Not to be outdone in the protest stakes, some angry French dockers halt Channel Tunnel and ferry services through the judicious use of burning mounds of tyres.
She pointed to burning trash, gray mounds dotting the grounds outside the stadium like inverted moon craters.
Like many other fans, I had first become aware of his fastball and his unique pitching mannerisms and his burning intensity on the mound when he won two out of the three games he pitched against the Yankees in the 1964 World Series, including a tense, exhausting victory in the pennant-clinching seventh game.
At the barricades on Hruchevs'koho Street near European Square, acrid smoke from six-metre high mounds of burning tires filled the sky yesterday, obscuring the government buildings that lay not far behind it.
They've got a real wood burning pit, mounds of succulent pulled pork, lots of pretty smiles behind the counter, Cole slaw made with Duke's mayonnaise, and sweet tea that flows like a tapped fire hydrant in summer.
Mounding a lot of burning coals on the empty side, or setting a gas grill to high on that side, usually allows the chicken skin to bronze while the meat cooks through to juicy perfection.
"I don't show emotion on the mound, but I have that burning desire inside of me that's telling me that I'm the best out there, and my stuff's going to get people out," Jones said.
During the South Indian Neolithic period (3000 1200 BC), the agro-pastoral inhabitants of the South Deccan/North Dharwar region constructed large mounded features by heaping and burning accumulations of cattle dung.
"I am looking for a lovely scarf to shade my hair from the burning sun," she says, while sifting through a mound of dresses heaped up near the camp.
Beyond, I could see mounds of bricks, baking slowly over burning dung — the bricks with which the city may be rebuilt.
Evidence, knowledge, argument, proportionality, nuance, complexity, and the other indispensable tools of the liberal mind don't stand a chance these days against the actual image of a mob burning an effigy, or the imagined image of a man burning a mound of books.
