Mortar

Mortar may refer to:

  • Mortar (weapon), an indirect-fire cannon
  • Mortar (masonry), a material used to fill the gaps between blocks and bind them together
  • Mortar and pestle, a tool pair used to crush or grind
  • Mortar, Bihar, village in the state of Bihar, India
  • See also

  • Mortar methods, discretization methods for partial differential equations
  • Mortarboard, a type of headwear worn as part of academic dress
  • Mortar (weapon)

    A mortar is a device that fires projectiles at low velocities and short ranges. The mortar has traditionally been used as a weapon to propel explosive mortar bombs in high-arcing ballistic trajectories. The weapon is typically muzzle-loading with a short, often smooth-bore barrel, generally less than 15 times its caliber. Mortar bombs are often referred to, incorrectly, as "mortars".

    Mortars are also used for a non-weapon purpose, to deploy ballistic parachutes. Such applications have included the deployment of drogue parachutes in preparation for water landing of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space capsules.

    History

    Origins

    Mortars have been used for hundreds of years, originally in siege warfare. Many historians consider the first mortars to have been used at the 1453 siege of Constantinople by Fatih Sultan Mehmed. A European account of the 1456 siege of Belgrade by Giovanni da Tagliacozzo said that the Ottoman Turks used seven mortars that fired "stone shots one Italian mile high". The time of flight of these was apparently long enough that casualties could be avoided by posting observers to give warning of their trajectories.

    Mortar, Bihar

    Mortar is a village located in Garhpura block of Begusarai district in Bihar. It comes under Malipur panchayat and under post office Malilpur. The nearest Police station is located at Garhpura. PIN-848204

    The village contains a Primary and a High school which are run by Bihar government. A model school is under construction. The students also go to nearby villages in some central or private schools.

    Demographics

    The total population of the village is 1509 (763 male and 746 female).

    Mortar durge puja samiti


    The most awaited and enthusiastic festival among the people of Mortar village and neighboring areas is Durga puja. A durge puja samiti looks after the arrangements made in the village in this festival. A mela is organised every year in the school ground. An idol of Goddess durga is made in the village and people gather together to celebrate this festival. Sweets are bought, new clothes are worn, people offer their praying and different types of games, events and functions are organised. One such event is Kushti that attracts lot of people from different areas.

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    Angels never cry
    Staying dumb within their wings
    Vacant in the light
    Hollow melting wax
    Devils shit at my feet
    In sweaters like toy dogs
    They dodge all of my my kicks
    And laughing they remain alive
    Thunder on the overpass
    Knowing these feelings will pass
    I won't fall tonight
    Three girls follow me
    Holding a ball of twine
    Two want to string me up
    One wants to cut me down
    Waste from above anoints me
    Caresses my smiling mouth and
    Flows into my wide eyes
    Reminding me that i'm still alive
    Freedom when the power fails
    Watching you all disappear
    I won't fall tonight




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