He did in me whatever an ember does Burning slowly until all of a piece What it feeds on falls to ash.
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This reflected local officials confidence that containment lines around the Sisters community were secure."Milli Fire News Release", InciWeb Incident Information System, Deschutes National Forest, United States Forest Service, Bend, Oregon, September 6, 2017. During September 7–10, firefighter mopped up along existing fire line while fuels within the fire perimeter continued burned in some areas. On the southwest side, the fire kept on burning slowly down slope through the Three Sisters Wilderness Area, occasionally torching pockets of taller trees.
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This claim has been disputed by historians of science including Lynn Thorndike, John Maxson Stillman and George Sarton and by Bacon's editor Robert Steele, both in terms of authenticity of the work, and with respect to the decryption method. In any case, the formula claimed to have been decrypted (7:5:5 saltpeter:charcoal:sulfur) is not useful for firearms use or even firecrackers, burning slowly and producing mostly smoke. However, if Bacon's recipe is taken as measurements by volume rather than weight, a far more potent and serviceable explosive powder is created suitable for firing hand- cannons, albeit less consistent due to the inherent inaccuracies of measurements by volume. One example of this composition resulted in 100 parts saltpeter, 27 parts charcoal, and 45 parts sulfur, by weight.
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The fire was started by the same dry lightning storm that ignited the Sprague Fire near Lake McDonald that destroyed the Sperry Chalet on August 31. After a period of heavy smoke and haze which kept the fire from spreading for a number of days in early September, by the 10th the fire became more active again with crown fires and torching along the northwest slope of Wolf Gun Mountain. On September 14, light rain and much cool temperatures had arrived at the fire which was reported to be over in size but burning slowly. Cooler temperatures as well as snow prevented the fire from expanding into early October and the Adair Peak Fire was no longer monitored directly by firefighters.
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During this period, the number of firefighters on station was steadily reduced to 59 on September 10. On that date, the Forest Service estimated the Milli Fire covered with containment remaining at 60 percent. The total cost of fighting the fire was estimated at $15 million."Milli Fire News Release", InciWeb Incident Information System, Deschutes National Forest, United States Forest Service, Bend, Oregon, 9 September 2017."Milli Fire News Release", InciWeb Incident Information System, Deschutes National Forest, United States Forest Service, Bend, Oregon, 10 September 2017. Between September 11 and September 14, the fire continued to burning slowly down slope through the Three Sisters Wilderness toward lava beds, which create a natural fire break because there was no fuel to burn in the lava fields.
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Earliest picture of a European cannon, "De Nobilitatibus Sapientii Et Prudentiis Regum", Walter de Milemete, 1326 Western European handgun, 1380 The first Western image of a battle with cannon: the Siege of Orléans in 1429 Cannon from the 15th century at Šibenik city walls Outside of China, the earliest texts to mention gunpowder are Roger Bacon's Opus Majus (1267) and Opus Tertium in what has been interpreted as references to firecrackers. In the early 20th century, a British artillery officer proposed that another work tentatively attributed to Bacon, Epistola de Secretis Operibus Artis et Naturae, et de Nullitate Magiae, also known as Opus Minor, dated to 1247, contained an encrypted formula for gunpowder hidden in the text. These claims have been disputed by science historians. In any case, the formula itself is not useful for firearms or even firecrackers, burning slowly and producing mostly smoke.
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