Things that got you shoved onto a cramped, scurvy-ridden boat included: stealing fish from ponds or rivers (fishing?); taking someone's handkerchief or hairbrush; theft of bacon; throwing fireworks; burning clothes; or being a 10-year-old fit for slavery.
Moreover, three kinds of fireworks powders obtained from the same manufacturing factory producing Kaohsiung Lantern Festival fireworks were burned in a self-designed combustion chamber to determine the physicochemical properties of the fireworks' particles and to establish the source profile of firework burning.
Top of the Atmosphere (TOA) reflectance estimated from IRS-P4 Ocean Color Monitor (OCM) data showed large variations due to anthropogenic activities associated with crop residue burning and fireworks.
As quotes go, it brings to mind Leslie Nielsen as Sergeant Frank Drebin in the first Naked Gun movie, standing in front of a burning, exploding fireworks factory as a crowd of rubberneckers rush forward: "Alright, alright, there's nothing to see here.
Later, they'd sit there with glasses of watermelon juice and watch the fireworks, the burning mountain.
It was then that we decided we could launch a website to offer balcony rentals for special festivals and holidays, especially with the Fallas in mind [a popular festival held in Valencia, with a lot of fireworks and burning cardboard monuments]".
In more old-school towns the best one is Lewes people go fucking crazy for Bonfire Night, dressing up and burning stuff down and firing fireworks at each other and guzzling baked nuts.
Come the end of this section, through shrapnel-peppered European streets and brick-walls-like-colanders buildings, Nick and company leap into atmosphere-breaching crafts and it's into a different assault phase we go: rockets locked onto some sort of battle cruiser until it makes like a firework and explodes, burning itself out against the big black.
She was crossing Fifth Avenue when she heard what sounded like fireworks and felt a burning behind her left knee.
Following the band's implosion, in 1978, he formed Public Image Ltd.; if the Pistols were a firework launched from a burning boat, PiL has been a steady beacon for more than three decades.
