The " Hopewell " was expended in an attempt to set light to the French ships, and later volunteered with a boat part that succeeded in firing the French ships.
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At 10 : 00 pm on Saturday, the King and Queen Sirikit, with the help of a hydraulic tappet, set light to a 40 m ( 130 ft ) high funeral pyre.
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If there is a source of ignition ( and you handily provided one when you tried to set light to the cognac )-then you have a fat fire, which can be almost explosive.
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Falun Gong leaders abroad say that those who doused themselves with gasoline and set light to themselves on Jan . 23 were not true followers of Falun Gong, which they say is peaceful, nonpolitical and condemns suicide.
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The Creation took their pop art experimentation slightly further when, during live performances of " Painter Man " Pickett would spraypaint a canvas during their concerts, before a member of the road crew set light to artwork on stage.
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On 4 June 1905 during celebrations of the 1150th anniversary of the death of Saint Boniface a stray firework lodged in the righthand tower and started a fire ( it is presumed to have set light to old jackdaws'nests ).
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Assistant National Security Minister Stephen Tarus set light to some 7, 000 rifles, a few rocket-propelled grenade launchers and 46 homemade guns at ceremony held at a police range, 45 kilometers ( 28 miles ) southeast of Nairobi.
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11 May 1985 : A black day for English football . 56 people are burnt to death and more than 200 others injured at Valley Parade, Bradford in a fire caused by a discarded cigarette which set light to waste beneath the wooden main stand.
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The Globe Theatre, opened in 1997, was modelled on the Rose, which was destroyed by a fire on a dry June night in 1613 when a burning wad of cloth ejected from a special effects cannon during a performance set light to the surface of the thatch.
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Methane clathrates look like a lump of ice-if you set light to it, it looks like you're burning an ice-cube-which is surprising and interesting-but the flame is just a normal methane flame-it's plenty hot ! talk ) 13 : 26, 17 October 2009 ( UTC)
