Fire in the Straw (French: Le feu de paille) is a 1939 French drama film directed by Jean Benoît-Lévy and starring Lucien Baroux, Orane Demazis and Gaby...
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much easier, because torrefied straw pellets are hydrophobic. Torrefied straw in the form of pellets can be directly co-fired with coal or natural gas at...
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Advantages of straw-bale construction over conventional building systems include the renewable nature of straw, cost, easy availability, naturally fire-retardant...
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Straw Dogs is a 1971 psychological thriller film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. The screenplay, by Peckinpah and...
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Straw Dogs is a 2011 American action thriller film directed, produced, and written by Rod Lurie. It is a remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film Straw Dogs...
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at work in the park, each supervised by a foreman or "straw boss". A little after 2:00 p.m. PDT, a small fire started in a pile of debris in Mineral Wells...
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entries in the Star Trek franchise. He has appeared in many films directed by his brother, Ron, and had a small role in the 1967 animated film The Jungle...
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John Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946) is a British politician who served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the Labour governments of Tony Blair...
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Final Straw is the third studio album and major-label debut by Northern Ireland rock band Snow Patrol, released on 4 August 2003 in the United Kingdom...
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Diana Hyland (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
Eleventh Hour, The Fugitive, The Invaders, The Green Hornet and The Twilight Zone and was cast in the feature film The Chase (1966) with Marlon Brando...
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switch in genre. The Straw Men is a book about serial killers. It opens with a scene set in a small American town, where a duo of gunmen open fire in a busy...
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Stubble burning (category Fire)
burning is the practice of intentionally setting fire to the straw stubble that remains after grains, such as rice and wheat, have been harvested. The technique...
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Morin The Porter from Maxim's (1939) – Crici Fire in the Straw (1939) – Reine Roy A Hole in the Wall (1950) – La cliente Le tampon du capiston (1950)...
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The first season contains a total of 30 episodes which were originally broadcast in the United States from September 17, 1963 to April 21, 1964. The second...
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1854 Nankai earthquake (category Earthquakes of the Edo period)
area following the large earthquake the previous day. In Hiro (now Hirogawa), Goryo Hamaguchi set fires using rice straw to help guide villagers to safety...
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Thatching (category Straw products)
the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the...
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Jack Straw (probably the same person as John Rakestraw or Rackstraw) was one of the three leaders (together with John Ball and Wat Tyler) of the Peasants'...
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Gävle goat (category Straw art)
Slottstorget (Castle Square) in central Gävle, Sweden. The display is a giant version of a traditional Swedish Yule goat figure made of straw. It is erected each...
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Orane Demazis (category Articles lacking in-text citations from January 2013)
Didier 1939 : Fire in the Straw (Le Feu de paille) by Jean Benoît-Lévy 1943 : Mistral by Jacques Houssin 1948 : Bagarres by Henri Calef 1952 : The Blonde Gypsy...
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extensively altered in the 1880s by David Straw to achieve its present appearance. An electrical fire in 2004 did extensive damage to the building, but it...
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Usopp (category Comics characters introduced in 1998)
fictional character in the One Piece franchise created by Eiichiro Oda. He serves as the sniper of the Straw Hat Pirates. He was the fourth member to join...
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cook over her fire. Being in a hurry, she grabs some straw to make the fire light faster. She pours the beans in the pot and, being in a hurry, she drops...
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many of his fellow villagers from the massive tsunami. By setting fire to rice-straw stacks, villagers were able to see them from afar and find their way...
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Monkey D. Luffy (redirect from Straw Hat Luffy)
Monkī Dī Rufi, [ɾɯꜜɸiː]), also known as "Straw Hat" Luffy, is a fictional character and the protagonist in the Japanese manga series One Piece created...
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with his Straw Hat Pirates. The season adapts material from the "Egghead" arc, from the rest of the 105th volume onwards of the manga series of the same name...
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Mulch (section Straw mulch / field hay / salt hay)
hay. Straw mulch is also available in various colors. Needles that drop from pine trees are termed pine straw. It is available in bales. Pine straw has...
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or Christmas Eve. The people playing the bears either dress in costumes made of straw, or are actually wrapped in straw. The straw used may be that of...
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The legend of the Straw Millionaire (わらしべ長者, Warashibe Chōja), also known as Daietsu or the Daikokumai, is a Japanese Buddhist folk tale about a poor...
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'Fire in the Straw: A Memoir.' New York, NY: Arcade Publishing, 2020. Lawson, Carol. “He Fishes. She Paints. The Twain Meet.” The New York Times. The New...
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Ông Táo (section In popular culture)
Cao under a stack of straw. Unfortunately, Phạm Lang set fire to the straw because he needed ashes to fertilize his field. As the flames spread out, Trọng...
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