Many a building was blown to matchwood because of leaking gas.
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I also liked TAKE LUNCH and MATCHWOOD, although I had to look up the latter.
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In 1512, Spanish mercenaries made matchwood of Tuscan defenses, the republic fell and the Medici returned.
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The waves engulfed fishing villages and holiday resorts, leaving a coast littered with the matchwood of homes, crushed vehicles and fallen trees.
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Another time-consuming process was cleaning the match heads, but Senchukov's art and efforts did not go unnoticed, and one Ukrainian factory now provides him with matchwood.
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Another time-consuming process was cleaning the match heads, but Senchukov's art and efforts did not go unnoticed, and one Ukrainian factory now provides him with matchwood.
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RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Reuters) - Japan on Friday mourned the thousands who lost their lives in a massive earthquake and tsunami five years ago that turned towns to matchwood and triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.
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The captain, Brownlee, who lost his last ship ("crushed to matchwood by a berg" — "eight men drownded and 10 more perished of the cold"), seems to be involved in some kind of insurance scam with the ship's owner.
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Her car was reduced to matchwood although the chauffeur miraculously escaped with minor injuries.
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Matchwood Township is a civil township of Ontonagon County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 94 at the 2010 census.
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The Bergland Administrative Site, also known as the Bergland Ranger Station, is a government administrative complex consisting of six buildings located along M-28 in Bergland, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, and currently houses the Bergland Cultural & Heritage Center and The Bergland/Matchwood Historical Society Museum.
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In 1897 a fire, caused by an incendiary, destroyed the canteen, mess-room and library. The buildings were all weatherboard, with matchwood lining and galvanised metal roofs. The fortress was staffed by eight officers and five men of the South Australian Permanent Artillery in 1902. A fire broke out in buildings at the western end of the forts in 1907.
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Anchored in Halifax harbour on the night of 26 April 1906, the wooden Havana was struck along the broadside by ; a steel steamship. Sinking quickly, the crew of Havana quickly climbed aboard the deck of Strathcona. Eyewitness accounts compare the resulting damage to Havana as “if she were of matchwood.” The ship sank in approximately 10 minutes, and no casualties were suffered.
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With further salvoes wrecking the superstructure, Fox ordered Master Gunner Handcock to scuttle the ship. The ship's boats reduced to matchwood, only a handful of men survived by clinging to a raft; Fox and the First Lieutenant went down with the ship. Several hours later, the survivors boarded a lifeboat from one of the merchant ships and were able to reach Norway.Haydon, A. L. (editor), (1918).
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Ailanthus triphysa (also Ailanthus malabarica) is a medium to tall evergreen rainforest tree in Asia and Australia. The wood may be used for matchwood and plywood. The tree is known as halmaddi in India, where its resin, also called halmaddi, may be used in incense. Inappropriate extraction methods were resulting in trees dying, so by the 1990s the Indian forestry department had banned extraction.
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The deceased were W Southernwood, H Chappell, T Culhane, and N Robson all of Auckland. When the launch capsized Walsh and T Jenkins were trying to retrieve the dinghy when Walsh got his feet tangled in fishing line. Three breaking waves then struck them smashing the boat into "matchwood". One of the survivors, Silston Cory-Wright had managed to secure a benzine tin to hold on to in the water.
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In the instrument industry gambhar timber is widely employed for the manufacture of drawing boards, plane tables, instrument boxes, thermometer scales and cheaper grade metric scales. It is also used in artificial limbs, carriages and bobbins. It is an approved timber for handles of tennis rackets, frames and reinforcements of carom boards and packing cases and crates. Gamhar is used in papermaking and in the matchwood industry too.
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Zubiaur's flagship galleon Maria Francesca was sunk with most hands. Another 200 ton vessel Cisno Camello was holed below the waterline and soon began to sink, and settled in shallow water. A French hire ship used for supplies was, according to Leveson reduced to matchwood. Two more Spanish vessels were pounded until their crews forced them onto the rocks after sustaining continuous fire particularly from the big galleons Defiance and Warspite.
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An Assistant Ranger's dwelling was added in 1957, a small woodshed was constructed in 1979, and a pole shed was added in 1985. However, when the ranger staff expanded to cover environmental monitoring and recreation, the site became obsolete. The station was closed in 1998. The Ottawa National Forest partnered with the Bergland Cultural & Heritage Center and The Bergland/Matchwood Historical Society Museum, who use the buildings on the site.
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In 1850 a Falmouth owned schooner called the Windrush from Malaga, 51 tons register and built in 1833 at Cowes was driven ashore in a severe SW gale at Church Cove between Mullion and Gunwalloe. The 5 crew members were all drowned and the wreck quickly became matchwood. It was carrying a cargo which included a large quantity of lemons and raisins and was recalled as the "Fruit wreck". It was locally owned at Falmouth.
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The wood is yellowish and brittle, but as well as making excellent charcoal, the timber may be used for matchwood and plywood. When the bark is cut, a sticky resin is exuded, which becomes brittle on drying; this resin may be used for medicinal purposes, and particularly, because of its aromatic nature, it may be burned as incense, either directly, or as an ingredient in incense sticks. In India. the incense resin is named halmaddi, after the local name for the tree itself.
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Significant forest products of India include paper, plywood, sawnwood, timber, poles, pulp and matchwood, fuelwood, sal seeds, tendu leaves, gums and resins, cane and rattan, bamboo, grass and fodder, drugs, spices and condiments, herbs, cosmetics, tannins. India is a significant importer of forest products. Logs account for 67% of all wood and wood products imported into India due to local preference for unprocessed wood. This preference is explained by the availability of inexpensive labor and the large number of productive sawmills.
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