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fire and rod
Perhaps the most famous story of ball lightning unfolded when 18th-century physicist Georg Wilhelm Richmann installed a lightning rod in his home and was struck in the head – and killed – by a " pale blue ball of fire.
The smith in the middle uses a heated metal rod he has removed from a fire and places it on the anvil.
After several blows the metal rod is returned to the fire.
Papin describes first pouring a small quantity of water into the bottom of a vertical cylinder, inserting a piston on a rod and after first evacuating the air below the piston, placing a fire beneath the cylinder in order to boil the water away and create enough steam pressure to raise the piston to the top end of the cylinder.
The cam was set such that when the propeller was horizontal it pushed on the rod, and the rod in turn pressed the trigger to fire a bullet.
The trigger operated by the pilot pulled the rod into position over the cam, essentially allowing the engine's own rotation to fire the gun.
" Meanwhile Eliot, on the refusal of the speaker to read the Protestations, had himself thrown them into the fire ; the usher of the black rod was knocking at the door for admittance, and the king had sent for the guard.
Formulae passed between the augur and the arfertur ( legum dictio ); warning against noises, interruptions, meddling ; boundaries of the augural templum ; formulae of announcement of the auspices ( conspectio, nuntiatio ); prescriptions applying to the ensuing sacrifice concerning the military rod ( pirsca arsmatia ), the disposition of the pots and the fire.
Citing the Byzantine siphon used for discharging Greek fire as an inspiration, al-Jazari went on to describe the first suction pipes, suction pump, double-action pump, and made early uses of valves and a crankshaft-connecting rod mechanism, when he invented a twin-cylinder reciprocating piston suction pump.
The name, which by an ingenious afterthought is explained as “ the fore thinker ,” is originally the sanskrit pramantha and means “ twirler ” or “ fire-stick ,” being the rod of hard wood which produced fire by rapid rotation in a piece of soft wood .< p > We cannot deny that the myth must have been known also in Mesopotamia, the main center of civilization between India and Greece, and it becomes probable that the figure Sui-Jen has been derived from the same prototype as the Greek Prometheus.
In 1750, Ben Franklin hypothesized that a pointed iron rod would light up at the tip during a lightning storm, similar in appearance to St. Elmo's fire.
* Spindle ( fire making ), a straight wooden rod used in fire making
For safety reasons, JROTC M1903s are made permanently unable to fire by having a metal rod welded into the barrel, or having it filled with lead, soldering the bolt and welding the magazine cutoff switch in the ON position.
With a variant of his gravity rod, he transported them both into the stratosphere where the Mist's doomsday bomb could detonate without harming the city, finishing him quickly and painlessly — with a hero's death by fire.
In the American West, a branding iron consisted of an iron rod with a simple symbol or mark which cowboys heated in a fire.
According to Nowa Technika Wojskowa 2003 March issue, Germany staged a fire test with T-72 against Leopard 2A3s and early A4s, 3BM22 can not penetrated front as close as 500 m, and some Soviet APFSDS with TUNGSTEN rod can perforate it on less than 1 km.
When the arm of the crane moved away from the vessel, the uranium caught fire and the rod broke.
Rotisserie is a style of roasting where meat is skewered on a spit-a long solid rod used to hold food while it is being cooked over a fire in a fireplace or over a campfire, or roasted in an oven.
In the American West, a " branding iron " consisted of an iron rod with a simple symbol or mark, which cowboys heated in a fire.
It would thus be impossible to insert a rod or fire a projectile through the handle holes on the vase, because the physics engine models based on the cylinder and is unaware of the handles.
The cocking rod stays pulled back, with the hammer ready to fire.
* Ferrocerium rod ( AKA " Metal match ", " Hot Spark ", " Firesteel ", " Magnesium fire starter ") and fire striker for fire-starting, Fire piston or Solar Spark Lighter

fire and unleashes
Public Safety Commissioner Eugene " Bull " Connor later unleashes fire hoses and police dogs on the demonstrators.
With this, he unleashes a hellish torrent of fire and missiles reducing any Maximal to ashes.
Public Safety Commissioner Eugene " Bull " Connor later unleashes fire hoses and police dogs on the demonstrators.

fire and fireballs
There was Road, a story about an interstate highway in Minnesota ; a project about Robert Golka, the creator of laser-induced fireballs in Utah ; and the story of Centralia, Pennsylvania, the coal town in which an " inextinguishable subterranean fire " ignited in 1962.
During Hogmanay festivities, the High Street comes alive with crowds watching the annual fireballs ceremony, in which volunteers walking down the High Street swing huge balls of fire around and around at the ends of chains.
Busby died, still in office, aged 89, when it was said that sparks and fireballs were seen coming from the window of his sickroom ; men rushed in to fight the fire, but they found only that the great man had expired.
The target was hit, despite the anti-aircraft fire soon opened against the incoming ' fireballs '.
A programme on Thai television in 2002 demonstrated that the fireballs were produced by tracer fire from soldiers on the Lao side of the river.
When the local fire crew arrived on the scene five minutes after the derailment, fireballs were exploding up to 300 feet ( 90 m ) high that were visible for nearly 13 miles ( 21 km ).
Other weapons include more laser bolts which allows Malvineous to shoot more often, rapid fire, rocks which can be thrown more strategically, and powerful fireballs which make short work of most enemies.
His heat abilities consist of bolts, beams, fireballs and spitting fire.
* Egypt: near the pyramids in the desert, the enemies include fire spitters and mummies ; the boss is a giant genie who spits fireballs.
This phrase is used extensively on film and TV sets by the special effects department whenever setting off effects charges of any nature ( from weapons that fire blanks to a blood squib to huge fireballs ).

