The particles were never observed to rise above 6 km and when combined with scavenging by clouds gave the smoke a short residency time in the atmosphere and localized its effects ; Professor Carl Sagan of the Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, Sagan ( TTAPS ) study hypothesized in January 1991 that enough smoke from the fires " might get so high as to disrupt agriculture in much of South Asia ...." Sagan later conceded in his book The Demon-Haunted World that this prediction did not turn out to be correct: " it was pitch black at noon and temperatures dropped 4 °– 6 ° C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared.

This gave rise to the theory that nunchaku were originally developed from an Okinawan horse bit ( muge ), or that nunchaku were adapted from a wooden clapper called hyoshiki carried by the village night watch ; made of two blocks of wood joined by cord, the night watch would hit the blocks of wood together to attract people's attention and then warn them about fires and other dangers.

With the government nearly bankrupt, and series of devastating structural fires that swept through the downtown area and nearly took down every high rise the city had so feverishly built, the city was nearly destroyed.

In the US, sprinklers are today required in all new high rise and underground buildings generally above or below fire department access, where the ability of firefighters to provide adequate hose streams to fires is limited.

In addition to responding to building types that range from wood-frame single family homes to high-rise structures, there are the many bridges and tunnels, large parks and wooded areas that can give rise to major brush fires, and one of the largest subway systems in the world.

Following several large fires in 1866 which resulted in excessive fire losses and a rise in insurance rates, the fire department was reorganized under the command of General Alexander Shaler, and with military discipline the paid department reached its full potential which resulted in a general reduction in fire losses.

# The rise of risks such as hackers, natural disasters, fires, damage by power outages, malware attacks, terrorist attacks, hardware failure.

It brought about the decision to clear the 30, 000 square metres of land in order to keep future fires from getting into inner Tokyo city.

Bundaberg rum was first produced in 1888, production ceased from 1907 to 1914 and from 1936 to 1939 after fires, the second of which caused rum from the factory to spill into the nearby Burnett River.

Forest fires release absorbed carbon back into the atmosphere, as does deforestation due to rapidly increased oxidation of soil organic matter.

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.

A rifle is so named for the spiral fluting carved into the inner surface of its barrel, which imparts a self-stabilizing spin to the single bullets it fires.

" William McKinley | President McKinley fires a cannon into the Imperialist Strawman ", cartoon by W. A.

Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.

* 1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.

* 1886 – The Bay View Tragedy: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing seven.

* 1987 – An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U. S. Navy warship, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.

The husk was made into art crafts, and the cob was used as fuel for fires.

Native Americans used controlled fires to burn weeds and clear fields ; this would put nutrients back into the ground.

The nuclear winter scenario predicts that the huge fires caused by nuclear explosions ( from burning urban areas ) would loft massive amounts of dense smoke from the fires, into the upper troposphere / stratosphere.

The computer-modeling study looked at a nuclear war between the two countries involving 50 Hiroshima-sized nuclear devices on each side, producing massive urban fires and lofting as much as five million metric tons of soot about into the stratosphere.

The 2007 study discussed above noted that modern computer models have been applied to the Kuwait oil fires, finding that individual smoke plumes are not able to loft smoke into the stratosphere, but that smoke from fires covering a large area like some forest fires can lift smoke into the stratosphere, and this is supported by recent evidence that it occurs far more often than previously thought.

Crutzen and Birks showed that smoke injected into the atmosphere by fires in cities, forests and petroleum reserves could prevent up to 99 % of sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface, with major climatic consequences: " The normal dynamic and temperature structure of the atmosphere would therefore change considerably over a large fraction of the Northern Hemisphere, which will probably lead to important changes in land surface temperatures and wind systems.

The British HMS Sandwich ( 1759 ) | HMS Sandwich fires to the French flagship French ship Bucentaure ( 1803 ) | Bucentaure ( completely dismasted ) into battle off Battle of Trafalgar | Trafalgar.

As the jets approach, Darrow is killed when Goodspeed fires the last disarmed rocket into him, launching the Marine outside where he falls and is impaled on a fencepost.

Goodspeed then lights green flares to signal that the threat is over, but only after one of the pilots fires, sending Goodspeed flying into the sea.

