Award-winning poet and scholar, George Elliott Clarke edits this pioneer collection of passionate, spiritual, earthy and liberating prose, poetry and song.
Author: George Elliott Clarke
Publisher: Porter's Lake, N.S. : Pottersfield
ISBN: 9780919001718
Page: 168
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This original graphic novel imagines the lives of blue-colar workers involved in the real-life Lake Erie in Cleveland.
Author: Scott Macgregor
Publisher: Abrams ComicArts
ISBN: 9781419741166
Page: 288
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The water repellent layer described above is formed when litter and organic
matter accumulate at or near the soil surface during the years between fires .
When fire , occurs the surface litter layer is heated sufficiently to volatilize and / or
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Author: Carol G. Wells
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Fire Severity Effects on Water Resources Leonard F . DeBano ' , Peter F . Ffolliott '
, and Malchus B . Baker , Jr . 2 Abstract . — Fire plays an important role in
southwestern ecosystems . The use of fire , however , must be carefully planned
and ...
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Effects of fire on soil and water. Figure 2 . 11 - Sequence of rill formation on a
burned slope with a water - repellent layer includes ( A ) saturation of wettable
surface area , ( B ) development of a failure zone in wettable surface layer , ( C )
free ...
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Water Yield — The water yield net value changes were drawn from the estimates
developed by Potts and others (1985). Fire increases water yield by removing the
vegetation that would otherwise transpire some of the water. The increased ...
Author: Thomas John Mills
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Thus it appears that this fireboat ( Engine 31 ) actually threw as much water as
nine engines ordinarily discharge at fires . " The question whether the fireboat
would do as well at a fire as it did at this trial , cannot be answered directly ; but
the ...
Author: Commerce and Industry Association of New York
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Page: 627
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Award-winning author Wendy A. Lewis recounts the compelling story of the "Boy in Blue," from his childhood on the Toronto Islands, where he rowed himself to school on the mainland every day, to laurels won around the world.
Author: Wendy A. A. Lewis
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 1552779068
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In 1842 , at a fire at Water Street and Maiden Lane , No. 13 Engine , while trying
to wash No. 15 Engine , complained that the latter , when within three inches of
going over , stopped and would not go to work again , and accused her men of ...
Author: George William Sheldon
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Page: 575
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fire . I waited until they got water on the fire . The Chief came up and ordered me
to get streams on the roof of the block opposite the block in which the fire
originated . Q . Was there any hose carried up , to your knowledge , into the
buildings on ...
Author: Boston (Mass.). Commissioners to Investigate the Great Fire
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First , a water - bridge , placed within the located fuel doorway B thereof , in
manner substan . fire box , constructed in the form of a semi - tube , as tially as
herein described for the purposes set forth . set forth , flanged and riveted to the
flue ...
Author: USA House of Representatives
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ADEQUATE FIRE PROTECTION FOR HIGH buildings that are the pride of our
oity , in order to BUILDINGS . bring their roofs ... and the water A fire lately
occurred on Broadway involving an pamped in solid unbroken streams ,
unaffected by old ...
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P. M. on the surface of the water near the outer edge of the This shop was located
about thirty feet from the point of the wharf , about twenty or thirty feet down
stream from where the fire's origin . He ran out and saw fire on the water . ramp ,
with ...
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... on the ground and a bitter wind blowing in his face , little ladies and gentlemen
were tucked snugly in their warm cribs , to be tenderly dressed by and by , and
find hot rolls and coffee ready for them , and a wood fire burning in the grate .
Author: Matilda Barbara Betham- Edwards
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Page: 140
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Now , make it a closed system , nished in lengths of 4 feet each when not
otherwise water , if so much will come out , the fire continuing the same as if it
was to specified , and it is boxed Novelties . - Fig . 4. — The Czar Door Hanger .
for ...
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He said : rooms of the New York board of fire underwriters February As regards
home , our losses show an increase of £ 34 000 , which however 16 ) , to
consider the question of water supply for the dry goods is almost entirely
represented by ...
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The City to put the fire out , that nobody understood the and the Feast of St.
Bartholomew ( Aug. 24 ) , was divided into four districts , and each dis- process
by which the engine was filled with before their doors a barrel full of water for trict
was ...
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The roof is struck by the stream of water from the fire engine , and from made of T
- iron , holding book tile , that is plastered on both that time was constantly
subjected to a deluge of water that sides . The doors are a light fireproof vault
door ...
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The roof is struck by the stream of water from the fire engine , and from made of T
- iron , holding book tile , that is plastered on both that time was constantly
subjected to a deluge of water that prevented any overheating . sides . The doors
are a ...
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I myself was present , and had seen the much larger fire of the preceding night
checked by the river . By 12 p . m . the ... As soon as the fire had gathered in force
this was not even to be thought of ; not a single drop of water could reach the fire .
Author: United States signal office
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