fire and whose
A Sterling Township family of six surviving children, whose mother died yesterday as the aftermath to a fire that also killed one of the children, found today they had the help of hundreds of neighbors and school friends.
Broadly, there are two situations: fire against opportunity targets and targets whose engagement is planned as part of a particular operation.
The third, as described by Pindar, was created by the gods Hephaestus and Athena, but its architectural details included Siren-like figures or ' Enchantresses ', whose baneful songs eventually provoked the Olympian gods to bury the temple in the earth ( according to Pausanias, it was destroyed by earthquake and fire ).
He comes from heaven, his “ face flashed with fire and whose appearance was defiled with blood ”.
In commercial fire insurance it is possible to find single properties whose total exposed value is well in excess of any individual insurer's capital constraint.
If the appliance is one whose purpose is for light or heat ( such as an incandescent lightbulb or electric oven ) then the lighting or heating elements may be considered as a type of fire ; if so, then turning them on constitutes both " lighting a fire " ( category 37 ) and " cooking " ( a form of baking, category 11 ), and turning them off would be " extinguishing a fire " ( category 36 ).
This detailed the province of Darok, whose inhabitants worship a mean and nasty god of war and fire.
The word volcano is derived from the name of Vulcano, a volcanic island in the Aeolian Islands of Italy whose name in turn originates from Vulcan, the name of a god of fire in Roman mythology.
Nicholas Stix of Middle American News recounted the mutually contradictory theories that the NTSB had floated immediately following the crash, the statements made by retired fire fighters and police officers who had witnessed the crash, and the history of similar crashes, and concluded that the agency was frantically seeking to calm a public whose faith in commercial aviation had hit rock bottom.
* Dwight L. Moody – 19th century evangelist whose church was burnt down in the fire
This image is often compared with that of a business owner whose profit varies with the success of production and sales, who aims to maximize profit, and who can in an ideal system hire and fire employees at will.
However, it is not reasonable to accept that the whole country was burned down at a time as a result of such an event rather than as a result of a fire bursting from underground whose source has now died out.
Light vehicles such as technicals are often thought to be more mobile than armoured vehicles, but on one occasion an African peace-keeper driving a Grizzly AVGP whose guns had jammed, succeeded in catching up with, ramming and rolling over a fleeing Sudanese technical whilst ignoring the technical's apparently ineffectual heavy machine-gun fire.
A private fire department that charged only those people whose house fire they responded to, would arguably provide a positive externality to the entire community at the expense of an unlucky few who actually had to pay.
Due to the fire, the station broadcast Eyewitness News from a temporary set in the newsroom, while Live with Regis and Kelly, whose set was also affected, moved to the set of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
Early flame weapons date from the Byzantine era, whose inhabitants used rudimentary hand-pumped flamethrowers on board their naval ships in the early 1st century AD ( see Greek fire ).
Friar Marcos de Niza ( 1539 ) writing of the " Chichimecas ": that from time to time " they of this valley cast lots whose luck ( honour ) it shall be to be sacrificed, and they make him great cheer, on whom the lot falls, and with great joy they crown him with flowers upon a bed prepared in the said ditch all full of flowers and sweet herbs, on which they lay him along, and lay great store of dry wood on both sides of him, and set it on fire on either part, and so he dies " and " that the victim took great pleasure " in being sacrificed.
In 1659 a fire devastated most of the town and damaged St Edmund's Church, whose original structure dated from the 12th century.
A blind man, whose name we do not know, was assigned by Ceridwen to stir the cauldron, while Gwion Bach, a young lad, stoked the fire underneath it.
:( 3 ) One of these, Thais by name, herself also drunken, declared that the king would win most favour among all the Greeks, if he should order the palace of the Persians to be set on fire ; that this was expected by those whose cities the barbarians had destroyed.
Other people who have lived in Deptford, range from the First Governor of the Honourable East India Company, and Ambassador to the court of Russia, Sir Thomas Smith, whose magnificent house was destroyed by fire in 1618 ; to early members of the Chartist movement, John Gast and George Julian Harney ; and the Cleveleys, John Cleveley the Elder and his sons John and Robert, a family of marine artists who also worked as tradesmen in the Dockyard.

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