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    Greek fire was an incendiary weapon system used by the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the fourteenth centuries. The recipe for Greek fire was a...
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    Greek Fire is an American rock band from St. Louis, Missouri. The band was formed in 2008 by members of Story of the Year and Maybe Today. Since formation...
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  • forest fires 2009 Greek forest fires 2012 Chios Forest Fire 2018 Attica wildfires 2021 Greece wildfires 2023 Greece wildfires Other uses Greek fire, an incendiary...
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  • Greek forest fires may refer to: 2007 Greek forest fires 2009 Greek forest fires 2012 Chios Forest Fire Greek fires (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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    utilised as army strategy. Incendiary mixtures, such as the petroleum-based Greek fire, could be launched by throwing machines or administered through a siphon...
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    The 2007 Greek forest fires were a series of massive forest fires that broke out in several areas across Greece throughout the summer of 2007. The most...
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    turbines. The use of fire in warfare has a long history. Fire was the basis of all early thermal weapons. The Byzantine fleet used Greek fire to attack ships...
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    This is a list of deities in fire worship. Nyambe, god of the sun, fire and change Nzambia, NZambi, Zambia a Kikongo Mpungu|Nzambi Mpungu, 1st half or...
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    of smoke. Greece portal List of wildfires 2007 Greek forest fires 2009 Greek forest fires 2009 Mediterranean wildfires 2012 Chios Forest Fire 2018 Attica...
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  • Greek Fire is a 1957 thriller novel by the British writer Winston Graham. The Author's & Writer's Who's who. Burke's Peerage, Limited. 1963. Roessel p...
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    mostly Greek and Egyptian, but also Jewish, Persian, Phoenician scholars. Most of the mathematical texts written in Greek have been found in Greece, Egypt...
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    than three years after the Greek landing of troops at Smyrna. Estimated Greek and Armenian deaths resulting from the fire range from 10,000 to 125,000...
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    (1960), A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder, Cambridge, UK: W. Heffer & Sons. Partington, J. R. (1999), A History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder, Baltimore:...
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  • Fire is one of the four classical elements along with earth, water and air in ancient Greek philosophy and science. Fire is considered to be both hot and...
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    flamethrower. Byzantines also used ceramic hand grenades filled with Greek fire. Greek fire, used primarily at sea, gave the Byzantines a substantial military...
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    Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (Princeton University Press 2000; rev. 2011) — ISBN 0-691-08977-9 Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion...
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    Battle of Cape Bon (468). The invention of Greek fire in 673 increased the use of fire ships, at first by the Greeks and afterward by other nations as they...
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    sculpture, Olympic Games, Western philosophy, ancient Greek law, Greek mythology, Greek food and the Greek Alphabet. The following is a list of inventions,...
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    Toothbrush in China during the Tang dynasty 672: Greek fire in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire: Greek fire, an incendiary weapon likely based on petroleum...
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    Aristotle Onassis (category Articles containing Greek-language text)
    /-ˈnɑː-/; Greek: Αριστοτέλης Ωνάσης, romanized: Aristotélis Onásis, pronounced [aristoˈtelis oˈnasis]; 20 January 1906 – 15 March 1975) was a Greek and Argentine...
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    The 2009 Greek forest fires were a series of massive wildfires that broke out across several areas in Greece during the summer of 2009. The fires began in...
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    The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries...
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  • Hellenic Fire Service (Greek: Πυροσβεστικό Σώμα, romanized: Pyrosvestiko Soma - Firefighting Uniformed Corps of Greece) is the national fire and rescue...
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  • Liquid fire may refer to: Greek fire, an ancient and medieval incendiary weapon Hot oil, an early thermal weapon Meng Huo You, Ancient Chinese petroleum...
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    navy using a new invention, the liquid incendiary substance known as Greek fire. The Byzantines also defeated the Arab land army in Asia Minor, forcing...
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    Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology...
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    flames, and were therefore harder to put out, similar to Greek fire. However unlike Greek fire, gunpowder's physical properties are solid rather than liquid...
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    The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas...
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  • hunchbacked lawyer Shardlake's search to recover the long-lost formula for Greek fire. The novel was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Historical...
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    and Military History”. ABC-CLIO. Page 450. "Greek Fire Grenades". World History Encyclopedia. "Greek Fire". World History Encyclopedia. Decker, Michael...
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