Search results for "Hearth" - New World Encyclopedia
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- A basic smithy contains a forge, sometimes called a hearth for heating ... A forge of this type is essentially a hearth or fireplace designed ...15 KB (2,453 words) - 06:32, 1 April 2024
- from the embers carried from their own hearth fires.Firoze M. Kotwal, ... oldest passages of that liturgy, it is the hearth fire that speaks to "all ...25 KB (4,046 words) - 19:51, 26 March 2024
- counter-earth. He named it "estia," the hearth of the universe, the house of Zeus, and the mother of the gods, after the goddess of fire and ...14 KB (2,121 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- of tule, grass, and bark. They had a central hearth and a hole in the roof for ventilation. Excavations in the Eagle Lake area have revealed rock ...12 KB (1,758 words) - 18:13, 21 August 2023
- of human modification, fire cracked rocks from a hearth, or plant material used for food. Interestingly, one of the most common artifacts found is garbage. ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 17:39, 16 August 2023
- In the Roman Empire, the Vestal Virgins (sacerdos Vestalis), were holy female priests who honored Vesta, the goddess of the hearth. Their primary ...16 KB (2,678 words) - 18:03, 3 May 2023
- megaron, or throne room, with a raised central hearth under an opening in the roof, which was supported by four columns in a square around the hearth ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 22:40, 10 November 2022
- burnt on the bonfires. On Beltane Eve, all hearth fires and candles would be ... a community Beltane fire from which each hearth fire is then relit is observed ...25 KB (3,928 words) - 08:55, 27 September 2023
- When Fire whistled or cracked in the hearth, they bowed to the flame ... extension of the sun (Heavenly Fire). The hearth in the center of the yurt ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 06:07, 27 February 2023
- *** Open hearth furnace *** Basic oxygen furnace *** Electric arc furnace ... As of July 2006, the Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association (HPBA ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 09:57, 18 October 2022
- and the universe. In the inner hestia ("hearth") of the Temple of Apollo, an eternal flame burned. After the Battle of Plataea (479 B.C ...21 KB (3,318 words) - 09:23, 28 January 2024
- * Wing, Daniel, and Alan Scott. 1999. The Bread Builders: Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Pub. Co. ISBN ...11 KB (1,627 words) - 05:59, 18 November 2022
- "La Gatta Cenerentola" or "The Hearth Cat" which appears in the book "Il Pentamerone" by the Italian fairy-tale collector ...20 KB (3,064 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- by a door and contains a central communal hearth and a place for dancing. ... or packed earth and there was a central hearth for the fire. There was no ...35 KB (5,411 words) - 07:52, 9 March 2023
- :For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, :Or busy housewife ply her evening care: :No children run to lisp their sire's return, ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 21:15, 30 April 2023
- Veritas (goddess of truth), Vesta (goddess of the hearth and home), Pluto (god of the underworld), Neptune (god of the waters), and Juno (eventual queen ...11 KB (1,785 words) - 17:00, 23 December 2022
- and tile manufacture, is the Roller-hearth kiln, in which ware, placed ... pottery. The ware is set on a refractory hearth, or slab, over which a box ...23 KB (3,896 words) - 23:03, 3 March 2023
- against the comfortable excesses of hearth and home, and the explicit repudiation of such a life in favor of Christian askesis, is a common feature ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 19:03, 22 December 2022
- go the temple of Vesta--the virgin goddess of the hearth, home, and family--to offer her a sacrifice, or even to devote herself as one of the Vestal ...11 KB (1,796 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- turf. In some places, people doused their hearth fires on Samhain night. Each ... #039;s name. Nuts were roasted on the hearth and their behavior interpreted ...35 KB (5,443 words) - 16:28, 20 September 2023
