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• “Imagine the rallies against the Iraq war where they burned American flags, or where a two-faced effigy depicting Bush and Kerry were burne.”

  Tea Party organizer vows to burn Pelosi and Perriello in effigy

• “In 1634 William Fennor wrote in his Palinodia: "And tosse their Pancakes up for feare they burne.”

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• “When thei die thei burne them to pouldre, whiche thei reserue as a precious”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “For the building of their houses, they sende not ouer sea for stone, thei burne no Calion to make lime to tempre their mortre, thei bake no brickes, nor digge no sande.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “The bones do the two ordenarie women burne, for the clensinge and purifienge of the soule.”

  The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie

• “Another most vile custome the foresaide nation doeth retaine: for when any man dieth they burne his dead corps to ashes: and if his wife suruiueth him, her they burne quicke, because (say they) she shall accompany her husband in his tilthe and husbandry, when he is come into a new world.”

  The Journal of Friar Odoric

• “Now, in the same wood there be many riuers, wherein are great store of Crocodiles, and of other serpents, which the inhabitants thereabout do burne vp with straw and with other dry fewel, and so they go to gather their pepper without danger.”

  The Journal of Friar Odoric

• “They burne their dead according to the auncient custome, and lay vp the ashes in the top of a Pyramis.”

  The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.

• “It is without doubt (saith he) that some mountaines and fields burned in old time throughout the whole world: and in this our age do burne.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “And whether there seeme to be in the same apt matter to build withall, as stone free or rough, and stone to make lime withall, and wood or coale to burne the same withall.”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

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