• Burning Well is a village in Sergeant Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States. Like Paradise, Pennsylvania, it attracts people because of...
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    Death by burning is an execution, murder, or suicide method involving combustion or exposure to extreme heat. It has a long history as a form of public...
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    Book burning is the deliberate destruction by fire of books or other written materials, usually carried out in a public context. The burning of books...
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    intensely enough to ignite clothing, as well as convex lenses that were used to cauterize wounds. Plutarch refers to a burning mirror made of joined triangular...
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    The Burning of Washington, also known as the Capture of Washington, was a successful British amphibious attack conducted by Rear-Admiral George Cockburn...
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    Laurel Run mine fire (category Coal mining disasters in Pennsylvania)
    Laurel Run and Georgetown, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The fire started burning in 1915 at the Red Ash Coal Mine. Attempts to...
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    policies. Some countries have laws against methods of destruction (such as burning in public) or forbidding particular uses (such as for commercial purposes);...
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    ISBN 0-306-80418-2. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. "Burning of Chambersburg". explorepahistory.com. Retrieved February 21, 2012. Burning of Chambersburg Historical...
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    the use of natural gas for lighting and heating. Petroleum was known as burning water in Japan in the 7th century. According to Kasem Ajram, petroleum...
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    Charcoal (redirect from Charcoal burning)
    this pyrolysis process, called charcoal burning, often by forming a charcoal kiln, the heat is supplied by burning part of the starting material itself,...
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