FIRE-EATERS

in U.S. history, term applied by Northerners to proslavery extremists in the South in the two decades before the Civil War. Edmund Ruffin, Robert B. Rhett, and William L. Yancey were the most notable of the group. As early as 1850, at a convention held in Nashville, Tenn., the "fire-eaters" urged secession upon the South, but the Compromise of 1850 and more moderate counsel combined to postpone that event for another 10 years. Although the "fire-eaters" were in large measure responsible for the movement to organize a separate Southern government, they filled minor offices under the Confederacy.

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books on: Fire Eaters  - 973 results

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings
Book by Thomas De Quincey, Grevel Lindop; Oxford University Press, 1985
Subjects: Authors, English--19th Century--Biography
...nuisances, to robbers by night, to rats, to fire. But the mail laughs at these terrors...in the "coal-cellar." And, as to fire, I never knew but one in a mail-coach...composure upon our knowledge--that the fire would have to burn its way through four...
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The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean
Book by Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Stephen Rachman; Rutgers University Press, 2006
Subjects: Cannabis, Hemp
...from basement to cope, with a tremendous roaring whirl, I took fire. Out of every pore shot spiral jets, my head was crowned with...lay cracking and singing in agony. Water! I shouted; I am on fire! Help, for the love of heaven! They tore my clothes from me...
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Eaters of the Dry Season: Circular Labor Migration in the West African Sahel
Book by David Rain; Perseus, 1999
Subjects: Droughts--Sahel, Migration, Internal--Sahel, Sahel--Economic Conditions
...1993 . Sometimes, too, the land tenure arrangements in Sahelian settlements are determined by the "rights of fire," whereby a brush fire is set and the new village occupies the area it burns. Throughout the sedentary parts of the Sahel, the chief...
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Confessions of an English Opium-eater
Book by Thomas De Quincey, William Sharp; Walter Scott, 1896
Subjects: Opium Habit
...may pace up and down in his library, already, by three oclock, gloomy with twilight, but fitfully enlivened by a glowing fire, and steadily by the bright moonlight; and he needs do no more than taste at every turn of his walk a little orange marmalade...
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Poor Eaters: Helping Children Who Refuse to Eat
Book by Joel Macht; Perseus Publishing, 1990
Subjects: Children--Nutrition--Psychological Aspects
distance away from the fire or heating element. Keeping our hands, arms, and faces away from the heat source is an example of an avoidance response: we...
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journal articles on: Fire Eaters  - 233 results

