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unusual facts about Kang bed-stove


Kang bed-stove

In this picture of a room in a Chinese inn, reproduced from Wandering in Northern China, by Harry A. Franck (Copyright 1923 by the Century Company of New York and London), one can see a man who may be the author sitting at a short-legged table that has been placed on the Kang.


1980 US Open – Women's Doubles

Betty Stöve and Wendy Turnbull were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Stöve with Pam Shriver and Turnbull with Rosemary Casals.

Acetarsol

It was first discovered in 1921 at Pasteur Institute by Ernest Fourneau, and sold under the brand name Stovarsol (fourneau is the French word for stove).

Ashok Gadgil

He is best known for his work with two developing-world technologies: "UV Waterworks" (a simple and effective and inexpensive water disinfection system), and the Berkeley-Darfur Stove (a low-cost stove to that saves fuelwood in internally displaced person's camps in Darfur).

Bamboo stove

A monk named Xing Hai in the Ting Song temple on Mount Hui in Wuxi asked a travelling bamboo artisan to make him a stove on which he could boil water for tea.

The scroll was found again during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor (1662-1722) and a poet from Wuxi called Gu Zhenguan had two copies of the stove made.

Blue Highways

He outfits a green van with a bunk, a camping stove, a portable toilet and a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks.

Boyds, Maryland

It is a small, one room school house, containing a small number of desks, a blackboard, and an authentic potbelly stove, as well as a framed picture of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Bush Terminal Company Building

They were the Union Stove Works, the William Wrigley Jr. Company, the Boyd Steel Spring Company, the Cummings Machine Company, and A.C. Agar & Co.

Carrie Sharples

Carrie was a whiz at cooking, unlike her son, whose cooking skills left quite a lot to be desired (his pancakes were considered great for roof shingles; {Lisa Douglas from Green Acres also made inedible pancakes} his brownies tasted like asphalt, etc.), and when she took over the stove at Mel's, business was excellent.

Carron Company

Benjamin Franklin visited the factory, leaving works and is said to have left a design for a stove- 'Dr Franklin's stove or the Philadelphia stove'

Community Cooker Foundation

Community Cooker Foundation is an initiative by Planning Systems Services Ltd. in Nairobi, Kenya, established in 2010, with the goal of using the Community Cooker, a simple stove designed to turn rubbish into safe, clean and cheap energy, to transform Nairobi's largest slum, Kibera.

Constantius of Perugia

According to his legend, of which four versions exist, he was arrested during the persecutions of Antoninus (some sources say Marcus Aurelius) and whipped, and then forced into a stove along with his companions, from which all escaped unharmed.

Cook stove

The stove was designed by Ramesh K. Nibhoria who also designed the Earth Stove for use with a single pot.

Death Bed: The Bed That Eats

Comedian Patton Oswalt discusses the film extensively on his album Werewolves and Lollipops and in his short closing set at the end of The Comedians of Comedy: Live at the El Rey, referring to it as "Death Bed: The Bed That Eats People" and joking that it has inspired him to write Rape Stove: The Stove That Rapes People.

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.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Stove, R. J., Prince of Music: Palestrina and His World, Quakers Hill Press, Sydney, 1990.

Love Tara

Their version, which appeared on the 1993 compilation album DGC Rarities Volume 1, combined "Stove" into a medley with "Smother", a non-album track that Eric's Trip recorded for the Never Mind the Molluscs compilation.

Mary Percy Jackson

Cooking at her new home was not easy and happened on a wood burning stove that needed almost continual stoking to prevent the flames from going out; for quite a time, she relied heavily on her Primus stove.

Mercer Museum

In addition to tools, it displays furnishings of early America, carriages, stove plates, a gallows, antique fire engines, a whaleboat, and the Lenape Stone.

Middlebrook, Greater Manchester

The farmhouse's 1666/1811 date stone, 1860s cooking range and other items were saved and can be seen at the Heritage Centre in Horwich.

Musgrave Park, Belfast

The Musgrave family made their fortune in great part through the Ulster Convector Stove, used for heating and ventilation processes worldwide during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Nabemono

In modern Japan, nabemono are kept hot at the dining table by portable stoves.

Never Mind the Molluscs

Sloan later covered "Smother" for the Geffen Records compilation album DGC Rarities Volume 1; their version recombined "Smother" into a medley with a different Eric's Trip song, "Stove" from the album Love Tara.

Norm Sanders

Sanders spent the next few years as a small businessman, selling an ecologically sound, efficient wood heater of his own design called the "Sanders Hot Prospect Stove" from the back of a truck at the Salamanca Market.

Orestes Cleveland

He moved to Jersey City, New Jersey in 1845 and became involved in the manufacturing of black lead, stove polish and pencils.

Primus stove

The Primus stove, the first pressurized-burner kerosene (paraffin) stove, was developed in 1892 by Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist, a factory mechanic in Stockholm, Sweden.

Svea 123

For example, when using a wind screen or shield other than the built-in wind screen (such as the flexible aluminum foil windscreens used with stoves made by Mountain Safety Research), care should taken not to wrap the windscreen too tightly around the stove because this may cause the stove to overheat and the fuel tank to over-pressurize.

The Iron Stove

Her father the King, not wanting to give up his only child to a stove in the woods, tries to send substitutes back to the woods including a miller's daughter and a swine-herd's daughter.

Tommy Atkins

"Tommy cooker" was a nickname for a British soldier's portable stove, which was fuelled by solidified alcohol, making it smokeless but very inefficient.

Top Third Ventures

Top Third Ventures is a company in Nairobi, Kenya that specializes in the design, production, and sale of efficient stoves.


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