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The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are unexploded. The title should refer to unexploded-bomb hunters; that is, the unexploded refers to bombs, not hunters.
The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are unexploded. The title should refer to unexploded-bomb hunters; that is, the unexploded refers to bombs, not hunters.
the use of an en-dash rather than a regular hyphen implies that these unexploded hunters are in particular looking for unexploded bombs see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En-dash#Attributive_compounds
Those old bombs are still around in Germany (unsurprisingly). This was a controlled explosion of one in munich 2012: https://youtu.be/idF3Nq11BcM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge:
“Each year, several tons of unexploded shells are recovered. According to the Sécurité Civile agency in charge, at the current rate 300 to 700 more years will be needed to clean the area completely. Some experiments conducted in 2005–06 discovered up to 300 shells per hectare (120 per acre) in the top 15 cm (6 inches) of soil in the worst areas.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_harvest:
“The iron harvest (French: récolte de fer) is the annual "harvest" of unexploded ordnance, barbed wire, shrapnel, bullets and congruent trench supports collected by Belgian and French farmers after ploughing their fields. The harvest generally applies to the material from the First World War, which is still found in large quantities across the former Western Front.”
These also fairly frequently include unexplored poison gas shells.
Belgium als still has a few big mines with thousands of kilograms of explosives near Messines that may one day go boom. One of them did in 1955 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mines_in_the_Battle_of_Messine...)
Those old bombs are still around in Germany (unsurprisingly). This was a controlled explosion of one in munich 2012: https://youtu.be/idF3Nq11BcM
This is particularly exciting when they find one near a major train station, like in Nuremberg about six or seven years ago, especially midday or afternoon…
They’ll be finding those things for the rest of my toddler’s life.
The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are unexploded. The title should refer to unexploded-bomb hunters; that is, the unexploded refers to bombs, not hunters.
I suppose tagging along with an exploded bomb-hunter is generally only applicable in the past tense.
Those old bombs are still around in Germany (unsurprisingly). This was a controlled explosion of one in munich 2012: https://youtu.be/idF3Nq11BcM
Those old bombs are still around in Germany (unsurprisingly). This was a controlled explosion of one in munich 2012: https://youtu.be/idF3Nq11BcM
Those old bombs are still around in Germany (unsurprisingly). This was a controlled explosion of one in munich 2012: https://youtu.be/idF3Nq11BcM
There also still are many, many unexploded projectiles dating back to World War One. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Rouge : “Each year, several tons of unexploded shells are recovered. According to the Sécurité Civile agency in charge, at the current rate 300 to 700 more years will be needed to clean the area completely. Some experiments conducted in 2005–06 discovered up to 300 shells per hectare (120 per acre)…