Heimdallr is attested as possessing foreknowledge, keen eyesight and hearing, is described as " the whitest of the gods ", and keeps watch for the onset of Ragnarök while drinking fine mead in his dwelling Himinbjörg, located where the burning rainbow bridge Bifröst meets heaven.

The cosmic flames are a literal punctuation to the Phoenix's purpose to " burn away what doesn't work ", as well as being described as " burning through lies " and deception.

President Barack Obama strongly condemned both the Quran burning, calling it an act of " extreme intolerance and bigotry ", and the " outrageous " attacks by protesters, referring to them as " an affront to human decency and dignity.

The Force is composed of the psionic energy from all living beings, past, present and future, and is sometimes referred to as an embodiment of rebirth and destructive transformation through " burning away what doesn't work ", and helped to restart the universe before the Big Bang.

In 984, the Persian mathematician Ibn Sahl wrote the treatise " On burning mirrors and lenses ", correctly describing a law of refraction equivalent to Snell's law.

The phlogiston theory ( from the Ancient Greek φλογιστόν phlogistón " burning up ", from φλόξ phlóx " flame "), first stated in 1667 by Johann Joachim Becher, is an obsolete scientific theory that postulated the existence of a fire-like element called " phlogiston ", which was contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion.

The residue of air left after burning, in fact a mixture of nitrogen and carbon dioxide, was sometimes referred to as " phlogisticated air ", having taken up all of the phlogiston.

alt = A caricature showing the world in flames, people hanged in the background, people burning and attacking a crucifix, a sign reading " No Christianity, No Religion, No King ", and scores of people standing upside down.

Nietzsche himself would meditate after the Commune on the " fight against culture ", taking as example the intentional burning of the Tuileries Palace on May 23, 1871.

After the burning of the Tuileries Palace on May 23, 1871, Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche himself meditated about the " fight against culture ", wondering what could justify culture if it were to be destroyed in such a " senseless " manner ( the arguments are: culture is justified by works of art and scientific achievements ; exploitation is necessary to those achievements, leading to the creation of exploited people who then fight against culture.

* Charmed (" Morality Bites ", 1999 ) Phoebe Halliwell is executed on February 26 by burning at the stake for murdering a man with her powers.

After, residents head into the streets for the burning of the " Carnival clown ", signaling the end of the Carnival.

As the islanders surround the burning wicker man and sing the Middle English folk-song " Sumer Is Icumen In ", a terrified Howie curses them and recites Psalm 23 as he prays to God for accession to Heaven.

The site is held sacred by Christians, Jews and Muslims ; the name of the area, is el-Muhraqa, an Arabic construction meaning " place of burning ", and is a direct reference to the biblical account.

The lyrics, which speak of " castles burning ", can be seen as a metaphor for Lester's view of Angela —" the rosy, fantasy-driven exterior of the ' American Beauty — as it burns away to reveal " the timid, small-breasted girl who, like his wife, has willfully developed a false public self ".

Ways to check carburetor mixture adjustment include: measuring the carbon monoxide, hydrocarbon, and oxygen content of the exhaust using a gas analyzer, or directly viewing the colour of the flame in the combustion chamber through a special glass-bodied spark plug sold under the name " Colortune "; the flame colour of stoichiometric burning is described as a " bunsen blue ", turning to yellow if the mixture is rich and whitish-blue if too lean.

Puffballs were traditionally used in Tibet for making ink by burning them, grinding the ash, then putting them in water and adding glue liquid and " a nye shing ma decoction ", which, when pressed for a long time, made a very black dark substance which was used as ink.

* In the 2005 film Kingdom of Heaven, Orlando Bloom's character Balian utters the line " A spark and a creosote bush, there is your Moses, there is your religion ", suggesting that the burning bush in the Bible was a simple creosote bush being sparked by a thrown rock.

Phlogiston, classified as " matter of fire ", was supposed to be released from any burning material, and when it was exhausted, combustion would stop.

Tromp, a " sea hero ", was immensely popular with the common people, a sentiment expressed by the greatest of Dutch poets, Joost van den Vondel in a famous poem describing his marble grave monument in Delft showing the admiral on his moment of death with a burning British fleet on the foreground:

The Cross is referred to in Daniel Defoe's a " Tour through the whole island of Great Britain ", where he reports on the Great Fire of Northampton in 1675, "... a townsman being at Queen's Cross upon a hill on the south side of the town, about two miles off, saw the fire at one end of the town then newly begun, and that before he could get to the town it was burning at the remotest end, opposite where he first saw it.

First attested in English in late 14th century, the word scar derives from Old French escharre, from Late Latin eschara, which is the latinisation of the Greek ἐσχάρα ( eskhara ), meaning " hearth, fireplace ", but in medicine " scab, eschar on a wound caused by burning or otherwise ".

The ancient Greek word aithôn means " burning ", " blazing " or " shining.

For example, while burning an area of fairly thick forest and thus turning it into a more open, grassy environment might reduce the viability of a large browser ( an animal that eats leaves and shoots rather than grasses ), the reverse could also be true: removing the browsing animals ( by eating them, or by any other means ) within a few years produces a very thick undergrowth which, when a fire eventually starts through natural causes ( as fires tend to do every few hundred years ), burns with greater than usual ferocity.

The weather preceding and during the smog meant that Londoners were burning more coal than usual to keep warm.

