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Recent Examples of chimney stackHedwig, blinkered by the bounty of her domestic environs, seemingly ignores the infernal light and smoke from nearby chimney stacks, and otherwise blocks out the machinery of mass death: the barking of guard dogs, the rumbling of crematoria, the crack of pistols, the screams of prisoners.—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
As white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney earlier this month, Ham and his fellow Loyola students sprinted to St. Peter’s Square to watch as Pope Leo XIV first stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica.
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Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
17 May 2025
Another round of creation—this time from rock-dissolving microbial acids, carried upward by rising spring water—expanded the ancient caves from below and made new ones, with large chimneys climbing toward the surface.
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Michael Ray Taylor,
Smithsonian Magazine,
14 May 2025
The four-story house was built into a hillside and featured concrete walls, gabled tile roofs, balustrade terraces, arched portico and a chimney with six flues, the city of Capitola wrote in an application seeking to include the building on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Hannah Poukish,
Sacbee.com,
14 May 2025
If using a fireplace, make sure the chimney flue is open and stay awake while the fire is burning.
Wildfire smoke is starting to erode the world’s progress in cleaning up pollution from tailpipes and smokestacks, as climate change supercharges fires, scientists have said.
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Hiroko Tabuchi,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
Some are emitted directly from a source, such as construction sites, unpaved roads, fields, smokestacks or fires.
Pay attention to where the kitchen and bathrooms are, too—water supply and waste pipes for the second floor are often found in walls on the first floor, below sinks, tubs, or showers.
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Kevin Cortez,
Popular Mechanics,
25 May 2023
Cathcart is referring to the plumbing that the vanity's sink and faucet connect to—the water lines and waste pipe connect to the underside of the sink via the bendy P-trap pipe.
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Kristina McGuirk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Apr. 2023
In January, hundreds of residents were evacuated from the Patrick Sullivan Senior Apartments on the Near West Side due to a burst pipe, which resulted in flooding and the loss of heat and hot water.
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Lizzie Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025
This is typical in areas that have hard water and is caused by the minerals in the water that flows through your pipes, according to Mr. Rooter Plumbing.
The team is taking this tack because Perseverance is getting low on unsealed tubes and still has a lot of intriguing ground to cover.
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Mike Wall,
Space.com,
21 May 2025
The internet is already a part of us, inside of us; and maybe what remains for the digital novelist is to get outside, to gather up the whole snarled mess of tubes and plunk it down on an examination table.
The fake banking app, distributed via Telegram, reflects a broader strategy where messaging platforms become unwitting conduits for malicious activities.
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Yaamini Barathi Mohan,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
In previous years, American spy agencies issued warnings that G42 could be a conduit for siphoning advanced American technology to China.
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