Ibn Sahl's 984 treatise On Burning Mirrors and Lenses sets out his understanding of how curved mirrors and lenses bend and focus light.

About 984 he wrote a treatise On Burning Mirrors and Lenses in which he set out his understanding of how curved mirrors and lenses bend and focus light.

The CTCA distributed a khaki-bound songbook that provided the impetus for spirited renditions of the selections found therein, plus a number of others whose lyrics were more earthy -- from `` Johnny Get Your Gun '' to `` Keep The Home Fires Burning '' to `` Mademoiselle From Armentieres ''.

The Kirkintilloch Burning Disaster in 1937 fulfilled the second part of the prophecy, when the bodies of ten victims were carried by rail to Achill.

Image: Hundreds of Thousands of Acres Burning in Interior Alaska ( natural ). jpg | The thick pall of smoke the fires were creating ( August 2, 2009 ).

Parabolic mirrors were described and studied in classical antiquity by the mathematician Diocles in his work On Burning Mirrors.

Notable omissions from this release were the singles " Don't Stop the Music " and " Keep This Fire Burning ".

Arthas and Kel ' Thuzad were cast aside by Archimonde, and Kel ' Thuzad reveals to Arthas the Lich King has already foreseen it and is planning to overthrow the Burning Legion.

Rodney was born in Saint Ann's Bay, Saint Ann, Jamaica, as were reggae singer Bob Marley and political activist Marcus Garvey who both had a great influence on Rodney's life: Garvey in his philosophy, which Burning Spear greatly took to, and Marley in directly helping Burning Spear get started in the music industry ( by some accounts ) by introducing him to Clement Dodd.

Scenes from the movie Mississippi Burning were filmed at the Chambers County Courthouse and in downtown LaFayette.

Burning propane rained down on everything in the vicinity, and the remnants of the rail car were propelled over a quarter mile from the explosion site.

In 2008, restaurant scenes from The Burning Plain were filmed in Depoe Bay, at the Tidal Raves restaurant.

On May 27 – 31, 2010 a campground outside of Cameron hosted the Burning Flipside festival which brought over 2400 campers through Cameron who were encouraged to contribute to the Milam County economy by purchasing provisions within Cameron.

Containing such songs as the proto-punk classics " Kick Out the Jams " and " Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa ", the spaced-out " Starship " ( co-credited to Sun Ra because the lyrics were partly cribbed from one of Ra's poems ), and an extended cover of John Lee Hooker's " Motor City is Burning " wherein Tyner praises the role of Black Panther snipers during the Detroit Insurrection of 1967.

Australian Top Ten singles were " Power and the Passion ", " The Dead Heart ", " Beds Are Burning " and " Blue Sky Mine ".

Aside from chart success, both " Power and the Passion " and " Beds Are Burning " were listed by Australasian Performing Right Association ( APRA ) in the Top 30 best Australian songs of all time in 2001.

Two of the Jerry Cornelius / Entropy Tango tracks were reworked with additional musicians and appeared on the Spirits Burning CD Alien Injection, also released in 2008.

The following year they were signed to Burning Heart, a Swedish skate punk record label.

This led to a dispute between The Hives and Burning Heart, who claimed that The Hives were still contracted to them for one more album.

Some key organizers of Burning Man were also part of Desert Siteworks ( John Law, Michael Mikel ) and William Binzen was friends with of Larry Harvey.

Corporate appraisers were brought in to determine how much the company was worth, which Larry Harvey found " abhorrent " and against all of the values that Burning Man stood for.

Burning at the stake was eliminated except in cases of witchcraft that were also petty treason ; most convicted were hanged instead.

Patriotic music hall compositions like Keep the Home Fires Burning ( 1914 ), Pack up Your Troubles ( 1915 ), It's a Long Way to Tipperary ( 1914 ) and We Don't Want to Lose You ( but we think you ought to Go ), were sung by music hall audiences, and sometimes by soldiers in the trenches.

Three tracks were released as singles: " Freewheel Burning ", " Some Heads Are Gonna Roll " and " Love Bites ".

Burning can also be used to prevent second dealing.

Burning at the stake had long been a standard punishment for heresy — about thirty burnings had taken place in the century before More's elevation to Chancellor, and burning continued to be used by both Catholics and Protestants during the religious upheaval of the following decades.

Although named after Dutch astronomer Willebrord Snellius ( 1580 – 1626 ), the law was first accurately described by the Arab scientist Ibn Sahl at Baghdad court, when in 984 he used the law to derive lens shapes that focus light with no geometric aberrations in the manuscript On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 984 ).

In late 1976, Rodney split from both Ruby and group members Willington and Hinds, and from that point on used the name Burning Spear for himself alone.

It is called Burning Mountain and appears to have been used by the Apache for healing purposes.

Burning was used as a means of execution in many ancient societies.

Burning was also used by Roman Catholics and Protestants during the witch-hunts of Europe.

In the 1950s and early 1960s the town always had an after holiday celebration, ( The Holiday Tree Burning ) it was the burning of their used Christmas trees.

I was also able to create Burning Love Breakdown from scratch to be used as a B side and in the expanded 12 ” version of the song.

In Reparation for which we have Condemned her to make honourable amends Disrobed, a Noose around her Neck, and carrying In her hands a flaming torch weighing two pounds before the main door and Entrance of the parish Church of This city where She will be taken And Led, by the executioner of the high Court, in a Tumbrel used for garbage, with an Inscription Front And Back, with the word, Incendiary, And there, bare-headed, And On her Knees, will declare that She maliciously set the fire And Caused the Said Burning, for which She repents And Asks Forgiveness from the Crown And Court, and this done, will have her fist Severed On a stake Erected in front of the Said Church.

The British had used their victories at the Battle of Bladensburg and the Burning of Washington to counter any U. S. demands during the peace negotiations up to this point.

During the War of 1812 the house was used as both a hospital and Officer's Quarters, therefore it survived the Burning on Newark in December 1813.

Many of the core values of Burning Flipside are borrowed from Burning Man, and the same short, memorable terms are used for them, namely :< ref name =" CNET_2006 "> Terdiman, Daniel.

The name Llareggub was first used by Dylan Thomas in a short story The Burning Baby published in 1936.

A merkin used at Burning Man

Benjamin Britten used it to great effect in many of his compositions, including parts of the War Requiem and especially his three Church Parables: Curlew River, The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son.

Tilbury Fort was used as a location for Sharpe's Regiment, starring Sean Bean ; an episode of London's Burning ( a fireman drama show ) was shot in the old fire station in Civic Square ; and a scene from an episode of James Nesbitt's Murphy's Law was filmed at Tilbury Docks ' Cruise Terminal.

These colors are used in the institutional seal and other symbols of each faculty, in the university ceremonies conferring doctorate degrees, and are also used by the students in their ribbons related with the academic traditions ( see Queima das Fitas ( The Burning of the Ribbons )).

*" Burning Love " was used as a wake-up song on the space shuttle mission STS-123.

Curb organized his own musical group, The Mike Curb Congregation in the 1960s ; they had a Top 40 pop hit in early 1971 with the title cut from their album Burning Bridges ( written and composed by Lalo Schifrin and Mike Curb ) which was used as the theme of Clint Eastwood's film Kelly's Heroes.

The setting was later used as a backdrop for a series of full-length novels, The Burning City ( 2000 ) and its sequel, Burning Tower ( 2005 ), which were co-written with Jerry Pournelle.