A Southeastern ( train operating company ) | Southeastern commuter train at Slade Green railway station | Slade Green in South London | South East London, England, running a service to London Cannon Street.

In his 1341 poem, The Iron Cannon Affair, one of the first accounts of the use of gunpowder artillery in China, Xian Zhang wrote that a cannonball fired from an eruptor could " pierce the heart or belly when it strikes a man or horse, and can even transfix several persons at once.

Cannon were used by Ming dynasty forces at the Battle of Lake Poyang.

Sunset at Cannon Point

Cannon forged in 1667 at the Fortín de La Galera, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela.

When Cannon supporters proved difficult to find ( many of the staunchest were Irish and spent the day at various St. Patrick's Day celebrations ), the filibuster continued for 26 hours, with Cannon's present friends making repeated motions for recess and adjournment.

When Cannon finally ruled the resolution out of order at noon on March 19, Norris appealed the resolution to the full House, which voted to overrule Cannon, and then to adopt the Norris resolution.

Cannon declined to run in the 1922 Congressional election, and retired at the end of his last term in 1923 ; he was featured on the cover of the first issue of Time magazine on the last day of his last term in office.

Cannon died at noon on November 12, 1926 while in a deep sleep.

Annie Jump Cannon and Edward C. Pickering at Harvard College Observatory developed a method of categorization that became known as the Harvard Classification Scheme, published in the Harvard Annals in 1901.

The catalogue was compiled by Annie Jump Cannon and her co-workers at Harvard College Observatory under the supervision of Edward Charles Pickering, and was named in honour of Henry Draper, whose widow donated the money required to finance it.

Heinlein's original title for the novel was The Brass Cannon, replaced with the final title at the publisher's request.

The song's success brought Cannon himself back into the Stax Records studios in Memphis for his last recording that same year at age 79.

Historian Michael Cannon claims that " In September 1855 she performed her erotic Spider Dance at the Theatre Royal in Melbourne, raising her skirts so high that the audience could see she wore no underclothing at all " ( actually a salacious and unfounded rumour ).

Cannon on display at The Battery ( Charleston ) | The Battery in downtown Charleston

Cannon at Hydra.

* Phase 2 would have extended the line along Fleet Street to stations at Aldwych, Ludgate Circus, Cannon Street and Fenchurch Street.

Passenger trains at the station are operated by Southeastern and there are services to the central London terminals at Cannon Street, Charing Cross, Victoria station and London Bridge.

Russian Cannon from Crimean War, located at Welling Corner

Welling railway station is close to Central Avenue at the western edge of the town centre and offers direct rail links to London Bridge, Charing Cross, Victoria and Cannon Street Stations in Central London, and to Dartford and other towns in North Kent.

It is at high risk of being ruined by development in the towns of Airlie Beach Cannonvale and Cannon Valley.

* Morny Cannon – Matchmaker ( 1895 ), Shaddock ( 1896 ), Manners ( 1899 ), Simon Dale ( 1900 ), Rydal Head ( 1904 ), Plum Centre ( 1905 )

* Morny Cannon – St Simon of the Rock ( 1891 ), Matchmaker ( 1895 ), Conroy ( 1896 ), Frontier ( 1899 ), Osboch ( 1901 ), Flying Lemur ( 1902 ), Darley Dale ( 1904 )

Ernie Piggott rode three Grand National winners, in 1912, 1918 and 1919 and was married to a sister of the jockeys Mornington Cannon and Kempton Cannon, who both rode winners of the Derby, in 1899 and 1904 respectively.

A rewritten version by William Kindt appeared in 1904 under the title " Wabash Cannon Ball ".

Joseph Gurney Cannon ( May 7, 1836 – November 12, 1926 ) was a United States politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party.

Cannon is the second-longest continuously serving Republican Speaker in history, having been surpassed by fellow Illinoisan Dennis Hastert, who passed him on June 1, 2006.

Cannon is also ( still ) the longest serving Republican House of Representatives member ever, the second longest serving Republican member of congress ever, as well as first member of congress, of either party, ever to surpass 40 years of service ( non-consecutive ), ending his career with 46 years of cumulative congressional service, a record that held until 1959.

Cannon, a member of the Republican Party, was elected as to the United States House of Representatives from Illinois to the Forty-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses ( March 4, 1873 – March 4, 1891 ), and was the chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department ( Forty-seventh Congress ), Committee on Appropriations ( Fifty-first Congress ).

" Uncle Joe ", as he was known, often clashed with fellow Republican Theodore Roosevelt, who Cannon remarked had " no more use for the Constitution than a tomcat has for a marriage license ".

Cannon managed to save some face by promptly requesting a vote to remove him as Speaker, which he won handily since the Republican majority would not risk a Democratic speaker replacing him.

The Speakership reached its apogee during the term of Republican Joseph Gurney Cannon ( 1903 – 1911 ).

The PAC was noted for targeting incumbent Congressman Chris Cannon in the 2006 Republican primary.

Robert Cannon " Robin " Hayes ( born August 14, 1945 ) is the current chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party.

Cannon ensured his selection as the Republican whip, trusted him with party strategy in the House of Representatives, and placed him on the powerful Ways and Means Committee.

He resumed a private law practice in Rushville, though he continued to participate in Washington politics, supporting Cannon after House Democrats and Republican " insurgents " attempted to oust the speaker in 1909.

Christopher Black " Chris " Cannon ( born October 20, 1950 ) was a member of the United States House of Representatives, for the Republican Party, representing the third district of Utah from 1997-2009.

In 1899, he ran for the Senate as the Democratic candidate against Republican incumbent Frank J. Cannon and several other candidates.

In December 2002, African American physician Dr. Jesse Cannon, a Republican and Naifeh's personal physician, announced that he would oppose Naifeh in 2004.

Incumbents Howard Cannon of Nevada and Harrison Schmitt of New Mexico lost seats to the opposite party, the open seat in Virginia that had been held by independent Harry F. Byrd, Jr. was taken by a Republican, and the open seat in New Jersey that was held by an appointed Republican was taken by a Democrat.

He was also the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Appropriations during the period of Democratic control, but when Republicans returned to control of the House after the 1894 elections, Speaker Reed departed with tradition by returning the chairmanship to Joseph Gurney Cannon, who had served more nonconsecutive terms in the House and would have outranked Henderson had Cannon not lost his House seat for two years.

* 1896 – Frank J. Cannon, While US Senator from Utah switched to Silver Republican Party.

In a close race in Nevada, Democratic incumbent Howard Cannon won reelection over Republican Lieutenant Governor Paul Laxalt by fewer than 100 votes.

In 1956, Cannon ran for the United States House of Representatives to succeed Republican incumbent Clarence Clifton Young, who ran for the U. S. Senate, but lost the Democratic primary to former Congressman Walter Baring, who then won the general election.

In 1958, he was elected to the United States Senate, unseating Republican Senator Ernest Malone with 58 % of the vote .. Cannon was nearly defeated in his first re-election bid in 1964, holding off Republican Lieutenant Governor Paul Laxalt in one of the closest Senate elections ever.