How did little towns in the provinces of New Brunswick and Québec, the German state of Hesse, coxswains in New York, a Brazilian beverage maker, Motorola carbon nanotubes, artisanal bagels, and an English steel foundry famous for casting church bells all come together to help kill an ISIS fighter in Mosul in 2017 with the longest sniper shot ever recorded? Let’s track backwards from the kill shot to tell some of the wider story.