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The first reference to the incendiary properties of such mixtures is the passage of the Zhenyuan miaodao yaolüe, a Taoist text tentatively dated to the mid-9th century AD: " Some have heated together sulfur, realgar and saltpeter with honey ; smoke and flames result, so that their hands and faces have been burnt, and even the whole house where they were working burned down.
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This word was first applied to the imported hot-blooded cattle, but later was more commonly used as reference to a human tenderfoot.
John Henry Newman's autobiography ( first published in 1864 ) is entitled Apologia Pro Vita Sua in reference to this tradition.
The first written reference to the Pilgrims landing on a rock is found 121 years after they landed.
Previously, as related in the first reference cited above, Faraday had used the more straightforward term " eisode " ( the doorway where the current enters ).
There is no reference to instrumental music in the worship of the New Testament or the worship of churches for the first six centuries.
The first significant reference to the influence of Aelian in the 16th century is a letter to Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange from his cousin William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg on December 8, 1594.
The expression " You can't steal first base " is sometimes used in reference to a player who is fast but not very good at getting on base in the first place.
The earliest extant reference to the first foliation of the Nowell Codex was made sometime between 1628 and 1650 by Franciscus Junius ( the younger ).
The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first but also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was " fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits ".
The first written reference is found in a book by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, who is most famous for writing Don Quixote.
* Becher ( meaning first born ), in reference to Joseph being the first child of Rachel
" In a reference to the first known historical Boii, Polybius relates that their wealth consisted of cattle and gold, that they depended on agriculture and war, and that a man's status depended on the number of associates and assistants he had.
GM maize-fed rats were compared first to their respective isogenic or parental non-GM equivalent control groups, followed by comparison to six reference groups, which had consumed various other non-GM maize varieties.
This is the first reference to " the Baltic or Barbarian Sea, a day's journey from Hamburg.
The Big Apple was first popularized as a reference to New York City by John J. Fitz Gerald in a number of New York Morning Telegraph articles in the 1920s in reference to New York horse-racing.
In 1991, BCI published a reference guide containing 2300 vocabulary items and detailed rules for the graphic design of additional characters, so they settled a first set of approved Bliss-words for general use.
The game, first known as crapaud ( a French word meaning " toad " in reference to the original style of play by people crouched over a floor or sidewalk ), reportedly owes its modern popularity to street craps.
The vita of Columba contains a story that has been interpreted as the first reference to the Loch Ness Monster.
* A favorite subject of Edward Gorey, a croquet reference often appeared in the first illustration of his books.
Curling is thought to have been invented in medieval Scotland, with the first written reference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, in February 1541.
Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.
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* 1944 – World War II: Napalm incendiary bombs are dropped for the first time by American P-38 pilots on a fuel depot at Coutances, near Saint-Lô, France.
Improvised incendiary devices were used for the first time in the Spanish Civil War between July 1936 and April 1939, before they became known as " Molotov cocktails ".
On July 17, 1944, napalm incendiary bombs were dropped for the first time by 14 American P-38 Lightning aircraft of the 402d Fighter Squadron / 370th Fighter Group on a fuel depot at Coutances, near St. Lô, France.
* September 9 – WWII: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary devices at Mount Emily, near Brookings, Oregon, in the first of two " Lookout Air Raids ", the first bombing of the continental United States.
Under his leadership, the Lewes bomb was invented by Jock Lewes, the first hand-held dual explosive and incendiary device.
For this first attack, LeMay ordered the defensive guns removed from 325 B-29s, loaded each plane with Model E-46 incendiary clusters, magnesium bombs, white phosphorus bombs, and napalm, and ordered the bombers to fly in streams at 5, 000 to 9, 000 feet over Tokyo.
Although simple incendiary bombs have been used to destroy buildings since the start of gunpowder warfare, World War II saw the first use of strategic bombing from the air to destroy the ability of the enemy to wage war.
The first raid using low-flying B-29 Superfortress bombers carrying incendiary bombs to drop on Tokyo was on the night of 24 / 25 February 1945 when 174 B-29s destroyed around fifty square mile ( 150 km² ) of the city.
The first incendiary bombs to be dropped during World War I fell on coastal towns in the south west of England on the night of 18 – 19 January 1915.
The fire would burn at extreme temperatures that could destroy most buildings made of wood or other combustible materials ( buildings constructed of stone tend to resist incendiary destruction unless they are first blown open by high explosives ).
Louvet was first brought into notice as a politician by his Paris justifié, in reply to a truly incendiary pamphlet in which Jean Joseph Mounier, after the removal of King Louis XVI from the Palace of Versailles to Paris in October 1789, had attacked the capital ( which was still relatively peaceful ), and argued that the court should be established elsewhere.
* The Imperial Japanese Navys air arm conducts the first Japanese bombing raid on Chungking, China, an incendiary raid which causes huge fires and inflicts enormous casualties.
For the first time, Bomber Command uses three waves of Pathfinders – " illuminators " dropping flares followed by " visual markers " who drop colored target indicators followed by " backers-up " who drop incendiary bombs – to mark the target.
The practice of projecting grenades with rifle-mounted launchers was first widely used during World War I and continues to the present, with the term " rifle grenade " now encompassing many different types of payloads including high explosive, fragmentation, and anti-tank warheads as well as concussion, smoke, incendiary, and flare missiles.
Finally, starting at 0800 on 25 September, Luftwaffe bombers under the command of Major General Wolfram von Richthofen conducted the first major city attack of World War II, dropping 500 tons of high explosive bombs and 72 tons of incendiary bombs, in coordination with heavy artillery shelling by Army units.
The original manuscript first belonged to Montmerqu, and then passed into the possession of Le Roux de Lincy, who prepared an annotated edition ; unfortunately this material, together with the original MS., was lost in the incendiary fires which took place under the Paris Commune ( 1871 ).
In America, Baltimore stevedores who were at first recruited by German officers to plant incendiary devices among ships and wharves were eventually given bottles of liquid culture with orders to inoculate horses near Van Cortland Park.
He had been responsible for downing No. 4 Squadron's first balloon at Merville earlier in May ; although vulnerable to attack with incendiary bullets, these large observation platforms, nicknamed Drachen ( Dragons ), were generally well protected by enemy fighters and anti-aircraft defences, and were thus considered a dangerous but valuable target.
Environmental Life Force ( ELF ), also known as the Original ELF, was the first radical environmental group in 1977 to use explosive and incendiary devices in defense of the environment.
The Byzantines were the first to employ Greek fire, a highly effective incendiary liquid, as a naval weapon.
did the most during this era to bring hip hop to national attention ; the former did so with incendiary and politically charged lyrics, while the latter became the first prominent example of gangsta rap.
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