"These places we all love have effectively become tinderboxes," Vesey said.
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Of all Congo's complex ethnic tinderboxes, Ituri has historically been the most combustible.
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It should come as no surprise that many military bases were tinderboxes, one matchstick away from explosion.
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" The question, Disparte tells Axios, is "should there be residential property that close to forests that are tinderboxes?
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Hong Kong, Tibet and the far western province of Xinjiang are all tinderboxes, with the fuses already burning.
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Meanwhile, eastern Ukraine, Iran and — should diplomacy fail — North Korea will also remain tinderboxes in the U.S.–Russia Hybrid War.
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The disastrous drought conditions in California have turned forests into tinderboxes, resulting in record levels of tree deaths during that time.
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Her title refers to "hazard reduction burns," the planned fires often used to deforest areas on the verge of becoming tinderboxes.
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Dry areas are now drier and larger, with forests that used to be reliably moist becoming tinderboxes waiting for a spark.
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Among them is Anne Patterson, 67, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs and a former ambassador to Pakistan and Egypt, two of the biggest tinderboxes Mr. Trump will face.
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It can help pay for good forest management on public land Forests in the West have become tinderboxes, in part thanks to climate change and in part thanks to years of poor management.
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Their owners feel trapped in tinderboxes they cannot sell, and some residents have felt compelled to join round-the-clock patrols of their buildings, always on guard for a spark or whiff of smoke.
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Outbreaks of pests weaken and kill trees Disastrous drought conditions have converted forests into tinderboxes, leaving behind an apocalyptic landscape of dead trees -- in the millions -- and inviting bark-eating pests such as the Mountain Pine Beetle.
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It was commercialized for lighting fires and pipes. It's said that in 1820s over a million of the "tinderboxes" ("Feuerzeug") was sold.
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A London street seller of matches for tinderboxes in 1821 In the 18th and early 19th century tinderboxes were in common use, but with the advent of John Walker's 'friction lights' in 1827, where a match could be struck by withdrawing it from a piece of folded glass paper, tinderboxes increasingly became obsolete. A book from 1881 notes that in 1834 a magazine editor had predicted that despite the advent of 'lucifers' (friction matches), the tinderbox would continue to be in general use in the household, but that in fact, by the time of writing, the tinderbox had become rare, expensive and was commonly seen only in museums of antiquities. Another book from 1889 describes such a tinderbox, observing that the wear patterns on the flint were the same as those on ancient prehistoric flints in the collection.
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Sheet Iron tinderboxes. English, 18th and early 19th C. Pocket tinderbox with firesteel and flint, this type was used during the Boer War due to a scarcity of matches A tinderbox, or patch box, is a container made of wood or metal containing flint, firesteel, and tinder (typically charcloth, but possibly a small quantity of dry, finely divided fibrous matter such as hemp), used together to help kindle a fire. A tinderbox might also contain sulfur-tipped matches. Tinderboxes fell out of general usage when friction matches were invented.
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The use of flint in particular became the most common method of producing flames in pre-industrial societies (see also fire striker). Travelers up to the late 19th century would often use self-contained kits known as tinderboxes to start fires.Walter Hough. Fire-Making Apparatus in the United States National Museum.
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In particular, one pre-dawn April 20, 1980, raid on 92 Morningside Avenue, during which FBI agents armed with shotguns and machine guns broke down doors and searched through the building for several hours while preventing residents from leaving, was seen by residents as having "racist overtones".Emery, Richard, and LaMarche, Gara (June 11, 1980). "Our tinderboxes for radical violence".
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This wickerwork was fastened with deerskin. Upon this framework, the Karankawa lay deer, wildcat, panther or bear skins, again fastened with deerskin thongs. The next step was to make a fire. After European contact, the Karankawa begged for matches or tinderboxes from settlers; otherwise, they resorted to the traditional method of using their firesticks, which they always carried in a package of deerthongs.
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The sponge catalyzes a reaction with atmospheric oxygen, which heats the catalyst and ignites the hydrogen, producing a gentle flame. The Döbereiner's lamp is considered as the first commercial application of heterogeneous catalysis and was commercialized for lighting fires and pipes. The world's largest manufacturer of these lighters was Heinrich Gottfried Piegler from Schleiz in Thuringia (Germany). It is said that in the 1820s over a million of the "tinderboxes" were sold.
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Wooden tinderbox with separate compartments for the firesteel, flint etc. and tinder. English or Welsh, 18th C. When away from home small pocket tinderboxes were often carried, sometimes set with a burning glass (a lens) in the lid to light the tinder directly from the sun's rays. The poorer people working in the fields would obtain a light by simply striking a flint on the back of a knife onto a piece of touch-paper that they carried in their pockets.Jekyll, Gertrude (1904).
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The partial Hertzian cones produced during lithic reduction are called flakes, and exhibit features characteristic of this sort of breakage, including striking platforms, bulbs of force, and occasionally eraillures, which are small secondary flakes detached from the flake's bulb of force. When a chert stone is struck against an iron-bearing surface, sparks result. This makes chert an excellent tool for starting fires, and both flint and common chert were used in various types of fire-starting tools, such as tinderboxes, throughout history. A primary historic use of common chert and flint was for flintlock firearms, in which the chert striking a metal plate produces a spark that ignites a small reservoir containing black powder, discharging the firearm.
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USCG-20 and USCG-21 off Normandy Sixty of the 83-foot cutters were sent to England to serve as rescue craft off each of the landing beaches during the Invasion of Normandy."The U. S. Coast Guard in World War II", United States Coast Guard History Command, text accompanying photos 2002117288 and 2002120254, accessed June 10, 2019 Officially called Rescue Flotilla One (ResFlo One), the cutters were nicknamed the "Matchbox Fleet" because their wood construction and large gasoline tanks made them potential tinderboxes. Renumbered USCG-1 through USCG-60, they were able to pull almost 500 men from the water on D-Day. The thirty cutters assigned to the American sector saved 194 men off shore from Omaha Beach and 157 near Utah Beach.
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Tonteldoos is a village in Limpopo Province, South Africa, southeast of Roossenekal and 20 km northwest of Dullstroom, between the two mountains Steenkampsberg and Mapochsberg. It is part of the Mapoch (Southern Ndebele people) land seized by poor settlers in 1883 after the Mapoch War against King Nyabêla. Each veteran was granted 8 morgens of the land, the rest reserved for communal pasture. The surveyor who measured the land the following year was named G.R. von Wielligh, and he was said to have named the city after the tinderbox (called “tonteldoos” in Afrikaans) he lost there. However, Samuel Smit had already named his plot that in October 1883, more likely after the local weed Haplocarpa scaposa (one of several plants popularly known as “tontelbossie”). The velvety back leaf, easily flammable when dry, was used to make tinderboxes at the time, and several species’ leaves continue to be known as “tontel.” Flint could also be found in the area.
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