In firing for effect you may have the shells explode at a particular height above the ground so as to have to strongest psychological effect, or you may deliberately fire at a low angle to have the explosion spread at ground level and take legs off at the kneecaps.
United States Kewanee. The worldÂ´s largest fine for an overdue library book is $345.14 (Â£203.29), the amount owed at two cents a day for the poetry book Days and Deeds checked out of Kewanee Public Library, Illinois, USA in April 1955 by Emily Canellos-Simms.
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth has 1,349 pages and approximately 3,374,000 characters. It's claimed to be the longest single volume novel ever published in English. Before Seth's novel, others turned to Samuel Richardson's Clarissa as the longest novel with over a million words (and about 5,500,000 characters).