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Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater
Journal article by Robert E. May; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 69, 2003
Subjects: Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater (Book)
...The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater. by Robert E. May By William C...more adept politically than most fire-eaters. Although Rhett intrigued unsuccessfully...crunch came in 1860-61, leading fire-eaters were more bystanders than...
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A Fire-Eater Remembers: The Confederate Memoirs of Robert Barnwell Rhett
Journal article by Carlton Jackson; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects: A Fire-Eater Remembers: the Confederate Memoirs of Robert Barnwell Rhett (Book), Apostles of Disunion; Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War (Book), Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860 (Book), The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander Stephens (Book)
A Fire-Eater Remembers: the Confederate Memoirs of Robert...in William C. Daviss edition, A Fire-Eater Remembers: The Confederate Memoir of Robert...President Davis and this determined "fire-eater." If the Confederate soldiers had been...
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Fanatics and Fire-Eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War
Journal article by Gunja Sengupta; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 71, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Fanatics and Fire-eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War (Book)--Book reviews
Fanatics and Fire-Eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War. by Gunja SenGupta By Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter Jr. The History of...
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Thomas Lanier Clingman: Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains
Journal article by William C. Harris; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 66, 2000
Thomas Lanier Clingman: Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains. by WILLIAM C. HARRIS Thomas Lanier Clingman: Fire Eater from the Carolina Mountains...long been viewed as a North Carolina fire-eater whose fanatical stand for southern...
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Fanatics and Fire-eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War
Journal article by Wallace B. Eberhard; Journalism History, Vol. 29, 2003
Subjects: Journalism, Newspapers, Nonfiction, Ratner, Lorman A, Teeter, Dwight L
Fanatics and Fire-eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War by Wallace B. Eberhard Ratner, Lorman A. and Dwight L. Teeter Jr. Fanatics and Fire-eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War. Urbana: University...
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Rhee Engineering Education: Has D.C.'S Radical Experiment in School Reform Really Worked?
Magazine article by Thomas Toch; Washington Monthly, Vol. 43, July 2011
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation's Worst School District (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...Worked? by Thomas Toch The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the...school system in the country to fire significant numbers of teachers...In his new book, The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the...boys, and his research for Bee Eater was funded by foundations that...
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Fires of Life
Magazine article by Doug Stewart; National Wildlife, Vol. 32, August 1994
Subjects: Wildfires--Environmental aspects
...explosively flammable, and fires have swept through the area...Last fall, wind-fanned fires in the mountains east and west...wilderness areas. After one fire, says ranger Jacquie Stiver...swoop in to dine on the seed-eaters. In the long term, as in...Club chapter. Not only that, fire officials say most of the fires were so intense that neither...
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Fire, Ice, & Fossils
Magazine article by Andre Wyss, John Flynn, Reynaldo Charrier; Natural History, Vol. 108, June 1999
Subjects: Andes Mountains, Archaeology, Chile, Fossils, Geology, Mammals, South America
Fire, Ice, Fossils by Andre Wyss , John Flynn...volcanism. The Andes are part of the Ring of Fire, an immense zone of seismic and volcanic...their full height. The community of plant eaters lived on the plains and in lushly vegetated...
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Fire, Ice, and Eagles
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 103, February 1994
Subjects: Birds, Geographic profiles, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia
Fire, Ice, and Eagles Winter nights are long on Russias far eastern Kamchatka...to feed communally. This habit is related to their specialization as fish eaters; fish, their main food year-round, tends to be concentrated in lakes...
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Fire in Their Bellies: The People's Food Policy Project Knows How to Fix Canada's Food System - One Kitchen at a Time
Magazine article by Margaret Webb; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 37, March 2011
Subjects: Food supply, Nonprofit organizations--Services
Fire in Their Bellies: The Peoples...system was failing producers, eaters, health and the environment...impoverishes producers and sickens eaters. The ideas for a fix flowed...rural farmers, activists and eaters - voiced their concerns about...
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GIRL, 6, KILLED IN FIRE-EATER HORROR; Shower of Flames
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), August 3, 2006
GIRL, 6, KILLED IN FIRE-EATER HORROR; Shower of Flames...flames while watching a fire-eater on holiday. Little Eden Galvani...at a hotel when the fire-eaters petrol bottle exploded. The...been suggested Turkish fire-eater Tahir Akalin breathed flames...
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Where the Sun Always Shines; from Antiques to Alice Cooper, and from Fairy Lights to Fire-Eaters, You'll Find Them All for Art's Sake in Phoenix. ROZ LAWS Reports from a Stateside City of Contrasts
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), May 14, 2006
...from Antiques to Alice Cooper, and from Fairy Lights to Fire-Eaters, Youll Find Them All for Arts Sake in Phoenix. ROZ LAWS...flames down a side street, and discovered a girl juggling fire in her backyard. As you do. If that sounds too hip for...
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Long Leg of the Law; Sobering Sight: Police Officers and Christmas Revellers Chat with a Stilt-Walker outside a Pub in Newcastle-under-Lyme Blazing: A Fire-Eater Performs
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), December 22, 2008
Subjects: Bars (Drinking establishments)--Laws, regulations and rules, Bars, saloons, etc.--Laws, regulations and rules, Police officers--Laws, regulations and rules, Police--Laws, regulations and rules
...outside a Pub in Newcastle-under-Lyme Blazing: A Fire-Eater Performs. Byline: Julie Moult ITS a sight more befitting...scenes as one police force resorted to stiltwalkers and fire-eaters to try to prevent alcohol-fuelled violence in the...
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Tia's Got History; BGT's Topless Fire Eater Admits: I Used to Be a Porn Actress
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 25, 2010
Subjects: Actors, Actresses, Pornography
Tias Got History; BGTs Topless Fire Eater Admits: I Used to Be a Porn Actress. Byline: James Tapper THE topless fire-eater who impressed the two male...show after singing the Kasabian song Fire while running a burning torch over...
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Resort 'Had No Licence' for the Fire Eater Show That Killed London Girl
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 3, 2006
Subjects: Fires--Casualties, Resorts--Casualties
Resort Had No Licence for the Fire Eater Show That Killed London Girl. Byline...old girl from Essex died after a fire-eating display went disastrously...the resort has been arrested. The fire-eater, who is said to be in hospital...
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encyclopedia articles on: Fire Eaters  - 6 results

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Fire-Eaters
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FIRE-EATERS in U.S. history, term applied by Northerners...convention held in Nashville, Tenn., the "fire-eaters" urged secession upon the South...event for another 10 years. Although the "fire-eaters" were in large measure responsible...
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Rhett, Robert Barnwell
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...action on the tariff. Rhett was one of the leading fire-eaters at the Nashville Convention of 1850, which failed...of President Jefferson Davis . See W. C. Davis, A Fire-Eater Remembers: The Confederate Memoir of Robert Barnwell...
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Ruffin, Edmund
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RUFFIN, EDMUND ruf in, 1794 1865, American agriculturist, one of the Southern fire-eaters , b. Prince George co., Va. His interest in improving impoverished land led him to become a pioneer in soil chemistry. Against...
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Civil War , in U.S. History
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...abolitionist John Brown and by the vigorous proslavery utterances of William L. Yancey , one of the leading Southern fire-eaters . The Election of 1860 The "wedges of separation" caused by slavery split large Protestant sects into Northern and...
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Virginia , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...reapportionment of representation. For the most part Virginians labored to avert conflict between North and South. But "fire-eaters" such as Edmund Ruffin and abolitionists such as John Brown of Harpers Ferry fame, shaped the course that led to...
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