• The Thumb Fire took place on September 5, 1881, in the Thumb area of Michigan in the United States. The fire, which burned over a million acres (4,000 km2)...
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    The Thumb is a region and a peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan, so named because the Lower Peninsula is shaped like a mitten. The Thumb area is generally...
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  • "the Thumb" region was burned over by the Thumb Fire, which followed part of the same path as the 1871 fires. In the mid-1830s logging began in Michigan...
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    (January 4, 1838 – July 15, 1883), better known by his stage name "General Tom Thumb", was an American with dwarfism who achieved great fame as a performer under...
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    Great Chicago Fire Great Michigan Fire Port Huron Fire of 1871 Great Hinckley Fire of 1894 Baudette fire of 1910 Cloquet fire of 1918 Thumb Fire of 1881 (see...
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    the dead or missing. Baudette fire of 1910 Cloquet fire of 1918 Lahaina Fire of 2023 Peshtigo Fire of 1871 Thumb Fire of 1881 Haines, Donald A.; Sando...
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    a thumb fire selector switch for easy firing mode transition. The QBZ-95-1 has a redesigned recoil buffer and reportedly feels gentler when fired. The...
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    2012. Retrieved October 16, 2017. Rogers, Paul (November 22, 2018). "Camp Fire is deadliest U.S. wildfire in 100 years; eerily similar to 1918 inferno that...
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    It was formerly a lumber town, destroyed in the Port Huron Fire of 1871 and Thumb Fire of 1881, the town was rebuilt after each, but faded as the lumber...
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    beginning by the PLA for a weapon as light as a submachine gun. There is a thumb fire mode selector on the left side of the weapon directly above the grip with...
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  • Fire and Hisamatsuchō Fire occurred in January and February, respectively, destroying over 20,000 homes in total in Tokyo, Japan. 1881 – Thumb Fire in...
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    human hand: Takonui (thumb) Takoroa (forefinger) Māpere (middle finger) Mānawa (ring finger) Tōiti (little finger) The names of the fire children differ in...
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    related to Wildfires in Michigan. Michigan portal Oscoda Fire of 1945 Areal photo of the Blue Lakes Fire on May 14, 2022 Wildfires and Firewise, Michigan State...
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  • uttarakhand forest fire 1997 Indonesian forest fires 1989 Mount Carmel forest fire 1995 Jerusalem forest fire 2010 Mount Carmel forest fire – Started on 2...
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     At least 70 people perished in the fire. Survivors of the fire included General Tom Thumb and his wife Lavinia Warren, who were carried out of the building...
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  • Thumb Wars: The Phantom Cuticle is a 1999 short film directed by Steve Oedekerk. Using dressed up and coifed thumbs as puppets, Oedekerk created a parody...
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  • Kid when the Sheriff (Bud Spencer) ends up replicating Stan Laurel's thumb fire trick featured in the film. The opening scene of the 2018 biopic Stan...
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    List of battles with most United States military fatalities List of hotel fires in the United States List of the deadliest firefighter disasters in the...
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  • countryside in the "Thumb" region of the U.S. state of Michigan (a total of 1.2 million acres, or 4,850 km²). On the same day, other fires burned the cities...
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    Fire of 1871. A series of other fires leveled Holland and Manistee, as well as Peshtigo, Wisconsin and Chicago, Illinois on the same day. The Thumb Fire...
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    Michigan Fire. Farther east, along the shore of Lake Huron, the Port Huron Fire swept through Port Huron, Michigan and much of Michigan's "Thumb". On October...
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    Crescent on the mouth of the Pinnebog River. The Port Huron Fire of 1871 and Thumb Fire of 1881 also destroyed much remaining timber land. According...
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    the knotweed family known by the common names Oriental lady's thumb, bristly lady's thumb, Asiatic smartweed, long-bristled smartweed, low smartweed, Asiatic...
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  • 000,000-acre Thumb fire of 1881 and the 25,000-acre Mio fire of 1980 surpassing Duck Lake which replaced the 18,000-acre Sleeper Lakes Fire of 2007 as third...
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    thoroughfare is Huron Street. Two major fires mark the history of North Branch. The Great Michigan Fire in 1871 and the Thumb Fire in 1881 destroyed many parts of...
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    hits Florida and the Carolinas, killing about 700. September 5 – The Thumb Fire in the U.S. state of Michigan destroys over a million acres (4,000 km2)...
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    striker-fired, single action, blowback mechanism. The manual thumb operated safety locks the slide in the closed position when engaged using side thumb pressure...
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    cocking lever, and then fires by pressing forward the red firing button with his right thumb. Both the red safety lever and the firing button must be pressed...
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    Fire making, fire lighting or fire craft is the process of artificially starting a fire. It requires completing the fire triangle, usually by heating tinder...
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    pointed to oneself (with or without the "hammer falling" of the thumb indicating firing, or a small tilt up to represent recoil), it may indicate boredom...
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