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A Celtic fire-dog excavated at Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England. Iron, 50-25 BCE. Height: 96.5 cm. Fire-dogs were likely used for spit-roasting meat at Celtic feasts. (British Museum, London)

A Faravahar or Frawahr symbol in a Zoroastrian Fire Temple in Yazd, Iran, one of the symbols adopted by Zoroastrianism. This symbol represents a winged guardian or fravashi, an angelic being of the Zoroastrian religion.

The Fire of Rome, 18 July 64 AD' by Hubert Robert, 1733-1808 CE. (Musee des Beaux-Arts Andre Malraux, Le Havre, France)

A Jomon pottery vessel with the decorative style known as 'fire-flame'. Jomon Period, 3000-2000 BCE, Sasayama site, Niigata Prefecture. Japan. (Tokyo National Museum)

General Napoleon Bonaparte's guns fire into a mob of royalist insurrectionists during the Revolt of 13 Vendémiaire Year IV (5 October 1795), the famous "whiff of grapeshot". Drawing by Felician Myrbach, 19th century.

The supernatural entity/trickster-spirit Iktomi (Unktomi) depicted sitting in human form in front of a fire cooking ducks. Image taken from modern artist Gertrude Spaller's illustration of the story of Iktomi and the Ducks included in The...

Re-enactors of the Sealed Knot, an English Civil Wars (1642-51) group demonstrating the volley-fire tactics of musketeers.

English Civil War (1642-51) re-enactors demonstrating musket volley fire. The Sealed Knot re-enactment group, Fernhurst Furnace, West Sussex, England.

The Fire Ordeal of Siyavush, Folio from a Shahnameh (Persian Book of Kings) of Ferdowsi (935–1020 CE) Iran, 1482 CE

A photograph showing Allied troops under Axis fire during the Second Battle of El Alamein (Oct-Nov 1942) in the Western Desert Campaigns (June 1940 to January 1943) in North Africa. (Imperial War Museums)