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Francis Quarles was born in Romford, Essex, and baptised there on 8 May 1592.His family had a long history of royal service. His great-grandfather, George Quarles, was Auditor to King Henry VIII, and his father, James Quarles, was Clerk of the Green Cloth, and Purveyor of the Navy, in Queen Elizabeth's reign.
The four "Fire" sequences all have a common theme, destruction. Martyrdom, war, the loss of love and environmental apocalypse end each sequence to repeat the threat "it will be fire". Other recurring themes are rats, tinnitus, war, and environmental damage. [2] Harsent, who suffers from tinnitus, said he "wrote them [the poems] in a fever". [3]
Grant Colfax Tullar (5 August 1869 – 20 May 1950) was an American minister, composer, and hymn writer.. Tullar was born on August 5, 1869, in Bolton, Connecticut.His parents named him after President Ulysses S. Grant and Vice President Schuyler Colfax.
Life of an American Fireman is a short, silent film Edwin S. Porter made for the Edison Manufacturing Company.It was shot late in 1902 and distributed early in 1903. One of the earliest American narrative films, it depicts the rescue of a woman and child from a burning building.
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Fireman (steam engine), an individual employed to tend the fire for running a steam engine, either on a stationary engine, a railway locomotive or a steamship A United States Navy or United States Coast Guard rate for an enlisted seaman who works on ships' propulsion systems, even though steamships are no longer used