"On duty at the Courthouse that night was forty-year-old Mathias Schaffer. Schaffer was showing some visitors
around the tower when one of them pointed to smoke in the distance. Schaffer glanced at the smoke, but dismissed
the sighting. It was just the smoldering embers from the previous night's fire, he assured them. Nothing to worry
about."
"Several minutes passed before Schaffer looked up from what he was doing and saw flames leaping wildly into the
black sky. The light was from a different fire after all; he'd been fooled because this new blaze was almost directly
behind the still-flickering remnants of the Saturday October 7 fire."
What was the effect of Schaffer dismissing the sighting of smoke?

after the signature of the treaty of versailles in june 1919, germany lost nearly 25,000 square miles and a population of 7 million people. these territories included eupen-malmedy area and moresnet which were ceded to belgium. regarding relations with france, germany ceded the sovereignty of the saar coal mines to this country, as well as the provinces of alsace-lorraine.

explanation:

the grass-plot before the jail, in prison lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of boston; all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door.

— the scarlet letter,

nathaniel hawthorne

''eyes intently fastened''

''iron-clamped oaken door''

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which detail from "home place retold" supports the central idea that despite physical changes, watonwan is a special place for generations of people?

great great-grandchildren retell the story of early days. .

young families worked hard to build a life.

those matches might seem surprising in modern times.

in 1881, more than 50 such families fled religious persecution. .