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a controlled wildfire you invite indoors and politely ask to stay put

means A built recess or structure in a wall where a fire is lit for heat, light, or coziness, fitted with a chimney to carry away the smoke.

from A transparent compound of "fire" and "place" — "fire" from Old English "fyr" (a cousin of German "Feuer" and Greek "pyr," as in "pyre"), and "place" from Latin "platea," a broad open street, via Old French. So literally a "fire-spot," a designated patch of the home set aside for keeping flame. The word is a fairly late assembly in English, naming the architectural hearth as a fixed feature rather than the older, plainer "hearth" itself.

heat math
Most heat escapes up the chimney, not into the room
open flame
Burning wood emits more particulate pollution than cars
original tv
Humans have stared into flames for a million years
yule log
A looping fire video aired on TV since 1966
draft trick
A cold chimney can suck warm air outdoors instead
for instance

the fireplace at fallingwater — frank lloyd wright's cantilevered hearth in pennsylvania, 1939

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