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unusual facts about Chimney


Chimney's Afire

It was produced primarily by Pyke and released in 2008 on the Ivy League Records label.


Banned from Television

In Warsaw, Poland, a powerful storm topples a brick chimney across the street onto a crowd of people.

Batiscan River

# "chutes de la Cheminée" (Falls of the chimney) (altitude 15 meters) in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan.

Bellacorick

Unfortunately, although the visually attractive chimney has been removed, the visually offensive derelict sixties-style block buildings, several storeys in height, are still standing, ungraciously draped with green netting, as a blot on the landscape.

Bidwell House Museum

Four fireplaces and two beehive ovens feed into the chimney structure, which is supported by a classical Roman Arch in the basement.

Blastpipe

The exhaust from the cylinders on the first steam locomotive – built by Richard Trevithick – was directed up the chimney, and he noted its effect on increasing the draft through the fire at the time.

Cambridge Museum of Technology

In 1992 the chimney was laddered by Fred Dibnah, who undertook painting and pointing repairs and was featured in a BBC programme.

Chief Powhatan

At a village now called Wicomico in Gloucester County, the reconstructed ruins of what were traditionally believed to be the chimney and part of the building for Powhatan are known as Powhatan's Chimney.

Chimney Point, Vermont

In 1609, Frenchman Samuel de Champlain became the first known European to explore this region and the lake that was later named for him; he traveled at least as far south as the Chimney Point area.

In 1731, the French decided to firmly establish their presence on Lake Champlain and block the lake route from the British colonies to Canada by building a fort at the strategic narrows between Chimney Point and Crown Point, New York.

Chimney Safety Institute of America

In 1992, Dick Van Dyke, America’s most recognizable chimney sweep, donated his voice talent to the Chimney Safety Institute of America helping CSIA produce a public service announcement distributed to 404 stations across the country in time for National Chimney Sweep Week.

Dalkeith Palace

Several marble chimney pieces were installed, as well as an intricately carved marble bas-relief of Neptune and Galatea.

De Winton

The steam engine at Glynllifon was restored by Fred Dibnah after he was originally called to the park to quote for the demolition of the chimney.

Field kitchen

Karl Rudolf Fissler of Idar-Oberstein invented a mobile field kitchen in 1892 that the Germans came to refer to as a Gulaschkanone (Goulash Cannons) because the chimney of the stove resembled ordnance pieces when disassembled and limbered for towing.

François Rémond

An example of his work is an elaborate Neoclassical chimney-piece held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, made in 1784 after a design by François-Joseph Bélanger (1744-1818), with bronze figures representing satyresses sculpted by Jean-Joseph Foucou (1739-1815).

Freeston Academy

The academy was founded in 1592 by John Freeston of Altofts and built as a local grammar school, which was later moved to its current location in the 1950s, where only a chimney remains in the original location.

Gould Creek, South Australia

Their squatters’ homestead, with mud chimney and thatched reed roof, known as Fisher and Handcock’s Station, was sketched by William Light and was one of the earliest to be built outside Adelaide.

Hans Dülfer

1911 Dülfer-Kamin am Totenkirchl (literal English: Duelfer chimney at the dead church)

Hanukkah Harry

Hanukkah Harry lands on a roof and climbs down the chimney of the home of Scott (Mike Myers) and Christine (Victoria Jackson), offering gifts of slacks and socks respectively, as well as chocolate coins and a dreidel.

Hardknott Pass

The road approaching the pass vies with Rosedale Chimney Bank in North Yorkshire for the title of steepest road in England with both achieving a gradient of 1 in 3 (about 33%).

Harrison Marks

His feature films as a director were Naked - As Nature Intended (1961), The Chimney Sweeps (his only non-sex feature, 1963), The Naked World of Harrison Marks (1965), Pattern of Evil (1967), The Nine Ages of Nakedness (1969) and Come Play With Me (1977), which featured Mary Millington.

Hoffmann kiln

At the Brunswick brickworks in Victoria, Australia, there are two surviving kilns converted to residences, and a chimney from a third kiln, another in Box Hill, also in Melbourne and one in Adelaide, South Australia.

