Coal-fired heating systems required chimneys to vent combustion fumes.
The number of chimneys on a house indicated the number of fireplaces or stoves that were installed.
Wealthy Victorian families often had multiple fireplaces in their homes, each requiring its own chimney.
Chimneys also served as status symbols.
The more chimneys a house had, the more wealthy and affluent the family that lived there was assumed to be.
In France, the American Revolutionary War is known as the “American War”. If the American colonists fought against Great Britain from April 1775, France did not officially enter the conflict until February 1778, with the signing of a treaty of alliance, and did not send troops only in the summer of
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As German troops invaded Poland in September 1939, a Polish captain 60 km behind the front line knew the time had come for the all-out fight. Captain Vladislav Raginis commanded a reinforced battalion-level force in the Vizna region. Raginis came from a family of landowners and was of Latvian descen
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