::* because swift currents of ether ... whirl round and round and roll their fires at large across the nocturnal regions of the sky.

The sines: The Progenitors, twins ; Ursa Major, twins, the Vedas ; the gods, fires, six ; flavors, dice, the gods ; the moon, five, the sky, the moon ; the moon, arrows, suns [...]

Legend has it that upon his rendition of a night-time raga in the morning, the entire city fell under a hush and clouds gathered in the sky, and that he could light fires by singing the raga " Deepak ", which is supposed to be composed of notes in high octaves.

The engraving depicts a man, clothed in a long robe and carrying a staff, who kneels down and passes his head, shoulders, and right arm through a gap between the starry sky and the earth, discovering a marvellous realm of circling clouds, fires and suns beyond the heavens.

Then, Milfia fires off an incredibly condensed ball of electricity, which can be controlled to move vandels hundreds of feet into the sky.

At the graves of the dead, they kept fires burning for some days to scare away evil spirits, and, during storms and eclipses, arrows were shot into the sky to drive away demons.

The temple cult is an even later development: From Herodotus it is known that in the mid-5th century BCE the Zoroastrians worshipped to the open sky, ascending mounds to light their fires ( The Histories, i. 131 ).

Just as the Royal Navy helicopter drops the bomb down its rear loading-ramp, ffolkes fires his signal flare into the sky and the helicopter pilot pulls away just in time so that the bomb falls down away from " Esther ".

Godzilla then fires his atomic ray at a nearby Ferris wheel and attempts to collapse it onto Mothra and crush her.

Geirröth then had him tortured to force him to speak, putting him between two fires for eight nights.

The player then defines it as a " jet of fire ," with all that implies: it has the possibility of starting secondary fires ; it looks, smells and sounds like a jet of fire ; etc.

In contrast, with a self-cocking revolver, one long squeeze of the trigger pulls back the hammer and revolves the cylinder then finally fires the shot.

In Taoism, Hanshi and the spring Hanshi festival were when fires were not used and then relit.

The Major says what a privilege it was serving with Hummel, then fires at the three rogues.

The Storm Creek fire expands into the park, then merges with dozens of other drought-inspired fires.

Then, at 5: 13 a. m. April 18, 1906, the earthquake hits and then the fires erupt.

The driver fires over a Helmholtz resonance | Helmholtz resonator then exits through long ports.

The second rule states that if one cause is assigned to a natural effect, then the same cause so far as possible must be assigned to natural effects of the same kind: for example respiration in humans and in animals, fires in the home and in the Sun, or the reflection of light whether it occurs terrestrially or from the planets.

The player fires balls into the machine, which then cascade down through a dense forest of pins.

After he repented, he wept for 7, 000 years, his tears filling seven jars, which then quenched the fires of hell.

The older boys are upset to see the four friends, and during an argument, Chris pulls a gun belonging to his father from his bag back, that he took from his home and fires into the air and then threatens Ace, the leader of the gang.

Parker fires two shots as he falls to the ground, the bullets ricocheting into the crowd, then tries and fails to say " bastard " before dying.

They also made sorties to set fires, burning 100 houses in the town, and then firing on anyone attempting to put out the flames.

When Nick is introduced into the game he instead grabs the gun, fires it at the current contestant and then again at his own temple, causing the audience to riot in protest.

" On leaving the stand, Macy questions Sawyer whether he got his psychology degree from a correspondence school, then fires him.

This is a translation of the traditional Latin oath ( the original version of which did not forbid tobacco smoking, though libraries were then unheated because fires were so hazardous ).

The solenoid-operated hammer then fires, driving the character type on to the ribbon and paper to print the character on the paper.

To irrigate " Eagar ", even though it was not called that at the time, he had no dynamite, so the Mormons in the area had to heat basalt volcanic rocks with fires, bring cold water from the river to pour over the hot rocks to break them, then drag the smaller rocks to the river to dam the river and create the Greer Lakes.

He reported seeing huts, old camp fires but stated that the tribes had moved on, only to see an occasional " red man " appear and look over old camp sites and burial sites then move on.

The boy tosses up his bottle and tries to shoot it, then fires off two more rounds before the gun missfires.