The video below the break is a fascinating 1969 film following Wallace Gusler, the gunsmith at the museum town of Williamsburg, Virginia, as he makes an 18th-century muzzle-loading flintlock rifle ...

The FDNY received a call reporting a fire at 417 Morgan Avenue, near Jackson Street and Withers Street in Williamsburg. The blaze was located on the fifth floor of an eight-story building ...

The Brown Bess Flintlock Musket came in 3 sizes - Long Land pattern ... Soldiers would be drilled to load aim and fire 3 times a minute and this formidable weapon would have a 17" socket bayonet ...

Whether you're heading to Shenandoah National Park, the Blue Ridge Mountains, or a local winery, these weekend getaways in ...

The Williamsburg County Sheriff’s Office says a Hemingway man is facing arson charges after he set a home on fire. Recent hot and dry conditions have resulted in the South Carolina Department of ...

BLAIR COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — Five people are left without a home after a fire caused serious damage to a duplex in Williamsburg. Firefighters from six different departments were called out just ...

1630 - The first true flintlock ... to use pin-fire cartridges. 1847 - The telegraph is invented. 1850 - True shotguns in common use. In the second half of the 18th century, musket design branched ...

They were there to see the demonstration of a new type of flintlock musket designed by Honoré Blanc, a gunsmith from Avignon so despised by his fellow makers, that he had been holed away in the ...

A fire can give off incredible amounts of heat. A room fire can range from 100 degrees at floor level to 1,200 or more degrees at the ceiling. Skin can burn with permanent injuries at 160 degrees. The ...

Danville Fire Chief David Eagle describes leaving to become the fire chief in Williamsburg as "an awesome opportunity." As 10 News reported Wednesday, Eagle is retiring from the department after ...

FIRE stands for financial independence, retire early. FIRE is a movement to stop working well before the standard retirement age. Achieving FIRE often requires making significant lifestyle changes ...

The poly-A tail is a long chain of adenine nucleotides that is added to a messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule during RNA processing to increase the stability of the molecule. Immediately after a gene in ...