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Wood-burning stove. A 19th-century example of a wood-burning stove. A wood-burning stove (or wood burner or log burner in the UK) is a heating or cooking appliance capable of burning wood fuel, often called solid fuel, and wood-derived biomass fuel, such as sawdust bricks. Generally the appliance consists of a solid metal (usually cast iron or ...
Franklin stove. The Franklin stove is a metal-lined fireplace named after Benjamin Franklin, who invented it in 1742. [1] It had a hollow baffle near the rear (to transfer more heat from the fire to a room's air) and relied on an "inverted siphon" to draw the fire's hot fumes around the baffle. [2]
The Square and Compass is a Grade II listed public house in Worth Matravers, Dorset. [ 1 ] Built in the 18th century as a pair of cottages before becoming a public house, the Square and Compass got its name in 1830 from a landlord who had been a stonemason. The building includes a museum of fossils and other local artefacts and the pub is one ...
Strawberry box houses. A Victory House on Finch Avenue West in Willowdale, Toronto, which was part of a 140-home development in c.1950, only 32 of which remain in 2022. Strawberry box houses refers to a style of homes built during World War II [1] and into the 1950s to 1960s and found throughout Canada. The style uses a square or rectangular ...
Regel (1881) auct. non Willd.: Sims (1826) Nepenthes khasiana (/ nɪˈpɛnθiːz ˌxæsiˈɑːnə /; after the Khasi Hills, to which it is largely endemic) is an endangered tropical pitcher plant of the genus Nepenthes. It is the only Nepenthes species native to India. It is thought to attract prey by means of blue fluorescence.
91.4 cm × 243.7 cm (36.0 in × 95.9 in) Location. Royal Holloway, University of London, London. Man Proposes, God Disposes is an 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist Edwin Landseer. The work was inspired by the search for Franklin's lost expedition which disappeared in the Arctic after 1845. The painting is in the collection of ...
PostScript is a page description language run in an interpreter to generate an image. [ 6 ] It can handle graphics and has standard features of programming languages such as branching and looping. [ 6 ] PDF is a subset of PostScript, simplified to remove such control flow features, while graphics commands remain.
A 12-year-old boy helped save his mother when he flagged down a police officer after his mother experienced a seizure while driving and fell into a body of water. Newly released police bodycam ...