Uncovering the Enigma Big Bertha, the Colossal Siege Weapon

In 1991, Callaway Golf introduced a golf club that set the industry on its ear. At 190cc, the oversized Big Bertha Driver (named, appropriately after a World ... The 420-mm German mortar "Big Bertha", also known under another nickname - "Fat Bertha" (German name - Dicke Bertha). In World War I, Big Bertha described the enormous cannon used by the Germans to destroy previously impregnable forts. Today, Big Bertha is used to describe the ... Popularly named after Alfred Krupp's daughter, the 41.3-ton, 420mm “Big Bertha” had a horizontal sliding block and fired a 1,719-pound shell up ... The mascot of this quickstepping pep club was Big Bertha, the world's biggest bass drum (unless you're a Purdue grad), purchased in 1955 for a buck from the ... ' It comes from an Army inventory document which shows that the wagon was in the inventory of the museum in 1952 (and then gone in 1955). The ... Big Bertha was a German siege howitzer built by Krupp AG in Essen, Germany and fielded by the Imperial German Army from 1914 to 1918. The original 'Big Bertha' (Dicke Bertha in German) was one of the most powerful guns built by the Krupp armaments factory in Essen. Its proper ... The Big Bertha was a 42cm howitzer, model L/14 designed in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 on behalf of the German Army. Big Bertha is the oldest cow to have lived. She died just 3 months short of her 49th birthday. In her lifetime, she managed to have 39 calves, and helped raise ...