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Ingjald using quickfire in the process of unifying Sweden.. Arson in medieval Scandinavia (Old Norse hús-brenna or hús-bruni, "house-burning") was a technique sometimes employed in blood feuds and political conflicts in order to assassinate someone.
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 ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 36.2 in (92 cm) x 48.5 in (123.1 cm) Cleveland Museum of Art, 92 cm (36.2 in) x 123 cm (48.4 in). The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 is the title of two oil on canvas paintings by J. M. W. Turner, depicting different views of the fire that broke out at the Houses of Parliament on the evening of 16 October 1834.
British and American movements during the Chesapeake Campaign in 1814 Admiralty House in Bermuda, where the British attack was planned. The Burning of Washington, also known as the Capture of Washington, was a successful British amphibious attack conducted by Rear-Admiral George Cockburn during Admiral Sir John Warren's Chesapeake campaign.
Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-3002-6074-8. James S. Donnelly, Big House Burnings in County Cork during the Irish Revolution, 1920–21 Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Éire-Ireland (47: 3 & 4 Fall/Win 12); accessed ...
The feature transitions from Walt Disney to a now animated house on fire, which is "rewound" to show the house undamaged before zooming in through the window to find Donald Duck sitting in an armchair, reading. A few feet from him are his nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie drawing up a fire escape plan in crayon. The boys explain to their Uncle ...
Before leaving Moscow, Count Rostopchin supposedly gave orders to the head of police (and released convicts) to have the Kremlin and major public buildings (including churches and monasteries) set on fire. During the following days, the fires spread. According to Germaine de Staël, who left the city a few weeks before Napoleon arrived, and afterward corresponded with Kutuzov, it was ...
The Burnt House Museum (aka Katros House) is a museum presenting an excavated house from the Second Temple period. It is situated 6 m (20 ft) below current street level in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. [1] The house was destroyed in great fire during the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE.