Jun 28, 2023
Big Burn
"You can only activate this card when your opponent activates a card that targets a monster in the Graveyard. Remove from play all monsters in both players' Graveyards."
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Big Burn
"You can only activate this card when your opponent activates a card that targets a monster in the Graveyard. Remove from play all monsters in both players' Graveyards."
Kíli: You know, I've been thinking
Tullaina: That would explain the beads of sweat
Today marks the 108th anniversary of the start of one of the largest forest fires in U.S. history, the Great Fire of 1910, which burnt 3 million acres in Northern Idaho and Western Montana in just 2 days. Hurricane-force winds pulled whole burning trees from the ground, roots and all, turning them into giant roman candles, igniting anything they hit. While there was no one official cause, the summer of 1910 was the driest in memory and hundreds of small fires started by coal-powered locomotives traveling through dense, bone dry forests, as well as accidental fires from loggers, homesteaders and campers, all converged from the terrible wind-storm into a raging inferno on the afternoon of August 20th. 86 people perished from the fires and entire towns were destroyed. By noon on August 21st, the smoke darkened the sky as far north as Saskatoon, SK, Canada, as far south as Denver, CO, and as far east as Watertown, NY. 500 miles out to sea in the Pacific Ocean, ships could not navigate by the stars from the dense smoke. Overall that summer, 20 million acres burned across the Northwest.
Images from top: PG 8-C4a, remains of a brick building at 721 Bank Street and in background, O.R. & N. depot, Wallace, ID; PG 8-X545h, two men burned in the fire; PG 8-C5a, Placer Creek, near Wallace, ID, after the fire; PG 8-X88 Coeur d’Alene Hardware warehouse ruins, Wallace, ID. Info from USDA Forest Service Document “The Great Fire of 1910″
Results of the 1910 “Big Burn” in Wallace, Idaho.
In 1910 an immense forest fire engulfed a huge swath of northern Idaho and western Montana burning from near Missoula westward almost to the Idaho/Washington boundary and Spokane. While there was remarkably little loss of human life, an immense acreage of forest burned, the Northern Pacific and the Milwaukee main lines were in the fire zone disrupting transcontinental rail service, and several towns, notably Wallace, Idaho were nearly erased from the map. Tim Egan’s fine 2009 book The Big Burn documents the fire. Readers who enjoyed that book will want to see the online Big Burn picture collection from the University of Idaho Library. This is a sample from that collection.
Upper: Forest Fire, 1910 - Wallace [1910] General view Creator Barnard Studio (Wallace, Idaho) Date Original 1910 Description Image of Wallace, Idaho after the fire of August 20, 1910. Caption on front: “General view from Samuel’s Hotel, showing Oregon, Washington Railroad and Navigation station, August 20, 1910” Subject (AAT) fires buildings (structures) railroads railroads cars Subject (LCSH) Barnard, T. N. (Thomas Nathan)–Photograph collections Stockbridge, Nellie–Photograph collections Subject (LCTGM) Debris–Idaho Buildings–Idaho Bricks Cities and towns–Idaho Location Depicted United States–Idaho–Shoshone County–Wallace Region Wallace Source PG 8, Barnard-Stockbridge Collection, University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/ Original Collection Barnard Stockbridge Collection Publisher - Digital University of Idaho Library Digital Initiatives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/ Holding Institution University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/ Ordering Information To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/about.html Format Original 8x10 black and white glass negative Format Digital image/jpg Type Image;StillImage Identifier 8-X90 Date Digital 2009-03-11 Language eng Web site http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/bigburn/ Lower: Wallace - after 1910 fire Creator Barnard Studio (Wallace, Idaho) Date Original 1910-08-20 Description Postcard: description was handwritten on front Subject (AAT) fires buildings (structures) Subject (LCSH) Postcard Collection Forest fires–Idaho Subject (LCTGM) Debris–Idaho Buildings–Idaho Bricks Cities and towns–Idaho Location Depicted United States–Idaho–Shoshone County–Wallace Region Wallace Source PG 9, Postcard Collection, University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/ Original Collection Postcard Collection Publisher - Digital University of Idaho Library Digital Initiatives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/ Holding Institution University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/ Ordering Information To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/about.html Format Original 3.5x5.5 black and white postcard Format Digital image/jpg Type Image;StillImage Identifier 9-1-6f Date Digital 2011 Language eng Web site http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/bigburn/
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Card text: You can only activate this card when your opponent activates a card that targets a monster in the Graveyard. Remove from play all monsters in both players' Graveyards.
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More brief book reviews: Our House is on Fire - by Malena Ernman; The City in the Middle of the Night - by Charlie Jane Anders; Big Burn - by Lesley Choyce; The Stationery Shop - by Marjan Kamali
More brief book reviews: Our House is on Fire – by Malena Ernman; The City in the Middle of the Night – by Charlie Jane Anders; Big Burn – by Lesley Choyce; The Stationery Shop – by Marjan Kamali
These are brief reviews of four more of the books I’ve read in the 52BookClub challenge and the Indigo reading challenge. Title: Our House is on Fire: scenes of a family and a planet in crisis Author: by Malena & Beta Ernman, Svante & Greta Thunberg Published: March 5, 2020 The climate change is a big deal – as in, CRISIS – and this Swedish family, specifically 15-year-old Greta, has made…
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