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  2. The Night They Saved Christmas - Wikipedia

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    The Night They Saved Christmas is a 1984 American made-for-television fantasy drama film directed by Jackie Cooper and executive produced by Jack Haley Jr. and Robert Halmi Jr. The film, about an oil company dynamiting in the North Pole in search of an oil field unaware that they are endangering Santa Claus , stars Jaclyn Smith and Art Carney ...

  3. Gas explosion - Wikipedia

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    On February 3, 2021, a gas explosion damaged a home in Springfield, Virginia, and injured three people. [50] On February 17, 2021, a gas explosion demolished a house in Manchester, England. 1 person lost their life and 2 others were injured. [citation needed] On May 4, 2021, a gas explosion demolished a house in Willesborough, England. 7 people ...

  4. Carbide lamp - Wikipedia

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    An acetylene gas miner's lamp. A carbide lamp or acetylene gas lamp is a simple lamp that produces and burns acetylene (C 2 H 2), which is created by the reaction of calcium carbide (CaC 2) with water (H 2 O). [1] Acetylene gas lamps were used to illuminate buildings, as lighthouse beacons, and as headlights on motor-cars and bicycles. Portable ...

  5. Gas lighting - Wikipedia

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    For many years, an attendant or gas boy moved along the long row of jets, lighting them individually while gas was escaping from the whole row. Both actors and audiences complained of the escaping gas, and explosions sometimes resulted from its accumulation." [36] These problems with gas lighting led to the rapid adoption of electric lighting.

  6. Christmas lights - Wikipedia

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    Manning Close Christmas Light Show, Wells, Somerset, England. Christmas light sculptures, also called motifs, are used as Christmas decorations and for other holidays. Originally, these were large wireframe metalwork pieces made for public displays, such as for a municipal government to place on utility poles, and shopping centers to place on ...

  7. Argon flash - Wikipedia

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    Argon flash, also known as argon bomb, argon flash bomb, argon candle, and argon light source, is a single-use source of very short and extremely bright flashes of light. The light is generated by a shock wave in argon or, less commonly, another noble gas. The shock wave is usually produced by an explosion. Argon flash devices are almost ...

  8. The 12 Disasters of Christmas - Wikipedia

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    The Twelve Disasters of Christmas does not. It stays true to the path on which it embarked, seemingly never troubled for a second by concern for trivial matters like, oh, dialogue or plot." [7] The A.V. Club gave the film a D rating stating "...comes closer to so-bad-it's-good territory than any SyFy Original Movie in recent memory." [10]

  9. Heat burst - Wikipedia

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    In general, heat bursts occur during the late spring and summer seasons. During these times, air-mass thunderstorms tend to generate due to daytime heating and lose their main energy during the evening hours. [4] Due to the potential temperature increase, heat bursts normally occur at night, though they have also been recorded during the daytime.