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[218] [219] According to the threshold "nuclear winter" computer models, [3] [14] if one to five teragrams of firestorm-generated soot [30] is injected into the low stratosphere, it is modeled, through the anti-greenhouse effect, to heat the stratosphere but cool the lower troposphere and produce 1.25 °C cooling for two to three years; and ...
Electrical firemaking involves the contact of an electrically heated object to tinder. A current is run through the object until it is red hot, like the burners on an electric stove, and it is brought into contact with the tinder, lighting it. For example, a foil-paper chewing gum wrapper will heat-up and ignite; or a flashlight battery coming ...
The house is a 24 by 25 feet (7.3 m × 7.6 m) one-story wood frame building that is situated on a 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) rural lot. The interior is sectioned into four rooms. Front and back porches were added in 1928. [3] Additional outbuildings were added in the early 1900s. [4]
In the archaeology of Neolithic Europe, the burned house horizon is the geographical extent of the phenomenon of presumably intentionally burned settlements.. This was a widespread and long-lasting tradition in what are now Southeastern Europe and Eastern Europe, lasting from as early as 6500 BCE (the beginning of the Neolithic in that region) to as late as 2000 BCE (the end of the ...
In 2011, the firehouse was threatened with closure after the city administration planned to close 20 fire companies to save money. [4] But after a public campaign to save it, supported by the later Mayor Bill de Blasio and actor Steve Buscemi , who also was a New York City firefighter from 1980 to 1984, [ 5 ] the firehouse remains in service. [ 1 ]
In Koobi Fora, sites show evidence of control of fire by Homo erectus at 1.5 Mya with findings of reddened sediment that could come from heating at 200–400 °C (400–750 °F). [1] Evidence of possible human control of fire, found at Swartkrans , South Africa, [ 21 ] includes burned bones, including ones with hominin-inflicted cut marks ...
The Manor House [4] was built sometime before 1732 but was not any owner's principal residence until a grandson, Pierre Van Cortlandt, moved there in 1749. [5] At that time the manor house was on a 1,000-acre (405 ha) portion of the original tract. [2] Pierre brought his family to the estate in 1749 and created the manor's most vibrant days ...
[4] After Elizabeth Colt died in 1905, the house was converted to a home for Episcopal women (in 1911) under the terms of her will. The residential community to this day is administrated by the Colt Trust. She also gave 140 acres (57 ha) of Armsmear's grounds to create Hartford's Colt Park. The city has subsequently replaced the greenhouse ...