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… man refused to give up his gun and the edgy soldiers opened fire. At least 150 Sioux men, women, and children were …

… dozens of Japanese and German cities in ruins. The American firebombing of Tokyo caused much of the city to burn down …

… while machine gun nests lay in wait for those fleeing the fires. Rape, pillage, and summary executions accelerated as … the Manileños also faced indiscriminate American artillery fire. Meeting block-by-block resistance, U.S. forces poured …

… methods to save lives. They tried bloodletting; burning fires to “purify” the air; rubbing herbs, onions, diced …

… NBA basketball player and ESPN commentator, was later fired by ESPN for his comments. However inaccurate or …

… nuclear weapons, is that when this incredibly hot nuclear fireball was created, which was actually hotter than the sun … dust and dirt from the area that it's devastated. And that fireball goes up into the stratosphere, the highest layer of … of missiles, there's going to be a lot of pressure to fire those first or fire at them first. This is called the …

… gas bubble grew, threatening to touch off a massive fire. In the end, however, the bubble dissipated. The … and spewed radioactive material onto the roof. Ominous fires broke out. Faulty communications, panic and … bureaucratic inertia beset the response, and in the process firefighters and others lost lives. Radiation spread through …

… of Jewish residence in Jerusalem’s walled Old City. They fired in the direction of West Jerusalem’s densely populated …

… the “fear itself” speech; the bank holiday and the fireside chats; the National Recovery Administration (NRA), …

… suffrage as a demand, but in the 1890s, German socialist firebrand Clara Zetkin revived that goal, spearheading the … organized parades to mourn the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire victims and protest unsafe working conditions. The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that claimed the lives of 145 workers, most of them …

… with such exceptions as uniforms for the military, police, firefighters and "patriotic organizations," but not athletic …

… protective gear. The company responded with threats to fire them. The federal government's response to this …

… British newspaper gleefully observed, a notable death, a fire, and an automobile accident—the kind of material that …

… the death of Jan Palach, the student who set himself on fire to protest the military suppression of the Prague … in the city of Timisoara, the security services opened fire on the crowd. On 21 December, Ceausescu called for a … chanting slogans against him. Representatives of Securitate fired against the demonstrators, which unleashed a popular …

… and electrical equipment. It was again, this kind of fire-retardant material that ended up in everything. And … book of technologies that had great promise, but that backfire in ways... and I actually think that human story of … 1960s. But All detergent, by the 1960s, was coming under fire. And one of the builders in All is a phosphate-based …

… of Dakota Territory in 1884 called the idea of carrying firearms into the city a “dangerous practice,” not only to …

… speakers. FDR used radio effectively, and his famous “fireside chats” played a critical role in drumming up …

… gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,” he warned, “signifies, in a final sense, a theft …

… Gilligan, an off-duty white lieutenant in civilian clothes, fired three shots and killed James Powell, a 15-year-old …

… from an ATM near the Bratislava Castle. Beneath a canopy of fireworks, yellow balloons, and a clever 2€€9 banner, …

… from the people who had defeated them. Destruction from the firebombing of Tokyo and other cities and the dropping of …