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Watch live as emergency services respond to the scene of an explosion in Paris on Wednesday, 21 June. Local French media reported that the blast, on rue Saint-Jacques in the fifth arrondissement ...
Two people are missing and four are in critical condition after dozens were injured in a powerful explosion in a building in central Paris.. The explosion at around 4:55pm local time yesterday at ...
A strong explosion rocked a building in Paris' Left Bank on Wednesday, injuring at least 24 people, igniting a fire that sent smoke soaring over the French capital's monuments and prompting an ...
Gas lighting in the historical center of Wrocław, Poland, is manually turned off and on daily.. Gas lighting is the production of artificial light from combustion of a fuel gas such as methane, propane, butane, acetylene, ethylene, hydrogen, carbon monoxide, coal gas (town gas) or natural gas.
Aladdin Lamps is the only maker of this style lamp today. [16] Even they, are now marketing electric fixtures that fit the old style lamps. Large fixed pressurized kerosene mantle lamps were used in lighthouse beacons for navigation of ships, brighter and with lower fuel consumption than oil lamps used before. [ 17 ]
Frederick Albert Winsor, originally Friedrich Albrecht Winzer (1763 in Braunschweig, Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel – 11 May 1830 in Paris) was a German inventor, one of the pioneers of gas lighting in the UK and France. Winsor went to Britain before 1799 and became interested in the technology and economics of fuels.
Police fired tear gas at protestors in Paris as thousands marched against president Emmanuel Macron's policy to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. Footage shows clashes between protesters and ...
The flame-lighting, with its broad TV coverage — although the official stream shies from showing any form of protest — is a magnet for activists who want to grab headlines. And even if ancient Olympia can, in theory at least, be efficiently guarded, the route of the torch relay through Greece is too long to be protest-proof.