Plutarch refers to a burning mirror made of joined triangular metal mirrors installed at the temple of the Vestal Virgins.

The Evidence supporting this claim comes in the form of the Catecheses by Cyril where he continually refers to himself as bishop and a letter written by Cyril to Constantius in 351 where he refers to his vision of the burning cross in the sky as his “ First Fruits ”.

" Combustion " refers to burning fuel with an oxidizer, to supply the heat.

* 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.

According to, while David was encamped with the Philistine army for an attack on the Kingdom of Israel, Ziklag was raided by Amalekites ; the Amalekites burning the town, and capturing its population without killing them ( scholars think this capture refers to enslavement ).

" Combustion " refers to burning fuel with an oxidizer, to supply the heat.

The prophet Jeremiah writing circa 628 BC refers to a " queen of heaven " in chapters 7 and 44 of the Book of Jeremiah when he scolds the people for having " sinned against the Lord " due to their idolatrous practices of burning incense, making cakes and pouring out drink offerings to her.

The letter refers to the unjust treatment of " three wise men ": the murder of Socrates, the burning of Pythagoras, and the execution of " the wise king " of the Jews.

Though there is no biblical reason to assume that the account of Elijah's victory refers to any particular part of Mount Carmel, Islamic tradition places it at a point known as El-Maharrakah, meaning the burning.

The name refers to prairies near the point that were maintained through seasonal burning by indigenous cultivators.

Bonfire of the Vanities () refers to the burning of objects that are deemed to be occasions of sin.

The Hebrew word used in the narrative, that is translated into English as bush, is seneh ( סנה ), which refers in particular to brambles ; seneh is a biblical dis legomenon, only appearing in two places, both of which describe the burning bush.

In common usage, the phrase ' flag burning ' refers only to burning a flag as an act of protest.

The Prairie Fire refers to the annual spring burning of the prairie lands at Green Oaks.

* The phrase " the burning water of Tapa " ( Estonian: Tapa põlev vesi ) refers to the fact that so much fuel from Soviet MiG-23 fighters leaked into Tapa's ground water that one could actually light a glass of tap water on fire.

This refers to the burning reaction that some people experience from contact with Caltha sap.

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.

These were a refutation of Nicholas Shaxton's sermon at Anne Askew's burning in 1546, in which Shaxton recanted his evangelical beliefs, a refutation of Miles Hogarde's arguments for transubstantiation in a lost ballad called The Abuse of ye blessed sacrament of the aultare, and An information and peticion, which must have been written before December 1547, since it refers to the Act of Six Articles as being unrepeated.

The wreath of oak leaves refers to oak wood, the principal hardwood in the old Cherokee country in the Carolinas that was used in maintaining the perpetually burning sacred fire.

Cicero refers to this incident throughout the Pro Milone, implying that there was greater general indignation and uproar at the burning of the curia than there was at the murder of Clodius.

In Greek the word used is Gehenna, it refers to a valley south of Jerusalem where the was an ever burning rubbish fire, and where in the past human sacrifices had been cremated.

The second usage, also well known, refers to variant forms in Shuowen, which Xu Shen mistook as being ancient, but that were actually used in the eastern areas during the Warring States period, as exemplified by copies of the Zuo Zhuan and " books from within the walls " ( those hidden during Qin Shihuang's book burning ), which were available to Xu Shen at the time of the compilation of the Shuowen.

All cross stitch fabrics are technically " evenweave ", it refers to the fact that the fabric is woven to make sure that there are the same number of threads in an inch both left to right and top to bottom ( vertically and horizontally ).

In the US, " cross ownership " also refers to a type of investment in different mass-media properties in one market.

Since the seal represents all of the three realms of the union, it is more likely that the cross refers to the union banner that King Eric tried to introduce, a red cross on yellow.

Beam diameter usually refers to a beam of circular cross section, but not necessarily so.

Beam divergence usually refers to a beam of circular cross section, but not necessarily so.

" See My Friends " continually refers to the singer's friends " playing ' cross the river " as a substitute to the girl who " just left ".

The title refers to two bus routes that cross at this intersection ; in the song, the narrator is waiting at a bus stop.

However, the Gospel of Luke refers to Simon carrying the cross after Jesus, in that it states: " they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus ".

The concept of union strikebreaking or union scabbing refers to any circumstance in which union workers themselves cross picket lines to work.

She refers to him as a cross between brother and sister.

While cross country riding inevitably has a downhill component, Downhill ( or DH for short ) usually refers to racing-oriented downhill riding.

Breakbeat music refers to any form of rave music with breakbeats, this may range from nuskool breaks to drum ' n ' bass, some genres such as hardstep and breakcore cross over into the hardcore techno sound ( similar to the way digital hardcore, a hardcore punk / metal crossover has ).

The book's title refers to Constantine's transformation of the cross, which Carroll points out, was not a symbol used by Christians in the first three centuries of the Church's existence, into a symbolic sword infusing a spirit of violent intolerance into the development of Christianity.

In the Christian tradition, the True Cross refers to the actual cross used in the Crucifixion of Jesus.

The term refers to the following objects: the crowns, sceptres ( with either the cross or the dove ), orbs, swords, rings, spurs, colobium sindonis, dalmatic, armills, and the royal robe or pall, as well as several other objects connected with the ceremony itself.

His nickname " Crouchback " ( meaning " Crossback ") refers to his participation in the Ninth Crusade indicating that he was entitled to wear a cross stitched into the back of his garments.

This refers to the area of black coloration, which, viewed from above, vaguely resembles a Maltese cross or cross pattée.

The oldest written information about this canyon dates from the fourteenth century and can be found in a Georgian epigraph on a golden cross in the Cathedral of the Assumption in Tskhovati, South Ossetia: the text refers to the canyon in question as " Basianian ".

The name " Three Trails Crossing " refers to the Santa Fe, Oregon and California Trails that cross there.