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Striking Flint Against Steel Why a suicide galvanized a region’s rebirth. By Eric T. Justin, Crimson Staff Writer. The name Mohamed Bouazizi ought to mean nothing.
Worries about safety and his poor life insurance policy pushed Jerry Harris to go on strike from Springdale-based Greco Steel ...
Within a month of the end of the Flint strike, nearly 200,000 workers had engaged in 243 sit-downs. Some 500,000 workers sat down in 1937, and the total number of strikers was almost 1,900,000.
When you strike the flint and steel together, it does two things at once. First of all, it knocks small particles of steel away from your steel bar, kind of like tiny steel filings.
Early humans created fire by striking steel or pyrite against flint to create a shower of sparks, Sorensen said. The sparks fell on tinder, causing it to smolder.
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