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Gunpowder Souls

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The Valencian Fallas (annual neighborhood festivals built around enormous wood-and-papier-mâché monuments burned with fireworks on the feast of Saint Joseph) have produced an entire artisan class skilled in the handling of black powder, fuse mixing, and pyrotechnic timing. The same workshops that fabricate spectacular Saint Joseph crowns now produce ranging tables, fuze set artillery shells, and the explosive bouquet rounds adopted by the royal arsenal. Festival-born expertise has grown into a homegrown gunpowder engineering tradition, one that mid-sized European powers must buy from German or French specialists.

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