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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
The smoke rose from the chimney of the iconic Sistine Chapel, watched by faithful in a packed St. Peter's Square.
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Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
9 May 2025
The moment carried special meaning for Catholics in the Bay Area and across the United States, as white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling an announcement that quickly spread across the globe.
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
The decision comes after the property’s water infrastructure was found to be severely deteriorated, causing frequent pipe ruptures and unreliable water service.
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Dominick Williams,
Kansas City Star,
8 May 2025
An Ohio woman was arrested this week after police found her pet raccoon with a meth pipe in its mouth during a traffic stop.
The smoke travels up almost 100 feet of steel and copper tubes to the chimney and the world beyond.
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Panini, water and a telescopic folding stool: how to survive the conclave
Alexander Smith
Reporting from Vatican City
For the avid smokewatcher, preparation is key.
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Katie Primm,
NBC news,
9 May 2025
Among the artifacts recovered were 23 items associated with using psychoactive plants: short snuff tubes, flat tablets, and small spoons, all made of animal bone except for one made of a marine mollusk shell.
Music is both the subject and mechanism of Sinners, which opens with a voiceover history of how some musicians, dating back to the West African griots, have been seen as conduits between this world and the one beyond.
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Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
22 Apr. 2025
Her group worked as a conduit between upset residents and the Corps, and as a result, Corps teams partnered with local arborists, reviewed marked trees, and corrected those wrongly identified.
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Francine Kiefer,
Christian Science Monitor,
10 Apr. 2025
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