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Weird Brave try at world sparkler record fails on technicality in Wyoming Xeni Jardin

pyrotechnics How to make colored smoke bombs Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Gorgeous, illustrated Japanese fireworks catalogs from the early 1900s Cory Doctorow

Kids Watch the insides of a firework explode in super slo-mo Andrea James

video The Mexican town where 75% of residents manufacture fireworks Andrea James

Kids Spectacular shots of Japanese summer fireworks Andrea James

video Check out this impressive firedancing performance Andrea James

video Watch breathtaking fireballs through a trippy kaleidoscopic effect Andrea James

art Fire garden honors 350th anniversary of Great Fire of London Andrea James

videos Homemade Thai firework carves a superb vertical corkscrew Cory Doctorow

pyrotechnics What happens when you stuff 2000 match heads into a stress pig and light the fuse Mark Frauenfelder

music WATCH: Flamethrower + trombone = Pyro-Trombone Andrea James

fire Match Head Bomb video: 6000 matches in a blender, shot at at 2500fps Xeni Jardin

animals Dogs and cats hate holiday fireworks. Here are 3 tips to protect your pet on July 4th. Xeni Jardin

deaths Roy Horn, of Siegfried and Roy, dies at 75 of Covid Rob Beschizza

poetry The oldest written record of "fuck" has been discovered — and it comes from a plague quarantine Thom Dunn

Your tax dollars at work Even the fireworks were corrupt at Trump's July 4th 'Salute to America' Xeni Jardin

Oh Canada Canadians pass on fireworks, go for kindness to animals instead Jason Weisberger