Idiot Wind

Canadian poet Rob Winger titled the third section of his second collection, The Chimney Stone, after Idiot Wind.

Inco Superstack

From the date of its completion until the GRES-2 chimney was constructed in 1987, it was the world's tallest smokestack.

John Boson

He is well known for his carved chimney-pieces and there are good examples in the 'Great Room' at Baylies, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire and another example at Sir Michael Newton's seat of Culverthorpe, Lincolnshire.

Layerthorpe

The Branch Line's sidings and the Corporation's premises have been replaced by a variety of industrial and retail units, although the refuse destructor's octagonal chimney (a Grade II listed building, approximately 55 metres high) has been preserved next to Morrisons supermarket on Foss Islands Road.

Macaire

Aubri's hound received the name of the "dog of Montargis," because a representation of the story was painted on a chimney-piece in the chateau of Montargis in the 15th century.

Monkton House

A chimney-piece with heavy carving, believed to be part of an altar tomb from Monkton Farleigh Priory is in one of the bedrooms.

Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta

Upland woods and slightly-elevated lowland chimney crayfish (Cambarus diogenes) burrows are used as winter hibernation sites.

Percy Vear

One of his pieces was of boxer Vear sitting on top of Damart UK Head Quarters factory chimney overlooking Bingley.

Poltergeist

Skeptics such as Milbourne Christopher have found that some cases of poltergeist activity can be attributed to unusual air currents, such as a 1957 case on Cape Cod where downdrafts from an uncovered chimney became strong enough to blow a mirror off of a wall, overturn chairs and knock things off shelves.

Santa's Slay

On Christmas Eve of 2005, the Mason family is enjoying Christmas dinner when Santa Claus (Bill Goldberg) comes down the chimney and kills them all.

Smallegade

It has now been transformed into a mixed-use development, now known as Porcelænshaven (literally "Porcelain Garden"), which retains many of the original factory buildings, including a landmark chimney, which is visible from the street.

Solar chimney

The solar chimney has been in use for centuries, particularly in the Middle east and Near East by the Persians, as well as in Europe by the Romans.

Solar tower

Solar Updraft Tower (SUT), or Solar Chimney Power Plant (SCPP) electricity power generating structure using a chimney-style tower

Spratt's

Much of the original markings are visible on the buildings, with names painted on the DLR track-side walls, and on the small chimney visible from Morris Road.

Swastika Laundry

Following the closure of the laundry, at least until the early 1987 the laundry chimney was emblazoned with a large white swastika that could be seen from many places in the surrounding area including the Merrion Road, a main road south from Dublin.

The Chimney Sweep

"Springman & the SS", also known as "The Chimney Sweep", a 1946 Czechoslovakian film directed by Jirí Brdecka and Jirí Trnka

The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep

Frederik Magle's album The song is a Fairytale (1994), with songs based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairytales performed by Thomas Eje and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen amongst others, includes an adaption of The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep.

The Year of the Mouse

Jerry hits Tom with a fly swatter, leaving it in Tom's hand, and the grey mouse quickly reels him back up the chimney, making Tom believe that he attacked himself in his sleep, similar to the plot of Gas Light.

The Yellow Moon Band

The song "Chimney" off the debut album is featured as a playable track in the 2011 video game Rocksmith.

Thomas Farnolls Pritchard

Examples of Pritchard's interior decoration include Croft Castle, Gaines in Whitbourne, Herefordshire, Shipton Hall, Shropshire, the ballroom at Powis Castle, and chimney-pieces at Broseley Hall, The Lawns, Broseley, and Benthall Hall.

Totenkirchl

It is particularly known for its chimneys including the Dülfer Chimney (Dülfer-Kamin) named after Hans Dülfer.

Woolton Hall

There are in this suite the Dining-room, eighteen feet high, and of good proportion, an Ante-room, two sides of which are hung with Brussels tapestry, after designs by Teniers, and a very handsome chimney-piece carved in oak: through this, is the Drawing-room — the whole decorated by a small but choice collection of Pictures, by both ancient and modem masters.

Yarralumla brickworks

The original brick kilns were built according to Walter Burley Griffin's designs with fan forced short chimneys intended to stay below the height of the surrounding pine trees.


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