Dead man's hand case these would have been combined with an unknown hole card. The expression "dead man's hand" appears to have had some currency in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, although no one connected it to Hickok until the 1920s. The earliest detailed reference to it was 1886, where it was described as a "full house consisting of three jacks and a pair of tens". Jacks and sevens are called the dead man's hand in the 1903 "Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences". Edmond Hoyle refers to it as Jacks and eights in 1907. What is considered the
Dead man zone Cheney, found that when the wind changes direction, the line of fire will move out at its maximum rate of spread almost immediately, and that that speed was nearly three times what was previously thought. Project Vesta's research into bushfire behaviour makes up the majority of what is known about bushfires today. Outcomes from Project Vesta have been integrated into firefighter training in Australia, and are beginning to appear in the United States. Firefighters try to stay out of the dead man zone at all times, working from safe points such as burnt ground or a large area of non-burnable