What Is Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday?
Whit Monday or Pentecost Monday (also known as Monday of the Holy Spirit) is the holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost, a moveable feast in the Christian calendar....
Read MoreWhit Monday or Pentecost Monday (also known as Monday of the Holy Spirit) is the holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost, a moveable feast in the Christian calendar....
Read MoreWhat Was the Phoenix? The phoenix was, according to legend, a bird which died in a fire but came out of the flames alive. In ancient Egypt the phoenix was connected...
Read MoreWhen Does a Firestorm Occur? A firestorm occurs when flames from a large number of individual fires merge into a single convective, or circulatory, column. This...
Read MoreHow Do Fire Extinguishers Work? Fire extinguishers stop flames either by dousing them in water or by excluding the oxygen which a fire needs in order to burn. There are...
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