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Fireback may refer to: * ''Fireback'' (film) * Fireplace fireback * Pheasants ** Crested fireback ** Crestless fireback ** Siamese fireback The Siamese fireback (''Lophura diardi''), also known as Diard's fireback, is a fairly large, approximately long, pheasant. The male has a grey plumage with an extensive facial caruncle, crimson legs and feet, ornamental black crest feathers, re ...

Fireback (film)
''Fireback'' is a Filipino low-budget action movie directed by Teddy Page ''(Teddy Chiu)'' and starring Richard Harrison, Bruce Baron, James Gaines, Ann Milhench, Gwendolyn Hung, Mike Monty, Ronnie Patterson, and Ruel Vernal. Characters Jack Kaplan ''( Richard Harrison)'' is a US Army Soldier and Weapons Expert who "can turn an ordinary soft drink straw into a weapon". After being rescued from a POW camp, he returns home only to find his wife missing. Duffy Collins ''(Bruce Baron)'' is a gangster who falls for and is rejected by ''Jack Kaplan's'' wife ''Diane'', after which he kidnaps and eventually kills her. Diane ''(Ann Milhench)'', is ''Jack Kaplan's'' wife who becomes the target of the amorous advances of ''Duffy Collins''. ''Collins'' kidnaps her because she denies him. ''Diane'' is killed by ''Collins'' in a moment of rage after trying to escape. Eve ''( Gwendolyn Hung)'' is a treacherous, bleached-blonde femme fatale working for ''Duffy Collins'', who works as a dan ...
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Fireplace Fireback
A fireplace fireback is a piece of heavy cast iron, sized in proportion to the fireplace and the fire, which is placed against the back wall of the fireplace. Functions The primary functions of a fireback are to protect the wall at the back of the fireplace and radiate heat from the fire into the room. The protection was especially important where the wall was constructed of insubstantial material such as daub (a mud and straw mixture coating interwoven wooden wattles), brick or soft stone. Protective metal plates that became available when cast iron was developed enabled fires to be placed against walls without danger to the fabric of the building. The other function of the fireback is to act as a radiator of stored heat. The metal is heated by the fire, and then that heat is radiated into the room. The thick iron keeps the heat which would otherwise be lost and gives back this heat to the room. A fireback thus may increase the efficiency of the fire. Wood fires have low efficienc ...
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Crested Fireback
The crested fireback (''Lophura ignita'') is a medium-sized, up to 70 cm long, forest pheasant with a peacock-like dark crest, bluish black plumage, reddish brown rump, black outer tail feathers, red iris and bare blue facial skin. The female is a brown bird with short crest, blue facial skin and spotted black-and-white below. The crested fireback is found in lowland forests of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra. There are four subspecies of the crested fireback, but in 2014 the subspecies ''rufa'' was split as a distinct species from the others. Males of the subspecies from Borneo and Bangka Island, ''L. i. ignita'' (lesser Bornean crested fireback) and ''L. i. nobilis'' (greater Bornean crested fireback), have brown central tail feathers, whitish legs and are rufous below. The male Vieillot's crested fireback, ''L. rufa'', of the Thai-Malay Peninsula and most of Sumatra has white central tail feathers, red legs and bluish black streaked white below. The final sub ...
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Crestless Fireback
The crestless fireback (''Lophura erythrophthalma'') is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat destruction and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being critically endangered. Description Male crestless firebacks are about in length and females slightly smaller. The face has bare red skin, the bill is greenish in males and black in females, there is no crest, the legs are bluish-grey, with long spurs in males and short spurs in females. The tail is short and either rounded, or the central feathers are shorter than the outer ones. The male has purplish-black plumage, with white vermiculation on the mantle and back, the wings and the side of the breast. The rump is bright chestnut and the upper tail coverts are purple with maroon margins. The tail feathers are cinnamo ...
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