As usual, however, the device quickly goes haywire, burning Carl's hair in the process.

Union leaders and Opposition politicians joined them thereafter and Police and crowd engaged in a standoff with occasional outbursts and usual elements of protesting until nightfall, when a few city residents came out and began burning tires on the bridge.

Some of the symptoms of infection by these bacteria are burning sensation when passing urine, the urge to urinate more often than usual, a ' dripping effect ' after urination, weak bladder, a bloated feeling with sharp razor pains in the lower abdomen around the bladder and ovary areas, and razor-like pains during sexual intercourse.

In thermodynamics, the term exothermic (" outside heating ") describes a process or reaction that releases energy from the system, usually in the form of heat, but also in the form of light ( e. g. a spark, flame, or explosion ), electricity ( e. g. a battery ), or sound ( e. g. burning hydrogen ).

At first, the term was used to describe only the burning mixture itself, but in practical use the term was soon applied to the combination of both the bottle and its contents.

* August 9 – Anglo-Powhatan Wars: The English launch a major attack on the Paspahegh village, capturing and executing the native queen and her children, burning houses and chopping down the corn fields ; the subsequent use of the term " Paspahegh " in documents refers to their former territory.

The term " carbuncle " is derived from the Latin meaning " live coal " or burning charcoal.

In California, unlicensed possession of a flame-throwing device — statutorily defined as " any non-stationary and transportable device designed or intended to emit or propel a burning stream of combustible or flammable liquid a distance of at least 10 feet " H & W 12750 ( a )— is a misdemeanor punishable with a county jail term not exceeding one year OR with a fine not exceeding $ 10, 000 ( CA H & W 12761 ).

The term " tapas " is used in the Rig Veda to connote the burning of desires.

" hot liquor " or " burned liquor "), either because of the burning sensation in the mouth during consumption, the fact that they are usually warmed before being consumed, or because of the heating required for distillation ( similar to the etymology of the term " Brandy ").

The term " Portland Cement " was coined by Joseph Aspdin who in 1824 patented a hydraulic binder created by burning a mixture of limestone and clay, resembling the previously existing Roman cement and presenting a texture very close to that of the oolitic Portland stone.

There are ongoing debates between the authority and farmers over the biological monitoring of SSSIs, showing the need for a controlled regime of grazing and burning ; farmers claim that these regimes are not practical or effective in the long term.

Deflagration ( Lat: de + flagrare, " to burn down ") is a term describing subsonic combustion that usually propagates through thermal conductivity ; hot burning material heats the next layer of cold material and ignites it.

Beecher's term at Lane came at a time when a number of burning issues, particularly slavery, threatened to divide the Presbyterian Church, the state of Ohio, and the nation.

Controlled burning reduces fuels, may improve wildlife habitat, controls competing vegetation, improves short term forage for grazing, improves accessibility, helps control tree disease, and perpetuates fire dependent species.

* Sulfur oxide ( SO < sub > x </ sub >)-A general term for oxides of sulfur, which are emitted from motor vehicles burning fuel containing sulfur.

Again, the resistance to Napoleon was “ never a popular, national war .” He states in his book that “ there was no mass participation by the peasantry in the guerilla bands and in their activities, and their part in the campaign was strictly limited .” According to Tarle, “… it is clear that if the Spanish guerilla warfare might justifiably be called a national war, it would be impossible to apply this term to any Russian movement in the war of 1812 .” Tarle supported his interpretation by “ denying that the peasants fought against the French and describing the burning of Smolensk and Moscow as systematic acts of the Russian army in retreat .” Naturally, Tarle also gave references to Lenin ’ s words on Napoleon in his book.

Because the revolution's impetus came from the burning of Jan Hus, for the purpose of simplicity, many writers have put most of these sects under one umbrella term calling them the " Hussites ".

The sentence " Den Coninck van Hispaengien heb ick altijt gheeert " in the 1st stanza of the Dutch national hymn Het Wilhelmus (" To the King of Spain I always paid my respect ") refers to the initial loyalty of these three leading figures of the Dutch Revolt, the Counts of Hoorne and Egmont and the Prince of Orange, to Philip II and their claim that they merely objected against some hardships of the Spanish rule over The Netherlands as executed by Philips ' emissaries, especially concerning the taxation and the merciless and cruel religious prosecutions, in the form of hanging and burning of protestants by the Spanish Inquisition, the latter being a human rights issue before this term was coined in the 18th Century.

Also, if the nuclear burning is not stable, or the star's core is rapidly collapsing, an entropy term must be added to the energy equation.

The term candlepower was originally defined in England by the Metropolitan Gas Act 1860 as the light produced by a pure spermaceti candle weighing one sixth of a pound and burning at a rate of 120 grains per hour.

The terms mean " fiery water " or " burning water "; a similar English-based term is the slang " firewater ".

The word " kretek " itself is an onomatopoetic term for the crackling sound of burning cloves.

Blue water gas is a term used for water gas produced from clean burning fuels such as anthracite, coke and charcoal and produces a blue flame.

The term for this is " bride burning " and is criticized within India itself.

A thermogenic is a broad term for any supplement that the manufacturer claims will cause thermogenesis, resulting in increased body temperature, increased metabolic rate, and consequently an increased rate in the burning of body fat and weight loss.