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  • The FBI was duplicitous and negligent in gassing Mt. Cannel – and that alone could have started the fire that killed seventy-six people.

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  • Bartholomaeus Anglicus, in his 13th centuryDe proprietatibus rerum, tell us: Of Cannel and of Cassia men told fables in old time, that it is found in birds' nests, and specially in the Phoenix' nest.

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  • Bartholomaeus Anglicus, in his 13th centuryDe proprietatibus rerum, tell us: Of Cannel and of Cassia men told fables in old time, that it is found in birds' nests, and specially in the Phoenix' nest.

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  • I want to here the hole tune before I take any bets, but as powerfull as Jagger is .. we all get or gigs from Clear Channel & Claer Cannel is US goverment controlled.

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  • They were looking for the "big comedy, like Starsky and Hutch" version of the property ... which Cannel and I both swore we'd start killing people before we let it happen.

    Writing: The Pitch Rogers 2005

  • Cannel coal is a variety of bituminous coal, rich in hydrogen and hydrocarbons, and is exceedingly valuable as a gas coal.

    Steam, Its Generation and Use

  • From specimens which I have seen, do not suppose it equal to the English Cannel or our own

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  • Cannel coal, then, shows that it is formed of a sort of dark brown gangue of resinoid aspect (when a thin section of it is examined) holding in suspension indeterminable black organic and inorganic debris, which are arranged in layers, and in the midst of which (according to the locality and the fragment studied) is found a varying number of easily recognized vegetable organs.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 Various

  • Cannel coal is seldom used for steam coal, though it is sometimes mixed with semi-bituminous coal where an increased economy at high rates of combustion is desired.

    Steam, Its Generation and Use

  • Cannel coal — Commonly considered to be a compact variety of bituminous coal, although it averages less fixed carbon and more volatile material.

    Tseh So, a Small House Ruin, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico : 1937

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