Fire as an Agent in Human Culture, Numéro 139U.S. Government Printing Office, 1926 - 270 pages This work undertakes the presentation of salient features of an encyclopedic subject in a more or less condensed fashion. The importance of the study of heating and illumination is thought to be its contribution to the history of culture as connected with the inventiveness displayed by man in the adaptation of the primary natural key force nearest to his needs in all the earlier stages of progress. The history also suggests the intellectual, esthetic, and religious reactions marking the several stages of culture gradually attained by man. |
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Acuaria Amidostomum anteriorly anus Ascaridia Ascaridia galli Brazil Buccal capsule Buccal cavity bursa candle Caudal alae caudal extremity caudal papillae cecum Cervical papillae chitinous cloacal aperture Contracaecum cordons Cuticle Distribution.-Europe Distribution.-South America Brazil dorsal Drasche drill Echinuria Eggs esophagus Eustrongylides Falco female tail fire flint Gendre genus gizzard gubernaculum Habronema head end Heterakis history.-Unknown hosts Hosts.-Primary Indians intestine involves intermediate stages lamp larvae Lateral alae left spicule light Linstow MALE TAIL middle of body Molin Mouth Ovejector pairs of caudal pairs of postanal pairs of preanal pharynx Physaloptera Porrocaecum postanal papillae posterior end posterior extremity posteriorly Preanal sucker probably involves intermediate Railliet and Henry right spicule Rudolphi Russian Turkestan Seurat Skrjabin slender species specimens Spicules spines Spiroptera stones Stossich stove Streptocara striated Strongylus Subulura suctoria Syngamus trachea Synhimantus tail end Tetrameres Thelazia tinder torch total body length transversely Travassos ventral Vulva wick wide wood
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Page 14 - And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals, (for it was cold) and they warmed themselves : and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.
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Page 73 - They roast these curiously; they put the seeds, with a quantity of red-hot coals, into a willow tray, and, by rapidly and dexterously shaking and tossing them, keep the coals aglow, and the seeds and tray from burning. As if by magic, so skilled are the crones in this work, they roll the seeds to one side of the tray, as they are roasted, and the coals to the other.
Page 135 - And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
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Page 63 - Indians now select the most favorable point for attack, and, as the buffalo approaches, dart with astonishing agility across the trembling ice, sometimes pressing lightly a cake of not more than two feet square. The animal is of course unsteady, and his footsteps...