Crush, don’t strike: the fiery conflagration of a promethean match. (Credit: NurdRage) Using practically the same recipe of potassium chlorate and sugar as in the 19th century, ...

The Great Black Dragon Fire: A Chinese Inferno By Harrison E. Salisbury Little, Brown, 180 pages, $17.95 `As if in frantic rage at invasion of his forest kingdom, the Black Dragon had turned on ...

A fresh confrontation with the fiery author’s sprawling, influential work. Skip to Main Content. Explore Our ... that it may look like a smoke-and-flame conflagration in the distance,—which it ...

The conflagration at the Branch Davidian compound is now three decades in the past. ... will appear in April from HarperCollins to memorialize the standoff’s fiery conclusion on April 19, 1993.