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In this episode, we explore the Mongol army’s early use of gunpowder technology and how it shaped battlefield tactics under Genghis Khan. While often remembered for their horse archers and ...

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During their deliberations, the only indications of their progress are the regular plumes of smoke wafting from a freshly installed chimney perched on the roof of the Sistine Chapel. Tradition ...

Here puffs of black smoke mark voting rounds that fail to converge on a winner until the cardinals announce that they have come to an agreement by releasing a plume of white smoke, the dramatic ...

From this simple metal tube will emerge the long-awaited white smoke that will announce the election of the new pope. Black smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney Wednesday evening to the ...

In a tradition that scholars date to the 19th century, smoke released from a chimney will be colored white if the cardinals have made a decision, or black if they remain deadlocked. By Elisabetta ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. EA and developer DICE have been running playtests for the next Battlefield game for several months, but we still don't know much about what's to come.

Outside the conclave, people can only see the smoke rising from the chapel's chimney — the sole form of communication between the conclave and the outside world. There are multiple voting rounds ...

With no direct communication to the outside world, a key feature of the papal election process is the use of smoke to signal the result of ballots and to announce the election of a new pope.

Black smoke rising from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday and again Thursday morning indicated that a new pope had not yet been chosen to replace Pope Francis. Using smoke to communicate to ...