave. The land beneath which the caves are located was bought...
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    Guano (category Caves)
    guano from caves to produce saltpetre. One Confederate guano kiln in New Braunfels, Texas, had a daily output of 100 lb (45 kg) of saltpetre, produced...
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  • (ECC), 1985; and Greater Cincinnati Grotto - Great Saltpetre Preserve (GSP), 1989. The Southeastern Cave Conservancy Inc. (SCCI), 1991, established the...
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  • would solidify and crystallize. For the preparation of saltpetre, Song Yingxing wrote: Saltpetre (solve-stone) is found both in China and in the lands...
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    Antrolana (category Cave crustaceans)
    the cave in which it was first discovered, Madison Saltpetre Cave. Very little is known about the life history and behavior of the Madison Cave isopod...
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    Location City or town Description 1 Great Saltpetre Cave Upload image July 30, 2013 (#13000565) 237 Saltpetre Cave Rd. 37°22′04″N 84°12′14″W / 37.367778°N...
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    increase in foreign investments. The Great Depression that begun 1929 was felt strongly in Chile from 1930 to 1932. Saltpetre and copper exports collapsed. The...
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    recess caves. The trails are open from dawn to dusk, all year round, including holidays. The park contains seven separate hiking areas: Ash Cave, Cantwell...
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    The Great Depression that begun 1929 was felt strongly in Chile from 1930 to 1932. Saltpetre and copper exports collapsed. The World Economic Survey of...
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    Jin dynasty, conclusively recorded the chemical reactions caused when saltpetre, pine resin and charcoal were heated together, in Book of the Master of...
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    soybeans. It is the largest watershed of any of the rivers feeding the Great Lakes, and supplies five percent of Lake Erie's water. Historically the...
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    inspirations came from visits to the mountain of Montserrat, the caves of Mallorca, the saltpetre caves in Collbató, the Fraguerau gorge in the Prades Mountains...
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    Great Council State Park in the Oldtown area of Xenia Township, Greene County, Ohio, United States, is scheduled to open in early 2024. In February 2021...
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    much iron, saltpetre and many other things, and for the return voyage they ship there Sumatra and Malabar pepper, of which they use a great deal in China...
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  • superior, Colonel George Edwardson, regaining British control of the saltpetre trade in the Punjab. Nanib and Edwardson then march south to Calcutta...
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    Estuarine Research Reserve System at 573 acres (232 ha). It is one of two Great Lakes-type, freshwater estuaries in the system; the other being Lake Superior...
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    botanist Ibn al-Baytar, who died in Damascus in 1248. The Arabic term for saltpetre is 'Chinese snow' while the Persian usage is 'Chinese salt'.28 Nolan 2006...
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    Raven Rock Rhododendeon Cove Riddle Rockbridge Rome Rothenbuhler Woods Saltpetre Cave Sears Woods Seymour Woods Shallenberger Sharon Woods Gorge Sheepskin...
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    Raven Rock Rhododendeon Cove Riddle Rockbridge Rome Rothenbuhler Woods Saltpetre Cave Sears Woods Seymour Woods Shallenberger Sharon Woods Gorge Sheepskin...
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    Bat (category Cave mammals)
    in nitrates and is mined from caves for use as fertiliser. During the US Civil War, saltpetre was collected from caves to make gunpowder. At the time...
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    Raven Rock Rhododendeon Cove Riddle Rockbridge Rome Rothenbuhler Woods Saltpetre Cave Sears Woods Seymour Woods Shallenberger Sharon Woods Gorge Sheepskin...
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    Saint Saturnin. She also explains that St. Peter's was transformed into a saltpetre factory. In 1807, Saint Pierre became a parish church. One hundred years...
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