The Enigmatic Big Bertha Uncovering the Truth

The Big Bertha was the first "big" rocket I ever built. I got one when I was 12 and in the hospital. The nurses all thought I was crazy for building a model ... Big Bertha was the the 420mm (16.5-in.) howitzer used by German forces advancing through Belgium in 1914. They were nicknamed for the Krupp arms works ... Big Bertha, Germany's World War I top secret mobile artillery piece, easily destroyed French and Belgian forts, helping set the stage for trench warfare. “Big Bertha has a storied history with the Longhorn Band,” the press release states. “She traveled to the Rose Bowl, and in 2015, she was ... This heavy siege gun had it's origin in Germany, during the crucial period of World War 1. You can't call it a gun when you see it, ... AUSTIN, Texas — Big Bertha II, a new bass drum custom-built for the Longhorn Band at The University of Texas at Austin, debuted at the Oct. Big Bertha was a Droimeann cow who held two Guinness World Records. She was so famous that after her death a wake was held in the town of Sneem ... Conventional wisdom is that there was one 42cm Big Bertha at APG and that it was scrapped either during WWII or in the early 1950s. I believe that is a myth. If the later theory is correct, it would make the clast in Big Bertha one of the oldest Earth rocks ever discovered, and it was unknowingly ... The Estes Big Bertha is one of the oldest model rocket kits in production, first being introduced in the early 1960's.