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… Mid-July, 64 CE, in the heart of Rome, tragedy struck as fire erupted into a massive inferno. Did Emperor Nero, … ------------------------------ Learn more about the Great Fire of Rome: Roman History Introduction: Potter, David S., … New York, New York: Thames & Hudson, 2018. On the Great Fire: Walsh, Joseph J., The Great Fire of Rome: Life and …

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… TALKING ABOUT TODAY Come Firew-alk With Me by Bertie Bregman he evening began with a … use a little yoga to help loosen meup. My first exposure to firewalking came four years ago, at a New York club. My … out. Tracy sold insurance by day, but her real passion was firewalking. She spoke about it in quasi-religious terms, …

… it’s also the work of humans. This week, two massive wildfires ignited in the San Diego County backcountry and began … inundated with water, the city is surrounded by smoke and fire. Certainly nature played an enormous role in events … put them out their agony. Some argue that these horrendous fires on the Southern California coast are the unnatural …

… Twitter after the combination of smoke from Amazon forest fires, a weather front, and pollution caused skies to darken … metropolis of São Paulo, hundreds of miles from the Amazon fires. Crowds in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on August 24, 2019 … of the Amazon. International attention focused on the fires, the majority of which deliberately had been started …

… and Bill of Rights, proposed legislation that prohibited firearm use outside of hunting season. Rights and regulation … as the guarantor of an individual’s right to possess firearms, the Amendment was rarely mentioned before the … Safety in the 1830s The Ordnance Department tested firearms made by private arms manufacturers, such as Samuel …

… As Andrew Jewett makes clear in his new book, Science Under Fire, the scientific enterprise in America has long drawn … of rationality. Given the moment we are in, Science Under Fire seems particularly well timed, and it ought to be … Sarewitz might seem prescient. … Review of Science Under Fire: Challenges to Scientific Authority in Modern America , …

… Referred to by some as “Thundersticks,” firearms were brought to the western hemisphere by European … two centuries at building and maintaining large arsenals of firearms. If anything, Silverman offers that Natives had the … and powerful Native groups. … Review of Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America , …

… May 4, 1970, a squadron of Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire at a loose collection of students gathered across an … May 4, 1970, a squadron of Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire at a loose collection of students gathered across an …

… did. In 64 CE, the city of Rome was devastated by a great fire, the worst in its long history, which destroyed 10 of … 14 districts of the city. Hubert Robert's 1785 painting "Fire in Rome," showing the events of 64 CE. After local … blaze Nero coordinated the response. He personally directed fire-fighting efforts, sending out members of his own …

… then burst into the center block of Parliament and opened fire with his .30-30 Winchester lever-action rifle. In the … July 1608), and the Europeans who lived there had and used firearms for similar purposes. As members of expanding … invasion of the North American continent. Colonizers used firearms to conquer, control, and kill Native Americans, and …

… May 4, 1970, a squadron of Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire at a loose collection of students gathered across an … Sixties” had its share of these allegorical moments. The firehoses at Birmingham, Mario Savio on the steps at Sproul … Kent. The ONG units arrived in Kent late Saturday night as fire gutted the campus ROTC building. There is little doubt …

… Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the Channel—and then a fierce naval … Corona to conquer England. Three weeks later, an English fire ship attack in the channel, and then a fierce naval … In the left window, you can see an attack by eight fire ships. And this caused panic in the Armada anchored off …

… in the history of the global arms trade since the advent of firearms in the early modern era: where weapons are sold and … lesser extent, Asian markets. While there was diffusion of firearms technology generally, and a number of locales … states dominated the trade in part because of advances in firearm and gunpowder technologies and also because of their …

… each other in the streets of New York City. Unionized firefighters scuffled with police officers. Turning the firefighters away from the ongoing hunt for their lost … Center disaster site, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani urged the firefighters’ union to cooperate with his downsizing of the …

… in his diary: Friends call me, saying they can see huge fireworks all over the Hôtel de Ville [city hall], with red … Wertenbaker, Time Magazine’s war correspondent. Six firefighters secretly scaled the Eiffel Tower and hung a … for German sharpshooters, yet he refused to duck as snipers fired on the crowd. Later that day, he displayed similar …

… This year marked the seventieth anniversary of the firebombing of Dresden, and the legacy of the  Second World … controversial raid lasted for two days and caused a massive firestorm in the city center. The majority of civilian deaths were due to suffocation, as the fire withdrew oxygen from their air raid shelters and homes. …

… the obsolete German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire from its berth in the Free City of Danzig. As the … into the basement. Their attackers then lit the building on fire. The survivors staggered outside to surrender where the … Shelled by the Germans, Warsaw's Royal Castle caught fire during the first phase of the German invasion. Modern …

… “search” passenger luggage. 7. Air Canada Flight 797, 1983 Fire damage to the lavatory of Air Canada Flight 797, where the fire is believed to have begun. Air Canada was en route from … Dorval International Airport on June 2, 1983, when a fire broke out behind the lavatory on the DC-9-32 while the …

… Turks fled in horror, jumping into the sea to escape the fire. The scene was terrifying, as one British sailor … It was a horrible scene; mothers with their babies, the fire raging over their heads… and the people all screaming.”   The view of the Smyrna fire in September 1922 from an Italian ship. Victims of the …