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the Black Honeyeater (pictured) eats charcoal from the ashes of campfires in Australia's outback?
the tree Trema orientalis is used to make paper, rope, charcoal and traditional medications against cough, sore throat, toothache, gonorrhea and yellow fever?
measuring the oxidizable carbon ratio is a way to determine the age of charcoal samples up to 35,000 years old?
in the history of commercial tobacco in the United States, an African slave named Stephan changed the process of curing tobacco by using charcoal taken from a local blacksmith's fire rather than the usual logwood?
coconut charcoal is easy to light, burns longer and generates less smoke and ash than typical hardwood charcoal?
charcoal merchant Thomas Britton (pictured) ran a series of concerts in his loft at which the most famous musicians in London performed?
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Cornwall Iron Furnace in Pennsylvania is the only intact charcoal-burning iron blast furnace on its original plantation in the western hemisphere?
Robert Coleman, owner of several iron furnaces, was Pennsylvania's first millionaire?
coal mining in Nigeria, for which the Nigerian Coal Corporation had a monopoly until 1999, peaked in the 1950s, then suffered from the use of oil and the Nigerian Civil War afterwards?
replacing firewood with coal as the main fuel in early modern England led to many problems for the local glass industry?
the deaths of coal and iron miners in the Forest of Dean are commemorated by an 11 feet (3.4 m) sculpture at New Fancy?
the first railway in Germany, the Bayerische Ludwigsbahn, was originally mostly horse-hauled because of the high cost of importing coal from Saxony?
incendiary ammunition may be used against tanks, as it can penetrate armor and spread phosphorus through the compartment, burning the crew and depleting their oxygen?
lutetium tantalate (LuTaO4) (crystal structure pictured) is the densest known stable white material and is therefore an ideal material for X-ray phosphors?
for more than a century, the oxygen we breathe was thought to evolve from carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, but later proven to be split from water molecules instead?
in 1876, Paul Zweifel became the first to demonstrate that the fetus in utero consumes oxygen?
the blood vessel present during fetal development that carries oxygenated blood from the placenta to the growing fetus is called the umbilical vein?
the epaulette shark (pictured) can survive for an hour without oxygen?
the Spined Loach is able to breathe through its intestine during times of oxygen scarcity, and can inflict an excruciating sting with the two-pointed spike under its eyes?
Charles Gascoigne developed the carronade while manager of the Carron Company in Scotland, but emigrated to avoid his creditors and spent the last 20 years of his life organising the production of iron and cannon for the Russian Empire?
the Cumberland Valley Railroad ran its first trains in 1837 on oak stringers in place of iron rails, and that in 1839 it ran the first sleeping cars in America?
the closing of Nittany Furnace (pictured) in 1911 marked the end of modern iron-production in Bellefonte, and presaged the decline of the Pennsylvanian town?
the first mill for splitting iron into rods and nails, and the first paper mill in the UK, were situated on the River Darent in Kent?
11-year old Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein is regarded by Jacobites as third in line for the throne of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland?
19th-century smugglers in Worthing, West Sussex, England, were known to store their contraband in table-tombs at West Tarring's St Andrew's Church (pictured)?
2,273 passengers booked travel from Templecombe railway station, England in 1982, despite it being closed from 1966 to 1983?
Rear-Admiral Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian (pictured) was given command of the largest troop convoy to leave England, but twice had it forced back to port by severe gales?
Ain-Ervin Mere, commander of the Estonian Sicherheitspolizei, was sentenced to death in 1961 for organizing the holocaust in Estonia, but died as a free man in England?
Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett was born in the United States to a Scottish father, educated in England and eventually became the Australian Chief of the Air Staff?
General Augusto Pinochet was once kept under house arrest at a house on the Wentworth Estate, an exclusive residential area surrounding the Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey, England?
Australian-born lumber executive John A. Campbell was said to have introduced surfing on the Cornwall coast of England?
Caryl Churchill's play Mad Forest, developed partly in Bucharest in collaboration with Romanian and English drama students, was in production less than six months after the Romanian Revolution of 1989?
German rugby club SC 1880 Frankfurt adopted a red and black strip after a set of friendlies in 1894 against the English club Blackheath F.C., who also played in those colours?
canal engineer Hugh Henshall was both pupil of and brother-in-law to James Brindley, the famous canal architect of the Industrial Revolution?
the geography of Tasmania results in a climate so similar to that of pre-industrial England that it was once referred to as a Southern England?