11.   Sixty years ago, dressed in his whites for Sunday morning mass, he swam ashore amid burning oil after Japanese torpedoes sank the USS California.

12.   Shells were landing every few seconds for several hours Thursday afternoon, with huge explosions and fires visible from a hill near the burning oil refinery.

13.   Still, the holiday is more about destroying tyranny than burning oil.

14.   The burning oil drifted a mile and a half down the river.

15.   They talked about how their consciences were seared by watching their friends catch fire in burning oil and die screaming.

16.   Burning oil spills have sometimes closed the strait for days.

17.   But the environmental group Friends of the Earth welcomed it, saying such sites known as windfarms are a clean alternative to generating power by burning oil and coal.

18.   But the environmental group Friends of the Earth welcomed it, saying windfarms are a clean alternative to generating power by burning oil and coal.

19.   He said burning oil facilities had spewed poisonous fumes into the skies over Europe, and flows of toxic chemicals had heavily polluted the Danube River.

20.   Officials feared the fire could spread to jet fuel and kerosene storage tanks adjacent to the burning oil.